Essentials
Born: 12 December 1799; Orange County, North Carolina
Son of: Thomas Burton NELSON and Martha WILLIAMS
Married: Jane TAYLOR; 3 October 1820; Waterloo, Monroe, Illinois
Died: 13 December 1850; Mountainville (Alpine), Utah, Utah

Descending family line:

4 G Grandfather 3G Grandfather 2G Grandfather G grandmother Grandfather

Edmond NELSON (Jane TAYLOR) Price W. NELSON (Lydia Ann LAKE) Hyrum NELSON (Martha F. SANDERS) Sarah L. NELSON (George H. JAMES) George Heber JAMES (Norma MORRIS)

b. 1799 b. 1822 b. 1863 b. 1890 b. 1910

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Jane Taylor obituary

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BY MANSEL H. NELSON
EDITED AND POSTED ONLINE BY CINDY ALLDREDGE
     Editor's note: The following is a small history and conversion story of Edmond Nelson and his wife Jane Taylor. They were the parents of 13 children. Jane is probably your Cherokee link. They were the first Nelsons on your line to join the church. Your Nelson ... line starts in Virginia, then North Carolina, and then moves on to Tennessee and then Illinois. This is the way the country opened up for settlement, and as you study the history of our country you will see how your ancestors were some of the first settlers in each new area helping to pioneer and open up this great land.
     Edmond Nelson was born to Thomas and Patsy Nelson on 12 Dec 1799 in Orange County, North Carolina, just a few months before the death of his grandfather, Abraham. When he was three years of age he moved with his parents to Bedford County, Tennessee, and by the time he was eighteen years of age the family had moved to Monroe County, Illinois.
     Edmond had been reared in a family where love for each other was the first consideration. He had inherited from his father a great love for the soil and for good animals. He loved to see things grow from the good earth. He took more than usual pride in caring for his horses and cattle. And having grown up on the great frontier he loved to work in the timber.
     He married Jane Taylor 3 Oct 1820 in Monroe County. She was born 1 Jan 1805, the daughter of Billington and Mary Elizabeth Modglin Taylor. the Taylors had also moved from North Carolina to Tennessee, and then on to Illinois, first settling in St. Clair County, and later in Monroe County. At the time of their marriage Edmond was not quite twenty-one years of age, and Jane was not quite sixteen years of age. A record of their marriage license was found in Waterloo, Illinois which is where they were probably married.
     Their first son, Price Williams, was born at Keokuk, Iowa. Edmond and Jane had probably gone north up the Mississippi river possibly to work in the timber at the ferryboat crossing. However, by the time Elizabeth was born in 1824 they had moved back south and settled in Jefferson County near Mt. Vernon, Illinois. A few years later his father moved into that vicinity.
     Edmond Nelson and his brothers had heard a lot of talk about the Mormons. It seems that they were coming in from all over the world, and people were getting worried that they would soon be so numerous that they would take over the whole country. Some steps had been taken against them but Edmond did not like some of the stories and evil boasting he heard from men he met. He felt that no people should have been treated so cruelly just because of their belief in a strange prophet.
     Then came the day when the first Mormon missionaries stopped at his home. He invited them in and treated them kindly. He was interested in hearing their side of the controversy. But they seemed to have no enmity toward their persecutors. They answered quietly and simply that if those who had been guilty of the many atrocities against their faith and people had known and understood the true principles of the Gospel as taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith, they would never have mistreated his people. Edmond wanted to know about these principles for which they were willing to suffer and die. He listened with sober interest to every word of their message. There was a ring of pure and undefiled truth in what they claimed. Their answers to his questions came without hesitancy as if these men actually knew God. Edmond called in his brothers, and perhaps his parents, to hear this new message from God. He made the decision that would shape the rest of his life and his death. He was baptized in 1836 and from that time forth his whole life was built around his faith and service in the church. He died in Mountainville (Alpine), Utah 13 September 1850 having never fully recovered from the chills and fevers he and his family were stricken with at Mt. Pisqah.

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Jane Taylor obituary

DESERET NEWS
29 JUNE 1870
VOL. 19, P. 241
     Died at Franklin, Cache Co., June 2, Jane Nelson aged 66 yrs., 4 months and 1 day. Deceased was born in Pawes Valley, Tennessee. At the age of 16 she was married to Edmond Nelson in Jefferson Co., Ill. She was baptized in Grand River near Adam-Ondi-Ahman by Lyman Wight; was driven to Shoal Creek, afterwards moved to Nauvoo with the Saints, living there until 1846. She then moved to Mt. Pisqah remaining there 4 years.
     She came to Utah in 1850. Her husband died in Mountainville, Utah County, Dec. 13th, 1850. She was among the first settlers of Franklin, where she resided until her decease. She was a faithful Saint and affectionate mother, and was highly esteemed by all who know her. The people of this city turned out almost enmasse to pay the last tribute of respect to her remains.

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Edmond NELSON
Hyrum NELSON
Price Williams NELSON
Sarah Loraina NELSON

CHILDREN WITH JANE TAYLOR