This is a drawing of Ransom Nash, the father of Meldrick Nash, my great grandfather. He was born in Maine in 1818. In November 24 1840 he married Anna Springer. Anna Springer also born in 1816 in the Columbia Falls area of Maine. They came west and settled in the area just west of Green Lake (Indian Beach) Minnesota. Ransom died July 1881 and Anna died February 26, 1879. They are both buried in cemetery near the west end of Green Lake.