| Show Golden wedding of and Oscar Nelson to be observed at home May 13 and Oscar Nelson of j Upalco will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on May at an open in their honor May 13 at their residence in Friends and relatives are invited to call between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. That evening a family gathering will be held old homestead to further honor and Nelson are early settlers of and were married in the Salt Lake Temple May They drove from Upalco to Price in a Then took the train into Salt requiring four days to make Nelson was born April 1879 in He came to this country at the age of 22 first settling at then coming to the Uintah Basin at the opening of the reservation in Always active in the Church after being converted in 1910 and baptized in a pond near the present Ioka ward Nelson was called to be the presiding elder 1916 of the Lake Fork now the Ioka Held tills position until 1917 when the Upalco ward was organized and he became ward clerk to Bishop Edwin L. He was called as of Upalco ward 1936 and served until 1941 when was called into the Moon Lake High He also served as first counselor to Bishop Murphy 8 years before becoming Nelson's activity has extended beyond the In 1911 when the Lake Fork Irrigation was he was elected a position he has never despite his 82 He served many years as a member of the board of directors of the Moon Lake Water Users Nelson was attracted to the Uintah Basin in 1905 after he had read many alluring stories about this country in the Denver where he had resided since coming to America from Sweden at the age of 22 years to become a railroad Since coming to the Basin he has spent all his life as a rancher and Several years ago Nelson wrote a very interesting life's which gives a graphic account of his activities from in The would like to print this lovable man's story in our Christmas if permission can be received from the the former Naomi was born at Summit a daughter of Nathaniel J. and Zoma Pack She attended grade school in Kamas then went to Provo to the Brig-ham Young where she completed a normal She came to the Basin in 1909 and taught at the first school opened in the Upalco They held their wedding dance in the new school house that had just been built Nelson lias been actively engaged in community and church activities all her life until in 1948 she suffered a stroke which partially In the early days she was one of the trustees of the school board when It was connected with Wasatch She was president of the PTA and taught and was head of the Religion class forerunner of the She has been secretary and president of Relief Society for a number of years and also served as social science teacher in this They are the parents of sons and four Eight of Whom are still Two sons passed away in Infancy and childhood Their living children are Elmo A. Salt Lake Kenneth Robert Oscar N. James F. Milton Ricks Arvin W. Vernal and Glade They have forty-one grandchildren and five great |
