When Martha Ann Nelson was born on 22 January 1864, in Black River Township, Butler, Missouri, United States, her father, Joseph Nelson, was 29 and her mother, Louisa Ruth Agee, was 25. She married James Graves Thompson on 22 June 1882, in Wise, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Wichita, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 2, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1930. She died on 29 March 1948, at the age of 84, and was buried in Burkburnett, Wichita, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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