Found Photo: Ernest Nelson and Emma Anderson of Iowa
Name(s): Ernest Nelson and Emma Anderson
Date: 1898
Location: Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
An inscription on the back of this photo reads, "Ernest Nelson, died April 26, 1901."
An Iowa death record reveals that Ernest was just 28 years old when he died, although the record gives the date as April 26, 1900 rather than 1901. Ernest was born in Sweden in 1872, the son of Osjan Nelson and Anna Marie Erickson. He was working as a farmer in Lockridge, Iowa at the time of his death. His parents and four siblings appear to have also emigrated to Lockridge, as they are all buried in the same cemetery as Ernest.
Ernest's wife, pictured here in their wedding photo, was Emma Anderson. She was the daughter of N.P. Anderson and Lottie Isaacton. Ernest and Emma were married on March 25, 1898 when Ernest was 27 and Emma was 22. Ernest died just two years later. Emma died in 1911. Ernest and Emma had one child, Vivian Nelson, who was born in 1899, and died of tuberculosis at age 20, in 1919. Since the untimely death of her parents, Vivian had been raised by her aunt, Tillie Nelson, in Sierra Madre, California.
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