John Lemon Nelson II and Mary Magdalene Moss married on 17 March 1908 in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and raised eleven children together in Owen Township. He was a pastor, and the son of John Lemon Nelson and Dolly May McNeill Nelson, whose own story is told on the earlier Nelson family page. This page gathers what the family tree records about the two of them, the places tied to their story, and the children who carried the line forward.
Ancestors
- John Lemon Nelson II — b. 1870, d. 1938
- Mary Magdalene Moss — b. 1889, d. 1982
Places of Interest
- Owen Township, Pulaski County, Arkansas — where they raised their family, recorded in the 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses
- Forrest City, St. Francis County, Arkansas — where Mary Magdalene Moss was born in 1889
- Maumelle, Pulaski County, Arkansas — where John Lemon Nelson II died in 1938
- Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan — where Mary Magdalene Moss died in 1982, and where several of their children settled
Children
Their eleven children, in order of birth. Each name opens that person’s record in the family tree.
- Johnnie Nelson — 1908–1993
- Fannie Colquitt — 1910–2001
- Milton Donaghey Nelson — 1912–1982
- Connie Lee Nelson — 1913–1996
- Henry Franklin Nelson — 1915–2006
- Remzo Nelson — 1917–1988
- Ottoway Nelson — 1920–1999
- Bernice Nelson — 1922–1997
- Luther Nelson — 1925–2018
- Mazie Louise Nelson — 1927–2025
- Netdeen Nelson — 1929–2019
John also had a daughter from his earlier marriage to Lillian May Boothe: Mary Nelson, 1902 to 1964, who was Mary Magdalene’s stepdaughter.
The places above are drawn from the birth, residence and death facts recorded in the family tree. Source citations for this couple have not been catalogued yet, so unlike the earlier Nelson family page this one carries no Sources section. That is a research gap rather than an omission, and it is on the list of open questions.