Georgiana's father was the Norwegian immigrant, Gunner Swennes (or Svennes). She was born Jan. 7, 1860, at Sioux City, Iowa. Married Hans Peter Nelson April 12, 1879. Came to Clark Fork Bottom in 1882. Mother of the first twins, H. P. Nelson of Helena (in 1943) and Mrs. G. L. Forster of Red Bluff, California (in 1943). Georgiana died June 21, 1943 and is buried at Mountview Cemetery - See Pioneer Woman Taken by Death, Billings Gazette, June 23, 1943.
Creator
Unknown
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image;StillImage
Language
eng
Date Original
1930
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County--Billings. Nelson, Hans Peter
Rights Management
Billings Public Library is unaware of any copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the 1976 copyright act. All images in this collection may be used for educational, scholarly purposes and private study. We do request that a credit line be included with each item used. If you wish to publish or reproduce the material in any physical or digital form that exceeds that permitted by fair use or use them for any commercial purpose, including display or web page use, you must obtain prior written permission from Billings Public Library.
Contributors
Parmly Billings Library
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Billings (Mont.)
Digital Collection
Billings Public Library Historic Collection
Digitization Specifications
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 12,506,000 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 2941 x 2372 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 5.0.
Date Digitized
2007-02-09
Relation
See Pioneer Woman Taken by Death, Billings Gazette, June 23, 1943.
