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About Elizabeth Nelson

From her obituary in the Lenoir Topic:

after a brief illness of typhoid fever, and a chronic illness of many years standing, Our dear mother, Mrs Elizabeth Nelson, wife of John Nelson, quietly fell asleep in Jesus at her home near Patterson, N.C. August the 20th, 1880, in the sixty-fifth year of her age. (1)

J.L.N. (James Lee Nelson)

Family

  • parents: According to marriage records, Elizabeth Pendley Nelson was a daughter of William Penley and Mary Ferguson. (1)

married

  1. John Nelson (1812-1903). He was a son of Hugh Nelson, Irish immigrant and stonemason by trade; and Sarah Day.They lived on a farm near a road then known as the Blowing Rock turnpike.

Their children were: George W., William Rufus, John H., Thomas F., Adolphus E., James Lee, Mary Ann (married Elijah Coffey), Jane Elizabeth (married James Webb Suddreth and then Jesse Gragg), and Sarah E. (married Job Moore). (2)

Sources

  1. Findagrave - Elizabeth Pendley Nelson
  2. Findagrave - John M. Nelson
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Elizabeth Nelson's Timeline

1816
May 3, 1816
North Carolina, United States
1837
January 15, 1837
Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States of America
January 15, 1837
1839
July 20, 1839
North Carolina, United States
July 20, 1839
Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States of America
1841
May 19, 1841
Caldwell County, NC, United States
1843
February 23, 1843
Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
February 23, 1843
Patterson, Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States of America
1845
March 28, 1845
Blowing Rock, Wautaga, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States