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Joseph E “Joe” Nelson

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Joseph E “Joe” Nelson

Birth
LaGrange County, Indiana, USA
Death
17 Mar 1915 (aged 55)
Burial
Shipshewana, LaGrange County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Joe married Elizabeth Eash on 6 February 1881. They had 7 sons and 3 daughters, all born in Lagrange County IN:

Anna (1881-1938)
Daniel (1883-1889)
Fannie Bell (1886-
Rosa Pearl (1887-1952)
Joseph E. Jr. (1889-1976)
William Otis (1894-1972)
Rollen J. (1897-1972)
Dale M. (1899-1982)
Elva G. (1904-1981)
Perry (1906-

As a 14-year-old boy, Joe traveled with his parents and grandparents in a covered wagon to Missouri in 1874. As the oldest son of Tom & Frances, he was probably given a number of responsibilities during the "grasshopper year" (as 1874 was known) of hardship which the family faced in the unfamiliar territory. In 1875, after the death of his grandfather, the group returned to Lagrange County, Indiana where he spent the remainder of his life with the exception of his travels to Oklahoma in 1904 to help build a church and to Michigan in 1908 to help build a house for his sister and brother-in-law, John & Wilma Miller.
Joe married Elizabeth Eash on 6 February 1881. They had 7 sons and 3 daughters, all born in Lagrange County IN:

Anna (1881-1938)
Daniel (1883-1889)
Fannie Bell (1886-
Rosa Pearl (1887-1952)
Joseph E. Jr. (1889-1976)
William Otis (1894-1972)
Rollen J. (1897-1972)
Dale M. (1899-1982)
Elva G. (1904-1981)
Perry (1906-

As a 14-year-old boy, Joe traveled with his parents and grandparents in a covered wagon to Missouri in 1874. As the oldest son of Tom & Frances, he was probably given a number of responsibilities during the "grasshopper year" (as 1874 was known) of hardship which the family faced in the unfamiliar territory. In 1875, after the death of his grandfather, the group returned to Lagrange County, Indiana where he spent the remainder of his life with the exception of his travels to Oklahoma in 1904 to help build a church and to Michigan in 1908 to help build a house for his sister and brother-in-law, John & Wilma Miller.

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