Husband: Ned Peter NELSEN (N425)
Born: 4 FEB 1883 at: Linn Grove, Buena Vista Co, IA Married: 9 NOV 1904 at: Summit, Grant, SD Died: 12 JAN 1980 at: Westbrook, Cottonwood, MN Father:Jens NEILSEN Mother:Jensine PETERSEN Other Spouses: PEDIGREE NOTES
Wife: Anna Hansina BUSK (B200)
Born: 20 AUG 1884 at: Westbrook Twp, Cottonwood, MN Died: 1 MAY 1973 at: Westbrook, Cottonwood, MN Father:Christian Hansen BUSK Mother:Ane Kirstine HANSDATTER Other Spouses: PEDIGREE NOTES
CHILDREN
Name: Amy Constance NELSEN Born: 30 NOV 1905 at: Married: 1 OCT 1930 at: Died: 10 MAR 2002 at: Westbrook, Cottonwood, MN Spouses: Anton Eric BENSON PEDIGREE NOTES
Name: Ethel Marie NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: August Christian COHRS PEDIGREE
Name: Leslie Leroy NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Luella Mary FRANZ PEDIGREE
Name: Marion Irene NELSEN Born: 9 OCT 1911 at: DesMoines River Twp, Murray Co, MN Married: 5 MAR 1932 at: Slayton, Murray Co, MN Died: 15 JAN 1995 at: Westbrook, Cottonwood, MN Spouses: Russell Miles STURGES PEDIGREE NOTES
Name: Vivian Christine NELSEN Born: 26 APR 1913 at: DesMoines River Twp, Murray Co, MN Married: 14 DEC 1937 at: Sioux Falls, , SD Died: 27 DEC 1997 at: Spouses: Albert Otto SCHAUER PEDIGREE NOTES
Name: Lloyd William NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Ellen Violet RACHUY PEDIGREE
Name: Vera Mae Gladys NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Reuben Morris LARSON PEDIGREE
Name: Donald Everett NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Gladys Mae SPIELMAN PEDIGREE
Name: Nina Alice NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Bernard Alfred FRANZ PEDIGREE
Name: Ardys Naomi NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Aubrey Morris DENNIS PEDIGREE
Name: Elizabeth Ann NELSEN Born: 2 MAY 1926 at: Married: at: Died: 14 OCT 1930 at: Slayton, Murray Co, MN Spouses: PEDIGREE
Name: James Durward NELSEN Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Donna Marie JENNIGES PEDIGREE
Nat Peter NEILSEN was born 4 February 1883 at Linn Grove, Buena Vista County, Iowa, to Jens and Sine (PETERSEN) NEILSEN. In the 1885 Iowa state census, Nat is listed with his parents who are farming Section 33, Township 92 North, Range 38 West in Buena Vista County. Nat and his family moved to Minnesota when he was about 17 years old. In the 1900 census for Des Moines River Township, Murray County, Minnesota, Ned is still living with his parents. All of his younger brothers and sisters were born in Iowa (between February 1885 and November 1895).
 Ned and Anna Nelsen, about 1904 |
 Ned and Anna Nelsen, about 1954 |
Anna Hansine BUSK was born 20 August 1884 in Westbrook Township, Minnesota, to Christian Hansen and Anna Kirstine (HANSEN) BUSK. In the 1900 census of Dovray Township, Murray County, Minnesota, Anna is listed with her family. All of her brothers and sisters were also born in Minnesota (between May 1886 and February 1900).
The first time Ned and Anna saw each other was just before 1900 when Ned came up from Iowa with his father to look for land and they stopped in at the BUSK's. In 1902 Anna moved with her family to Summit, South Dakota. When they were going to get married, they drove a team of horses to Summit. Ned's sister Marie went with them. Ned and Anna were married 9 November 1904 at the BUSK home.
In 1931 Ned was the administrator of his mother's estate. In the probate papers Ned signed his name first as NELSEN and then later as NIELSEN. His brother Victor signed his name as NELSEN. The probate papers further state “...(All of the men named in this paragraph hereof being also variously known by the sir names [sic] of Nelsen, Neilsen and Nelson).” However, when Sine was the administrator of her husband's estate, she clearly signed her name as NEILSEN.
The couple lived all of their married life near Westbrook, Minnesota. They farmed in Des Moines River Township, Murray County, until 1943 when they moved into Westbrook. Anna died in Westbrook, 1 May 1973; Ned died in Westbrook, 12 January 1980. Both are buried in the Westbrook cemetery just north of town, with Ned's parents.
At the time of Ned’s death they had 48 grandchildren, over 100 great grandchildren and 8 great-great-grandchildren.
Before their marriages, Amy became a teacher and Ethel a registered nurse. Don served in the Army in WW II in Kodiak, AK, and in Germany and later worked for the Post Office. Nina and Ardys worked in an aircraft factory in Texas during WW II. Jim served in the Army and later was a district manager of Bell Telephone Co.
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; Westbrook Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota, 20 August 1884.
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, Murray County, Minnesota, by the Murray County Historical Society, Slayton, Minnesota. 1982. p. 322.){kind=small}
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; Westbrook Cemetery, Westbrook, Minnesota. (with parents); Buena Vista County, p. 90, lines 13 - 17, Township 92, Range 38, Section 33.){kind=small}
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(with parents); Dovray Township, Murray County, Minnesota, ED 186, sheet 3, (#46/46).; Des Moines River Township, Murray County, Minnesota, ED 131, sheet 2B, family no. 33, lines 74 - 80.){kind=small}
in Cottonwood County, Minnesota, 16 April 1942, that "Nat Neilsen and Ned Peter Nelson are one and the same".){kind=small}
in Buena Vista County, Iowa, 23 April 1942, that "Nat Neilsen and Ned Peter Nelson are one and the same".){kind=small}
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Newspaper article -Worthington Daily Globe, Worthington, Minnesota, Saturday, July 19, 1997, p. A9.){kind=link}
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