Benoni NelsonAge: 73 years1849–1922
- Name
- Benoni Nelson
- Given names
- Benoni
- Surname
- Nelson
Shared note: Woodson S Nelson Obituary and Family Listing
 Birth | April 23, 1849 |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 7 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 11 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 17 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 17 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 19 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
 Birth of a son#1 | Woodson Steven Nelson November 26, 1876 (Age 27 years) |
 Marriage | Alzina Hinecker — View this family December 10, 1876 (Age 27 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 28 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Census | June 1, 1880 (Age 31 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Woodson Steven Nelson — Catherine “Kate” Barnett — View this family June 25, 1898 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 48 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Phillip Anderson Nelson July 6, 1900 (Age 51 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Lillian Ann Nelson November 19, 1904 (Age 55 years) |
| Death of a wife | Alzina Hinecker January 25, 1907 (Age 57 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 66 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 67 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 68 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
 Death | August 19, 1922 (Age 73 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Puckett Cemetery |
| Family with Alzina Hinecker |
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Benoni Nelson Birth: April 23, 1849 — Center, Grant, Indiana, United States Death: August 19, 1922 — Center, Grant, Indiana, United States |
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Alzina Hinecker Birth: May 12, 1861 — Salem, Delaware, Indiana, United States Death: January 25, 1907 — Winamac, Pulaski, Indiana, United States |
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Marriage: December 10, 1876 — Grant, Indiana, United States |
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Woodson Steven Nelson Birth: November 26, 1876 27 15 — Blackford, Indiana, United States Death: May 2, 1958 — Fulton, Indiana, United States |
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| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - Benoni Nelson - Household
Washington, Blackford, Indiana, United States
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| Name | Woodson S Nelson Obituary and Family Listing
Woodson S. Nelson
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna for Woodson S. NELSON, 83, lifelong resident of the Kewanna area, who died early Friday morning at the Miller nursing home in Rochester. Death came after a long illness.
Burial will be in the Barnett cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Mr. Nelson ws the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benona NELSON and formerly operated a butcher shop in Kewanna. He was married to Catherine BARNETT, who preceded him in death.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Lillian INGRAM, Kewanna; and sister, Mrs. Vina HIGHNECKER, Winamac; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
From the Fulton County Indiana library
Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Collection
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67094731/woodson-steven-nelson |