Hughes Relations:  Nelson Family

compiled by Steve Wilson, last updated August 13, 2005.
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This Nelson family came from Sweden, settling in the Great Plains.

M. Nelson & C. Hookam

1. 20 May 1839, son Magnus Nelson b. Sweden [m. Samantha Dillman 1874]
    
• Unmarried children:
• 24 July 1860, census Knox Co., Illinois (Galesburg, M Nelson 21 farm laborer Sweden, at Benj Bruington)
• 1 July 1870, census Cass Co., Nebraska (Plattsmouth, Magnes Nelson 27 carpenter Sweden, at John Finisker)

Magnus Nelson arrived in the U.S. in 1851, and was naturalized in 1860.

(Sources:  C1860, C1870)

Magnus Nelson & Samantha Ann Dillman

• Magnus, son of M. Nelson & C. Hookam (b. 1839, Sweden)
• Samantha, dau. of David Dillman & Rebecca Byers (b. 1846, Indiana) [m. Henry Hughes 1867]
• 31 Mar. 1874, m. Cass Co., Nebraska
1. Feb. 1875, dau. Viola Grace Nelson b. Nebraska [m. Ervin Getman by 1895]
2. 13 Mar. 1877, dau. Hattie Edna Nelson b. [d. 23 Oct. 1879, bur. Mount Hope Cem.]
• 27 Oct. 1917, Samantha d. Mankato, Jewell Co., Kansas (bur. Mount Hope Cem.)

Magnus Nelson & Erma S. ---

• Erma (b. c. 1869, Sweden) [m. Carl Rudeen c. 1895]
• c. 1919, m.
• 3 Apr. 1928, Magnus d. (bur. Mount Hope Cem.)
   
• Census Records:
• 14 June 1880, Jewell Co., Kansas (Washington Twp, Magnus Nelson 36 farmer Sweden, Samantha 23 IN, Viola 5 NE, stepson Wilbert Hughes 12 NE, stepson Edwin 10 NE, boarder John McConnell 24 farm hand PA)
• 9 June 1900, Jewell Co., Kansas (Washington Twp, M M Nelson 61 farmer Germany, Samantha 54 IN, stepson Wibur Hughes 30 farmer NE, dL Ola 29 IA, dau. Grace Getman 25 NE, sL Ervin 30 farm laborer WI, gson Harry 5 KS, gs Guy 3 KS, mother [of Ola] M A Snider 64 IA)
• 21 Apr. 1910, Jewell Co., Kansas (Madison St, Mankato, Magnus M Nelson 70 carpenter Sweden, Samantha A 62 IN)
• 6 Jan. 1920, Jewell Co., Kansas (303 Clinton, Mankato, Magnus M Nelson 81 Sweden, Erma S 51 Sweden, stepson Ernest W Rudeen 23 laborer MT)
• 17 Apr. 1930, Jewell Co., Kansas (Madison St, Mankato, Anna S Nelson wd 61 Sweden, dau Esther Dye 31 wd cook MT, gs Russell E 3 KS, lodger Joe M Camp div 37 auto mechanic KS)

Magnus Nelson moved from Nebraska to Kansas in about 1876.

(Sources:  C1880, C1900, C1910, C1920, C1930, CassMR, JewellRev, KansDR, MtHopeC, WestAdv)