A family life

Seth Henry Nelson

1891–1975 · family record

Seth anchors the Nelson family’s twentieth-century Cardston research.

Family-supplied notes give Seth’s life as 1891–1975 and identify Mabel Caroline Hanson Nelson as his spouse. Family-history accounts offer leads into his civic work.

Sources: Family recollections and relationshipsA Deck of Ancestors: Nelson family material

His legal title and public career deserve a fuller account, but the archive still needs the relevant Law Society, Gazette, and local-government records before presenting those details as settled.

Sources: VE6.CA family research notes, April 2026

Family connections

Relationships and their evidence

A biography and a relationship can have different levels of support. The label on each connection describes that specific claim.

Spouses

Reported spouse

Mabel Caroline Hanson Nelson

Provisional

Recorded in family recollection and compiled genealogy.

Sources: Family recollections and relationshipsWinters family genealogy: Nelson connections

Children

Reported child

Jean Shirley M. Nelson Card

Provisional

Retained from family and collateral research; the primary household and vital-record packet remains incomplete.

Sources: Family recollections and relationshipsWinters family genealogy: Nelson connectionsVE6.CA relationship evidence review

Still being researched

Open questions

Locate civil records and the relevant legal or civic appointment records.

Follow the evidence

Sources for this life

Family knowledge

Family recollections and relationships

Names and immediate relationships supplied by the family and retained in the research notes.

Family-history account

A Deck of Ancestors: Nelson family material

A family-history account that provides leads for Seth Henry Nelson’s civic life.

Compiled genealogy

Winters family genealogy: Nelson connections

A compiled family page used for collateral Nelson and Hanson/Hansen connections.