Wife: Narcessa SCARBROUGH
Born: May 31, 1845
Location: Muscogee County, Georgia
Died: October 12, 1924
Location: Thomas, Upshur County, Texas
Cemetery: Piney Grove Cemetery
Location: Upshur County, Texas
Father: Ivey SCARBROUGH
Mother: Sarah BECK
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Children
Name: Susan M. NELSON
Born: July 18, 1861
Location: Georgia
Died: December 18, 1939
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Spouse 1: William Wyley ROGERS
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Name: James Wiley (Jimmy) NELSON
Born: October 01, 1863
Location: Georgia
Died: June 17, 1927
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Spouse 1: Mary Alice LITTLE
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Name: Alice Arrene NELSON
Born: October 14, 1866
Location: Georgia
Died: October 17, 1926
Location: Harris County, Texas
Cemetery: Piney Grove Cemetery
Location: Upshur County, Texas
Spouse 1: William Daniel (Zeke) HESTER
Married: December 09, 1886
Location: Wood County, Texas
Spouse 2: Willaim Joshua (Jack) TILLERY
Married: September 15, 1901
Location: Wood County, Texas

Name: Ivey Isaiah NELSON
Born: September 28, 1868
Location: Georgia
Died: October 06, 1936
Location: Simpsonville, Upshur County, Texas
Cemetery: Piney Grove Cemetery
Location: Upshur County, Texas
Spouse 1: Hattie Odella GAUTNEY
Married: January 25, 1891
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Name: Rasper Battle Roe NELSON
Born: May 20, 1871
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Died: October 12, 1905
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Spouse 1: Willie SPARKMAN
Married: January 30, 1897
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Name: Charles E. NELSON
Born: February 14, 1873
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Died: October 06, 1902
Location: Texas
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Name: Willie Ezekiel NELSON
Born: February 15, 1875
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Died: September 08, 1877
Location: Texas
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Name: Henry Thomas NELSON
Born: December 10, 1876
Location: Texas
Died: June 22, 1884
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Name: Infant son NELSON
Born: January 26, 1879
Location: Texas
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Name: Walter Leafitte NELSON
Born: April 24, 1880
Location: Texas
Died: June 06, 1964
Location: Tyler, Smith County, Texas
Cemetery: Piney Grove Cemetery
Location: Upshur County, Texas
Spouse 1: Della Mae MULLINIX
Married: March 09, 1899
Location: Simpsonville, Upshur County, Texas
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Name: George Andrew Jessie NELSON
Born: September 20, 1882
Location: Texas
Died: April 19, 1951
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Spouse 1: Annie Morris
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Name: Narcisa Sariah (Lucy) NELSON
Born: February 27, 1884
Location: Texas
Died: October 23, 1958
Location: Texas
Cemetery: Simpsonville Cemetery
Location: Simpsonville, Upshur County, Texas
Spouse 1: John (Johnny) S, MULLINIX
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Spouse 2: Jackson Lee MOSES
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Name: Mary Ellen NELSON
Born: May 27, 1886
Location: Texas
Died: October 23, 1902
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Name: Noah Lason NELSON
Born: April 03, 1888
Location: Texas
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Comments: Additional children in second file. Notes on Wiley B. Nelson's family: Nelson, Wiley and Scarbrough, Narcissa were married by James C. Coleman, JP (Coleman worked with Methodist and Baptist churches in the area of Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties of Georgia. He "kept a tavern at the Mill House" where travellers liked to stay. (p.91) He also gave land
to the Methodist Episcopal Church to build after the old church located in Ft.Benning required them to move....p.92. Source: N K Rogers: A History of Chattahoochee County. His parents, Jesse and Susan Wall became members at Mt. Gilead Church Jan. 26, 1833. p.80 same source. Wiley, along with some of his cousins, left Georgia to seek land in Covington County, Alabama about 1860. He returned to Georgia to be married to Narcessa who was living with his mother Susan. He joined the
militia in Alabama and then served in Company I, 40th Alabama Infantry, beginning May 14, 1862 in Mobile. He fought at Vicksburg and was paroled and then returned to serve in other areas of the South and was last paroled in North Carolina at the end of war. According to Walter Nelson, the food Wiley had at Vicksburg was pea soup and bread and dirty water. He and others had difficulty getting water because of leaving the trenches in direct line of fire. He moved to Texas in 1873 and later requested and received a pension from the State Of Texas because of disabilties. Narcessa would later receive a pension.

Sources: Nelson Family Bible, Alabama State Archives, US Census Records, Piney Grove Cemetery records, N K Rogers' book on Chattahoochee County, Wyley Donald Ward's Early History of Covington County, Texas Veteran's Records, Family of Wiley's children, Soldiers and Sailors of National Park Service


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