Mary Ellen (or Mollie D.) NELSON
Hello!I am looking for information on my great-great-grandmother and her ancestors.Here is all I know:
Patrick Henry Meddings (born c. 1854, Putnam (County?), WV or VA).Patrick Henry Medding was the son of George T. Meddings (1808-1891) and Mary Catherine Lunsford (1816-1897).Patrick Meddings married Mary Ellen Nelson.
I also have a record of her name being "Mollie D." Nelson.I asked my long deceased grandparents once and I believe they called her "Mollie Nelson", but many other sources say "Mary Ellen Nelson", perhaps Mollie was a nickname.
One record I have says she was born circa 1856, and that her mother's name was "Eliza Jane", but it is unconfirmed.Another record records circa 1853 as her birth date.Below is more info.
If anyone knows anything about Mary Ellen Nelson's parents, grandparents, or birth info please get in touch!!:-)I'm Christopher L. Colegrove: email me at [email protected]
This is her Obituary from November 1941:
MEDDINGS, Mary Ellen (NELSON)
1941
Mrs. Meddings Dies at Age 88
Mother of Mrs. James Pack, Charter Member Van Lear Church
Mrs. Mary Ellen Meddings, 88 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Pack of Paintsville, at midnight Thursday night after an illness of four weeks. She was born at Hurricane, W.Va., but had lived in Johnson County more than thirty years.She had been seriously ill only about four weeks. Mrs. Meddings was a charter member of the Missionary Baptist Church at Van Lear. She joined the church at Milton, W.Va., in her youth, and when the Baptist Church was organized at Van Lear in 1911, she became one of the first members. Besides Mrs. Pack, Mrs. Meddings is survived by the following children:George Meddings, Wayland; Laurence Meddings, Van Lear; Stanley Meddings, Mount Holt, W.Va., and John Meddings, Missouri Branch, W.Va. She is survived by one brother, C. L. Nelson, and a sister, Mrs. Mattie Kent, both of Huntington, W.Va. Also she is survived by 27 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the Van Lear Missionary Baptist Church at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon.Rev. Cully Hager of Louisa and Rev. Kenneth Combs, pastor of the Van Lear Church, officiated. The body remained at the funeral parlors of the Paintsville Furniture Company from Thursday night until 6 o’clock Friday night. Burial was made in the Van Lear Cemetery. Paintsville Herald Thursday November 20, 1941
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Re: Mary Ellen (or Mollie D.) NELSON
Charles Blevins 9/24/06