| Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial |
| Roy Montgomery Nelson 1905 - September 6, 1958 Superintendent Tenure: 1937- 1958 |
| Mr. Nelson was born in Havana, Yell County, Arkansas, son of Melville Montgomery Nelson and Sarah Jane “Sallie” (Fergeson) Nelson. He received the B.A. degree from Erksine College and the M.A. degree from the University of South Carolina. By 1930, Mr. Nelson was a public school teacher in Ward Township, Yell County, Arkansas. He assumed the position of superintendent of the Hughes School in 1937, and he married a fellow faculty member, Miss Ruth T. Taylor, at Hughes on August 9, 1939. Mr. Nelson served as the Hughes school superintendent until his death in 1958, interment in Crittenden Memorial Park Cemetery, Marion, Arkansas. |
