COUNTY FARMER PASSES AWAY

Adolph Nelson of Washington, Nebraska passed away at the Fremont Hospital Wednesday evening, March 29, at the age of fifty eight years. Death was caused by pneumonia following an appendectomy. Mr. Nelson is survived by his wife and one son, Howard, of San Francisco, California. Services are to be held at the Washington church next Sunday at 2 p.m., and interment will be made in the Prairie View cemetery. A complete obituary will appear in the Enterprise next week.

#2-6 Apr., 1939 - The Enterprise

ADOLPH NELSEN RITES SUNDAY

Nels Christian Adolph Nelsen, aged 58 years, 10 months and 14 days, passed away March 29th at the Good Samaritan hospital in Fremont. He was born at Vrensted, Denmark May 15, 1880. He landed in this country April 1, 1900, and came to Blair, Nebraska and has made Washington county his home except for three years.

Note: his tombstone has Adolph Nelsen. He may have been baptized Nels Christian Adolph Nelsen

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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