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BROOKS FAMILY HISTORY 7-279County, Georgia. On November 28, 1888, William Nelson married Janie MayFarr and they had one daughter:............Willie Lou Nelson, b. October 11, 1889, Talbot County, GeorgiaJanie (Farr) Nelson was buried in the Dickson Cureton Family Cemetery nearPleasant Hill, Georgia. On January 19, 1893, William Nelson married a secondtime to Mary Adella Freeman. Mary was born on June 20, 1871 in Georgia andis the daughter of Stinson Asbury Freeman (born 1839) and Virginia Antoinette(Grace) Freeman. William and Mary Nelson had eleven children:............Freeman Brooks Nelson (2.10.1.7.2), b. November 14, 1893, Talbot Co., Georgia............Jessie Grace Nelson, b. January 15, 1895, Talbot County, Georgia............Alva Eugene Nelson, b. February 25, 1896, Talbot County, Georgia............Martha Eloise Nelson, b. November 1, 1897, Talbot County, Georgia............Walter Jennings Nelson (2.10.1.7.6), b. August 30, 1899, Talbot County, Georgia............Thomas Edwin Nelson (2.10.1.7.7), b. August 1, 1901, Talbot County, Georgia............Charles Fletcher Nelson (2.10.1.7.8), b. September 20, 1903, Talbot Co., Georgia............Ralph Augustus Nelson, b. December 6, 1905, Talbot County, Georgia............Ruby Nelson (2.10.1.7.10), b. December 1, 1908, Talbot County, Georgia............Ruth Nelson, b. December 1, 1908, Talbot County, Georgia............Julia Margaret Nelson, b. August 15, 1910, Talbot County, GeorgiaFrom 1900 to 1920, William and Mary Nelson were living in Talbot County,Georgia. William Thomas Nelson died on November 30, 1934 and was buriedin the Woodland Cemetery in Woodland, Georgia. Mary (Freeman) Nelson diedon September 22, 1941 and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in TalbotCounty, Georgia. Willie Lou Nelson married William Samuel Hendricks andthey had no children. Willie (Nelson) Hendricks died on September 21, 1921.Jessie Nelson never married and died on December 10, 1950. Alva Nelson marriedAlice Aldrich Jackman. Eloise Nelson never married and died on October8, 1978. Author’s Note: Eloise Nelson was an active genealogist and contributedto the compilation of this book. On May 21, 1926, Ralph Nelson marriedRuth Moran and they had two children: - Emily Grace Nelson, b. July 7,1927, - Thomas Moran Nelson, b. November 24, 1931. Ralph Nelson was stillliving in 1970. Emily Nelson married Lonnie A. McCaghren and they had onedaughter: - Susan McCaghren. Thomas Nelson married Shirley Matthewsonand they had one son: - Michael Moran Nelson.On October 19, 1937, Ruth Nelson married Clifford Ernest Kemp and they hadone daughter: - Mary Elizabeth Kemp, b. June 3, 1942. Mary Kemp marriedJames Carl McDonald and they had three children: - James Martin McDonald,- Kathy Leigh McDonald, - Lisa JoAnn McDonald. On March 18, 1944,Julia Nelson married Carl Arvid Nelson and they had three children: - RichardPaul Nelson, - Betty Ann Nelson, - Alva Gene Nelson. Betty Ann Nelsonmarried Michael Alan Puckett and they had one son: - Steven Thomas Puckett.References: 1) 1900 and 1920 Censuses, Talbot County, Georgia; 2) “There Was ALand,” Page 358; 3) “Family History,” by Everrett Martin, Martha (Benns) Reeves andEloise Nelson, 1970; 4) Letter, Ruby (Nelson) Mason to Robert Casey, August 18, 1981;5) “A Rockaway in Talbot,” Volume 2, by William H. Davidson