Biography of Norborne Bland Nelson, St Francis County, AR

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        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Nelson, Norborne Bland-City Cemetery

The Forrest City Times' Art Souvenir-1905-Page 105: Mr. N. B. Nelson is the
senior member of the firm N. B. Nelson & Co., dealers in Fine Wines, Liquors,
Cigars and Tobaccos, who do a large retail business on North Washington Street.
The senior proprietor is a native of Stanton, Haywood County, Tennessee, where
he was born on December 10, 1860. He is a son of W. L. and Mary E. (Bland)
Nelson. His father was a railroad man nearly all his life, and was for years a
passenger conductor on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and "pulled" the
first passenger train from Memphis to Stanton, over that road. N. B. Nelson was
educated in Nashville, Tennessee, and began his career as a farmer, a noble
calling which he has never entirely abandoned. He came to Forrest City in 1889,
Mr. Nelson, besides his saloon business, is a stockholder in The J. W. Beck Co.,
The Bank of Forrest City, The Planters Gin & Mfg. Co., and the Choctaw Brick &
Tile Co. of this city, and the Southern Trust Co. of Little Rock. In 1882 he was
happily married to Miss Mollie Rives of Mason, Tennessee, and to this union four
children were born, only one of whom, Mamie, surviving her mother. In 1889 he
was married to Mrs. Mattie Williams, of this city, and to them six children have
been born, three of whom died in infancy. Those living are Susie W., Annie
Claude, and Kathleen Rhodes Nelson, and a step-daughter, Corrine Williams, now
Mrs. Hequembourg, of Missouri.

Copyright With Permission: 1905 Art Souvenir-Forrest City Times NewspaperWeston
McCollum Lewey, Publisher-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas