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Bill, the only biographical account of Sarah Tankersley Bachelor that I've ever seen was the Goodspeed version that says her father's name was Roland. I've never seen a biography that actually includes the name of her mother, although some oral sources say that Sarah's daughter Nancy Jane Bachelor was named for her maternal grandmother.
The wife of Rowland Tankersley of Walker County, Alabama, according to most sources, was named Nancy Campbell Davis. I have a feeling somebody tried to graft the Hardin County Tankersleys into this lineage a while back because they couldn't find any other place to put them, and in the process they apparently changed Nancy Campbell Davis' name to "Nancy Jane Davis" in an effort to make them fit better.
The Hardin County estate records of Samuel Williams, who made his will in January 1840, include a daughter named Jane Tankersley that I haven't found in any other records (except that she was also mentioned in the July 1844 will of Samuel's son Lewis Williams). Samuel also had two daughters who had married into the Wood family, which was closely associated with the Hardin County Tankersleys. I don't know whether Jane was Sarah's mother or not, because there's no mention in her father's will of the "heirs of her body," but I don't think we can rule out the possibility just on that account.
I'm also beginning to suspect that James might have been Sarah's uncle or cousin, not her brother. He was about ten years older than she was, and there don't seem to have been any siblings in between. No brothers were mentioned in the Goodspeed biography, either.
If I get going on this, I'll have to go on for pages, because the records are confusing and not really conclusive, and they require some serious interpreting. But I've begun to suspect that the Hardin County Tankersleys were descended from Richard Tankersley and Mary Wood of Amherst County, and that some or maybe even all of them may have been the children and grandchildren of their son George. There's no definitive record of George, but at least two of his brothers (Reuben and Rowland) had moved to the Giles/Hardin County area in the early 1800's. There's a George "Tankles" in the 1833 census of Hardin County, and there's a George Tankersley on the 1849 list of insolvencies and removals.
I guess what I'm saying is, don't get too hung up on the "Nancy Jane Davis" thing. I know this has made its way into print, but it ain't necessarily so. Over the years, too many researchers have kept trying to retrofit their lineages into the old 1893 genealogy by Charles W. Tankersley (the original printed source of Nancy Campbell Davis' name). The trouble is, Charles W.'s research was done hurriedly and not thoroughly, and he completely missed some early key players -- not to mention the fact that a lot of his parent-child connections were assembled by him from fragmentary records and have turned out to be completely wrong. Oh, dear. Don't get me going on this one, either.
Have fun. This is really a tough family to try to sort out.
Harriet
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