Nels Ursel Anderson

21 February 1896–27 December 1974 (Age 78)
Bear River City, Box Elder, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Nels Ursel

When Nels Ursel Anderson was born on 21 February 1896, in Bear River City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Nels Anderson, was 30 and his mother, Lena Marie Pederson, was 22. He married Sylvia Nellie Anderson on 6 June 1918, in Box Elder, Utah, United States. He lived in Bell, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 27 December 1974, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bear River Cemetery, Bear River City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nels Ursel Anderson
1896–1974
Sylvia Nellie Anderson
1896–1985
Marriage: 6 June 1918

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    6 June 1918Box Elder, Utah, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1897 · The Utah State Historical Society
    Age 1
    The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
    1898 · War with the Spanish
    Age 2
    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
    1917
    Age 21
    U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Andrew

    Sources (38)

    • Ursel Anderson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
    • Nels Ursel Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
    • Nels Ursel Anderson, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"

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