Husband: Ebenezer NELSON
Birthdate: 1803
Birthplace: Columbia County, Georgia
Death date: Aft. February 01, 1860
Place of death: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Father: Charles NELSON
Mother: Lydia HAND

Marriage date: October 26, 1828
Marriage place: Knoxville, Crawford County, Georgia

Wife: Sarah Ann JONES
Birthdate: Abt. 1804
Birthplace: Georgia
Death date:
Place of death:
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Martha Ann NELSON
Sex: f
Birthdate: 1831
Birthplace: Crawford County, Georgia
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: September 30, 1849
Marriage place: Henry County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Jackson HAND

Child No. 2: Sylvanus B. NELSON
Sex: m
Birthdate: 1833
Birthplace:
Death date: October 22, 1864
Place of death: Union prison, Rock Island, Illinois
Marriage date: December 09, 1856
Marriage place: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Spouses' names: Deannah JOINER

Child No. 3: Narcissa NELSON
Sex: f
Birthdate: 1836
Birthplace: Muscogee County, Georgia
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: August 28, 1854
Marriage place: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Spouses' names: John JOINER

Child No. 4: Felix G. NELSON
Sex: m
Birthdate: 1838
Birthplace: Muscogee County, Georgia
Death date: October 17, 1863
Place of death: Ringgold, Georgia
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 5: Allen J. NELSON
Sex: m
Birthdate: 1840
Birthplace: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Death date: October 17, 1863
Place of death: Ringgold, Georgia
Marriage date: August 07, 1859
Marriage place: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Spouses' names: Elizabeth BURTON

Child No. 6: John T NELSON
Sex: m
Birthdate: 1840
Birthplace: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: bef 1854
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Sarah unknown

Child No. 7: Sarah NELSON
Sex: f
Birthdate: 1842
Birthplace: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date: September 24, 1861
Marriage place: Chattahoochee County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Henry TURNAGE
 
 
Documentation:
* 1850 U.S. Census • Georgia • Henry • District 42
Hand, Jackson 21
M A 20
female M C 2 months
* 1870 GA
Jackson Hand Age in 1870: 38
Estimated Birth Year: 1831
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1870: Africa, Spalding, Georgia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate:
Post Office: Griffin Roll: M593_173 Page: 500 Image: 615 Year: 1870
Wife Martha 36
* 1880 GA Household:
Jackson HAND Self M Male W 52 GA Farmer GA GA
Martha N. HAND Wife M Female W 51 GA Cooks GA GA
Francis GALLEY Other M Female W 40 NC Farm Work NC NC
Lewis GALLEY Other S Male W 16 GA Farm Work NC NC
Source Information: Census Place District 1069, Spalding, Georgia Family History Library Film 1254164 NA Film Number T9-0164 Page Number 286C.

Notes:
Information about Sylvanus B. NELSON:
 * CSA Co. G 31st Alabama, buried at cemetery at Rock Island, Illinois and note that date died and burial plot# can be found online. I did not recognize any family members' names. These two POW camps run by "Yankees" were not much different from Andersonville. The lack of food and medical care and overwhelming exposure to diseases such as typhoid and diphtheria and pneumonia made it difficult to survive.
 * 1860 NELSON SYLVANUS B. Tallapoosa County AL 244 Emuckfaw Federal Population Schedule AL 1860 Federal Census Index AL01989930 July 14, 1860
Sylvanus B Nelson, age 25 day laborer $150 GA
Dianna, age 28 GA
Senith M, age 2 AL
Sarah A. , age 4months, AL.

Information about Narcissa NELSON and husband John JOINER:
 * JOINER, JOHN W. - Enlisted at Fort Gaines, Alabama, September 7, 1861. Died of disease at Meridian, Mississippi, July 20, 1862. Death claim filed by his widow Narcissa D. Joiner. Description: fair complexion, blue eyes, dark hair, six feet tall, age twenty-nine. Born in Pike County.

Information about Felix NELSON:
 * served in Co .C 25th Alabama Infantry and died in Ringgold, Georgia.

Infomation about Allen J. NELSON:
 * served in Co. C 25th Alabama Infantry and died in Ringgold, Georgia.
 * http://www.mindspring.com/~spbarber429/c25inf.htm Company "C" 25th
 * Alabama Infantry - "Shelby Confederates" Compiled by Stephen P. Barber
NELSON, ALLEN J. - Enlisted at Fort Gaines, Alabama, September 7, 1861. Detailed as a nurse, April 1862 roll. Absent sick, June 1862 roll. Wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863. Died at Ringgold, Georgia, October 17, 1863. Death claim filed by his widow Elizabeth Nelson. Description: fair complexion, gray eyes, light hair, five feet five inches tall, age twenty-one. Born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. 25th Alabama Infantry Regiment: Calhoun - Coffee - Covington - Pickens - Pike - Shelby - St. Clair - Randolph - Talladega.

Information about John T NELSON:
 * 1860 County: Tallapoosa Nelson, J. T. State:Alabama Year: Roll: M653_25Township:De Soto P. O.Page: 24Image:27
J. T. Nelson 25 M farmer 600 877 GA
Sarah 23 F GA
Martha 4/12 F AL
George W. 18 M GA must be nephew
Walter H. 13 M GA must be nephew
 * war record http://www.mindspring.com/~spbarber429/c25inf.htm Company "C" 25th Alabama Infantry - "Shelby Confederates" Compiled by Stephen P. Barber.
NELSON, JOHN T. - Enlisted at Fort Gaines, Ala. September 7, 1861. Detailed as a nurse in a hospital in Corinth, Mississippi, March/April 1862 rolls. Absent sick, June 1862 roll. Absent sick, November 1862 roll; left at Glasgow, Kentucky, September 12, 1862. Captured in Kentucky {October 20, 1862; exchanged at Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 15, 1862} and declared exchanged, January 11, 1863. Wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863. Admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Georgia, wounded in the face, August 11, 1864. Transferred to B. School Hospital, August 15, 1864. No later record.
 * The Civil War really devastated this family. Ebenezer had seven children: four sons and three daughters. Ebenezer died in 1860 before the Civil War began. What a heartache for him, had he lived, to know that all four of his sons and at least one of his sons-in-law died during the war. His first wife Sarah also died before the war. That left three daughters and two daughters-in-law that we are aware of. Ebenezer was a fine Christian and minister of the Gospel. His name can be found on many marriage certificates in Alabama.