Birth Name: Edwin Stafford Nelson
Date of Birth: December 21, 1928
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Date of Death: August 9, 2014
Place of Death: Greensboro, North Carolina
Ethnicity:
*English, some Scottish (father)
*French (mother)
Ed Nelson was an American actor. His father had English, and some Scottish, ancestry. His mother was of French descent.
Ed’s paternal grandparents were Gerald Stafford Nelson (the son of J. Franklin Nelson and Mary Stafford Long) and Eugenia Roberta Green (the daughter of William J. Green and Mary F.).
Ed’s maternal grandparents were Alfred Andre Robelot (the son of Jules S. Robelot and Elizabeth Isabelle Rey) and Virginie Fazende (the daughter of Francois Cyrile de Fazende and Amelie Leontine Bermudez).
Sources: Genealogy of Ed’s father – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Ed’s mother (focusing on her own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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