Surnames: Nelson

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 12/12/1895

J. Z. Nelson, better known to old residents of the town of Hull (Marathon Co., Wisconsin) as Zopher Nelson, was in the city, Monday, after an absence of fifteen years. Mr. Nelson was one of the early settlers of the town of Hull, where he resided until the fall of the year 1880, when he moved to Lisbon, North Dakota. He is a hale old gentleman, 67 years of age, is contractor on three mail routes and rides part of them himself. He mourns the loss of his wife, who died in January last.