James Nelson - Gainesville, TX
N 33° 37.940 W 097° 07.523
14S E 673871 N 3722967
James Nelson was killed when he fell from a train in Gainesville on October 23, 1910.
Waymark Code: WMPX4D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/02/2015
Views: 3
Ron Melugin's "Heroes, Scoundrels, and Angels" is an excellent guide to this cemetery, and it provides some background (page 83). Mr. Nelson was the manager of The Sells-Floto Show Company, a traveling circus. His medium-sized monument is of gray granite, with a bell-shaped top, and this inscription:
In Memory of
James
Nelson
Of
Sells-Floto
Show Co.
Accidentally
killed falling from
train.
Oct. 23, 1910
Remembered
by his friends
with
Sells-Floto
Show Co.
Type of Death Listed: Accident
Website (if available): [Web Link]
Cause of death inscription on headstone: Not listed
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