My Beautiful, Warm & Loving Grandmother
Gladys "Martha Jane" Nelson was my grandmother, she was named after her grandmother Martha Jane Callahan Mosier, but after her mother's death, her father allowed some other people in Noblesville to help him raise my grandmother until he could get on his feet and they gave her the name Gladys which stuck with her through out her life. (Their names were Anon Teeters & his wife, Maude M. Love Taylor-Teeters). She also named her own daughter after her grandmother. (Maude Love Teeters had a daughter-in-law named Martha LaPrudence (Mosier) Taylor who was my grandmother's first cousin. Martha's father, James Wesley Mosier, my grandmother's uncle, suggested the adoption after his sisters death). I know the process was started, their are articles in the paper that they had requested to adopt her, and that there was a hearing. I do not know the results of that hearing, but apparently my grandmother never followed it.
I was blessed being able to spend weekends, spring and summer vacation with my grandparents. Mommom would take me out to pick berries, to auctions, to the lake and we would fish and swim, and we also went to garage sales. I helped her do the canning and clean the house, but nothing was ever a chore, it was spending precious time with my grandmother. I loved her more than anyone in the entire world.
My Grandmother lived in Otwell (Pike County) Indiana and had since 1974 when her and her husband, Joe Bethel Nelson retired to the homestead where Joe was born, this homestead had been in the Nelson family since 1847. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 9, 1919, the daughter of Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier. Before they moved to the homestead, Gladys and Joe lived in Westfield, Indiana in a house that was located on Ditch Road. They had horses there as well, and I rode for hours and hours there.
She was three times married. She married 1st on July 22, 1935 in Holton, Ripley Co, IN to Leonard Lee Goodwin, she married 2nd to Edwin Howard in September 1939 and divorced in 1946, she married 3rd to Joe Bethel Nelson on September 19, 1946 in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN.
Gladys went to Hollywood, Florida to help her son Sam with his wife, Kathy (her daughter-in-law), and granddaughter, Jenna. Kathy was dying of brain and lung cancer. Kathleen Joy Krysiak Nelson died on December 20, 1999, while my grandmother was there. My grandmother stayed on to help Sam with the care of Jenna so that Sam could continue to work.
On February 17th at 1:30 a.m. after a bout with lung cancer, my grandmother died at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida. She went to the hospital to have her esophagus stretched because she was having trouble swallowing, and they busted through the wall of her lungs, spreading the cancer even further. Although it was an accident, it was their fault that she died that day.
Gladys was survived by four children: Leonard Eugene Goodwin, Cheryl Lee "Sherry" Nelson Satterfield of Otwell, Samuel Joe Nelson of Hollywood, Florida, and Marte Nelson-Daves of Winslow; nine grandchildren: Robert Eugene Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Teresa Lynn Goodwin-Skaggs of Indianapolis, Indiana, Debbie Kay Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida, Heather Elaine Nelson of South Bend, Indiana, John Jacob Cloe of Winslow, Indiana, Zachary Allen Lively of Evansville, Indiana, Desire' Leigh Daves of Winslow, Indiana, Thomas Lee Daves of Winslow, Indiana, and Jenna Patricia Nelson of Hollywood, Florida; nine great-grandchildren: Jason Robert White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Daniel Eugene Goodwin of Indianapolis, Indiana, Samantha Nicole White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Robert Eugene Goodwin II of Greenwood, Indiana, Joshua Stephen Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Benjamin Leonard Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Matthew Thaddeus Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana and John Leonard Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida. Two brothers, Delphord Frances Scofield and Guy Arthur Scofield Jr. and two sisters, Elsie P. Oren & Lillian Oren preceded her in death.
My grandmother's funeral service was held in Winslow at Curtis Funeral Home and she was laid to rest in Sunset Cemetery in Winslow, next to her husband Joe Bethel Nelson.
Half-Siblings who were raised by their mother's second husband
โ 1. Harry Lonzo (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died July 21, 1953. (TWIN)
โ 2. Cordelia Pauline (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died March 19, 1977 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. (TWIN)
Step-Brothers & Sisters who were also her first cousins
โ Doris Thelma Mosier
โ Raymond Eugene Mosier
โ Alton Leon Mosier
โ Ruth Noreen (Mosier) Corder Scott
โ Irene Opal (Mosier) Clevenger
โ Ethel Bernice (Mosier) Hettenbach
โ James Edward Mosier
โ John Franklin Mosier
โ Marjorie Louise Mosier
โ Betty Jane (Mosier) Sheats
โ Robert Don Mosier
Foster Sister
โ Vera Lavon (Taylor) Collins, she was the granddaughter of Anon Teeters and Maude Love.
โ On the 1930 Census she is listed as Gladys Teeters in the household of Anon and Maude Teeters, she is listed as a daughter.
โ Her biological father, Guy Arthur Scofield, signed the marriage license when she was still 15 years old, for her to marry Leonard Lee Goodwin on July 22, 1935 in Ripley County, IN. [She listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier]
โ But when she married Edwin Howard, she listed her parents as Anon & Maude Teeters.
โ When she married Joe Bethel Nelson, again she listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier, her biological parents.
Gladys "Martha Jane" Nelson was my grandmother, she was named after her grandmother Martha Jane Callahan Mosier, but after her mother's death, her father allowed some other people in Noblesville to help him raise my grandmother until he could get on his feet and they gave her the name Gladys which stuck with her through out her life. (Their names were Anon Teeters & his wife, Maude M. Love Taylor-Teeters). She also named her own daughter after her grandmother. (Maude Love Teeters had a daughter-in-law named Martha LaPrudence (Mosier) Taylor who was my grandmother's first cousin. Martha's father, James Wesley Mosier, my grandmother's uncle, suggested the adoption after his sisters death). I know the process was started, their are articles in the paper that they had requested to adopt her, and that there was a hearing. I do not know the results of that hearing, but apparently my grandmother never followed it.
I was blessed being able to spend weekends, spring and summer vacation with my grandparents. Mommom would take me out to pick berries, to auctions, to the lake and we would fish and swim, and we also went to garage sales. I helped her do the canning and clean the house, but nothing was ever a chore, it was spending precious time with my grandmother. I loved her more than anyone in the entire world.
My Grandmother lived in Otwell (Pike County) Indiana and had since 1974 when her and her husband, Joe Bethel Nelson retired to the homestead where Joe was born, this homestead had been in the Nelson family since 1847. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 9, 1919, the daughter of Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier. Before they moved to the homestead, Gladys and Joe lived in Westfield, Indiana in a house that was located on Ditch Road. They had horses there as well, and I rode for hours and hours there.
She was three times married. She married 1st on July 22, 1935 in Holton, Ripley Co, IN to Leonard Lee Goodwin, she married 2nd to Edwin Howard in September 1939 and divorced in 1946, she married 3rd to Joe Bethel Nelson on September 19, 1946 in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN.
Gladys went to Hollywood, Florida to help her son Sam with his wife, Kathy (her daughter-in-law), and granddaughter, Jenna. Kathy was dying of brain and lung cancer. Kathleen Joy Krysiak Nelson died on December 20, 1999, while my grandmother was there. My grandmother stayed on to help Sam with the care of Jenna so that Sam could continue to work.
On February 17th at 1:30 a.m. after a bout with lung cancer, my grandmother died at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida. She went to the hospital to have her esophagus stretched because she was having trouble swallowing, and they busted through the wall of her lungs, spreading the cancer even further. Although it was an accident, it was their fault that she died that day.
Gladys was survived by four children: Leonard Eugene Goodwin, Cheryl Lee "Sherry" Nelson Satterfield of Otwell, Samuel Joe Nelson of Hollywood, Florida, and Marte Nelson-Daves of Winslow; nine grandchildren: Robert Eugene Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Teresa Lynn Goodwin-Skaggs of Indianapolis, Indiana, Debbie Kay Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida, Heather Elaine Nelson of South Bend, Indiana, John Jacob Cloe of Winslow, Indiana, Zachary Allen Lively of Evansville, Indiana, Desire' Leigh Daves of Winslow, Indiana, Thomas Lee Daves of Winslow, Indiana, and Jenna Patricia Nelson of Hollywood, Florida; nine great-grandchildren: Jason Robert White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Daniel Eugene Goodwin of Indianapolis, Indiana, Samantha Nicole White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Robert Eugene Goodwin II of Greenwood, Indiana, Joshua Stephen Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Benjamin Leonard Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Matthew Thaddeus Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana and John Leonard Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida. Two brothers, Delphord Frances Scofield and Guy Arthur Scofield Jr. and two sisters, Elsie P. Oren & Lillian Oren preceded her in death.
My grandmother's funeral service was held in Winslow at Curtis Funeral Home and she was laid to rest in Sunset Cemetery in Winslow, next to her husband Joe Bethel Nelson.
Half-Siblings who were raised by their mother's second husband
โ 1. Harry Lonzo (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died July 21, 1953. (TWIN)
โ 2. Cordelia Pauline (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died March 19, 1977 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. (TWIN)
Step-Brothers & Sisters who were also her first cousins
โ Doris Thelma Mosier
โ Raymond Eugene Mosier
โ Alton Leon Mosier
โ Ruth Noreen (Mosier) Corder Scott
โ Irene Opal (Mosier) Clevenger
โ Ethel Bernice (Mosier) Hettenbach
โ James Edward Mosier
โ John Franklin Mosier
โ Marjorie Louise Mosier
โ Betty Jane (Mosier) Sheats
โ Robert Don Mosier
Foster Sister
โ Vera Lavon (Taylor) Collins, she was the granddaughter of Anon Teeters and Maude Love.
โ On the 1930 Census she is listed as Gladys Teeters in the household of Anon and Maude Teeters, she is listed as a daughter.
โ Her biological father, Guy Arthur Scofield, signed the marriage license when she was still 15 years old, for her to marry Leonard Lee Goodwin on July 22, 1935 in Ripley County, IN. [She listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier]
โ But when she married Edwin Howard, she listed her parents as Anon & Maude Teeters.
โ When she married Joe Bethel Nelson, again she listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier, her biological parents.
My Beautiful, Warm & Loving Grandmother
Gladys "Martha Jane" Nelson was my grandmother, she was named after her grandmother Martha Jane Callahan Mosier, but after her mother's death, her father allowed some other people in Noblesville to help him raise my grandmother until he could get on his feet and they gave her the name Gladys which stuck with her through out her life. (Their names were Anon Teeters & his wife, Maude M. Love Taylor-Teeters). She also named her own daughter after her grandmother. (Maude Love Teeters had a daughter-in-law named Martha LaPrudence (Mosier) Taylor who was my grandmother's first cousin. Martha's father, James Wesley Mosier, my grandmother's uncle, suggested the adoption after his sisters death). I know the process was started, their are articles in the paper that they had requested to adopt her, and that there was a hearing. I do not know the results of that hearing, but apparently my grandmother never followed it.
I was blessed being able to spend weekends, spring and summer vacation with my grandparents. Mommom would take me out to pick berries, to auctions, to the lake and we would fish and swim, and we also went to garage sales. I helped her do the canning and clean the house, but nothing was ever a chore, it was spending precious time with my grandmother. I loved her more than anyone in the entire world.
My Grandmother lived in Otwell (Pike County) Indiana and had since 1974 when her and her husband, Joe Bethel Nelson retired to the homestead where Joe was born, this homestead had been in the Nelson family since 1847. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 9, 1919, the daughter of Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier. Before they moved to the homestead, Gladys and Joe lived in Westfield, Indiana in a house that was located on Ditch Road. They had horses there as well, and I rode for hours and hours there.
She was three times married. She married 1st on July 22, 1935 in Holton, Ripley Co, IN to Leonard Lee Goodwin, she married 2nd to Edwin Howard in September 1939 and divorced in 1946, she married 3rd to Joe Bethel Nelson on September 19, 1946 in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN.
Gladys went to Hollywood, Florida to help her son Sam with his wife, Kathy (her daughter-in-law), and granddaughter, Jenna. Kathy was dying of brain and lung cancer. Kathleen Joy Krysiak Nelson died on December 20, 1999, while my grandmother was there. My grandmother stayed on to help Sam with the care of Jenna so that Sam could continue to work.
On February 17th at 1:30 a.m. after a bout with lung cancer, my grandmother died at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida. She went to the hospital to have her esophagus stretched because she was having trouble swallowing, and they busted through the wall of her lungs, spreading the cancer even further. Although it was an accident, it was their fault that she died that day.
Gladys was survived by four children: Leonard Eugene Goodwin, Cheryl Lee "Sherry" Nelson Satterfield of Otwell, Samuel Joe Nelson of Hollywood, Florida, and Marte Nelson-Daves of Winslow; nine grandchildren: Robert Eugene Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Teresa Lynn Goodwin-Skaggs of Indianapolis, Indiana, Debbie Kay Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida, Heather Elaine Nelson of South Bend, Indiana, John Jacob Cloe of Winslow, Indiana, Zachary Allen Lively of Evansville, Indiana, Desire' Leigh Daves of Winslow, Indiana, Thomas Lee Daves of Winslow, Indiana, and Jenna Patricia Nelson of Hollywood, Florida; nine great-grandchildren: Jason Robert White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Daniel Eugene Goodwin of Indianapolis, Indiana, Samantha Nicole White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Robert Eugene Goodwin II of Greenwood, Indiana, Joshua Stephen Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Benjamin Leonard Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Matthew Thaddeus Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana and John Leonard Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida. Two brothers, Delphord Frances Scofield and Guy Arthur Scofield Jr. and two sisters, Elsie P. Oren & Lillian Oren preceded her in death.
My grandmother's funeral service was held in Winslow at Curtis Funeral Home and she was laid to rest in Sunset Cemetery in Winslow, next to her husband Joe Bethel Nelson.
Half-Siblings who were raised by their mother's second husband
โ 1. Harry Lonzo (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died July 21, 1953. (TWIN)
โ 2. Cordelia Pauline (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died March 19, 1977 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. (TWIN)
Step-Brothers & Sisters who were also her first cousins
โ Doris Thelma Mosier
โ Raymond Eugene Mosier
โ Alton Leon Mosier
โ Ruth Noreen (Mosier) Corder Scott
โ Irene Opal (Mosier) Clevenger
โ Ethel Bernice (Mosier) Hettenbach
โ James Edward Mosier
โ John Franklin Mosier
โ Marjorie Louise Mosier
โ Betty Jane (Mosier) Sheats
โ Robert Don Mosier
Foster Sister
โ Vera Lavon (Taylor) Collins, she was the granddaughter of Anon Teeters and Maude Love.
โ On the 1930 Census she is listed as Gladys Teeters in the household of Anon and Maude Teeters, she is listed as a daughter.
โ Her biological father, Guy Arthur Scofield, signed the marriage license when she was still 15 years old, for her to marry Leonard Lee Goodwin on July 22, 1935 in Ripley County, IN. [She listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier]
โ But when she married Edwin Howard, she listed her parents as Anon & Maude Teeters.
โ When she married Joe Bethel Nelson, again she listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier, her biological parents.
Gladys "Martha Jane" Nelson was my grandmother, she was named after her grandmother Martha Jane Callahan Mosier, but after her mother's death, her father allowed some other people in Noblesville to help him raise my grandmother until he could get on his feet and they gave her the name Gladys which stuck with her through out her life. (Their names were Anon Teeters & his wife, Maude M. Love Taylor-Teeters). She also named her own daughter after her grandmother. (Maude Love Teeters had a daughter-in-law named Martha LaPrudence (Mosier) Taylor who was my grandmother's first cousin. Martha's father, James Wesley Mosier, my grandmother's uncle, suggested the adoption after his sisters death). I know the process was started, their are articles in the paper that they had requested to adopt her, and that there was a hearing. I do not know the results of that hearing, but apparently my grandmother never followed it.
I was blessed being able to spend weekends, spring and summer vacation with my grandparents. Mommom would take me out to pick berries, to auctions, to the lake and we would fish and swim, and we also went to garage sales. I helped her do the canning and clean the house, but nothing was ever a chore, it was spending precious time with my grandmother. I loved her more than anyone in the entire world.
My Grandmother lived in Otwell (Pike County) Indiana and had since 1974 when her and her husband, Joe Bethel Nelson retired to the homestead where Joe was born, this homestead had been in the Nelson family since 1847. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 9, 1919, the daughter of Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier. Before they moved to the homestead, Gladys and Joe lived in Westfield, Indiana in a house that was located on Ditch Road. They had horses there as well, and I rode for hours and hours there.
She was three times married. She married 1st on July 22, 1935 in Holton, Ripley Co, IN to Leonard Lee Goodwin, she married 2nd to Edwin Howard in September 1939 and divorced in 1946, she married 3rd to Joe Bethel Nelson on September 19, 1946 in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN.
Gladys went to Hollywood, Florida to help her son Sam with his wife, Kathy (her daughter-in-law), and granddaughter, Jenna. Kathy was dying of brain and lung cancer. Kathleen Joy Krysiak Nelson died on December 20, 1999, while my grandmother was there. My grandmother stayed on to help Sam with the care of Jenna so that Sam could continue to work.
On February 17th at 1:30 a.m. after a bout with lung cancer, my grandmother died at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida. She went to the hospital to have her esophagus stretched because she was having trouble swallowing, and they busted through the wall of her lungs, spreading the cancer even further. Although it was an accident, it was their fault that she died that day.
Gladys was survived by four children: Leonard Eugene Goodwin, Cheryl Lee "Sherry" Nelson Satterfield of Otwell, Samuel Joe Nelson of Hollywood, Florida, and Marte Nelson-Daves of Winslow; nine grandchildren: Robert Eugene Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Teresa Lynn Goodwin-Skaggs of Indianapolis, Indiana, Debbie Kay Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida, Heather Elaine Nelson of South Bend, Indiana, John Jacob Cloe of Winslow, Indiana, Zachary Allen Lively of Evansville, Indiana, Desire' Leigh Daves of Winslow, Indiana, Thomas Lee Daves of Winslow, Indiana, and Jenna Patricia Nelson of Hollywood, Florida; nine great-grandchildren: Jason Robert White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Daniel Eugene Goodwin of Indianapolis, Indiana, Samantha Nicole White of Indianapolis, Indiana, Robert Eugene Goodwin II of Greenwood, Indiana, Joshua Stephen Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Benjamin Leonard Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana, Matthew Thaddeus Goodwin of Greenwood, Indiana and John Leonard Goodwin-George of Auburndale, Florida. Two brothers, Delphord Frances Scofield and Guy Arthur Scofield Jr. and two sisters, Elsie P. Oren & Lillian Oren preceded her in death.
My grandmother's funeral service was held in Winslow at Curtis Funeral Home and she was laid to rest in Sunset Cemetery in Winslow, next to her husband Joe Bethel Nelson.
Half-Siblings who were raised by their mother's second husband
โ 1. Harry Lonzo (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died July 21, 1953. (TWIN)
โ 2. Cordelia Pauline (Scofield) Montgomery born 19 Sep 1909 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana and died March 19, 1977 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. (TWIN)
Step-Brothers & Sisters who were also her first cousins
โ Doris Thelma Mosier
โ Raymond Eugene Mosier
โ Alton Leon Mosier
โ Ruth Noreen (Mosier) Corder Scott
โ Irene Opal (Mosier) Clevenger
โ Ethel Bernice (Mosier) Hettenbach
โ James Edward Mosier
โ John Franklin Mosier
โ Marjorie Louise Mosier
โ Betty Jane (Mosier) Sheats
โ Robert Don Mosier
Foster Sister
โ Vera Lavon (Taylor) Collins, she was the granddaughter of Anon Teeters and Maude Love.
โ On the 1930 Census she is listed as Gladys Teeters in the household of Anon and Maude Teeters, she is listed as a daughter.
โ Her biological father, Guy Arthur Scofield, signed the marriage license when she was still 15 years old, for her to marry Leonard Lee Goodwin on July 22, 1935 in Ripley County, IN. [She listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier]
โ But when she married Edwin Howard, she listed her parents as Anon & Maude Teeters.
โ When she married Joe Bethel Nelson, again she listed her parents as Guy Arthur Scofield and Dollie Sweet Mosier, her biological parents.
