Nancy Jane Starke (maiden name: Speer) was born to Mary E. and Andrew J. Spear in 1842 in Kentucky. The family had moved to Sutter County, California, by 1860 where her father worked as a farmer. Nancy married Robert W. Starke on June 27, 1860, in Marysville, California, but the two later divorced shortly after Nancy gave birth to a son, Solon Robert R. Starke, around the year 1861. Nancy subsequently married a man named John A. Smith in 1864. By 1870, both her son Solon and her five-year-old daughter by her second marriage, Jenny Smith, were living with her parents, indicating that she may have died before the 1870 census was taken.
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Pension records for Robert W. Starke, RG 15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; 1850, 1860, and 1870 U.S. Federal Censuses, accessed on Ancestry.com; Marriage of Nancy J. Starke and John A. Smith (ID#241500) and Marriage of Nancy J. Speer and Robert W. Starke (ID#241317), Western States Marriage Records Index, BYU Idaho, Special Collections Library, http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm.
