Nellie was a binder for the Collier's Weekly Magazine at the Crowell Publishing Plant in Springfield, Ohio.

She was the daughter of James Johnson and Rosa Heare Johnson Bainter.

Nellie May Johnson married Edwin Richard Chatfield, Sr., September 25, 1926.

Nellie suffered from Active Advanced Pulmonary Tuberculosis and died in the Clark County T.B. Sanatorium, May 17, 1933 (findagrave.com)