Nelson Birdsong (abt. 1864 - 1942)

Born about 1864 in Montgomery Hill, Baldwin, Alabama, United States [uncertain]

Died 12 Jun 1942 at about age 78 in Toulminville, Mobile, Alabama, United States

Biography

Nelson Birdsong is a part of US Black heritage.

Nelson was born about 1864. He does not remember much about his life before the war ended. He is a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. His wife, Virginia was not a slave. She suggests that her father may been the slave owner of her mother, Joe Pickett.

Family

Wife-Virginia Scott

Daughter- Josephine Thomas

Slave Owner

Tom Adkins "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKN5-27W2 : 16 October 2019), Thos Atkins, 1860.

Sources

• https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=1&st=slideshow#slide-39 p.33

• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRV4-95Q : 19 February 2021), Nelson Birdsong and Virginia Scott, 29 Jan 1899; citing Mobile, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,550,506.

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9DF-NSW : 11 March 2022), Nelson Birdsong, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7K-G9R : accessed 24 March 2022), Nelson Birdsong, Kosters, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 70, sheet 10A, family 190, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 26; FHL microfilm 1,374,039.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3V98-6T2 : accessed 24 March 2022), Nelson Birdsong, Prichard, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 17, sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll ; FHL microfilm .

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1PX-L9R : 5 January 2021), Nelson Birdsong, Election Precinct 10 Toulminville and Prichard, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 49-14, sheet 22B, line 77, family 444, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 62.

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK3X-6FZ : 11 January 2021), Nelson Birdsong, 1942.