Henry Nail and Mary Keller were married in about 1798. They had twelve children. Their first son, John, was born in 1799 in Rowan County, North Carolina. In about 1820 John married Martha Ray, the daughter of Thomas Ray and Elizabeth Pierce. In 1822 and 1823 the two Nail families
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