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Note: NI16 History of Lapeer County, Michigan
p. 77
NELSON MILES was born in Grand Rapids, Mich. When three years old he moved with his people to Schoharie County, N. Y., and three years thereafter to Watertown, N. Y. He attended the public schools and institute, and in 1865 came to Michigan, his father buying and settling upon the farm he (Nelson Miles) now owns in Lapeer City. He was married in 1877 to Miss Florence Lawton, of the State of New York, and has one daughter.
http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Newspaper Mexico Independant 1877-1880 - 0461.PDF
Kicked by His Horse
Mr. Nelson Miles, a young and welathy farmer living int he south-eastern part of the city, received a probably fatal wound on Saturday. He was driving a four-horse team attached to a plow, when the (?clevis?) on one of the forward whittletrees became disarranged, and while engaged in fixing it, received a kick on the left temple from one of the horses, which will, without doubt, prove fatal very soon. Two pieces of the skull an inch and a quarter square have been removed letting out a small portion of brain. Mr. Miles is an man above reporach, universally respected, and married less than two years ago. He has a wife and infant child. - Lapier (Mich.) Clarion, Aug. 28.
Fowlerville Review, Fowlerville, Livingston County, Michigan
Friday September 5, 1879
Nelson MILES , a highly respected farmer near Lapeer, was fatally injured on the 23d by a kick on the side of his head given by a horse.
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Apparently this was not a fatal wound as was reported in newspaper accounts. Nelson Miles, wife Florence and daughter Ethel appear on the 1880 census at Lapeer, Michigan, and again in 1900 and 1910.
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