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Nancy Jones
1860–1939
United States
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Nancy "Nannie" Jones (January 8, 1860 - July 1939) was an African-American schoolteacher and missionary to Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia. A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Jones moved with her family in childhood to Memphis, Tennessee, where she attended the Lemoyne Institute. She graduated from Fisk University in 1886; during her time there she worked as a student teacher in Walls, Mississippi.
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