CAROLINE MARBLE EGGELSTON NELSON
Caroline Marble is the daughter of Oliver Marble and Phebe Dewolf. She first married William Eggelston abt 1831 Bridgewater, Oneida, Ny. Wm died in Bridgewater Ny and Caroline went with her Uncle Joshiah DeWolf to Wisconsin Aug 1837. Her parents had previously gone to Ohio. There she met and married Hamilton Nelson 12 Aug 1838. They had children Mary Caroline, George W, Helen Marble, Charles T, Clara Eveline.
Celebration of Fifty Years
. . . . of the 18 original members of the Society (1st Congragational), only two remain alive, Mrs Hamilton Nelson, of Beloit, ... Mrs. Nelson, the Mrs. Caroline Eggleston of the first list, was present at the celebrati on, a white-haired old lady who has long passed the allotted time for the life of man, but who seems keen and in good health. Mrs Nelson prepared a paper for the occasion, which was read by her son, Rev. Geo. Nelson, and which is of so much general interest that we give it almost entire.
" Recollections of the Beginning"
It was in August 1837 that I came to Wisconsin with my uncle, Josiah L DeWolf, from Bridgewater, New York. We stopped one day in Milwaukee and the Nelson Olin--the oldest of the four Olin brothers-- brought us to the log house of Robert Love, who was keeping tavern at the place long known as Tubses on Fox river about a mile above the little settlement of Prarie village, later Prairieville, and now Waukesha. . ..
Mr Nelson came to Milwaukee June 1st, 1836, and took up land two miles northwest of Prairie village where we lived thirty years. We were married in Mr Love's house immediately after service Aug 12, 1838. Mr Love to ok special pleasure in furnishing water from Bethesda spring for our wedding dinner and the next day takin us in good style with his horses and lumber wagon to our home. There the workbench which had served as table was taken out of doors and the tool chest substituted, on which we ate many meals, drinking from tin cups."
Ida Alley Ferguson autograph book
" Remember now thy creator in the day of your youth, while the evil days come not noe the years drew nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.
This is not only the words of a wise man but the desire of your granmother who is now nearly seventy years old. Beloit Wisc Dec 26 1880" Caroline M (Marble) Nelson
Caroline Marble is the daughter of Oliver Marble and Phebe Dewolf. She first married William Eggelston abt 1831 Bridgewater, Oneida, Ny. Wm died in Bridgewater Ny and Caroline went with her Uncle Joshiah DeWolf to Wisconsin Aug 1837. Her parents had previously gone to Ohio. There she met and married Hamilton Nelson 12 Aug 1838. They had children Mary Caroline, George W, Helen Marble, Charles T, Clara Eveline.
Celebration of Fifty Years
. . . . of the 18 original members of the Society (1st Congragational), only two remain alive, Mrs Hamilton Nelson, of Beloit, ... Mrs. Nelson, the Mrs. Caroline Eggleston of the first list, was present at the celebrati on, a white-haired old lady who has long passed the allotted time for the life of man, but who seems keen and in good health. Mrs Nelson prepared a paper for the occasion, which was read by her son, Rev. Geo. Nelson, and which is of so much general interest that we give it almost entire.
" Recollections of the Beginning"
It was in August 1837 that I came to Wisconsin with my uncle, Josiah L DeWolf, from Bridgewater, New York. We stopped one day in Milwaukee and the Nelson Olin--the oldest of the four Olin brothers-- brought us to the log house of Robert Love, who was keeping tavern at the place long known as Tubses on Fox river about a mile above the little settlement of Prarie village, later Prairieville, and now Waukesha. . ..
Mr Nelson came to Milwaukee June 1st, 1836, and took up land two miles northwest of Prairie village where we lived thirty years. We were married in Mr Love's house immediately after service Aug 12, 1838. Mr Love to ok special pleasure in furnishing water from Bethesda spring for our wedding dinner and the next day takin us in good style with his horses and lumber wagon to our home. There the workbench which had served as table was taken out of doors and the tool chest substituted, on which we ate many meals, drinking from tin cups."
Ida Alley Ferguson autograph book
" Remember now thy creator in the day of your youth, while the evil days come not noe the years drew nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.
This is not only the words of a wise man but the desire of your granmother who is now nearly seventy years old. Beloit Wisc Dec 26 1880" Caroline M (Marble) Nelson
CAROLINE MARBLE EGGELSTON NELSON
Caroline Marble is the daughter of Oliver Marble and Phebe Dewolf. She first married William Eggelston abt 1831 Bridgewater, Oneida, Ny. Wm died in Bridgewater Ny and Caroline went with her Uncle Joshiah DeWolf to Wisconsin Aug 1837. Her parents had previously gone to Ohio. There she met and married Hamilton Nelson 12 Aug 1838. They had children Mary Caroline, George W, Helen Marble, Charles T, Clara Eveline.
Celebration of Fifty Years
. . . . of the 18 original members of the Society (1st Congragational), only two remain alive, Mrs Hamilton Nelson, of Beloit, ... Mrs. Nelson, the Mrs. Caroline Eggleston of the first list, was present at the celebrati on, a white-haired old lady who has long passed the allotted time for the life of man, but who seems keen and in good health. Mrs Nelson prepared a paper for the occasion, which was read by her son, Rev. Geo. Nelson, and which is of so much general interest that we give it almost entire.
" Recollections of the Beginning"
It was in August 1837 that I came to Wisconsin with my uncle, Josiah L DeWolf, from Bridgewater, New York. We stopped one day in Milwaukee and the Nelson Olin--the oldest of the four Olin brothers-- brought us to the log house of Robert Love, who was keeping tavern at the place long known as Tubses on Fox river about a mile above the little settlement of Prarie village, later Prairieville, and now Waukesha. . ..
Mr Nelson came to Milwaukee June 1st, 1836, and took up land two miles northwest of Prairie village where we lived thirty years. We were married in Mr Love's house immediately after service Aug 12, 1838. Mr Love to ok special pleasure in furnishing water from Bethesda spring for our wedding dinner and the next day takin us in good style with his horses and lumber wagon to our home. There the workbench which had served as table was taken out of doors and the tool chest substituted, on which we ate many meals, drinking from tin cups."
Ida Alley Ferguson autograph book
" Remember now thy creator in the day of your youth, while the evil days come not noe the years drew nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.
This is not only the words of a wise man but the desire of your granmother who is now nearly seventy years old. Beloit Wisc Dec 26 1880" Caroline M (Marble) Nelson
Caroline Marble is the daughter of Oliver Marble and Phebe Dewolf. She first married William Eggelston abt 1831 Bridgewater, Oneida, Ny. Wm died in Bridgewater Ny and Caroline went with her Uncle Joshiah DeWolf to Wisconsin Aug 1837. Her parents had previously gone to Ohio. There she met and married Hamilton Nelson 12 Aug 1838. They had children Mary Caroline, George W, Helen Marble, Charles T, Clara Eveline.
Celebration of Fifty Years
. . . . of the 18 original members of the Society (1st Congragational), only two remain alive, Mrs Hamilton Nelson, of Beloit, ... Mrs. Nelson, the Mrs. Caroline Eggleston of the first list, was present at the celebrati on, a white-haired old lady who has long passed the allotted time for the life of man, but who seems keen and in good health. Mrs Nelson prepared a paper for the occasion, which was read by her son, Rev. Geo. Nelson, and which is of so much general interest that we give it almost entire.
" Recollections of the Beginning"
It was in August 1837 that I came to Wisconsin with my uncle, Josiah L DeWolf, from Bridgewater, New York. We stopped one day in Milwaukee and the Nelson Olin--the oldest of the four Olin brothers-- brought us to the log house of Robert Love, who was keeping tavern at the place long known as Tubses on Fox river about a mile above the little settlement of Prarie village, later Prairieville, and now Waukesha. . ..
Mr Nelson came to Milwaukee June 1st, 1836, and took up land two miles northwest of Prairie village where we lived thirty years. We were married in Mr Love's house immediately after service Aug 12, 1838. Mr Love to ok special pleasure in furnishing water from Bethesda spring for our wedding dinner and the next day takin us in good style with his horses and lumber wagon to our home. There the workbench which had served as table was taken out of doors and the tool chest substituted, on which we ate many meals, drinking from tin cups."
Ida Alley Ferguson autograph book
" Remember now thy creator in the day of your youth, while the evil days come not noe the years drew nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.
This is not only the words of a wise man but the desire of your granmother who is now nearly seventy years old. Beloit Wisc Dec 26 1880" Caroline M (Marble) Nelson
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