Enoch Nelson
| Date of Interment or Death | 01/14/1948 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | C |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 2-1-2 |
Obituary
E. B. Nelson Dies Suddenly On Saturday
Funeral services For Prominent Business Man Wednesday
Funeral services for E. B. Nelson, prominent Wahpeton business man for many years, are tentatively set for Wednesday from the Methodist church here pending the arrival of a son, David, from California.
Enoch B. Nelson died suddenly Saturday afternoon from a cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Nelson was driving from his home here to Grand Forks and stopped enroute at a filling station in Crookston, Minn., where he died unexpectedly. The body is being returned here where it will lie in state at the Schmidt & Olson chapel until time of the funeral.
Apparently in good health, Mr. Nelson had undergone an operation September 10th, but seemed to have recovered with no ill effects. His death comes as a shock to friends and relatives.
Surviving are his wife, Maude and three sons, David Wasem, located at Grand Junction, Colorado. Enoch Robert, of Elliott, N.D., and John Richard, of Grand Forks, N.Dak. He also leaves five grandsons.
Mr. Nelson was born to Hilma C. and Nils Nelson in Redpath township near Wheaton, Minn., March 21, 1886, where he grew to young manhood. From there he went to Tower City, N.Dak., and entered the lumber business. On May 8, 1907 he married Leilah Maud Wasem of St. Charles, Minn., moving to Oriska, N.Dak.,
where he engaged in the grain business for fourteen years. The next few years he spent in Sutton, N.Dak., and Valley City where he brought grain and traveled for the Atwood Larson Co, a grain commission firm.
In August, 1926, they moved to Wahpeton where he bought the Ford building and Tyler elevators at Tyler, N.Dak. He managed the elevators at Tyler until 1933, at which time he entered the Ford business in Wahpeton. He later sold the elevators to A. F. Rosenkranz and in 1936 sold the Ford business to E. O. Stoudt, Jr. During the next two years he engaged in the John Deere Implement business at Breckenridge, Minn. In 1940 he bought the Elliot Farmers Supply Co, at Elliot, N. Dak., and operated that business until the time of his death.
The Nelsons have maintained a home in Wahpeton since coming here in 1926. He was a member of the Foss Methodist church of Wahpeton and a member of Wahpeton Lodge No. 15, A.F. & A.M and Royal Arch Masons, Chapter 36 of Wahpeton and the Council at Fargo.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.