Dr. James Jessie Peterson, MD

  Notes and Events:

• of: Greensboro, Hale Co., AL.

• Residence: 1409 Government Street: Mobile, Mobile Co., AL.

• Obituary: Mobile Register, 11 Nov 1950. Dr. James Jesse Peterson, retired physician died at the family residence 1409 Government Street. He was 75 years old and died on natural causes. He was a native of Greensboro, Alabama and had lived in Mobile about 40 years.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ellen Ray Gordon Peterson and a son, James Jesse Peterson, Jr., and one grandchild.

• Burial Notes: Plot. Range B Lot 35

• Census: Household of James J. Peterson age 43., 1920, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL. His wife is Ellen Ray Peterson age 40, his son is James J. age 2 and a half, also living with them is mother-in-law Ellen M. Gordon age 75 and Eliza Johnson age 19

James married Ellen "Nellie" Ray Gordon, daughter of William Elliott Gordon, Sr and Ellen Marion McMillan, on 12 Dec 1906 in Mobile County, Alabama.⁹ (Ellen "Nellie" Ray Gordon was born on 22 Dec 1878, died on 30 Oct 1958 and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL.)