Wordless Wednesday - Carlotta Nelson Fairchild's Mother

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Grave Marker of Carlotta's Mother
Nelson Plot, Hillcrest Cemetery
Goodman, Mississippi

Christiana Fredrikka Nelson, Wife of W. R. Nelson
Born at Lovenholm Castle in Denmark on October 30, 1833
Died in Holmes County, Mississippi on January 25, 1917

Tombstone Tuesday - Florina Adela Nelson, Hillcrest Cemetery, Goodman, MS

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Florina Adela Nelson
Born July 12, 1859
In Horsens, Denmark
Died February 27, 1942

Sister of Carlotta Nelson Andersen Fairchild
Buried in Hillcrest Cemetery
Goodman (Holmes County) Mississippi

Tombstone Tuesday - Carlotta Nelson Fairchild, Hillcrest Cemetery, Goodman, MS

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According to the U. S. Census of 1880, Carlotta J. Nelson was the 6 year old daughter of  W. R. Nelson, 57, and his 46 year old wife, C.F. Nelson. Carlotta and her 4 year old brother were the only members of their family who were born in Mississippi.  Both parents, two older sisters, and an older brother all had been born in Denmark.

Tombstone Tuesday - Nancy J. Porter Tucker, Quiet Ridge Cemetery, Durant, MS

Nancy J., Wife of J. S. Tucker, Sr.
Born July 22, 1823
Died Jan 28, 1902
She Trusted in The Lord

Nancy J. Porter Tucker, daughter of Samuel Porter, and a sister to my paternal great-great-grandfather, James M. Porter, was born on July 22, 1828, in Port Gibson, Mississippi. When Nancy was about nineteen years old, she married John Smith Tucker, a wealthy planter who was twice her age.  Mr. Tucker was also a widower, with the oldest of the children by his deceased wife being just four years younger than her new step-mother. Nancy and John had several more children and raised their large family near Canton, Mississippi, in Madison County.  When Nancy died on January 28, 1902, she was buried near other Tucker family members in Quiet Ridge Cemetery near Durant, Mississippi.


Source:  
Ancestry.com, U.S. Census Record, 1850
Personal Family History (Oral) - Porter Family of Madison and Attala Counties in Mississippi

Tombstone Tuesday - Maggie Neal Unger, Buried in Sharon Methodist Church Cemetery

Photo by Natalie Maynor


Maggie Neal Unger
Date of Birth Unknown; Died April 23, 1897
Sharon Methodist Church Cemetery
Madison County, Mississippi

Sunday's Poem - "Beyond the Years," by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Beyond the Years  Beyond the years the answer lies, Beyond where brood the grieving skies    And Night drops tears. Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to rise    And doff its fears, And carping Sorrow pines and dies—    Beyond the years.   Beyond the years the prayer for rest Shall beat no more within the breast;    The darkness clears, And Morn perched on the mountain's crest    Her form uprears— The day that is to come is best,    Beyond the years.  Beyond the years the soul shall find That endless peace for which it pined,    For light appears, And to the eyes that still were blind    With blood and tears, Their sight shall come all unconfined    Beyond the years. By Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Tombstone Tuesday - William Bailey Netherland, Coxburg Cemetery, Coxburg, Mississippi

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W. B. Netherland
Coxburg Cemetery
Coxburg (Holmes County) Mississippi

William Bailey Netherland, my maternal great-grandfather, served in Red's Company, Mississippi State Troops, Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)  A son of John Patrick Netherland, William Bailey was married to Martha Elizabeth Garrard, and the father of twelve children, including my maternal. grandfather, Ralph Ernest Netherland.  The C.S.A. marker shown here is located in Coxburg Cemetery, near Coxburg Methodist Church, in Holmes County, Mississippi.  Many other Netherland family members and their allied families are buried in this old cemetery.