This writing comes from a manuscript written and compiled by Gaynor A. N. Nash  Sr. and Don Allan Nash, Sr. circa 1964 Kalamazoo, Michigan:

"Having lost our father Loomis A. N. Nash when we were 3 and 8 years of age  respectively and having an exceedingly small family in numbers on the paternal  side of the house, a family we seldom came in contact with, it is not  surprising that my brother Don A. Nash and myself developed a consuming  interest in the word of mouth and traditional history of the Nash family.

As we grew older in years and perhaps in wisdom, we were able thru the  efforts of Don A. Nash, to compile a miscellaneous if not comprehensive  history, though not of a very personal nature, of our family in Michigan. This information spurred us on to greater effort and over a span of twenty- eight years we gathered together much of that we sought.

The family history prior to Abner Dickinson Nash (1801 to 1890) seemed,  however, to quite elude us.  I continued to urge my brother Don to inquire and  search.  His occupation and lot in life has moved him to many and varied  places in our country, (Vice President of Sales St. Regis Superior Paper Co.) therefore I felt that eventually he would find the key.  What finally proved  to be the break thru for us, came about after his residence in chicago, Ill.   There he visited and joined (as I have subsequently) the astounding Newberry  Library. This is one of the outstanding genealogical libraries in the U.S. and  it was here that he formed, much to our surprise, (volumes listed elsewhere) a  comprehensive and complete history of our family up to and including the move  of the Amherst line and Abner Dickinson Nash to Pavillion township, kalamazoo  county, Michigan.  These books have been long out of print and are for  practical purposes unobtainable.  They are complete very thorough and will  always be available for study in the Newberry Library reading rooms.

It was at this time then, that it became worthwhile for us to compile as  best we could, a continuation of this history up to and including our present  time.  The following then is this, our humble effort.  The research is that of  Don Allan Nash, the amateurish compilation that of myself.

We offer no apologies for the effort, we consider it worthwhile from a  family standpoint.  We hope a continuation in some form will be undertaken by  one of those ghostly figures in the future, to be blessed by a family name and  tradition of which we are not a little proud."
                                   Gaynor Amos Nicholas Nash  January 1964

The "ghostly figures in the future" would be Don Allan Nicholas Nash now of  Summerville, South Carolina.