Yorktown Nelson Connection
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Yorktown Nelson Connection
| ellenveden1 (View posts) | Posted: 16 Jun 2005 1:44AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: NELSON, Susan Frances
Searching for the connection of Susan Frances Nelson to Yorktown Nelsons. Citations below and any information gratefully appreciated.
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Ferree, Susan Frances Nelson 1844-
American Women. A revised edition of "Woman of the Century," 1,500 biographies with over 1,400 portraits; a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century. Two volumes. Edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1973. (AmWom)
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The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 17, page 41 Mrs. Susan Frances Ferree., DAR Idaho Number: 16102 Born in Clark County, Missouri. Wife of Jerome Dial Ferree. Descendant of Gov. Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Virginia. Daughter of John S. Nelson and Frances S. Wray, his wife. Granddaughter of James Nelson and Elizabeth Bennett, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Thomas Nelson, Jr., and Lucy Grymes, his wife. Thomas Nelson, Jr., (1738-89), was a member of the Provincial Congress, 1774, of the Continental Congress, 1776, and was signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served as Governor, 1781, equipped the militia at his own expense and led them at Yorktown, where he ordered the artillery to fire on his own mansion, which he supposed was headquarters for Cornwallis. His statue was placed with five other patriots on the Washington Monument in Richmond. He was born in Yorktown and died in Hanover
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Ferree, Susan Frances Nelson 1844-
American Women. A revised edition of "Woman of the Century," 1,500 biographies with over 1,400 portraits; a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century. Two volumes. Edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1973. (AmWom)
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The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 17, page 41 Mrs. Susan Frances Ferree., DAR Idaho Number: 16102 Born in Clark County, Missouri. Wife of Jerome Dial Ferree. Descendant of Gov. Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Virginia. Daughter of John S. Nelson and Frances S. Wray, his wife. Granddaughter of James Nelson and Elizabeth Bennett, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Thomas Nelson, Jr., and Lucy Grymes, his wife. Thomas Nelson, Jr., (1738-89), was a member of the Provincial Congress, 1774, of the Continental Congress, 1776, and was signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served as Governor, 1781, equipped the militia at his own expense and led them at Yorktown, where he ordered the artillery to fire on his own mansion, which he supposed was headquarters for Cornwallis. His statue was placed with five other patriots on the Washington Monument in Richmond. He was born in Yorktown and died in Hanover