| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Ninth Generation71. Fritz Victor NELSON was born on 10 June 1883 in Hjälmsered, Gullered, Älvsborg län, Sweden.34 He died on 30 June 1943 at the age of 60 in Warwick, Kent Co., RI. He sometimes listed his birth year as 1884 vice 1883. In the 1930 Census, Fritz V. was a carpenter in a machine shop living with his family at 60 King Street, Warwick, RI. Next door there was another Nilson family: John A., 77, born in Sweden, with his daughter, Catherine M., 38, and son George D., 32, both born in RI. Related? Fritz came to the US in 1892, according to the Census record. In the 1910 Census, he and his wife were living at 62 East Street, Warwick, RI. There were almost all Swedes living on that street at that time. His WWI draft registration shows him as a carpenter working for B. B. and R. Knight living at 60 King Street in the Pontiac section of Warwick with his wife, Elin (Ellen). His WWII draft registration lists him as unemployed and living at 19 King Street in Pontiac. Elin M. was born in 1886 in Pennsylvania. She died in 1952 at the age of 66 in RI. Fritz Victor NELSON and Elin M. had the following children:
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