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Jacob Nelsons ofGuilford Observe49th AnniversaryMr. and Mrs Jacob Nelson of Guilford observed their forty-ninthwedding anniversary with a dinner given Sunday at their home in Ouil-! lt;rdfinest** present at the dinner included Mr and Mrs H P Larsen and daughter, Ber della May, Conn* ril Bluffs, la ; Mr and Mrs. George)Nelson and sons. George Clark and(Walter Bedf rd, la ; Mr and Mrs.m Norris, daughters and son, Jean. Zell a May and J. K and Leonard Beck. Guilford.Mrs NeL«on, who * maiden name M a i Anna Jane Bhore was born on1a farm near Okaloosa, la., Novem-ber 29 1868 When she was tenyears old she came with her parents by way of a covered wagon to Nodaway county. Mo, .settling near Graham and four years later they moved to the Guilffrd vicinityMr Nelson, who is 72 years old, 1 v born near Mantl, Utah, April lt;2f 1867 That same spring his jMir-entr came to Missouri locating near ft* a, and a year later moved to the farm one mile west ot Guliford.He ojmu tt«*d a harness shop In Guilford eleven years, was township collector of Washington township two terms and bought the J. M Hildebrand Mercantile store in the/1 spring of 1904 at which time he be-j!- v • m i 0S I .ater he was soc-.retury-treaMirer of Andrew-Noda- , w ly counties drainage district at I which time $200,000 worth of bonds-were purchased In making their Itrip ’o Mi ssouri about one hundred families from Utah started at the 1 a me time and were guarded by sot-1 diers from unfriendly Indian tribes | They came in covered wagons pulled { by oxen and had to ford all the riv-, er metinu’s it was so deep the oxen would have to swim and the wagons floated. Mr. Nelson said Their marriage took place at the) home lt;* Kldcr and Mr Warren K-Peak who resided one mile west of1H •*' Tli'bride's mother, Mi M. J. Shore, and the grooms parents, Mr and Mrs Jacob Nelson sr witnessed the eremony which w.t performed at{k that evt ningHuy have been members of the Latter Day Saints’ church manyv *, ...» Tri; '*#* of Ue*r four children iarc living, including Mrs H P. barren Council Bluffs; George Nelson ;Bedford, and Mrs Jesse Norris,' Ouilford. There are six grandchildren. I
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Maryville Daily Forum
Maryville, Missouri, US
Tue, Aug 08, 1939
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