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Note: H00003
Note: 1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Jno A Nelms
Age: 52
Estimated birth year: abt 1798
Birth Place: Virginia
Gender: Male
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): Bonham, Fannin, Texas
Nelms J. Arch Pace
An Interesting book that involves the Nelms family is Plow Horse Cavalry, The Caney Creek Boys of the Thirty-forth Texas
FROM "THE PLOW-HORSE CAVALRY"
John Arch Nelms was a Methodist preacher and was called Parson Nelms.
He was a boot maker. His father and grandfather had served in the Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. He had three siblings that did not reach adulthood.
He left Virginia and moved west to Tennessee where he met and married the daughter of a Methodist minister. They were still in Tennessee when their first son was born in 1820.
He then moved his family to near Russellville, Logan County, KY. The rest of the children were born there and the family lived in a two room log house.
In 1846, they joined the Peters Colony that had been organized by a man named Peters in Louisville, KY, and journeyed to the Republic of Texas. The families traveled overland to Clarksville, TN, and boarded a river steamer on the Cumberland River which took them down the Ohio and the Mississippi to New Orleans. They purchased supplies for a year and ascended the Mississippi to the Red River up to Shreveport. From there, they proceeded to Jefferson, TX, by way of Soda Lake. The families first set foot on Texas soil at Swanson's Landing. The families then proceeded to Dallas and eventually settled on White Rock Creek in what is now southwest Collin County. A log cabin was erected near the creek.
A fever epidemic swept through the colonists along White Rock Creek and took many lives, including many members of this family. Susan Nelms Beaty and her unamed son, just born, succumbed to the fever. The families then moved to Bonham and located one mile northwest of that city.---"The Plow-Horse Cavalry"
The Beaty and Nelms families travelled from Kentucky on a steamer named "Embassy" which had started from Louisville, KY.---"Kentucky Colonies of Texas" research by Armond Clinton Beaty.
Note: Maybe they transferred to the "Embassy" at the point where the Cumberland River empties into the Ohio River.---Ron Myers
John Arch and his two oldest sons went into the shoe and boot business for two years. The married son then went into the saddle business. When John Arch moved to Bonham there were only about 75 families in the area. He built a home three miles NE of Ector.---"Pioneer Settlers"
Land records show that John Archibald Nelms and Christopher Columbus Nelms applied for land grants in Collin County as part of the Peters Colony. (Those records also include a William C. Beaty and Robert L Beaty, however, their connection to this family, if any, is not known).---Armond Clinton Beaty
1840 United States Federal Census
about John A Nelms
Name: John A Nelms
County: Logan
State: Kentucky
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