Nelle Wilson Reagan
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Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan (July 24, 1883 – July 25, 1962) was the mother of 40th
Early life
Nelle was born in
Nelle met Jack Reagan in a farm town along the Illinois prairie. The two were married in Fulton in November 1904.[3] They had two children: Neil "Moon" Reagan and Ronald Wilson Reagan. After the birth of her second son, Nelle was told not to have any more children.[4] The Reagan family moved from Tampico to many small Illinois towns, and Chicago, depending on Jack's employment.
Workings with the church
Ronald Reagan wrote that his mother "always expected to find the best in people and often did".
Due to her influence within the church community, one member of the congregation said that "Many of us believed Nelle Reagan had the gift to heal", and fellow churchgoer Mildred Neer recalled Reagan's strong passion for prayer:
When our little daughter was about four years old, she developed what seemed to be tonsillitis ... My husband said to me, 'Why don't you go to church? It will do you good.' [The pastor] spoke on how we as Christians should accept death ... When the service was dismissed, everybody had left except for Mrs. Reagan who was on the platform gathering up the music that the choir members had left. I thought, 'If only I could talk to Mrs. Reagan,' and went up to her. She said, 'Let's get down on our knees and pray about it.' She made a wonderful prayer, [and] Mrs. Reagan spent the whole afternoon in prayer with us ... She left about six o'clock. Moments later, the abscess [on our daughter's neck] burst. God had heard Nelle Reagan's prayer and answered it.[7]
Aside from her work with the church, Nelle acted in many plays. One 1926 review of the play The Ship of Faith said, "Mrs. Reagan is one of Dixon's favorite readers and has appeared before many audiences, always greatly pleasing them."[8]
Later life and death
In 1938, after both Neil and Ronald Reagan had moved to
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Kengor, Paul (2004), p. 4
- ^ Reitwiesner, William Addams and Michael J. Wood. "The Ancestors of Ronald Reagan". Retrieved 2008-04-16.
- ^ a b Reagan, Ronald (1990), p. 22
- ^ Reagan, Ronald (1990), p. 21
- ^ Kengor, Paul (2004), p. 12
- ^ Rubin, Lyle Jeremy (16 March 2019). "The Paranoid, Reactionary Dreams of Ronald Reagan". Jacobin. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ^ Kengor, Paul (2004), p. 13
- ^ Kengor, Paul (2004), p. 11
- ^ Kengor, Paul (2004), p. 44
- ^ a b Kengor, Paul (2004), pp. 45-46
- ^ Kengor, Paul (2004), p. 47
References
- Angelo, Bonnie (2001). First Mothers:The Women who Shaped the Presidents. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-06-093711-4.
- Kengor, Paul (2004). God and Ronald Reagan. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-06-057142-X.
- Reagan, Ronald (1990). An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7434-0025-9.
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