Brief Life History of Louis
Louis Nelson was born on 31 March 1850, in Falster, Storstrøm, Denmark. He married Susan Melvina Cowger on 14 November 1881, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Irving Township, Brown, Kansas, United States in 1900. He died on 22 December 1925, in Hiawatha, Brown, Kansas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Hiawatha, Brown, Kansas, United States.
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- Louis Nelson, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louis Nelson - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Louis Nelson
- Louis Nelson, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Brown, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Brown, Kansas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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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