Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Hans NELSON ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Saturday March 7, 1891, Page 6 KILLED IN THE PINERY Big Flats, March 2, 1891: A telegram was received here Sunday a.m., announcing the death of Hans NELSON. Mr. NELSON had been working in a pinery camp twenty-six miles north of Merrill, and Saturday a.m., after he had gotten a log, as he supposed, safely on top of his load, it rolled back and struck him across the back, inflicting an injury which proved fatal. When asked if he would be taken to the camp, or to Merrill, he replied: "It doesn't matter, boys, I can only live a short time; but if you take me to Merrill I will be that much nearer home." Within six miles of Merrill he asked how much farther they had to go, and being told said, "I can't reach there, boys," and died shortly after. Mr. NELSON was thirty years and two months old and leaves a wife and infant son. The funeral will be held from the Danish Lutheran church of this place, Tuesday, March 3.