Notes
Note for: Ralph NASON, 13 DEC 1846 - 8 JUL 1916 Index
Occupation:
Date: 8 JUN 1870
Place: Farmer (Wedding Certificate)
Burial:
Date: 10 JUL 1916
Place: Mountain View Cemetery, Pueblo Colorado
Individual note:
Ralph Roelof Nijsing NASON
I have some pictures on file from various cousins found through internet,
DD, CU, CR, and JM.
Picture of Headstone
Copy of Birth Record from DD
Civil War papers from DD and JM
Census for: 1880 - Buchanan, Page County, IA - Dated June 30, 1880 Page
8, Supervisors Dist 3 ED 159
Enumerated with: Katharine - age 33; John - age 9; Theodore - age 4; Paul
- age 2
Census for: 1900 - Pueblo, Pueblo Colorado - Dated June 11, 1900 Vol 15,
E.D. 95, Sheet 13, Line 48
Fountain Street, Pueblo Colorado
Ralph - age 53; Johanna - age 53; William - age 16; Sophie - age 14;
Eddie - age 12; Guy - age 9
Map of lot location at Mt View Cemetery; Lot information, such as
decedents name, date of death, burial date, cause of death.
I have certified copy of the Death Certificate - reads as follows:
Town or City of Pueblo Colorado.
{I can't read the registration numbers} Registration District Number is
192.
Full Name: Ralph Nason
Male - White-Married
Date of Birth March 6, 1846
Date of Death: July 8, 1916
Age at Death: 70 yrs 3 mts 7 days.
Occupation: None
Birthplace: Holland
Name of Father: John Nason
Birthplace of Father: Holland
Birthplace of Mother: Holland
Maiden Name of Mother: Unknown
Birthplace of Mother: Holland
Informant: Mrs. R. Nason
1430 E 11th St
{I can't read the information about how long the doctor treated the
deceased}
Cause of Death looks to read: Angina Pectoris for 6 years.
Contributory : {Can't quite read}
Place of Burial Or Removal: Mt. View July 10, 1916
Undertaker: United Und Co. Pueblo.
July 10, 1916 Pueblo Chieftain
The funeral of Ralph Nason will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the residence of his daughter Mrs. J.C. Welte, 1026 East Eight Street.
Rev. F. W. Imboden will conduct the services. The Women's Relief corps
will exemplify their ritualistic services at the homes and the G.A.R.
will exemplify their services at the grave. Interment will be in the
family lot in Mountain View under the directions of United Undertaking Co.
Ralph was in the civil war. He was in the "H 35 Iowa Inf co H"
I have a copy of his civil war enlistment and pension papers.
Date -1889 Sept 27 -{ Invalid}[Application No. 731518] [Certificate No.]
602545 State -Iowa
Date - 1916 July 17 - {Widow}[Application No. 1069289][Certificate No.]
812745 State - Colorado
Widow - Nason, Johanna B.M.C.
Ralph Nason View Image Online™
Image: 2398 State Filed: Iowa and Colorado
Widow: Johannah B. M. C. Nason
from website www-lias.rad Roelof Niezing born December 13, 1846 in
Smilde, Drenthe, Netherlands
Confusion as to why he used March 15, 1847 on documents as birth date.
0984141
Film/fiche search results: [Have copy]
Marriage records 1831-1950; index to marriage 1831-1975 Kalamazoo County
(Michigan).
County Clerk
Ralph NASON
Sex: M
Marriage(s):
Spouse:
Johannah C. M. Elizabeth VAN DE TAK
Marriage: 8 June 1870 Kalamazoo, Michigan
Source Information:
Batch number: Dates Source Call No. Type Printout Call
No. Type
M518503 1867-1875 0984141 Film NONE
Book 4, page 63, record 956 [Have copy]
Married 8 June 1870
Ralph Nason age 23 born in Holland
Johannah C.M. Elizabeth Vandetak age 23 born in Holland
His occupation: Farmer
Married by Oliver S. Dean, Pastor of 1st Congregational Church; Witnesses
were Jane Herrick and
Benjamin Stuart.
Now for the Pueblo Library to see what the 1910 census might tell us
about Ralph's naturalization. . . . BAD news here. The microfilm of that
census is among the worst I've ever encountered -- some pages are
totally unreadable. The column regarding naturalization simply asks if
the respondent is naturalized or an alien. No info is requested, nor is
space provided, for when or where . . . [dd]
[per DD]
I talked today with my mother, in her 90th year, but remembering quite a
bit. Mother can't confirm or deny that Katy could read or write -- never
saw her reading or writing, though. Says Katy was very tiny, and
pigeon-toed, with light hair, blue eyes, and very broken English.
According to my mother, she was always stirring up trouble in the family
Our discussion led to a good story (contemporary too, given former
President Reagan's broken hip). I knew that Catherine had broken her hip
at one point -- I've got pictures of her in a wheelchair during her
recovery. Mother thinks his probably happened in the early 1920's.
Today, I got more of the story. Seems that she was living in Pueblo, with
her daughter, Pearl Welte and her husband, Joe. The Welte's were a
Catholic family, and Pearl (Nason) had converted when she married Joe, so
the two of them attended Catholic services each week. On a Mother's Day,
my grandfather, Edward, thought he'd do a good turn for his mother, and
he arranged to pick her up and take her to her Protestant church. But,
when he got to the Welte home to get her, there was no answer at the
door. He was a tad put out, but went
on about his day. Turned out that Katy had fallen and broken her hip
after Joe and Pearl had gone to their church -- she was laying on the
floor, unable to get to the door when Edward knocked Well, after the
story was known, he felt terrible. She recovered fully from the broken
hip, after pending months in a wheelchair as quite a demanding patient.
(As Edward died in 1923, and Katy lived until 1927, she did better than
today's average) Seems the only way she was gotten out of the wheelchair
was when
Pearl came home unexpectedly one day and found her up walking around
Cuz Diana Dunn
Sure, Wendy, go ahead an "publish" my mother's memories [Flora Beatrice
(nee Nason) Dunn] . . .
you might also add that she only saw her father (Edward O. Nason) cry
once: when he came home from work (?), and his wife (Helen) told him his
father (Ralph) had died. Mother remembers her grandfather (Ralph) as
being "a very quiet and kind man; not a church-going man, and probably a
Protestant . . . "
Notes from DD as told by her mother, Bee: very broken English, very sick
when she knew him.
Very kind and quiet Probably not a church goer; Protestant.