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Subject: [INDIANA] Nelson, Stevens, Traylor, Young, McCormick,
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:47:33 EDT

This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it
just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not
researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these
families or these surnames. NOTE: I don't know if there is any additional
mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this
book. I am typing the biographies from it.

Typed by Lora Radiches:



Surnames in this biography are: Nelson, Stevens, Traylor, Young, McCormick,

HALL NELSON

The monotonous following of a single line of endeavor has never been a part
of the career of Hall Nelson, sheriff of Pike County. Even as a lad on his
father's farm he was adventurous and restless, and this led to his enlistment in
the United States army and a consequent series of experiences while serving
with his command at Nome, Alaska. Upon his return farming and mining engaged his
activities, and in 1928 he was elected sheriff of Pike County, a position for
which he is singularly well fitted by reason of his determination, courage
and fidelity, as well as by the broadening experiences through which he
has passed. Sheriff Nelson was born April 20, 1885, on a farm in Pike County,
Indiana, and is a son of James and Eliza Jane (Stevens) Nelson. His father,
who was born in Marion County, Kentucky, was three years of age when brought by
his parents to Indiana, where he was educated in the common schools and upon
attaining his majority engaged in farming and stock raising in Pike County,
which he followed with success until the close of an honorable career, his death
occurring in 1921. He was a man who was held in high respect as a citizen and
businessman, and public spiritedly supported all worthy movements in his
community. He married Eliza Jane Stevens, who was born in Pike County, where her
parents had come from their native Kentucky, and she still survives her husband.
There were six children in the family: Irene, Hall, Agnes, William, Cecil and
Esther. Hall Nelson attended the public schools of Pike County, following
which he became associated with his father in the work of the home farm. At the
age of twenty-one years he left the parental roof and enlisted in the United
States Regular Army, being assigned to the Tenth Infantry and subsequently to
the Twenty-second Infantry, having served in both regiments a total of five
years at Nome, Alaska. His experiences during his army life were numerous and
interesting, but Mr. Nelson decided that he did not care for a military career,
and after receiving his honorable discharge at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, returned
to Pike County, where he engaged in farming and coal mining, giving these
pursuits his entire attention and succeeding in both. In 1928 he was elected
sheriff of Pike County, a position in which he has since served with the greatest
efficiency. Sheriff Nelson is a Republican in his political allegiance and one
of the strong and dependable men of the party in Pike County. His religious
connection is with the Christian Church, and fraternally he is affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Tribe of Ben Hur, at Petersburg.
On November 21, 1911, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage with Miss Carrie
Traylor, who died April 5, 1926, leaving four children: Burrell, born in 1912;
Glendale C., born in 1915; Ima P., born in 1919; and Martin G., born in 1922. On
November 21, 1927, Mr. Nelson married Mrs. Laura (Young) McCormick, who by her
first marriage had two children: Otis and Dora Jean McCormick.

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