John Andrew "Jack" Lawrence Nelson b. 3 Jul 1935 Ft. Sheridan, La Salle County, Illinois, USA d. 1 Sep 1998 Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, USA: Our Family History

John Andrew "Jack" Lawrence Nelson

1935 - 1998 (63 years)

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Name	John Andrew "Jack" Lawrence Nelson [2, 3, 4]
Birth	3 Jul 1935	Ft. Sheridan, La Salle County, Illinois, USA [2, 3]
Birth	Father was a soldier at Ft. Sheridan, may not have been married to mother (?). Lived for a while with father and paternal grandparents in Michigan, before being taken in by a great aunt. He adopted her married name Nelson.
Gender	Male
Birth	3 Jul 1935	Chicago Cook, Illinois [4]
Death	Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, USA
Residence	1940	Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, USA [2]
Residence	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Grandson
Residence	1951	California [3]
Death	1 Sep 1998	Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, USA [3, 4]
Person ID	I292138450980	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	David Herman Lawrence, b. 12 Jul 1906, Hemlock, Saginaw Co., Michigan d. 1 Jun 1972, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, USA (Age 65 years)
Mother	Doris Ann Ethelyn Adele Scanlon, b. 19 Jul 1914, Chicago City, Cook, Illinois d. 19 Oct 2004, Woodbridge, Prince William, Virginia, United States of America (Age 90 years)
Family ID	F13181	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Father	Martin A Nelson, b. 26 Aug 1901, Illinois d. 15 Jul 1979, Guerneville, Sonoma, California, USA (Age 77 years)
Relationship	Foster
Mother	Marguerite Cotey, b. 7 Nov 1904, Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, USA d. 22 Sep 1979, Monrovia, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 74 years)
Relationship	related
Family ID	F7289	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

[S965666108] Ancestry Family Tree.
[S965665967] Year: 1940; Census Place: Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01813; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 73-48.
[S965666152] Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File.
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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.