Jackie (Ashley) Pace -- Chastain Shores EUBANK (5 Mar1822) took on the business of stock trader and traveled the county over, making horse deals. On a trip to Mississippi he apparently stopped for a spell with his cousin, John Eubank HARLAN (1802), his Aunt Sally's son. Then 26 and still single, he fell in love with John's 16 year old daughter, Nancy Elizabeth (17 Sep 1829). Not only was Nancy his 1st cousin once removed, she was also his 3rd cousin, plus his 3rd cousin once removed - so they were truly ?kissing cousins.? They married in 1848 and he took her home to Mudlick, Monroe Co, KY. There he built her a beautiful home where they raised 9 children. According to her granddaughter, Mattie GARRETT GOLD, who visited the home in 1947: "it was lovely & had four wood burning fire places. It was built on a little hill all terraced & beautiful lawn about 50 yards to a beautiful clear creek. It was quite a large plantation they called farms then." Nancy never returned home to MS again, not even for a visit.

One of their children was Eloisa Morey EUBANK, aka "Ella". When Elder John GARRETT remarried in 1863 he apparently resettled in KY, maybe taking a church to pastor. One tradition says Elder John's son, "Jay" was a student, and there was a college-type school in Thompkinsville about that time. However they met, romance ensued and 1 May 1872, John Berry GARRETT, almost 25 years old, married 19 year old Eloisa EUBANK in Tompkinsville, Monroe Co, KY. In Mar 1873 their first child, Joseph Elliott was born, followed by Isaac D."Ike" in Oct 1874, & Rock in Jun 1878. A double blessing came on 16 Oct 1880 when twin daughters Ada and Ava arrived.
(Ava was my great grandmother, the reason for this narrative - JPace)

• Married: 12 Oct 1848 in , Carroll, Mississippi

1. Eloisa Morey Eubank b: 8 Apr 1853 in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky