Nelson Hancock
Services Today In Dasher Chapel for N. L. Hancock
Funeral Services for Nelson l. Hancock, 86, of 1015 Pennsylvania Ave., East St. Louis, will be held at 1 p.m. today (Thursday) at the Dashner Funeral Home, Dupo.
The Rev. Ralph Morris, pastor of the First Baptist Church of East Carondelet, will officiate. Burial will be in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Mr. Hancock, a veteran of the Spanish American war, died Monday morning at St. Mary Hospital. He was born Feb. 13, 1881, at Alto Pass, Ill.
His parents were Jeff [James Jefferson] and Nancy Catherine (Farmer) Hancock. Mr. Hancock, a retired laborer, was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6368 of Dupo. He was a residents of the local area for 40 years.
Survivors include a son Nelson L. Hancock, Jr. East Carondelet; two daughters, Mrs. Bonita Swafford of Murphysboro and Mrs. Gladys Louise Bates of Los Alamos, N. M.; a sister Mrs. Alice Naegley [Naegele], Murphysboro, 14 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren.
Nelson Hancock obituary, published in the Southern Illinoisan, March 10, 1967
[Two children preceded him in death: a son Cletus Hancock and a daughter Helen Hancock Ellis]
Nelson Hancock marriages are as follows:
Elsie Noble, married October 19, 1901, Murphysboro, Jackson, IL. Three children: Nelson Jr., Gladys and Cletus.
Susie B. Clutts, married July 27, 1911, Henry County, TN. Two daughters: Bonita and Helen.
Mima Leona Billington, married July 26, 1915, Pope County, IL
Gladys A. Fisher, married November 13, 1919, Murphysboro, Jackson, IL
Georgia White Luster, married May 17, 1923, Obion County, TN