Comments by Harry Nelson, Wellie's grandson:
People that knew him called him Wellie, but his real name was Charles Wellington Nelson. He came from Centerville, New Brunswick, Canada born 1877 if my math is correct on his 1901 wedding certificate. He operated a Socony Vacuum Gas Station in Providence, RI. At some point in time, he became Park Foreman, at Roger Williams Park. He took care of the horses there. He had numerous friends at the Saugy Hot Dogs: http://www.saugy.net/history.html, and I believe some of the men at Saugie’s had financial interest in horses.
I don’t know what the draw was to move from Carleton County, New Brunswick to the big city of Providence, RI. My father, Earl I. Nelson, was probably in his early teens at the time. My father had actually 3 distinctively different lives, on the farm in New Brunswick, in the city of Providence, RI where he worked at Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard and Saugie’s. Then the family was travelling back to NB when Wellie took sick in Newport, Maine. This is where I grew up, he worked at H.P.Hoods and trapped beaver and hunted deer. Quite a diverse life.
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