Nelson Twigs on the Chester Tree

On May 25, 1920, a son was born to Glen and Elsie (Henning) Nelson. They named him Melvin Robert. He was their second son — little brother to Delmer, who had passed his fourth birthday.

Owen and Caroline (Sapper) Nelson also had two little boys, Charles and Edward.

I can't tell you for sure how many little twigs there now were on this branch of the Chester family tree, since I can't find Ernest and Myrtle (Nelson) Sitzenstock in the 1920 census. The last I heard of them they were farming in Ross Township; the 1930 census shows them with a girl of 12, Alice, and a ten-year-old boy, Raymond, but I can't be sure exactly when Raymond was born. [3/8/13 update: It was 1919; see Comment.]

But Lovisa Chester Nelson was now a grandmother at least five times over, if not already six.


Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ 1930 Census.
♦ "Births." Hobart Gazette 4 June 1920.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 3 June 1920.