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OAL. NELSON DIES;she ring henWAS LOCAL PIONEERhad ,,,,w fcvwiifc ■ iviihhii In rm Iago. The funeral of James Calvin Nelson. \ who died at the Nelson home, two 1 : miles northwest of Washington Mon- j day noon, will be held at the Wood- l CK ford Chapel Thursday afternoon at \ o’c'ock, with interment at Elm f Elm Grove cemetery.8tn Mr. Nelson was a pioneer of Wash- $ ( {l* ; ington, having conn to this vicinity from Ohio with his parents wluu a lad 1 [t{is ten years of age, and that seventv-^ ix vears ago. Here hi1 married Miss lia(* Jennie Neill in 1876. The widow and h no' j two children, Mrs. Robert Maxwell \ and George Nelson, survive him. 'InvS,,en | During the war of the Rebellion he h l~~ served in Co. H, Seventh Iowa Infant- p ^ ^; rv, serving throughout the entire u war. He was a very loyal and faith- | ftiI member of the Seceder church of ti this city. o 11(Death of Samuel \elswanger. 1,Samuel Nelswanger, who for many I b years was in the restaurant and hotel T business in Washington, died last b Saturday at the home of his son. Tom, n at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and was brought w IIS to Washington for burial. The funeral ic ' service was held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Thompson, in North Washington, Monday, and in- le terment was at Woodlawn. RfiMr. Nelswanger was a native of w Ohio, and was in his eightv-third year, us His residence covered a long period of $9 years in Washington, and the family later moving to Ainsworth, where he an lived for some time and where Mrs. de Nelswanger died. Six children sur- Ha vive him: Mrs. W. J. Thompson, Mrs.J. A. Thompson and Mrs. John Grif- relt; | fith, of Washington: Tom, of Oskaloo- pe sa; Mart, of Fairfield, and Grover, of Ainsworth. UIStonbeMiss Weyland’s Division of the Domestic Science class entertained at a t}u dinner party on Tuesday evening, the guests including Miss Wilson, physi- reJ cal director, Miss Mlnick and Rev, and Mrs. Leslie Mountford. The dinner was pretty in its appointments and fault- ' cj1{j less in service, Miss Evelyn Caldwell I)(1] and Miss Jessie Lyon taking the parts ^ | of host and hostess respectively. The dinner was served in four courses.w aj and as ,n all such occasions, was pre- ^re pared entirely by the girls themselves. tpebe
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Washington Democrat
Washington, Iowa, US
Wed, May 12, 1920
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