NELSON, H. P.

NELSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/16/2007 at 15:59:19

H. P. Nelson came to Mitchell county from Wisconsin in 1856, and located at West Mitchell, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1862 or 1863. Mr. Nelson was possessed of a good deal of natural ability, but was by no means an educated man. He was a fair lawyer and was well thought of. His business was not large and at his death he was far from being a rich man. He was a man of weak constitution and was almost continually in ill health.

His body lies buried in an unknown grave near McGregor. It was first buried at West Mitchell, but was disinterred for the purpose of taking it to Wisconsin. It was taken as far as McGregor, when the railroad company refused to carry it further except on certain conditions, so the body was put into a grave in the side of a hill near that city. Judge Taville, of Mitchell county, some years later marked the grave by putting up a slab inscribed with Masonic emblems.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 184.