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Born November 29, 1804, near LeRaysville, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, of Jesse ROSS and Elizabeth (HANCOCK) ROSS. He had brothers Isaac, Perrin, Orin, and George W.; and sisters Betsy, Eleanor, and Irene.

He married Eliza W. BOSWORTH, who was born in 1811 and died on March 16, 1881.

Nelson died November 19, 1887, and is buried with his wife at the Stevensville, Pennsylvania, cemetery. Both gravestones are reportedly still legible.

Nelson and Eliza had five children, but records reveal the names of only one daughter, Sarah; one son, Henry A.; and possibly another son, George H.