WILLIAM S. NELSON AND FAMILY

W. S. Nelson was a native of Reading, Mass., as was also his father, William Nelson; a devoted and faithful minister of the gospel, of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, who died at Hebron, N. H., January 2, 1859, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. He had officiated as pastor in many places, and for an undetermined period in Bradford. By his industry and good economy, he had acquired a considerable property, and at his decease left a family consisting of his widow, seven sons and three daughters. His first wife and two children had passed away before him.

Of his surviving children William S. was the oldest.  He was born at Reading, August 17th, 1815, and in the year 1832 became a resident of this town, where he has since continued, for over forty years, industriously occupied in the business of a painter and glazier. Mr. Nelson, January 17, 1837, married Miss Persis S. Brewster, of Topsham, Vt, who was born there May 22, 1817. They have one son, William H. Nelson, born October 21, 1840.  He settled in St. Johnsbury, and was for years in the employment of the Messrs. Fairbanks, and has been there, as he was here, called to officiate as church organist. He married Lydia Spooner, of St. Johnsbury, February 21, 1867. He at this writing is a dealer in musical merchandise of all kinds.

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, of Bradford, have also two daughters, namely, Charlotte Isabella, a teacher of painting and drawing, born September 18,1849 ; and Lucy Elizabeth, born September 15, 1853. These daughters reside with their parents, and are, with their mother, members of the Congregational church here.

Mr. William S. Nelson has two surviving brothers, namely, B. Nelson, M. D., at Laconia, N. H., and Simeon B. Nelson, of Peshtigo, Wis., who lost almost everything that fire could consume in the great fire of 1871, when eight hundred persons perished in one night.  Mrs. Persis B., wife of William S. Nelson, a very decidedly pious woman, died at Bradford, October 25, 1874, in the fifty-seventh year of her age.  Biographie Index

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