Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameLewis Lawrence Nelson 
Birth1892, Louisiana
Death29 May 1932, Pulaski Co, AR
Spouses
Birth26 Jan 1896, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co, OK
Death7 Nov 1981, Little Rock, Pulaski Co, AR
BurialChapel Hill Memorial Park Cem, Jacksonville, Pulaski Co, AR
Misc. Notes
Seems to have gone by Maggie prior to the death of her first husband, and Madge after that.
She is listed as age 18 (abt 1898) on her marriage record to Cass in 1916.
Then listed in 1920 as Maggie (20, AR) with her parents born in Tennessee & Arkansas.
After Cass Adkin’s death, she remarried Lewis Lawrence Nelson (1892, LA- 29 May 1932 AR) and they are listed in Hot Springs, AR in 1926.
In 1930 the family consisted of Lewis Nelson, working for the Telephone company, Madge (33, OK), Lewis Jr (3y 2m, AR), Juanita H. Adkins (11, IL), Bonnita Adkins (9, IA) and Ida R. Adkins (7, MO). It showed Lewis as being first married at age 34, indicating that they had been married 4 yrs, while Madge was first married at age 19 and her parents born in Oklahoma and Germany.
By 1940 Madge Nelson was widowed and working as a seamstress (40, OK) in a WPA sewing room. Listed with her are children Ida R. (18, AR) and Laurence (13, AR), indicating that Ida had adopted the Nelson name.
Listed as both Madge Nelson and Madge Taylor, a machinist operator in the 1953 Little Rock city directory.
She then married Albert E. Taylor (1908-1977) on 10 Dec 1953 in Pulaski Co, AR as Madge Nelson (53).
She is listed as age 18 (abt 1898) on her marriage record to Cass in 1916.
Then listed in 1920 as Maggie (20, AR) with her parents born in Tennessee & Arkansas.
After Cass Adkin’s death, she remarried Lewis Lawrence Nelson (1892, LA- 29 May 1932 AR) and they are listed in Hot Springs, AR in 1926.
In 1930 the family consisted of Lewis Nelson, working for the Telephone company, Madge (33, OK), Lewis Jr (3y 2m, AR), Juanita H. Adkins (11, IL), Bonnita Adkins (9, IA) and Ida R. Adkins (7, MO). It showed Lewis as being first married at age 34, indicating that they had been married 4 yrs, while Madge was first married at age 19 and her parents born in Oklahoma and Germany.
By 1940 Madge Nelson was widowed and working as a seamstress (40, OK) in a WPA sewing room. Listed with her are children Ida R. (18, AR) and Laurence (13, AR), indicating that Ida had adopted the Nelson name.
Listed as both Madge Nelson and Madge Taylor, a machinist operator in the 1953 Little Rock city directory.
She then married Albert E. Taylor (1908-1977) on 10 Dec 1953 in Pulaski Co, AR as Madge Nelson (53).
ChildrenLewis Lawrence (1926-1980)