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Carrie Bell Shuey was born on March 17, 1882, in Osborn County, Kansas, to S. P. Shuey, who was born on July 22, 1884, in Muskinham County, Ohio, and Margaret Emeline Worden, who was born on October 31, 1851, in Gracen County, Virginia.
Roy Nelson and Carrie Shuey were married on Easter Sunday, April, 1904, in Alton, Kansas. In 1909 Roy heard of the Texas land rush and of the Burton D. Hurd Land Company excursions to Collegeport, Texas, where the artesian wells flowed excessively, citrus fruit, bountiful corn crops, and wonderful garden vegetables could be raised, and luscious berried grew wild.
He boarded the train in Osborn, Kansas, and came to Collegeport where he purchased five acres of land north of the city, and returned to get his wife, Carrie. They had a restaurant to dispose of and goods to be packed for transporting to Collegeport by train. In the spring of 1910, they arrived in Collegeport and lived in the hotel until the barn was built, then they lived in one side of the barn until their home was completed. Roy planted corn and Carrie raised garden "sass" as she called it. She sold all the garden produce that she raised to the hotels, plus cream, butter, and eggs.
Carrie's father and mother, the S. P. Shueys, moved to Citrus Grove, Texas, from Kansas to be near their family. Their daughters, Della Braden, Grace Batchelder, Carrie Nelson, and their son, William Shuey, all resided in Matagorda County.
Roy and Grandpa S. P. Shuey planted an orange orchard just north of Roy and Carrie's home. Later they planted a number of pecan trees. As these northern people soon found out, the year the orange trees were ready to produce, a Texas blizzard took its toll and killed all of the orchard except the pecan trees which were still producing in 1984.
Roy then went to work with his horses helping to build rice canals. For entertainment, they floundered, Roy raced horses on the salt flat by the bay, and occasionally they danced at the Collegeport pavilion on Saturday--walking the three miles to and from the pavilion. Roy went into ranching and ranched until his death.
In 1917 on October 22, Rosalie Mae was born, at home. Mr. Charlie Luther drove Doctor Wagner to the Nelson home on a rainy night, on a muddy dirt road, to deliver Rosalie, a ten pound baby, at 2:00 o'clock in the morning. Rosalie was six years old when Ethel Adell was born at Dr. Loos' hospital in Bay City.
After teaching school for twelve years in Richards and Bay City, Texas, Rosalie married William Laban Ellis, Jr., at the Roy Nelson home in Collegeport. They had four sons: Jesse, Gilbert, Jerry, and Tommy. In due time she taught for twelve more years in Palacios before retiring.
Ethel married Roy Edward Williams and they had two daughters, Sherry and Lynda. Ethel taught public school in Collegeport and at the school for exceptional children in Bay City.
Roy and Carrie lived in Collegeport until their deaths. Roy, a rancher, and Carrie a housewife. Roy died at the age of eighty-eight and was buried in the Palacios Cemetery. Carrie was ninety-two when she died and was buried in the Palacios Cemetery also. She enjoyed visiting with neighbors at the post office each morning until two weeks before her death.
In 1984, Rosalie and W. L.'s son, Jesse, who married Carolyn Johnson, had two sons, Jesse, Jr. and William L. III, and lived in Collegeport. Tommy, who married Patricia Standley, had two daughters, Tommie Lyn and Alta Mae, and lived in Palacios. Jerry and his children, Leisa, Dee, and Ritchie lived in Texas City. Gilbert, who was Dr. Debakey's eighth kidney transplant patient in Houston, and lived fifteen years with his brother Jerry's kidney, had three children: Brent, Mylinda, and Kim.
Ethel's daughter, Sherry Richardson, and her husband, Donald, lived in Bryan, Texas. Lynda Soli and her husband, Keri, and their two children Kreg and Kerin lived at Columbia Lakes in West Columbia, Texas.
Rosalie and W. L. resided in Collegeport. Ethel's husband, Roy, died while they were in Tripoli, Libya, Africa, where he was on assignment with Marathon Oil Company. She lived in Bay City, Texas, and in 1984 was operating the family ranch, and enjoying country life.
Rosalie Nelson Ellis - 1984
Historic Matagorda County, Volume II, pages 372 - 373
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Roy Nelson, of Lenora, and Miss Carrie Shuey, of this place were joined in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Sunday, April 3, by Rev. Chas. Falgren of Gaylord. Will Nelson and Mrs. Geo. Braden acted in the capacity of groomsman and bridesmaid. Only members of the family were present.
Roy Nelson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nelson of Lenora, formerly of Alton, and is an industrious young man well equipped for the responsibilities of married life. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Shuey of Alton. They have been sweethearts since childhood. Their many friends here wish them a life of prosperity and happiness. They left for Lenora Tuesday where they will make their home.
A splendid wedding dinner was served at the Shuey home, and on Monday evening the party was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Braden. Many valuable and useful presents were received.
The Alton Empire,
April 7, 1904 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson of Collegeport, celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary on last Wednesday, April 3rd, with a fish dinner at the Green Lantern Inn followed by a theatre party, seeing the picture, "She Wouldn't Say Yes." Besides the celebrants the party included their daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. Ethel Maurer and Sherry LaRue Maurer, Miss Rosalie Nelson, Miss Corra Lee Perkins and Miss Mary Perkins, of Bay City.
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson of Collegeport are holding Open House Sunday afternoon, April 4, between 3 and 5 in honor of their Golden Wedding anniversary. They extend an invitation to all of their friends to be with them on this anniversary day.
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson held open house Sunday afternoon at their home in Collegeport in honor of their Golden Wedding anniversary. The refreshment table, covered with a white Madeira cloth, had as its centerpiece a beautiful arrangement of yellow roses. A six tier cake, decorated in gold and white with the traditional wedding bells and 50th, graced one end of the table and the crystal punch bowl the other. Mrs. L. C. Smith of Collegeport and Mrs. Louie Franks of Bay City presided at the punch service and Mrs. Mae Percival served the cake to the 125 guests who called during the appointed hours. The honorees were recipients of many lovely gifts, one was a large floor fan from thirty-nine of their Collegeport friends. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson moved to Collegeport from Norton County, Kansas in 1909 and have lived in the same house ever since their arrival. They are the parents of two daughters, Mrs. Roy Williams of Bay City and Mrs. W. L. Ellis of Collegeport and the grandparents of six grandchildren.
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Nelson's
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Funeral services for Roy Nelson were held at the Palacios Funeral
Home Saturday, October 26, at 10 a. m. with the Rev. Joe Cooper of
the First Presbyterian Church of Bay City officiating. Interment was
in the Palacios Cemetery. A
retired rancher and a resident of Collegeport for 59 years, he was
born February 9, 1880, in Cedarville, Kansas, a son of Francis
Marion and Alice Ann Marley Nelson. He died Thursday, October 24, in
Wagner General Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Carrie Belle Nelson of Collegeport;
two daughters, Mrs. Rosa Lee [Rosalie] Ellis of Collegeport and Mrs.
Ethel Williams of Bay City; one sister, Mrs. Artice Kimport of
Winner, S. Dak.; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Palacios Beacon, October 31, 1968
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Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Belle Nelson of Collegeport were
held at the Palacios Funeral Home at 10 a. m. Monday, July 29, with
the Rev. Leslie E. Webb, Jr. officiating. Interment was in the
Palacios Cemetery.
Daughter of the late S. P. and Emmaline Warden Shuey, she was born
March 17, 1882, in Alton, Kansas. She and her late husband, Roy
Nelson, moved to Collegeport in 1909, where she was active in church
and community affairs as long as health permitted. She was a charter
member of the Collegeport Presbyterian Church and Matagorda County
Federation and a member of the Woodmen of the World. She passed away
Saturday, July 27, in Wagner General Hospital.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Roy Williams of Bay City and
Mrs. W. L. Ellis of Collegeport, six grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren. Unknown newspaper, July 1974
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Ethel Nelson Williams, 99, of Bay City went home to Heaven on
July 13, 2022. She was born June 4, 1923 to Roy Nelson and
Carrie Belle (Shuey) Nelson at the old historic Dr. Loos
Hospital in Bay City, Texas. She grew up on the family ranch in
Collegeport, Texas and attended Blessing High School, graduating
as salutatorian in 1940.
Ethel married her high school sweetheart, Roy E. Williams after
World War II and has lived in Matagorda County for her entire 99
years. After many years as a principal, school teacher,
cattlewoman and educator, she will be laid to rest at Hawley
Cemetery near Blessing. The service will be at 4:00 PM Sunday,
July 17, 2022 at the Pavilion at Hawley Cemetery with Dr. Mike
Zimmerman officiating for friends and family of Ethel.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Roy E.
Williams, sister Rosalie Nelson Ellis and daughter Sherry
Richardson.
Surviving family members are a daughter; a granddaughter and
husband; a great granddaughter; a grandson and numerous cousins,
nieces-in-law and one nephew.
Pallbearers will be Ricky McKinney, G. W. Franzen, Jimmy Huey,
Dr. Crayden Dennard, Jack Matthews, Ernest “Buddy” Lenz and John
Hodges. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be John Maurice
Merck, James Bounds, Mason Holsworth, Jug Rhymes and Tommy
Ellis. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to your favorite charity or donate at www.waterforlife.org or www.ectigers.com.
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Sherry attended Bay City schools and, in her
senior year at Bay City High School, was a Rice Festival Queen
contestant, making her beautiful dress herself.
After graduating from Bay City High School in
1961, she attended Sam Houston State Teachers’ College and graduated
in 1965.
Donald Richardson, her future husband, was a
member of the Industrial Education Society at TAMU and Sherry was
chosen as the sweetheart for the society in 1964.
On July 17, 1965, she married Donald Morris
Richardson at the First Presbyterian Church in Bay City. For many
years, they lived in Bryan, Texas and supported Donald’s TAMU Aggie
bonfire each year. During their last years they lived in Spring,
Texas.
They had various interests including flying, car
clubs and collecting antique fire trucks.
As members of Second Baptist Church in Houston,
Sherry used her excellent sewing skills to make costumes for the
annual Christmas Pageant. They later attended First Baptist Church
and Sherry attended Clay Road Baptist Church in the last months of
her life.
She worked for Pamela Wright Collections, sewing
custom shoulder ribbons and other items.
Sherry was preceded in death by her husband;
father, Roy E. Williams; grandparents, Roy & Carrie Belle Shuey
Nelson; Roy E. & Ruth Walker Williams; aunt and uncle, W. L. and
Rosalie Nelson Ellis; great-aunt, Esther Williams and several
cousins.
She is survived by her mother, Ethel Nelson
Williams; sister, Lynda Williams Gerken; niece, Kerin Soli Caka and
husband, Keith and daughter; and nephew, Kreg Soli.
A memorial service was held Sunday, September 21,
2019, at Clay Road Baptist Church at 2:00 p. m.
She was buried beside Donald at Woodlawn
Cemetery, 1101 Antoine Drive, Houston, Texas. |
Roy Nelson was born
in Kansas on February 9, 1880, to Francis Marion Nelson, who came to
the United States from England, and Alice Ann Marley, who was of
French descent and was originally from Mississippi.
Sherry
LaRue Williams Richardson, daughter of Roy E. and Ethel Nelson
Williams, was born January 18, 1944 in Bay City, Texas. She passed
away Monday, September 9, 2019 in Houston, Texas at the age of 75.
