email me at
preshayes@aol.com and I will send you what I have on Mary Ann Nelson and her husband Aaron Johnson Tweed. My mother, who is now 90, remembers Mary Ann and the hard times that followed the death of her husband Aaron. Mary Ann tried to eke out a living for herself and her two youngest children, but according to my grandfather, the family was near starvation when he brought Mary Ann to his own home and saw to it that the then-young children Fred and Roxie could live with their siblings in their homes. Both Mary Ann and Aaron are buried at Stranger Cemetery in Greene County, Tennessee, just a few miles from where they were born in Madison County, North Carolina. Vicky knows much more about the father of Mary Ann Nelson.