- Birth Date
- 6 June 1801
- Death Date
- 27 September 1882
- Gender
- Male
David Nelson
and family of 8
John Tidwell Company (1852)
- Age at Departure: 51
- Head of Household
Traveled with
Sources
- "5th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
- 5th Company of 50 report, 1852 September 14.
- Charles Sansom autobiography, 1907, 12-80.
- Council Point Emigrating Company journal, 1851 November-1852 September.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913).
- George K. Bowering journal, 1842 July-1875 January, 79-118.
- "J.H. Nelson, Pioneer, Dies," Ogden Standard Examiner, 28 Apr. 1924, 10.
- Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 31.
- Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915.
- Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
- Nelson, James Horace, Sr., "Autobiography of James Horace Nelson, Senior, from the original manuscript of the author, by his son, Horace J. Nelson," [1944], 5-10.
- Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.