Nancy Karrick was born in Atmore, Alabama, and though she spent the first few years of her life in Pensa-cola, Florida, she spent most weekends and summers in Atmore before her family moved back home. After graduating from high school in Atmore, she attended Auburn University and earned a degree in elementary education, then received a master's in library science from Florida State University. During her late husband Charles's twenty-one-year career in the military, she had the opportunity to live in Georgia, Arizona, Oklahoma, New York, Hawaii, Korea, Morocco, and Belgium, and to travel in many other countries. In fact, she has been in all fifty of the United States, as well as in sixty-seven countries on all seven continents.She has worked as a medical librarian at the United States Military Academy, as a school librarian at all age levels in the United States and Belgium, and taught fourth grade, retiring from teaching in 2012. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu, Kappa Delta Pi, Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Delta Kappa, and Kappa Kappa Iota, and served as Alabama state president of Delta Kappa Gamma.Nancy is a fifty-eight-year member of Girl Scouts, thirty-plus year volunteer with American Red Cross, writer for atmore Magazine, member of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliaries, Atmore Lions Club, the First Baptist Church, Daughters of the American Revolution, and several other genealogical organizations.Honors received include Girl Scout Thanks Badge, Red Cross Clara Barton Medal, Daughters of the American Revolution Community Service Award, Molly Pitcher Award for service to the Fort Sill, Oklahoma, community, and the Atmore Lion of the Year.Nancy enjoys cross-stitch and embroidery, travel, reading, and cooking. She spends her spare time reading about historical subjects and trying new recipes.She has one daughter and three grandchildren.