Brief Life History of Price Williams
When Price Williams Nelson was born on 17 November 1822, in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, Edmond Nelson, was 22 and his mother, Jane Taylor, was 18. He married Lydia Ann Lake on 31 December 1850, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pine Creek, Gila, Arizona, United States in 1880 and Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 17 October 1902, in Oaxaca, Bavispe, Sonora, Mexico, at the age of 79, and was buried in Oaxaca, Bavispe, Sonora, Mexico.
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- W N Nelson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Price Williams Nelson - birth: 17 November 1822; Monroe, Illinois, United States
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1823
Guadelupe Victoria becomes first Mexican president.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1843
Santa Anna chosen as president of Mexico.
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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Nelson, Lydia Ann Lake, [Autobiography], in Roberta Flake Clayton, comp., Pioneer Women of Arizona, 432.
RELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …
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