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- [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #4588, Date of Import: Aug 24, 1997]
John Alfred Nelson, father of John August Nelson, was born in Sweden, August 15, 1837. He was reared and educated there, he married Emma Christina Ward, also born in Sweden December 14, 1840. They came to America in the summer of 1866, after a long tiresome voyage aboard a sailing ship, landed in New York, from there they went to Red Wing, Minnesota where they remained about a year. In 1867 they moved to Menomonie, Wisconsin where he worked for Knapp Stout & Co. From there he located on a Homestead, 160 acres, Section 10, Prairie Farm Township, Wisconsin. Moving his family into a little log cabin, the land was covered with heavy timber and no roads led to it. The furniture for this little home was made from trees and poles cut on the place, tools were few. It was sometime before the farm was sufficiently cleared to raise enough crops to support the family so for many years Mr. Nelson spent the winters in the woods leaving his wife alone in the cabin among the trees. She passed the lonely hours looking after her household duties, attending to the chores and spinning yarn and knitting socks and mittens. Mr. Nelson would walk to Menomonie, 30 miles for groceries and supplies, one time he carried a spinning wheel and groceries on his back,
back to the farm.
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1880 - 1945 (64 years)
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