When John Bruce Nelson was born on 5 July 1931, in Idaho, United States, his father, Walter Everett Nelson, was 32 and his mother, Ethel Mabel Nelson, was 31. He lived in Emerson Election Precinct, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 18 March 1948, in Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States, at the age of 16, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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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.
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