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| Birth: | 20 JUL 1801 in Coke Co. Tennessee 4 |
| Death: | 31 DEC 1884 in Lafayette, Yamhill Co., Oregon 4 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Jesse Nelson b. 22 JAN 1756 in Overwharton Parrish, Stafford Co., Virginia |
| Mother: | Anna Stephen(s) b. 11 MAR 1764 in South Carolina |
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Fact 1: 1844 in Immigrated to Oregon with Gilliam
Fact 2: 1848 in Went to Cal, but soon returned to Or.
Fact 3: 26 NOV 1844 in Arrived in Oregon country at Linnton
Fact 4: 1817 in Immigrated to Missouri
Fact 5: 15 MAR 1845 in ODLC #197 Yamhill County, Oregon
Fact 6: 1848 in Went on to California, but soon returned
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Text:
[MY Family.FTW]
November 15, 1997 NLP
Tonight I talked to a cousin that is also a granddaughter of George S. Nelson. Her name is Nancy Dupuis from California. Thomas Benton Nelson is her line. The following stories were told to her mother who is now 106 years old:
George Stephen Nelson was a DEMOCRAT! It is said that when he was up in years and election was about to happen, he made the statement that if a democrat didn't win and a Republican did, he would shave off his beard. (Note: He had a beard his whole adult life as most men did at that time frame in history) Well, it is sad to say that a Republican won that November and George did as he promised. He died of pneumonia December 30 of the same year.
It was said that George Stephen Nelson built the ballot box in Champoeg Park for the election for the approval of whether or not Oregon would be voted on to be a state.
Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley.
George S. Nelson the father of Josiah was born in East Tennessee, July 20, 1801, and was a farmer during the greater period of his life. He was a very capable and ingenious man, mechanical in his bent, and able to build most anything. At the age of sixteen years he removed to Missouri, and this being in 1817, there were few settlers in this district. Nevertheless, he succeeded in developing a paying farm in the wilderness, but, after his marriage, he sold his farm and located in Jackson County, Missouri, purchasing 160 acres of land at $1.25 per acre. Afterwards, he lived both in Lafayette and Andrew Counties and in the latter was obliged to give up some of his land when it was surveyed. Thereafter he sold out and removed to a place two miles eastward in the same county, remaining there until he prepared to cross the Plains in 1844. The family started on May 1st, and on the way encountered many obstacles, owing chiefly to overflow of the fivers, and depredations on the part of the Indians, who stole six head of cattle on the Nehama River. One of the children died of Mountain Fever at Fort Vancouver, Washington. They settled on a Donation Land Claim of 645 acres of land near what is now the town of Newberg, in Yamhill County, and for some time lived in a little log house, built the previous year by a man who had sowed and harvested a little wheat and planted some potatoes. These commodities served for food for the parents and four children during the long cold winter, and as may well be imagined, they endured many hardships while waiting for the spring sunshine. When they arrived in the Oregon Territory, there were but eight families living in the valley, and in six of these the wives were Indians or half-breeds. This pioneer couple, were known for many miles for their hospitality and cheerfulness under trying conditions ----- Mrs. Nelson had been left an orphan at the age of three years and was indebted for her early training to a cousin with whom she remained with until her marriage.
George Stephen Nelson arrived in Linnton, Oregon, on November 26, 1844; went to Tualatin plains near Hillsboro and the following spring moved to Chehalem Valley, where he took a claim of 645 acres about five miles northwest of Newberg. At that time there were but eight families in the valley and in six of these the wives were Indians or half-breeds. Here Mr. Nelson farmed and prospered until his sixty fifth year, when he sold his farm and for a few years lived with his son in King's Valley . He then removed to Lafayette, Oregon where his death occurred December 31, 1884, at the age of eighty three years 5 months and and nine days.
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- Title: Oregon Board of Health -Certificate of Death #409
- Title: History of the Willamette Valley
Media Type: Book
- Title: Atlas Map of Lafayette County MO. Missouri Publishing Co., 1877 History of Lafayette County.
Media Type: Book
Page: page 63
Source Text: From the most authentic information that we can obtain, we are led to believe that the Coxes were the first actual settlers within the present limits of the county, locating on the Lick Fork of the Tabo, as early as 1816. Solomon, Thomas, Joseph and Jesse Cox, the later with his family, were, with the exception of a trader who located where Arrow Rock now stands, in 1808, the first settlers of Saline Co. The next settlers were David James and three grown sons. They located on section 16, township 50, range 27, in 1817. John Lovelady, W.R. Cole and James Rounds settled soon after. During the year 1818, Gillead Rupe, who was among the early settlers of Howard County, a family of the name of Graham, Christopher Catron, Major James Fletcher, John Robinson, and several others came. 1819 brought a larger number, among them were Col. John Wallace, Josiah, George, and Thomas Nelson, John Stapp, Markham Robert, and Richard Fristoe, William Jack, Captain Henry Renick, Willaim Renick, Young Ewing, Thomas Hopper, the widow of Samuel Renick, Jonathon Hicklin, William Hall, Littleberry Estes, John Evans, and 1820 and '21 witnessed a further expanded group.
- Title: Paul, Mrs. Mercedes J., and Van Valin, Mrs. Ralph W., Pioneer Families of Yamhill County, Volume III
- Title: Geroge S. Nelson Family Bible
Author: George S. Nelson Family Bible
Media Type: Book
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