History of Macon County, Illinois.  With Illustrations Descriptive Of 
Its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and 
Pioneers.  Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Phildelphia, 1880.  
Reproduced through efforts of The Decatur Genealogical Society, 1972. p. 
32 [Logan County].

THOMAS NELMS.  This year also came Thomas Nelms, from Logan county, 
Kentucky, and settled here. [1827].  He died from the effects of a tree 
falling upon him in 1830.

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