Nellie Jackson

Nellie Steele was Born August 28, 1884, in the Lehi area an LDS settlement in the north-east part of Mesa Arizona. Her parents were George E Steele, a soldier in the Mormon Volunteer Regiment, and Syrina P. Biggs. She grew up in that community and while attending church functions came to meet Samuel Allen Passey of the Mesa Passeys also part of the LDS community. On June 1,1901, Nellie and Samuel were married in the City of Mesa. Together they had 7 children, Arthur Lee, Thelma, Esmay Ione, George, Ernest, Nelda and Samuel Lester. There she started to raise her large family, but for unknown reasons she and Samuel divorced. Nellie and the children left for California to be with family. They ended up living near Riverside, California, there she met Eric Wilhelm (Jacobson) Jackson, a Swedish immigrant they soon married on March 17,1930, in Los Angeles County, California. It was there they planted roots and raised the children and lived their lives in that community. Eric past away in 1950. Nellie stayed near her children who had started families and lived near her she passed away January 15, 1971, in Riverside, California. She is buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery in West Los Angeles, California, probably because her second husband, Eric Wilhelm Jackson, served as a Private in the South Dakota 18th Field Artillery during World War I.