Nelson Duncan McCall

  General Notes:

In congressional township 28 of Brookline, the first settlers were Thomas Hazeltine, who came in about 1834, and settled on section 4; John McCall, of Tennessee, who came also to section 4; N. D. McCall, from Tennessee, to section 3; Joel Phillips, of Tennessee, to section 2; Wm. Herrington to section 9; Thomas Dodd, to section 7. John Boyd settled on section 17, and was the first on the prairie in that quarter. Other pioneer settlers were Wm. Kerr, L. Robertson, Ben. Hagewood, Magruder Tannehill, Thomas Dodd, and Henry Small. These settlers came in at different periods, from 1834 to 1849.

Nelson married Nancy Hagewood, daughter of Benjamin Hagewood and Mary "Polly" Robertson, on 14 Jan 1841 in Greene Co, MO, USA. (Nancy Hagewood was born circa 1822 in Roane, Tennessee and died circa 1841 in Greene Co, MO, USA.)