John Nelson and Patsy Nelson are the earliest generation this site records. He was born about 1791 in Virginia, she about 1785, and their eight children were born between about 1820 and about 1840, most of them in Virginia. Patsy appears in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census as the head of an Alexandria household; John died there on 20 November 1856. Their son John Lemon Nelson carried the line to Arkansas, and his own family is told on its own page. This page gathers what the family tree records about the two of them, the place tied to their story, and the children who came after.
Ancestors
Each name opens that person’s record in the family tree.
- John Nelson — b. abt 1791, d. 1856
- Patsy Nelson — b. abt 1785, death not recorded
The family tree records no death date for Patsy Nelson, and no maiden name for her. Both are open research questions rather than omissions.
Places of Interest
- Alexandria, Virginia — where several of the children were born, where Patsy kept the 1850 census household, and where John died in 1856
Children
Their eight children, in order of birth. Each name opens that person’s record in the family tree.
- George Nelson — 1820–1914
- John Lemon Nelson — 1830–1921
- Martha A Nelson Kitts — b. 1831
- Cecelia Nelson Ford — 1832–1904
- Irving Nelson — b. 1833
- Charlotte Nelson — 1834–1899
- Georgeanna Nelson Day — 1835–1905
- William Nelson — 1840–1914
John Lemon Nelson’s own family in Pulaski County, Arkansas is told on its own page, and his son’s family in Owen Township on a third. He is the thread between them: his record belongs to the Pulaski County page, so his name here opens the family tree rather than that record.
Source citations for this couple have not been catalogued yet, so unlike the Pulaski County page this one carries no Sources section. The 1850 Alexandria census is cited on that page and covers Patsy’s household. That is a research gap rather than an omission.