Husband of Narcessa∼
NELSON, B WILEY was born August 17, 1841 in Muscogee County Georgia, a son of Jesse C Nelson and Susan Wall Nelson. He died September 27, 1916 in Simpsonville, Upshur County Texas USA. Burial: Piney Grove Church Cemetery - Upshur County, Texas. He married NANCY NARCESSA SCARBROUGH October 14, 1860 in Chattahoochee County Georgia USA, daughter of IVY SCARBROUGH and SARAH BECK. She was born May 31, 1845 in Georgia USA, and died October 12, 1924 in Upshur County Texas USA. Burial: October 1924, Piney Grove Church Cemetery - Upshur County, Texas CHILDREN: (1) Susan M Nelson (2) James Wylie Nelson (3) Alice Arrena Nelson (4) Ivy Isaiah Nelson (5) Resper Battle Roe Nelson (6) Charles E Nelson (7) Willie Ezekiel Nelson (8) Henry Thomas Nelson (9) Infant Boy Nelson (10) Walter Benjamin Nelson (11) George Andrew 'Jesse' Nelson (12) Narcissa Sarah 'Lucy' Nelson (13) Mary Ellen Nelson (14) Noah Larson Nelson


Wiley and Narcissa were married by James C. Coleman, JP (Coleman worked with Methodist and Baptist churches in the area of Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties of Georgia. He "kept a tavern at the Mill House" where travelers liked to stay. He also gave land to the Methodist Episcopal Church to build after the old church located in Ft. Benning required them to move. His parents, Jesse and Susan Wall became members at Mt. Gilead Church Jan. 26, 1833. Wiley, along with some of his cousins, left Georgia to seek land in Covington County, Alabama about 1860. He returned to Georgia to be married to Narcessa who was living with his mother Susan. He joined the militia in Alabama and then served in Company I, 40th Alabama Infantry, beginning May 14, 1862 in Mobile. He fought at Vicksburg and was paroled and then returned to serve in other areas of the South and was last paroled in North Carolina at the end of war. According to Walter Nelson, the food Wiley had at Vicksburg was pea soup and bread and dirty water. He and others had difficulty getting water because of leaving the trenches in direct line of fire. He moved to Texas in 1873 and later requested and received a pension from the State Of Texas because of disabilities. Narcessa would later receive a pension.