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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Hattie Ethel Nelson: Birth: 22 SEP 1892.

  2. Mary Etta Nelson: Birth: 15 APR 1897 in Cherry Point, Marshall County, Illinois. Death: 27 MAR 1984 in Benson, Minnesota

  3. Zella Florence Nelson: Birth: 13 AUG 1899 in Iowa. Death: 20 DEC 1937

  4. Ray Nelson: Birth: 11 MAY 1903 in Iowa. Death: JUL 1986 in Peru, Madison County, Iowa

  5. Roy Nelson: Birth: 11 MAY 1903 in Iowa. Death: 25 DEC 1974 in Benson, Swift County, Minnesota


Notes
a. Note:   Obituary
  Ulysses Samuel Grant Nelson, a resident of Swift County for the past nine years, died at his home in Benson Saturday evening, February 2 at 6:30 o'clock from heart trouble.
 Funeral services will be held February 6 from the home at 1:30 and from Pilgrim Congregational Curch at 2 PM with Rev. G.L. Waite of Benson and Rev. Peterson of Holloway officiating.
 Mr. Nelson was born Dec 5, 1865 near Dayton, Ohio, the son of Jacob and Marietta Nelson and was 70 years, one month and 28 days at the time of his death. He was married to Ivy Florence Nees on October 26, 1890 at Gary, Indiana. He is survived by his wife, five children - 3 daughters and 2 sons.
 The Children are:
 (Ethel) Mrs. T. J. Bush of Orient, Iowa
 (Mary) Mrs. W. A. Jones of Benson
 (Zella) Mrs Aurthur C. Jones of Winterset, Iowa
 Ray of Peru, Iowa
 Roy of Benson.
 Two Brothers James and John live in Staunton, Iowa.
 He is survived by 20 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild.
 Mr Nelson moved from Ohio to Indiana in 1880, then to Illinois where he lived until 1891 and after his marriage, he moved to Iowa. He lived there until 1926 when he moved to Minnesota. He lived for a time to Holloway where he was a member of the Methodist Church of that village. He was a member of the Modern Woodsmen of America lodge, and was a patient at the Lodge's Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1910. He was a Tinner and Plumber by trade.


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