Who was Nancy Tilly?

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(09-13-2019 10:51 AM)bob_summers Wrote:  In an interview Mrs. Mudd gave a couple of years before she died, she said:

"There was no one in our home that night except the Doctor, myself, the children and the children’s nurse, a white girl named Nancy Tilly." See https://www.muddresearch.com/mrs-samuel-...rview.html

I've never been able to find anything in census, etc. on a girl or young woman by that name living in Maryland around 1865. Or Tally, Tully, Twilly, etc. Nobody by that name was interviewed by the military after the assassination.

Has anyone ever heard of this Nancy Tilly?

I'm pretty sure you have tried derivations, but what about Talley. That name has been around Charles County most of my days. Also, didn't the Mudds later take in an orphan and raise him? Could this Nancy have been someone temporarily placed in their care by the church? I can't remember the years and the locations, but there were things known as Orphans' Trains that assisted in placing children - and for some reason, I want to say that many were Irish. Whether they operated in Southern Maryland, I knoweth not.