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John S. NESTER and Malinda Dalton were united in the holy bonds of wedlock in
Logan county, West Virginia, January 22, 1877, Rev. Isaac Fry officiating clergyman. John S. Nester was born
in what is now Lincoin county, December, 11, 1853, and his parents were Daniel and Vaieria (Brumfield) Nester.
His mother is still a resident of the place of his birth. Mrs. Nester was born in what is now Lincoln county,
July 3, 1853, and she is a daughter of James and Jane (Workman) Dalton. Mr. and Mrs. Nester are the parents of
four children, born: William Henderson, November 23, 1877; Jane, May 2, 1879; Roxy Ann, October 19. 1880;
Georgia Belle, March 1882. Dainiel Nester, father of John S., served about two years in the late war; he came
home on a furlough and was taken down with the fever, during which time the Federal soldiers came, and in
order that he might remain at home, Mr. Nester took the oath of allegiance. A woman folded a letter in a paper
and sent it to her husband in the southern army, but through mistake the letter came into the possession of
the Federal officers, and Mr. Nester was sent to Camp Chase, and there died. John S. Nester was living here
when Lincoln county was formed, and is a farmer on Little Hart creek, owning 150 acres of land, a number ot
acres under cultivation. The farm is well timbered, and coal, iron ore, building stone and sand beds are
abundant. Hart, Lincoln county, West Virginia, is the postoffice address of John S. Nester.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.