How is Alfred Nelson (1803-1882) related to Yorktown Nelsons?
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How is Alfred Nelson (1803-1882) related to Yorktown Nelsons?
| KTraynham (View posts) | Posted: 14 Jun 2003 7:29AM GMT |
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Fellow researchers:
Can anyone help with connecting Alfred Nelson, husband of Mary Jenkins of Houston Co., GA to "Scotch" Tom Nelson?
Alfred and Mary Nelson were early land lottery recipients in Georgia - they had a daughter named Margaret. She married Newton Carlton Greer and her obituary said she was the great niece of Thomas Nelson, gov. of Yorktown.
So her grandfather was one of "Scotch" Tom's sons, Nathaniel, Hugh, Robert, or William, right?
Does anyone have genealogies on these brothers that would show a Margaret born August 30, 1837? (in Georgia.)
Here's her obituary for anyone who cares:
"Mrs. N. C. Greer died at the home of her son, John Wesley Greer, in Moultrie, Monday morning at 5:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Greer had been in feeble health for a long time, and during the past few weeks the members of her family had been called to her bedside, as the end was apparently near.
She was stricken with paralysis two weeks ago and from the beginning there was no hope of her recovery, as this was her third stroke. She rallied several times and was conscious at intervals, but gradually lost strength until the end.
Mrs. Greer was, before her marriage, Margaret Nelson, the daughter of Alfred Nelson, and Mary (Jenkins) his wife of Houston County, and the grand-niece of Thomas Nelson, first Governor of Virginia after the Revolution, and a cousin of Thomas Nelson Page, the author, and ambassador to the Court of St. James.
She is survived by her husband, to whom she was married nearly 63 years ago. She was the mother of fourteen children, six of whom are living; Edward L. Greer, of Lake City, Florida, John W. Greer, of Moultrie, Mrs. William E. Futch of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Junius W. Prince of Fuquay Springs, N. Carolina, Mrs. Herry H. Yancy of Point Tauepa Florida, Lovic P. Greer of Valdosta. She was 78 years of age.
She was in truth a mother in Israel, a woman whose bright Christian Character was an example and an inspiration to those with whom she came in daily contact.
We mourn her -- not as one who is lost to us, but as a faithful and loving follower of Christ Jesus, who has gone to her reward.
Her body will be brought to Tifton for burial, and will be carried directly to the cemetery, where several members of the family are buried.
Friends of the family are notified through the Gazette that they may attend the burial ceremony to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom all knew only to love and esteem."
Many thanks for any help at all.
Can anyone help with connecting Alfred Nelson, husband of Mary Jenkins of Houston Co., GA to "Scotch" Tom Nelson?
Alfred and Mary Nelson were early land lottery recipients in Georgia - they had a daughter named Margaret. She married Newton Carlton Greer and her obituary said she was the great niece of Thomas Nelson, gov. of Yorktown.
So her grandfather was one of "Scotch" Tom's sons, Nathaniel, Hugh, Robert, or William, right?
Does anyone have genealogies on these brothers that would show a Margaret born August 30, 1837? (in Georgia.)
Here's her obituary for anyone who cares:
"Mrs. N. C. Greer died at the home of her son, John Wesley Greer, in Moultrie, Monday morning at 5:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Greer had been in feeble health for a long time, and during the past few weeks the members of her family had been called to her bedside, as the end was apparently near.
She was stricken with paralysis two weeks ago and from the beginning there was no hope of her recovery, as this was her third stroke. She rallied several times and was conscious at intervals, but gradually lost strength until the end.
Mrs. Greer was, before her marriage, Margaret Nelson, the daughter of Alfred Nelson, and Mary (Jenkins) his wife of Houston County, and the grand-niece of Thomas Nelson, first Governor of Virginia after the Revolution, and a cousin of Thomas Nelson Page, the author, and ambassador to the Court of St. James.
She is survived by her husband, to whom she was married nearly 63 years ago. She was the mother of fourteen children, six of whom are living; Edward L. Greer, of Lake City, Florida, John W. Greer, of Moultrie, Mrs. William E. Futch of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Junius W. Prince of Fuquay Springs, N. Carolina, Mrs. Herry H. Yancy of Point Tauepa Florida, Lovic P. Greer of Valdosta. She was 78 years of age.
She was in truth a mother in Israel, a woman whose bright Christian Character was an example and an inspiration to those with whom she came in daily contact.
We mourn her -- not as one who is lost to us, but as a faithful and loving follower of Christ Jesus, who has gone to her reward.
Her body will be brought to Tifton for burial, and will be carried directly to the cemetery, where several members of the family are buried.
Friends of the family are notified through the Gazette that they may attend the burial ceremony to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom all knew only to love and esteem."
Many thanks for any help at all.