Source: Bruce Remembers
Family Search: When George Whitford Nelson was born on 4 May 1884, in Amabel Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Samuel Nelson, was 47 and his mother, Sarah A Johnston, was 39. He had at least 2 daughters with Edna May Merrill. He lived in York, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 6 April 1935, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, Saugeen Shores, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
PDF file of Transcription of Major Nelson’s Letters
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 