Maude I Cato Nelson

Maude J Catoe
14 October 1914 – 26 September 1986
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1914

Maude I Catoe was born on 14 Oct 1914 in Lancaster, South Carolina, USA a child of Thomas Cloumbus Catoe Sr and Ida Mae McManus Catoe.

1920

Maud I Catoe was counted in the census on 15 May 1920 in Flat Rock, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA, as a 6-year-old, mulatto, single, female, daughter. Also in the home was her father, Thomas Catoe; her mother Ida Catoe; and her siblings, Palmer Catoe, Mabel Catoe, and Anna Edna Catoe.

1930

Maud J Catoe was counted in the census on 08 Apr 1930 in Flat Rock, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA, as a 15-year-old, white, single, female, daughter. Also in the home was her father, Thomas C Catoe; her mother Ida Catoe; and her siblings, Palmer Catoe, Mabell Catoe, Edna Catoe, Thomas C Catoe, Jr, Nettie M Catoe, and Margret C Catoe.

1933

When she was 19, she married Alton Benjamin Nelson, son of Franklin Arthur “Frank” Nelson and Effie F. Goff, on 08 Dec 1933.

1940

Maude Cato Nelson was counted in the census on 12 May 1940 in Wateree, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA, as a 25-year-old, female, married, white, wife. Also in the home was her husband, Alton Benjamin Nelson.

1944

On March 12, 1944, Mrs. A. B. Nelson (Miss Maude Cato) was listed in the newspaper article “Thomas Franklin Nelson.

1973

On September 28, 1973, Mrs Maude Catoe Nelson was mentioned as the living spouse in the obituary of Judge Alton Benjamin Nelson.

1986

Maude I Catoe Nelson died on 26 Sep 1986 in Elgin, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA. She was buried on 28 Jan 1986 in Elgin, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA at Union Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Maude Nelson, Eastern Star matron

ELGIN

Mrs. Maude Cato Nelson, 71, widow of A. B. Nelson, died Friday.

Born in Lancaster County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas C. Catoe Sr. and Ida Mae McManus Catoe. She was a retired employee of Bendix Corp. and a member and former worthy matron of Leslie Zemp Chapter No. 111, Order of the Eastern Star, and a member and deaconess at Sand Hill Heights Baptist Church.

Surviving are a son, Frank Nelson of Elgin; sisters, Mrs. Margaret Nelson and Mrs. Mabel Davis of Camden, Mrs. Edna Thomas of North Myrtle Beach and Miss Nettie Catoe of Elgin; a brother, Thomas Catoe of North Myrtle Beach; and granddaughters.

Memorials may be made to the Baptist Medical Center Hospice Program in Columbia or the Sand Hill Heights Baptist Church building fund.

The family will receive friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel.

Plans will be announced by the funeral home.

September 27, 1986  State (published as The State)  Columbia, South Carolina
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Located in Union Baptist Church Cemetery
Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina, USA
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2019

On October 30, 2019, Maude Nelson was listed as a deceased sister in the obituary of Margaret Catoe Nelson.

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