Nelson Joseph Shoults (1872 - 1956)

Born 14 Dec 1872 in Steeleville, Crawford County, Missouri

Ancestors

Husband of Clara Marguerite (Becker) Shoults — married 26 Feb 1892 in Steelville, Crawford county, Missouri

Descendants

Died 20 Mar 1956 at age 83 in Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri

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Biography

'Nelson Joseph Shoults was born December 14, 1872, in Steeleville, Crawford county, Missouri, a the son of Charles Harmon Shoults and Margaret (Barnett) Shoults. ^[1]

Nelson Joseph married Clara Becker on 26 February 1892 in Midland, Crawford Co., MO. ^[2] Nelson worked the Iron Mines at Cherry Valley, where two of Clara's brothers, Frederich Alfred Becker and Otto Breatono Becker, died in a mining accident on April 2, 1908.

There is a photograph of Nelson on the rootsweb Crawford County Missouri Photo Album page, here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mocrawfo/cralbum/cherrymine.htm

Clara and Nelson had 5 children, all born in Cherry Valley, Crawford County, Missouri:

• Ralph E. Shoults, born April 15, 1899, married Sarah Virginia Licklider (1900-1981)

• Charles Raymond Shoults, Sr. born September 2, 1901, Married Essie Ellen Brady, the niece of Sarah Licklider that married his brother, Ralph;

• Izear Nathaniel "Sandy" Shoults, born August 1, 1903;

• Harmon T. Shoults, born October 7, 1907, named for Nelson's father, Charles Harmon Shoults, married Nellie May Rothlisberger (1918-1997);

• Leonard Bernard Shoults, born December 2, 1914

Nelson and his family are found on the United States census of 1910, living in Courtois, Crawford county, Missouri. ^[3]

Nelson died March 20, 1956, at the Cedar Grove Home in Hillsboro, Jefferson Co., MO. and is buried in Fairview Methodist Cemetery, Lonedell, Franklin County, Missouri. ^[4] Clara Shoults is buried in Cherry Valley cemetery in Crawford County, Missouri.

Sources

1. ↑ Missouri Death Certificate #9556 ... see image
2. ↑ "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WGTR-M9MM : 1 October 2019), Charles Shoults in entry for Nelson Shoults, 26 Feb 1892; citing Marriage, Crawford, Missouri, United States, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City; FHL microfilm 007424347
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2T5-Y19 : accessed 6 September 2019), Nelson Shoults, Courtois, Crawford, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 3, sheet 11B, family 222, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 778; FHL microfilm 1,374,791
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43788561/nelson-joseph-shoults