William Nelson
was born in Mercer Co., Penn., Dec. 5, 1790, and was descended
from Irish ancestry. He served in the War of 1812 and in Pennsylvania
married Miss Elizabeth Wilson, who was born in Ireland, May 25,
1791, and who, in her childhood, accompanied her parents to this
country and located in Penn. Some time after their marriage, they moved
in 1817 to Wayne Co., Ohio, near Rowsburg, where Mr. Nelson engaged in
farming until 1836, when he removed to Richland Co., (now Ashland) and
located on a farm near Savannah until 1845, when he traded his land in
that locality for a tract in Washington Twp., Van Buren County, Iowa,
to which he then removed.
Both he and his wife were members of the Associated Presbyterian Church, but afterward joined the United Presbyterian.
He
died Sept. 24, 1860, and Mrs. Nelson on 7 Oct. 1858. Nine children, of
whom seven lived to be adults, three are yet living: Hugh, a farmer of
Van Buren Co.; Ann, widow of Joseph Dawson, of Washington Co., Iowa,
and Dr. William W. Nelson, M.D.
The Dr. was born Nov. 30, 1834
in Wayne Co., Ohio. Married Mar. 20, 1860, Miss Almira Matthews,
native of Lawrence Co., Pa., born July 22, 1839. He graduated medical
college, Mar. 12, 1860. He served in the Civil War, in the fall of 1865
he located in Birmingham. Seven children were born to this union, two
died in infancy. Living: Meldon W., farmer of Lick Creek Twp.,
Van Buren County; Nettie X.; Minnie A., wife of Allen
B. Adams of Selma; Audley E. and Mary L., students at
Parsons College.
Extracted from Portrait & Biography Album, Van Buren County, Iowa, page 365; Submitted by Larry L. Nelson
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