Letty Ann Susan Giles (1850 - 1942)

Born 25 Jan 1850 in Tennessee

Ancestors

Wife of Ira Nelson — married Jan 1871 in Jefferson Co., ILL.

Died 30 Jul 1942 at age 92 in Cooke Co., TX.

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Burial

Burial:

Date: AUG 1942

Place: Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke Co., TX.

Note

Note: @NI05087@

@NI05087@ NOTE1850 census, Hickman Co., TN.

1860 census, Jefferson Co., ILL.

1870 census, Jefferson Co., ILL., enum. as Ancestry.com as Cretty Giles,domestic servant in household of James and Sarah Ferguson.

1880 census, Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., IND.

1900 census, Gainesville, Wd-4, Cooke Co., TX. (NOTE: The 1900 censusfor Susan shows the following: Mother of how many children - 3; Numberof children living - 0)

1910 census, Gainesville, Wd-4, Cooke Co., TX., surname enum. as Kelsonat Ancestry.com.

1920 census, Gainesville, Wd-4, Cooke Co., TX., enum. as Susan.

Texas Death Index, 1903-2000

about Lettie Ann Nelson

Name: Lettie Ann Nelson

Death Date: 30 Jun 1942

Death County: Cooke

Certificate: 30224

Obit from the Gainesville Daily Register, 7/30/1942

Mrs. Ira Nelson Passes Away at Her Home Here

Had been a resident of Cooke County for more that 50 years

Mrs. Lettie Ann Susan Nelson, 92, for many years a resident ofGainesville, passed away Thursday morning at 7:30 o'clock at her home,401 North Morris

street, where she resided with her sister, Mrs. Sara Jane Winkler. Shehad been in failing health for several years.

Funeral Services will be held at Leazer-Keel Funeral Chapel, Fridaymorning at 10 o'clock. Rev. O. J. Robinson, pastor of Grand AvenueBaptist Church, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will bein Fairview Cemetery.

On January 25, 1850, she was born in Tennessee, a daughter of Mr. andMrs. James H. Giles. She was married at Mt. Vernon, Illinois to IraNelson, and came to Cooke County in 1885. Mr. Nelson preceded her indeath by several years.

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Winkler, of Gainesville: and threebrothers, Jeff Giles of Colorado, Charlie Giles of Hollis, Okla, and WashGiles of Sulphur, Ok.