(1840-1915)
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Elizabeth Nash was born on Sept. 9, 1840, in Hillsborough, NC. She was the daughter of Mary A. Simpson Nash (1819-1895 or 1897) and Henry Kolloch Nash (1817-1897), a lawyer and the son of Frederick Nash the fourth Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She spent her childhood in Hillsborough and attended the Burwell School sometime in the 1850s. She married William Lord DeRosset(t) on June 10, 1863. They lived in Hillsborough and Wilmington, NC and had six children.
Elizabeth Nash was born on Sept. 9, 1840, in Hillsborough, NC. She was the daughter of Mary A. Simpson Nash (1819-1895 or 1897) of New Bern, the daughter of a wealthy merchant Samuel Simpson, and Henry Kolloch Nash (1817-1897), a lawyer and the son of Frederick Nash the fourth Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She spent her childhood in Hillsborough living in what is now known as the Hasell-Nash House, a National Register structure at 116 W. Queen Street, and attended the Burwell School sometime in the 1850s. Her name appears in the 1848-’51 catalog of the school.
Anna Burwell wrote to her daughter Fanny on Jan. 12, 1856, “In spite of the cold Lizzie Nash came over night before last to tell me ‘good bye’ – she went to Raleigh to St. Mary’s yesterday – She desired her love to you. She is a fine looking girl, but has not improved in Music, if I may judge. She certainly keeps no sort of time.”
She married William Lord DeRosset(t) of Wilimington, on June 10, 1863 in St. Matthew’s Church in Hillsborough. He was born in Wilmington and attended UNC from 1849-1851. He then apprenticed at a machine shop in Lawrence, Mass. He returned to Wilmington and helped establish the Clarenden Iron Works. He joined the mercantile firm of DeRossett and Brown in 1860. It had been founded by his father and John Potts Brown. He enlisted in the Confederate army and was wounded but continued to serve until 1863 when he returned to his family business and public service in Wilmington. In 1871 his shipping, mercantile, and insurance business was located at 5 North Water Street in Wilmington. He and his wife Lizzie lived in both Hillsborough and Wilmington and had six children. She died in Fayetteville, NC, on March 18, 1915, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington. He died on Aug 4, 1910, in Wilmington, NC [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
Elizabeth was called Lizzie.
Elizabeth Simpson Nash was born on September 9, 1840, in Hillsborough, NC. She died on March 18, 1915, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, NC [6].