James Melvin Nelson

James married Lucille Greenlee [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Melvin Nelson, Jr.

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!SO: H-009.

Nicholes married Grace Ward. Grace (daughter of James Ward and Nancy Jane Wilkie) was born on 13 Aug 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: H-009.
NOTES: In 1976 Grace was living in Spokane, WA.

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!SO: H-009.

James married Nancy Jane Wilkie in 1880 in Cherokee, Cherokee, Iowa, United States. Nancy (daughter of John Wilkie and Jane Goodwin) was born on 24 Jun 1864; died on 17 Oct 1959 in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: H-009
NOTE: Also known as `Jennie'. She and her husband, James, cared for her
parents during their last years in her home in Cherokee. Nancy later
moved to Santa Ana, California and lived there until she died.

Notes:

!SO: H-009.
BAPTISM: H-009. At the Parish of Dundee.
IMMIGRATION: H-009 relates that John, his 2 brothers, and his father left
Scotland to arrive in New York in 1849, but for some unknown
reason they returned immediately to Scotland. However in the
same year they again sailed for America, this time to stay.
The events of their second journey are related in a letter now
held by a family member (see H-009, P. 163) which tells a story of
about 3 months of stormy seas, finally surviving on ship by
collecting and drinking rain water and eating from small rations
of dried beans and peas.
NOTES: Not much is know of the early years in America, but from tradition it is
believed that John first worked in the shipyards in New York. The next
record is of his marriage to Jane at Galena, IL. Soon after their
marriage John and Jane moved to Dubuque Co., Iowa whrer all of their
children were born. In 1877 the family moved to Cherokee Co., Iowa and
settled on a farm in Cedar Township.
BURIAL: Cedar Cemetery.

John married Jane Goodwin on 29 Apr 1852 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States. Jane (daughter of S. Goodwin and Mc Ginnis) was born in in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States; died on 8 Aug 1906; was buried in Cherokee, Cherokee, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: H-009.
MARRIAGE: H-009.
BURIAL: Cedar Cemetery.