You have a little knowledge of my Great Grand Mother, Nancy Ann Dugger Pierson Frazee.  She was married 2 times, both times while pregnant.  My grandmother, Hallie Myrtle Large Pierson said that was the only way she could get a man.  She also said she was a shrill nagging woman.  No one understood why Paul Frazee stayed married to her for so long.  Her first husband, Daniel Parker Pierson lit out after only a few months with her. (If that long) 

   Anyway, to get back on track, I only have a few vague memories of her, mostly bed ridden at my Granny's house (Hallie).  It was a three room house.  A kitchen, a living room with a coal burning stove in the center, and a bedroom with one double bed and a twin bed where Granny Frazee resided.                    


       Nancy Ann is on the far right in the below photo. The Duggers abt. 1878


    Story 1.  This story came from either my father (Bill Pierson) or Granny (Hallie).  Seems that Granny Frazee was a teacher in a one room school outside of Old Pleasant View, Kansas.  You cannot find any evidence today of where Old or New Pleasantville were, except for cemetaries.  The story seems to go that one day while teaching class, 4 or 5 men road up to the school house and 2 of them came in and told Nancy Ann to give them all the lunches the children brought that day.  She obliged and then one of the men told her, " Don't let anyone go outside for atleast an hour.  We are leaving one man behind with a rifle and he will shoot anyone that goes outside."  The story continues that she made all the children wait for an hour and then dismissed school for the day.  She said the one of the two men that came into the school house and took the lunches and gave her the instructions was Jesse James.  She said she didn't know who the other man was.

   Story 2.  Not something I would like to be remembered for.  My dad told me that he and Granny Frazee used to go walking around the farm, to check animals, pick flowers, pick wild fruit or just to walk around.  He said that one time she stopped walking, took hold of her skirt and lifted it out to the front and rear and spread her legs out.  After a little bit she continued walking and he noticed there was a significant circle of moisture in the path where she was standing.  He said he didn't think anything about it until later, when the thought women couldn't pee while standing up.  Apparently they can if they spread things out enough and have no underclothes on.  Like I said, not something I would want to be remembered for.

    Other trivial data.  I forget who told me, but the Duggers used to live above a bar, in Pleasant View.   Nancey's father William Harden Dugger was a surveyor (Surveyed Hosey Hill Cemetary), Post master in Pleasant View, a Blacksmith and Later in life a Justice of the Piece in Cherokee County, KS.  I know the last piece to be true because he performed the marriage ceremony for Harvey Stark and Bell Boone when they were married.  Have his signature on the license.

   Nancy Ann's mother's name was Nancy Ann Cable, whose great grandfather was Casper Cable.  Casper was originally Kaspar Goebel.  A Hessian mercenary soldier hired by the British to fight in the Revolutionary War. Casper Cable (Kaspar Goebel in German) a Hessian Grenadier, Captured at Trenton, New Jersey, December 26, 1776.  Recaptured by the British, he deserted at John's Island, South Carolina, June 4, 1779.  He fought in the Revolutionary Army of Nathaniel Greene at Cowpens, South Carolina.  He fought for both sides during the revolution and was captured by both sides.  Probably not the greatest soldier of the war.