Obituary of R. A. Nelson 1876  Boyle County


The Kentucky Advocate, published in Danville on 5 May 1876
to be examined in the newspaper files at the W.T.Young
Library, University of Kentucky-Lexington:
	 
"Death.- Of Pneumonia, at his residence in this county, on
Friday last, Dr. R.A. Nelson, aged 71 years. The deceased
was a minister of the Baptist Church, and also a physician.
He came from Virginia, and had been living in this county 38
years. We learn that he was a very worthy and exemplary
citizen. His remains were buried in the old Providence
Burial Grounds on Saturday, after appropriate services by
Eld. W.P.Harvey."
	 
Comments: Dr. Robert Andrew Nelson was born in Hanover
County, Virginia June 11, 1805, He was the son of the Rev.
Peter Carr Nelson (1757-1827)and his wife Nancy Lawrence
Nelson (1769-1814). Dr. Nelson graduated from William and
Mary College and  the Medical College of Maryland in
Baltimore. (See William and Mary Quarterly (1), Vol. 15,
pp.242ff. See also The History of Harrodsburg and 'The Great
Settlement Area'  of Kentucky, 1774-1900 by George M. Chinn,
page 299.)
	 
The ancestry of Dr. Nelson derives from the emigrant
Captain/Surgeon Edward Nelson, "son of James Nelson, Esq.,
of Essex County, near London, England...[he] was born
1690."(See "Nelson Family Records-Hanover County, VA" in the
custody of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.,
an account of which may be found in the Virginia
Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol.16 (January 1978), pp.
14-15.)
	 
My descent is through his son John Lawrence Nelson
(1844-1897) and  wife Margaret Bell Stewart (1861-1949) of
Clover Bottom, Woodford County, Kentucky. Their son Robert
Elgin Nelson, Sr. (1893-1979) was my father. I have two
brothers: Dr. Robert Elgin Nelson, Jr. (1923-) of Bowling
Green, Kentucky and Dr. James Graham Nelson (1929-) of
Madison, Wisconsin.

Submitted by: Jack L Nelson
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