The Bragg Family Walk of Fame

Recognize this face?  Yup!  That's 60's heart throb Ricky Nelson and he is one of us!  Born Eric Hilliard Nelson on the 8th of May, 1940 in Teaneck, New Jersey, he joined many of us weekly in the 50s on the Ozzie and Harriet Show with his brother, David.

Peggy Louise Snyder (Harriet Nelson)

 Ricky's mother, Harriet Hilliard was born Peggy Louise Snyder in 1909 in Des Moines, Iowa.  Her 4th Great Grandparents were our common ancestors, James Johnson and Elizabeth Patterson who settled in the Truro area of Nova Scotia in 1761.  James and Elizabeth were the grandparents of Jane Rogers who married the original John Bragg.

Harriet became a vaudeville performer and screen actress before her marriage to Ozzie (Oswald George) Nelson in 1935.  The two continued performing and in 1944,  The Adventure of Ozzie and Harriet became a favourite radio program.  The show moved to television in 1952 and continued until 1972.  The show featured the four Nelsons and their zany life at home.

As a young man, Ricky married Kristen Harmon, sister of NCIS star, Mark Harmon and became the father of actress, Tracy Nelson and rock stars, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson.

Gunnar Nelson and his brother Matthew are identical twins born in Santa Monica, California in 1967 and the two formed the band, Nelson,  When "Love and Affection" reached the #1 position on the charts, the Nelsons landed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only family to have #1 records in three successive generations (their grandfather, Ozzie Nelson, had a #1 hit with "And Then Some" in 1934, and their father, Ricky Nelson, had #1 hits with "Poor Little Fool" in 1960 and "Travelin' Man" in 1962).

Tracy Nelson

Sister, Tracy Nelson was born in 1963 in Santa Monica and is a well recognized TV Performer.  Nelson is perhaps best known for playing the role of Sister Stephanie ("Steve"), the sidekick of Father Dowling in the television series The Father Dowling Mysteries. She started her career early, playing one of Henry Fonda's daughters in Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) when she was five years old. In 1982 she played Jennifer DeNuccio on the television series Square Pegs, and in 1984 she had a regular role in Aaron Spelling's short-lived television series Glitter.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s she made guest appearances on popular television series including Family Ties, St. Elsewhere, Murphy Brown, the Australian series The Man from Snowy River, Melrose Place, Will and Grace, and Seinfeld. She was on Broadway as Rizzo in Grease in 1995. She has also appeared in several movies including the #1 hit Down and Out in Beverly Hills. She has starred in several Lifetime movies including The Perfect Nanny in 2000, The Perfect Husband, Kate's Secret,The Fight for Jesse, and various others.

A very talented family, and happily, one of our own.