THE JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY

OF ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND,

FAIRFIELD AND MARION COUNTIES, OHIO,

AND LAKE AND PORTER COUNTIES, INDIANA,

WITH AN ALLIED BACON FAMILY

by

Marcella Anne (Heisz) (Muir) Derrenberger, John Bradley Arthaud, and Pat O’Dell

Privately printed San Antonio, Texas, 2009 Permission to photocopy with acknowledgment

To

JAMES ALBERT (BERT) NICHOLS

Grandfather of Marcella Derrenberger

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters and Appendix

One: Overview of a Nichols family of Allegany County, Maryland 1

Two: Generation 4 3

Three: Generation 5 7

Four: Generation 6 27

Five: Generation 7 45

Appendix: Bacon Family 53

Index 59

v PREFACE

Intermittently since the 1970s Marcella Anne (Heisz) (Muir) Derrenberger, Pat (Combs) O’Dell, and John Bradley Arthaud exchanged data about John Nichols who was born in Allegany County, Maryland, resided in Fairfield and Marion Counties, Ohio, and died in Lake County, Indiana. The late Virginia C. (Strider) Clohset, of Birmingham, Michigan, located many records of John Nichols’ paternal ancestors in Maryland for her DAR supplemental record 473,111 to Nicholas. Her extensive research was essential for the presentation in the first chapter. Contributors of data for more recent generations will be noted in a discussion of their records.

The majority of male Nichols descendants remained in Fairfield County and Lake County into the early 1900s. Members of the family then began a dispersal that continues to this day. Nichols stabilized as the spelling after about 1850. The many variants used in earlier records will be transcribed when original documents are cited. Nichols will be used uniformly in discussion of this family.

Mary E. Nichols, daughter of John Nichols and his second wife Mary Lantz, was born at Lancaster, Ohio, 12 April 1840 and died there 13 February 1928. She signed her will 2 April 1925. George W. Smith, executor and trustee of the will on or before 20 November 1928, filed a legal notice that named her heirs with addresses. There are differences between this list and the final settlement. The estate settlement on 16 January 1930 names 91 relatives and defines shares of 1/42 for nieces and nephews and shares of 1/42 for grandnieces and grandnephews who were the sole surviving heirs of a deceased niece or nephew. Shares ranging from 1/84 to 1/294 went to grandnieces and grandnephews, the children of a deceased niece or nephew. The final payment lists distinguished between heirs of the “full blood” and of the “half blood.” This distinction allows placement of several persons. Heirs of deceased grandnephews or grandnieces were not to receive any payment. Such individuals exist but they would not have been named in the court documents. The placement of two heirs remains somewhat problematic.

In late 2008 after the discovery of Mary E. Nichols’ probate papers, we decided to compile our results and encountered problems familiar to all genealogists. Nuclear families of this clan frequently used the same given names for chronologically and geographically contemporary persons. Other established prolific Nichols families were in Allegany County, Marion County, and Lake County.

This presentation primarily covers agnate descendants. An uneven discussion of descendants with other surnames includes those who were actively involved in this project. Others appear when tracing them resolved identifications among the legatees of Mary E. Nichols’ estate. While the original intent was to not extend past the World War II era, the temptation to utilize the Social Security Death Index to complete the basic records of several descendants was too great to resist.

Unfortunately some of the data had been collected without a complete citation. As we lack the time and financial resources to fully retrace our early steps, we have reluctantly decided to present what has been accumulated with the hope that readers would prefer this approach to the alternative — leaving the information in envelopes and folders that almost certainly would eventually be discarded. Information on the internet ranges from marginal to excellent. We have tried to be judicious in what we have culled from this realm. We believe that adequate sources are mentioned that a serious researcher could find satisfactory documentation for a specific item that is lacking a citation that meets contemporary criteria.

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CHAPTER 1

OVERVIEW OF A NICHOLS FAMILY OF ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND

JOHN1 NICHOLAS, of unknown ancestry, was born say 1705 and died after 26 January 1791 when he acknowledged that he was ―of Allegany County,‖ Maryland,1 and resided on Butter and Cheese.2 In 1755 John Nicholls, of Frederick County, Maryland, had a release from George Gordon for a tract Butter and Cheese.3 He, ―of Allegany County,‖ had made an indenture on 14 January 1791 to give John and Asa Nicholas, ―both sons of my grandson, Joseph Nicholas‖ … ―the plantation or tract I live on known as Butter and Cheese.‖4 The elderly grantor died before 25 January 1804.5

He and a possible namesake son might have been the John Nichols, Sr., and John Nichols, Jr., each with two taxables on the Old Town Hundred, Frederick [now Allegany] County, Maryland, tax list in 1761.6

In 1783 John Nichells, Cumberland Hundred, was assessed in Washington County, Maryland, for Butter and Cheese, which had 109 acres of wood, 6 acres of meadow, and 25 acres of arable lane (140 acres) and for Kindness, with 7 ½ acres of woods and 12 acres of arable lane, total 19 ½ acres.7 Also on the same list in 1783 John J. , Cumberland Hundred, was assessed in Washington County, Maryland, for 310 acres of Butter and Cheese.8 Joseph Nichells, Cumberland Hundred, was assessed for four horses, but no land. 9 They are the only Nichols men in this alphabetized list.

On 6 June 1785 John Jacob and his wife Mary, of Hampshire County, [now West] Virginia, conveyed a tract Butter and Cheese to John Nicholas, Sr. This land had originally been granted to John Hawkins and included Butter and Cheese resurveyed and laid out for Mary Cresap in 1776.10 A genealogical connection among the Cresap, Jacob, and Nichols families has not been identified.

1 Allegany County was formed in 1789 from Washington County, which was formed in 1776 from Frederick County, which was formed in 1748 from Prince Georges County. Each of these is farther west in the panhandle than its parent county. 2 Allegany County Deeds A:17–9, Hall of Records, Annapolis, abstract from Virginia Clohset. The term Butter and Cheese appears three times in Jane Baldwin Cotton’s Maryland Calendar of Wills: (1) 2:193 William Atchison, Prince Georges Co. 1698–99 mentions Butter and Cheese Hall; (2) 2:217 Butter and Cheese Branch, 1688/9; and (3) 8:227 Clement Hill, Prince Georges Co. 1742/1743 Butter and Cheese. No study of these properties and their owners has been made. 3 Frederick County Deeds E:675. 4 Allegany County Deeds A:20, Hall of Records, Annapolis, abstract from Virginia Clohset. 5 Allegany County Records 1795–1806, 5:18, cited by Virginia Clohset. 6 ―Taxables in the Old Town, Frederick Co., 1761,‖ Western Maryland Genealogy 6(1990):106. Edward Anderson was the only intervening name in a nonalphabetic list. 7 Washington County Assessment of 1783, p. 9A-B, photocopy from Hall of Records. 8 Washington County Assessment of 1783, p. 9A-B, photocopy from Hall of Records. His total did not have distinctions among the types of land. 9 Washington County Assessment of 1783, p. 10A-B, abstract from Virginia Clohset. 10 Washington County, Maryland, Deeds D:342. Rogers of Hampshire County, [now West] Virginia, signed his will 24 July 1778. (Washington County WB#1:27 [p. 11 of a typescript]; probated 2 Oct. 1783.) Wife, Mary Rogers, was executor. Cresap son of testator’s wife, tract of land … in Maryland (called The Dispute) adjoining John Nicholas [no title or postnomial] patented in the name of Mary Cresap, provided his grandfather, Col. Thomas Cresap, does not leave him his plantation; James Cresap, son of testator’s wife; Phebe Phillips to receive plantation on Waters of Wheelen [Wheeling?] called Hanks’ Improvement and her three children: Philip Phillips, William Phillips, and Sarah to three plantations (tracts) on Waters of Kentucky, being part of 30 tracts of land in partnership with William Spangler agreement being in hand of Col. Thomas Brown, Michael Cresap received two tracts on the Ohio called Clark’s Dispute and joining it Wallace’s Improvement; surveys or warrants in land office of Virginia.

1 JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY

— 2 NICHOLS (John1), born say 1730, might have been the John Nichols who resided in Frederick County, Maryland, 13 November 1773, 18 May 1774, and 1 May 1776.11 He possibly had military service during the Revolutionary War. Lieutenant John Nicholas, Jr., was on Captain Michael Cresap’s Company, which was at Camp Charlotte in October 1774. This roll was merged with that of Captain Michael Cresap, Senior’s Company [Allegany County, Maryland].12

JOSEPH3 NICHOLS (—2, John1) was born about 1756 or slightly later if his age in the 1800 census was accurate. He died after the 1830 census when he was enumerated in Fairfield County, Ohio.13 He married FRANCES —, who resided in Allegany County on 13 September 1805.14

Joseph Nicholas took the Oath of Fidelity and Support 2 March 1778 in Washington County, Maryland.15 In 1793 Joseph Nichols paid taxes on Butter and Cheese and Nichols Kindness located in the 4th District, Cumberland Hundred, Allegany County.16

Joseph and his son John moved to Ohio around 1804. 17 He might have been the Joseph Nichols who married in Fairfield County, 27 June 1830, Ann Dailey.18 Joseph Nicholz, 70–79, was enumerated in Berne Township, Fairfield County, in 1830.19

JOHN4 NICHOLS (Joseph3, —2, John1) was born 30 August 1784. In 1805 John Nichols was taxed for Butter and Cheese.20 There was no mention of Nichols Kindness. He married first KITTY MARKEE/CATHERINE MARQUISS and second MARY/POLLY LANTZ. (See next chapter.)

11 There is no definitive proof that his given name was John; however, the frequent association of a John Nichols, Sr., and a John Nichols, Jr., chronologically and geographically suggests that this might be the case. He was not the John Nichols who married Martha Payne daughter of Flayl Payne. George Ely Russell, ―Flayl Payne of Frederick County,‖ Western Maryland Genealogy 4(1988):51–57, 99–102 at 54. Martha (Payne) Nichols’ children clearly are a different family. Her son Joseph baptized in 1753 should not be confused with ―our‖ Joseph Nichols. 12 Warren Skidmore and Donna Kaminsky, Lord Dunmore's little war of 1774: his captains and their men who opened up Kentucky & the west to American settlement (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002), 30–1. 13 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 135. 14 Allegany County Deeds D:408–10, Maryland Hall of Records, abstract from Virginia Clohset. 15 Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Revolutionary Records of Maryland (Washington, D.C.: R.H. Darby Print, 1921) part 1, p. 15. Qualifying ancestor for membership in the DAR on the basis of Patriotic Service in Maryland. 16 Allegany County, Maryland, Commissioners of the Tax Assessment Record, 1793, at Maryland Hall of Records, abstract from Virginia Clohset. ―1793 Tax Assessment of Allegany County,‖ Western Maryland Genealogy 6(1990):111. Whether Kindness entered the family from Joseph’s wife or mother or by purchase has not been fully studied. 17 A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 295, biographical sketch of his grandson George Nichols. 18 Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803–1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9, married by Nimrod Bright. Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library. Lancaster, Ohio. 19 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 135, woman 60–69 and a man 20–29 completed this entry. 20 Allegany County, Maryland, Records 1788–1812, 2:133, abstract from Virginia Clohset.

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CHAPTER 2

JOHN NICHOLS 1784–1867

1. JOHN4 NICHOLS (Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Maryland 30 August 1784,21 a son of Joseph and Frances (—) Nichols, and died in Fairfield County, Ohio, 19 December 1867.22 He married first in Allegany County, Maryland, 6 November 1805, KITTY MARKEE,23 who died between the birth of their second son, who was born about 1810, and 5 December 1814 when John remarried.

CATHERINE MARQUISS was the daughter of Richard and Ann (—) Marquiss. He received three land grants in Hampshire County, [now West] Virginia in 1763 and was on the 1782, 1784, and 1785 tax lists.24 On 9 June 1791 a deed was recorded for Richard Marquiss for two lots of 100 acres each, Cresap’s Kindness, on the road from Old Town to Cumberland. He was to build a log house and log barn, plant 50 apple trees and 50 peach trees, and place 100 acres in grassy meadowland.25 By late 1793 they were residents of Allegany County, Maryland, when he or they deeded four parcels of land in Hampshire County to different grantees: Clark, 206 acres; Barrett, 299 acres; Alexander Henry, 140 acres; and Thomas Bennett (their son-in-law), 199 acres. All four deeds were recorded 11 December 1793.26 Richard Marquiss, with a woman 16–26, was enumerated in the 1800 census for Allegany County, Maryland, close to Joseph Nichols, 26–44.27

John married second in Fairfield County, 5 December 1814, MARY/POLLY LANTZ,28 who was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ca. 1797–9, daughter of Martin and Catherine (Barr) Lantz.29 According to the 1850 census Mary, 51, was born in Maryland [sic].30 She died 1 November 1860, age 63. 31

John1 Nicholas, of Allegany County, Maryland, on 14 January 1791, gave a 140-acre tract Butter and Cheese to John and Asa Nicholas, ―both sons of my grandson, Joseph Nicholas.‖32 John Nicholas acknowledged that he was ―of Allegany County‖ and resided on Butter and Cheese.33 Joseph Nichols was

21 Allegany County Deeds D:408-10. Frances Nicholas of Allegany Co., wife of Joseph, swore that her son John was born 30 Aug. 1784. His obituary in the Eagle, Lancaster, Ohio, 26 Dec. 1867, states that he died 19 Dec. 1867 at his residence near Lancaster aged 84y 4m 11d, and that he was born in Maryland 8 Aug. 1783 [sic]. 22 A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 294-5, biographical sketch of son George, which names both of John’s wives. This work has John’s birth date as 8 August 1783 [sic] and his birthplace as Cumberland, Maryland. His gravestone in the Applegate Cemetery, Berne Twp., has this date and age 84y 4m 10d [sic], which calculates to 9 Aug. 1783. (―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ [Lancaster, Ohio, 1983], 67. This typescript is in the Fairfield County District Library, Lancaster, Ohio). 23 Margaret E. Myers, ―Allegany County Marriages 1794–1847,‖ Western Maryland Genealogy 2(1986):63–70 at 69. 24 Sandra Elaine Heppes Mumah, Marquis-Marquess-Marquiss . . . An Alphabetical Dictionary of the Marquis Families in America . . . (Portland, Ore.: By the author, 1999), 61 (#679—Catherine), 417 (#4665—Richard). 25 Allegany County Records, genealogical records, DAR library vol. 2, citing p. 76 of original. Photocopy from Virginia C. (Strider) Clohset. 26 Clara McCormack Sage, Early records of Hampshire County, Virginia, now West Virginia … (Delavan, Wisc., 1939), 38. 27 1800 U.S. Census, Allegany County, Maryland, p. 11/487. There is a male 16–25 in the Nichols household. 28 Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803–1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9, married by William Crook, J.P. Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library. 29 Jean S. Collier, Fairfield County Wills and Estate Abstracts Cases 1–500 (Lancaster, Ohio, 1996), 28 (Case 259). Joseph Barr, ―formerly of Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania,‖ named his son-in-law Martin Lantz (husband of a deceased daughter Catherine). A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 294–5, has Mary’s birthplace and father’s first name. 30 1850 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 433–433R, fam. 35. 31 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 67. 32 Allegany County Deeds A:20 33 Allegany County Deeds A:17-9.

3 JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY appointed to oversee the land until the children reached maturity. The deed for John and Asa Nicholas, sons of Joseph Nicholas, was recorded almost two weeks later (26 January 1791). In 1793 Joseph Nichols paid taxes on Butter and Cheese and Nichols Kindness located in the 4th District, Cumberland Hundred, Allegany County.34

In 1805 John Nichols was taxed for Butter and Cheese.35 Asa Nichols was deceased by 16 September 1805 when John Nicholas, of Allegany County sold 140 acres, Butter and Cheese, for £950 to Thomas Munnett of Allegany County. 36 This document also includes the oath of Frances Nicholas, wife of Joseph Nicholas of Allegany County ―mother of John Nicholas,‖ made on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that John was born on 30 August 1784. This oath proved that John was 21 and could, as the sole survivor, sell Butter and Cheese.

―[W]hen John Nichols attained his majority he inherited a large estate.‖ He and his father moved to Ohio in 1804. A hunter and trapper John spoke to the Indians in their own language,37 possibly a romanticized version of events almost 80 years earlier.

John Nicholas was enumerated in Berne Township in 1820.38 The oldest man and woman might be his parents. The unidentified Joseph Nicholas enumerated as the preceding entry is not likely John’s father based on the ages of Joseph’s family.39 In 1830 John’s family composition correlates exactly with the presentation below.40 Joseph Nicholz, 70–79, appears 10 entries later.41 Henry Nicholz, 15–19, is a head of family six entries later. 42 An unidentified Joseph Nicholz, whose family consisted of a couple 20–29, was enumerated with four intervening families between him and John. 43

On 26 August 1839 John Nichols of Fairfield County made a deposition that he was of lawful age and had known Jacob Van Meter 35 years.44 John Nichols and his sons Eli and Henry appeared alphabetically in the 1840 census.45

In 1850 John was a 65-year-old farmer with seven children at home: Joseph, 24, , 22, George, 21, Catherine, 17, Perry, 15, Mary, 12, and Samuel, 8.46 These names are very similar those of the children of his oldest two sons. Four of John’s sons moved to Lake County, Indiana. Fortunately a land settlement aids in distinguishing among many of the same name.

John Nichols bought 2 and 10/100 acres in the East ½ of Section 34, Township 15, Range 18, in Fairfield County on 28 November 1853 from Jane Armstrong.47 He was a 75-year-old farmer in Pleasant Township in 1860 when his two youngest daughters and son Samuel were enumerated with their parents.48 His

34 Allegany County, Maryland, Commissioners of the Tax Assessment Record, 1793, at Maryland Hall of Records, abstract from Virginia Clohset. ―1793 Tax Assessment of Allegany County,‖ Western Maryland Genealogy 6(1990):111. 35 Allegany County, Maryland, Records 1788–1812, 2:133, abstract from Virginia Clohset. 36 Allegany County Deeds D:408–10, Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis, abstract from Virginia Clohset. John acknowledged the transaction on 18 Sept. 1805, the date the deed was recorded. 37 A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 294–5. 38 1820 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 81, 4-1-0-0-1-1, females one each 16-26 and >45. 39 1820 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 81, 1-1-1-1-2, females 0-0-1-0-1. 40 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 134, males 2-2-2-1-0-0-1 and one female 30–39. 41 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 135, woman 60–69 and a man 20–29 completed this entry. 42 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 135, woman 15–19 and boy < 5 completed this entry. 43 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 134. 44 Fairfield County Wills 1838–49, 3:32–35. 45 1840 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 393. 46 1850 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 433–433R, fam. 35. 47 Fairfield County Partition Records 13:259-65, case #4,826. 48 1860 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 115, fam. 1527.

4 GENERATION 4 married son George, 28, blacksmith, single son Joseph, 38, farmer, and John Harmon, 20, born in Germany were in the preceding household.49

On 23 October 1876 George Nichols, plaintiff, filed a petition against John Nichols, Jesse Nichols, Eli Nichols, Joseph Nichols, Martin Nichols, John Harmon and Catherine his wife, Perry Nichols, Mary Nichols, and Samuel Nichols. The petition noted that about 19 December 1867 John Nichols, of Fairfield County, who died intestate, had owned 2 10/100 acres (land purchased from Jane Armstrong). Each child was the owner of an undivided 1/12th. The defendants John Nichols, Eli Nichols, Jacob Nichols, and Samuel Nichols were residents of Lake County, Indiana, and Martin Nichols, was a resident of Adair [sic, should be ] County, Indiana. All other defendants resided in Fairfield County.50 After the death of John, Henry Nichols sold his interest to the defendant Joseph Nichols.51

John, his wife Mary, and their son Abraham are buried in the Applegate Cemetery, Berne Township, Fairfield County.52

Children of John4 and Catherine (Marquiss) Nichols:

5 2 i. JOHN NICHOLS, b. 1 Jan. 1805; m. (1) ELIZABETH BIBLER; (2) DIANA (MERRIS) BACON. 5 3 ii. HENRY NICHOLS, b. ca. 1810; m. ELIZA DARLE.

Children of John4 and Mary (Lantz) Nichols, order somewhat uncertain:

5 4 iii. JESSE NICHOLS, b. 20 Feb. 1815; m. ANNA BARR. 5 5 iv. ELI NICHOLS, b. 16 Nov. 1817; m. (1) CATHERINE JOHNSON; m. (2) ELSIE VAN METER. 5 53 v. JOSEPH NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 11 Jan. 1820; d. 8 Jan. 1881, age 60y 11m 28d. Named in the partition of his father’s estate, he was enumerated as a single brother-in-law in John Harman’s 1880 census. 54 Joseph signed his will 30 Oct. 1879 and gave all of his property to his sisters Catharine Harman and Mary Nichols.55 His brother Oliver P. Nichols was the executor. John Harman applied to probate the will on – Jan. 1882. The next of kin resident in Ohio were George Nichols, brother, Oliver Perry Nichols, brother, Catharine Harman, sister, and Mary Nichols, sister, all of Lancaster. Sallie (formerly Nichols) McFarland, Delaware; Harvey Nichols, Reynoldsburg, Joshua Nichols, Oliver Nichols, Ellen Nichols, Serepta Nichols, Lizzie Nichols, David Nichols, and Catherine Crook, all of Lancaster, were listed as nieces and nephews [children of Jesse and Ann (Barr) Nichols]. 5 6 vi. MARTIN NICHOLS, b. ca. 1819-25; m. MATILDA SCHULTZ. 5 7 vii. JACOB NICHOLS, b. ca. 1824; m. (1) ELIZABETH L. HITE; m. (2) JULIA A. HENDERSON. 5 viii. ABRAHAM NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 29 Dec. 1826; d. 10 Dec. 1859, age 32y 11m 12d; bur. Applegate Cemetery.56 He was a 22-year-old shoemaker when enumerated with his parents in 1850. 5 8 ix. GEORGE W. NICHOLS, b. 1 May 1830; m. MARY LOUISE RAMSEY. 5 9 x. OLIVER PERRY NICHOLS, b. Oct. 1834; m. MARY ELLEN BURGETT. 5 57 58 xi. CATHERINE NICHOLS, b. 11 Sept. 1838; d. Lancaster 10 July 1914; m. ca.1880 JOHN HARMAN, b. Germany 5 Sept. 1838; d. Pleasant Twp. 28 May 1912, son of John Harman.59 She was named in the partition of her father’s estate. No children.

49 1860 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 115, fam. 1526. 50 Partition Record, Fairfield Co., Ohio, 11:259. Court of Common Pleas, Nov. term, 20 Nov. 1876. 51 Partition Record, Fairfield Co., Ohio, 11:260. Court of Common Pleas, Nov. term, 20 Nov. 1876. 52 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 67. 53 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. 54 He was 24, 38, 49, and 60 in the censuses from 1850–80. 1860 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 115, fam. 1526, 1870 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 4/276R, fam. 28. A farmer, his sisters Catherine and Mary were living with him, consecutively before their married brother George. 55 Photocopies of multiple estate papers in Fairfield County Probate Court. 56 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 67. 57 Ohio Death Certificate 38,744, widow, age 81y 9m 29d, informant Miss Polly Nichols. Both parents were named. Buried Forest Rose Cemetery.

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5 60 xii. MARY E. NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 12 April 1840; d. there 13 Feb. 1928. She was named in the partition of her father’s estate. As a single sister-in-law, she was enumerated in John Harman’s 1880 and 1900 censuses. She signed her will 2 April 1925. George W. Smith, executor, on or before 20 Nov. 1928, filed a legal notice that named her heirs with addresses.61 On 18 December 1929 the executor paid a balance of $16,771.59 to 91 heirs. Individuals received from $556.62 to $29.50. Unclaimed money (total $441.16) due four persons was paid to the treasurer of Fairfield County on 26 Feb. 1931. The estate of Mary E. Nichols, Fairfield County No. 15,370 on 16 January 1930 defined shares of 1/42 for nieces and nephews and of 1/42 for grandnieces and grandnephews who were the sole surviving heirs of a deceased niece or nephew. Shares ranging from 1/84 to 1/294 went to grandnieces and grandnephews, the children of a deceased niece or nephew. Final payments distinguished between those heirs of the ―full blood‖ and of ―half blood,‖ a distinction that allows placement of several heirs. The heirs of deceased grandnephews and grandnieces did not receive any payment—individuals in that category exist but are not named in the documents. 5 10 xiii. SAMUEL NICHOLS, b. ca. 1842; m. FLORA FOWLER.

58 1880 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, p. 229A, fam. 202, farmer (Harman). 1910 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 73, sheet 7A, fam. 162 (Harman), sister-in-law Mary Nichols, 71, with them. Age 17 in parents’ 1850 census and 77 in her husband’s 1900 census (1900 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 18, sheet 8A, fam. 162 as Harmon) when her birth was Sept. 1832 [sic], she was shown as six years older than her husband consistent with their 1880 census. Married 20 years, no children. Her sister Mary Nichols, designated daughter [sic], b. April 1839 [sic]. 59 Ohio Death Certificate 27,021, age 73y 8m 23d, informant O.P. Nichols. Father named. Buried Forest Rose Cemetery. 60 Ohio Death Certificate 8,533, informant Mrs. Harry Vorys. Both parents were named. Buried Lot E6 Forest Rose Cemetery. 61 Lancaster Daily Eagle (Lancaster, Ohio), 20 Nov. 1928, p. George W. Vorys, attorney for plaintiff.

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CHAPTER 3

GENERATION 5

4 2. JOHN5 NICHOLS (John , Joseph3, —2, John1) was born presumably in Allegany County, Maryland, 1 January 1805 [sic] and died in Lake County, Indiana, 7 October 1896.62 He married first in Fairfield County, Ohio, 9 November 1826, ELIZABETH BIBLER,63 who was born 30 March 1810. Elizabeth, ―Wife of John Nichols died Oct. 1 1847Æ 37 yrs 6 mo.‖64 She was a daughter of John and Bar- bara (Hite) Bibler,65 who were members of the Pleasant Run Baptist church, Fairfield County, in August 1809.66 Elizabeth’s maternal grandfather was Andrew Hite,67 who served as a private in Virginia during the Revolutionary War, and is buried in the Pleasant Run Cemetery, Fairfield County.68 Andrew and his wife Ann, who donated the land for the Pleasant Run Baptist Church in 1806,69 were members of the church in August 1809.70 Andrew died after 16 February 1819 when he signed a codicil, which was presented in March 1819.71

John married second in Crawford County, Ohio, 22 July 1848, DIANA (MERRIS) BACON, who was born in New York72 7 August 1815 and died presumably in Lake County 28 November 1882,73 daughter of Joseph S. Merris,74 and widow of Bacon.75 A short summary of John’s two wives has been published.76

Before 15 January 1829 John and Elizabeth Nickles, Washington Township, Marion County, sold 80 acres for $125.00 to Marvin Goodale, Brooke County, [now West] Virginia.77 He was probably the John Nickols enumerated in Marion County, Ohio, in 1830 although there are unidentified persons in the

62 Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society, ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana …‖ (Valparaiso, 1994), 13 of Lowell Cemetery, section A. This typescript at the Lowell Public Library has multiple sections with repeated paginations. His birth date, recorded almost if not more than 90 years after his birth, is possibly an error. His parents married 6 November 1805. 63 Fairfield Co. Marriage Records 3:76, photocopy of original for John Nicholas, married by Nimrod Bright, minister. Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803–1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9 (Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library, Lancaster, Ohio). 64 Photograph of gravestone in Brush Ridge Cemetery, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio. 65 Hazel Bennett Baker, ―The John Bibler Bible,‖ Kansas Tree Searcher 7(1965):54. 1850 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 150R, fam. 1191. 66 Hervey Scott, A complete history of Fairfield County, Ohio, 1795–1876 (Columbus, 1877), 130. 67 His ancestry and wife’s maiden name are unknown. Anna Taylor, who has appeared as his wife in numerous genealogical sites without any documentation, should be relegated to the status of a ―former ancestor‖ until proof of her maiden name is found. 68 http://fairfieldgenealogy.org/research/revwar.htm. 69 http://www.theloveofchrist.net/history.htm. 70 Hervey Scott, A complete history of Fairfield County, Ohio, 1795–1876 (Columbus, 1877), 130. 71 Jean S. Collier, Fairfield County Wills and Estate Abstracts Cases 1–500 (Lancaster, Ohio, 1996), 28 (Case 260). His will, signed 14 Nov. 1818, and codicil, signed 16 Feb. 1819, were filed in March 1819. His heirs included his widow Magdalena Hite, who d. Seneca Co., Ohio, before Sept. 1833; children Magdalena Hite m. Martin Giger, and grandchildren Samuel Giger, Mary Giger, Anna Giger, and Eliza Giger; Isaac Hite; John Hite; Samuel Hite; Martin Hite; David Hite; Anna Hite; ―youngest daughter Catherine Hite; Barbara Hite m. John Bibler; Elizabeth Hite m. Daniel Sites; and Andrew Hite, Jr., d. before July 1818, the father of two children Jacob Hite and Eve Hite. 72 1850 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 151R, fam. 1205. 73 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 13. 74 Crawford Co. Probate file 59, 1:479, Diana Nichols (Nicholas) signed 3 Aug. 1861 for her share of her father’s estate. 75 See Appendix -- Bacon Family. 76 J. Bradley Arthaud and Patricia Combs O’Dell, ―The Two Wives of John Nichols,‖ The American Genealogist 56(1980):183– 184. 77 Crawford [sic] Co. Land Records 1:194. Witnesses Z. Rowse and R.W. Cahil; filed 15 Jan. 1829; recorded 29 Jan. 1829.

7 JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY household.78 In 1840 the census data for John Nickols correspond well with the presentation here.79 This family was still in Grand Prairie Township in 1850.80

On 3 January 1834 John Bibler sold 11 ½ acres in section 8, township 4, range 15 of Marion County to John Nichols,81 who in turn sold this land to George Brinker on 14 October 1841.82 John Nichols bought 22 acres in from W. T. How in section 8, township 4, range 15 on 16 January 1836.83 These two parcels, recorded on consecutive pages, are probably for the same grantee. John Nichols sold 150 acres in section 1, township 13, range 21 to Allen Kelly on 24 March 1837.84

John Nichols bought 42 acres in section 19, township 6, range 15 from Hiram Welsh on 9 March 1850.85

On 26 April 1853 John Nichols and his wife Diana of Marion County sold 120 acres in Grand Prairie Township to John Jury and Daniel B. Drake, both of Marion County, for $2,200.86 By 1860 John and Diana were in Lake County, Indiana, where they remained the rest of their lives.87 He was a farmer in 1870 when only their youngest two children were at home.88 In 1876 John was named in the partition of his father’s estate. A retired farmer in 1880, his youngest daughter and her husband were living with them.89 Alpha Nichols, 15, granddaughter, born in Indiana, was also in his household.

Eight Nichols children, along with husbands of two daughters, were explicitly named in the estate papers of their maternal grandfather John Bibler who signed his will 23 May 1854. It was presented to the Marion County court 30 December 1869.90

On 24 May 1898 Emory Hathaway made an administrator’s report on the estate of John Nichols. His heirs were Samuel Nichols, Martin Nichols, Jacob Nichols, Parry Nichols, Ellery Nichols, Ellen DeWitt, Nellie Mahler, Mary O’Dell, and Elmira Craft, children; Albert Nichols and Charles Nichols, sons and only heirs of Lewis Nichols, a deceased son of the decedent; and John A. Nichols, son and only heir of Asa Nichols, a deceased son of the decedent.91

An undated obituary from an unidentified newspaper: 92

Hebron: People - John Nichols, of Pleasant Grove, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia [sic], Jan. 1, 1805 and died Oct 7th 1896, aged 91 yrs, 9 mo and 6 das. When two years old his parents moved to Fairfield Co., O. He remained there until 1827, when he moved to Marion Co., O. He came to Pleasant Grove in 1853, where he resided until his death. He was married twice, was the father of eleven children, nine of whom

78 1830 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 136, 1 boy <5, one man each 20-29 and 30-39, 1 girl 5-9 and a woman 20-29. 79 1840 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 120. 80 1850 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 151R, fam. 1205 has all eight Nichols children and Sarah A. Bacon, 8, and Seth Bacon, 6, all b. Ohio. John was a farmer, the oldest two boys were laborers. 81 Marion County Deeds 8:513. 82 Marion County Deeds 15:466. 83 Marion County Deeds 8:512. 84 Marion County Deeds 9:391. 85 Marion County Deeds 21:410. 86 Marion County Deeds 23:506-7, acknowledged and filed 26 April 1853 and recorded 23 May 1853. Witnesses were [F./S.?] H. Bartram and R. Patten. 87 1860 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 57/919, fam. 406. Farmer, b. Va. [sic]. 88 1870 U.S. Census, Crown Point, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 11/328, fam. 75. Farmer, b. Va. [sic]. 89 1880 U.S. Census, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 75, p. 617C, fam. 196. Born Va. [sic]. 90 Photocopy of documents. 91 Photocopy of administrator’s report. 92 Rebecca Hite, compiler, A Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings about the Hite Families and others in and near Wyandot County, Ohio – with clippings from at least as early as 1883, 43, minor punctuation changes have been made. This scrapbook has been indexed and scanned by the Wyandot County chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.

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survive him. He united with the Rocky Fork Baptist church in 1832, and lived a consistent Christian life until death. Funeral services were held at the house Saturday, Bro. J. B. Sites officiating. Interment took place in the Lowell cemetery.

John and Diana are buried in the Lowell Cemetery, Lake County, Indiana. 93

Children of John5 and Elizabeth (Bibler) Nichols:94

6 11 i. SAMUEL R. NICHOLS, b. 18 Nov. 1827; m. ACHSAH KELL[E]Y. 6 12 ii. ASA NICHOLS, b. ca. 1830; m. MINERVA STATELER. 6 iii. MARY NICHOLS, b. 7 April 1833; d. 8 March 1925; m. Marion Co., Ohio, 5 Dec. 1850, CLARK 95 O’DELL, b. Crawford Co., Ohio, 25 Nov. 1828; d. Mason Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, 31 Jan. 1892, son of Philander and Sally (Bacon) Odell.96 Clark and Mary are bur. in the Memory Cemetery, Page Co., Iowa.97 Children:98

1. Mary O’Dell, b. Crawford Co., Ohio, 26 Nov. 1851; d. Mason Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, 11 July 1877;99 m. Taylor Co., 12 Aug. 1868, James B. Roberts. Their daughter Olla Orene Roberts100 m. 19 Dec. 1889, Elmer Ellsworth Zentz, son of Henry Welker and Mary (Bowman) Zentz.101 2. Annazella O’Dell, b. Crawford Co., Ohio, 3 Dec. 1853; d. Wheeling, Mo., 28 Feb. 1941;102 m. Taylor Co., Iowa,103 13 Jan. 1876, John B. Arthaud, great-grandparents of John Bradley Arthaud, resident of San Antonio, Texas.104 As a grandniece, she was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 3. Warren Everett O’Dell, b. Lake Co., Ind., 22 Feb. 1856; d. Jan. 1929;105 m. (1) Taylor Co., Iowa, 29 Aug. 1887 Dora Bell Lindsay. Warren m. (2) 24 Dec. 1921, Mary Edith (—) Hopson. As a grandnephew, he was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 4. Loren Lester O’Dell, b. Taylor Co., Iowa, 30 Sept. 1861; d. 5 Aug. 1945; m. Benton Twp., Taylor Co., Emma May Fitch, grandparents of Keith Lester O’Dell,106 husband of Pat (Combs) O’Dell, resident of New Market, Iowa. As a grandnephew, Loren was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 5. Leonidos Nichols O’Dell, b. Taylor Co., Iowa, 6 Jan. 1864; d. 21 Sept. 1922, bur. Helena, Mont.; m. ca. 1893 Leona E. —.

93 Gravestone in Lowell Cemetery for both their dates. Charles C. Thornburg III copied the dates in October 1977. 94 1850 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 151R, fam. 1205 has all eight Nichols children and Sarah A. Bacon, 8, and Seth Bacon, 6, all b. Ohio. John was a farmer, the oldest two boys were laborers. 95 Marion County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1824–1865, 2 vols. (Marion, Ohio: Captain William Hendricks Chapter, D.A.R., n.d.), 2:N-5. 1850 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 151R/301, fam. 1197. 96 John Bradley Arthaud, Rachel (Scherf) Levine, and Pat (Combs) O’Dell, ―The Jacob and Mary (Millington) Odell Family of Vermont, Ontario, and Ohio,‖ The Genealogist 20(2006):218–56. Arthur L. Taylor and Cassius F. Bacon, Bacon family genealogy (n.p., 1922), 5, 21. Elizabeth Jordan Miller, The Thomas Jordan Family, 1766–1993 (n.p., 1993), 27-8; John Bradley Arthaud, ―An Index to Elizabeth Jordan Miller’s The Thomas Jordan Family 1766–1993‖ (Columbia, Mo., 2000), FHL microfilm 1440640, item 6). Sally was a daughter of Ralph and Mary (Jordan) Bacon. Mary Jordan was a daughter of Thomas and Priscilla (Cookson) Jordan, whose maternal grandparents were Joseph and Priscilla (Clark) Cookson. Priscilla Clark was the daughter of William and Esther (—) Clark. The Clark and Cookson ancestry is documented in the wills of William Clark and his single daughter Sarah Clark. See Bacon Family Appendix. 97 Esther Stephens, Patti Combs O’Dell, and Helen Janson, Supplement to Tombstone Record of Taylor County, Iowa (n.p., 1979), 236 (also contains inscriptions from adjacent Page County); personal visit by (JBA) in Aug. 1980. 98 1860 U.S. Census, Mason Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, p. 23, fam. 150; 1870 U.S. Census, Mason Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, p. 4, fam. 28; 1880 U.S. Census, Taylor Co., Iowa, E.D. 216, p. 32/102B, fam. 253; 1900 U.S. Census, Dallas Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, E.D. 117, sheet 16B, fam. 235; J. Bradley Arthaud, ―Family Records: Odell-O'Dell,‖ The American Genealogist 49(1973):220–1. 99 Supplement to Taylor County, Iowa, Tombstone Record, 236; her date of death also from Odell Bible, and her obituary in Iowa Southwest, 11 Aug. 1877. 100 http://hindskw.com/KennethHinds/15.html. 101 History of Taylor County, Iowa … (Des Moines, 1881), 681-2. 102 Missouri Death Certificate #7516. 103 Taylor Co. Iowa, Marriages, 3:311; John Bradley Arthaud, The Emile and Susanna (Ebersol) Arthaud Family 1765–1987 (Columbia, Mo., 1987), 8–9 (erroneously citing as 3:331). 104 John Bradley Arthaud, ―Historic Ancestors—William Spencer,‖ The Genealogist 17(2003):67–69. John Bradley Arthaud, ―Correction, Historic Ancestors—William Spencer,‖ The Genealogist 18(2004):195. 105 Obituary, Bedford Times-Republican, 10 Jan. 1929. 106 Keith was b. St. Joseph, Mo., 8 April 1941; d. New Market, Iowa, 15 April 2009. Three children.

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6. Alora Ellen O’Dell, b. Taylor Co., Iowa, 25 April 1869; d. 22 July 1876, aged 7y 2m 27d, bur. in Memory Cemetery.107

6 13 iv. LEWIS NICHOLS, b. 23 Oct. 1835; m. RACHEL SOPHIA ORCHARD.

6 v. ALMIRA NICHOLS, b. 23 June 1838; d. Union Co., Iowa, July 1914; m. Taylor Co., Iowa, 31 Jan. 1858, 108 JOHN J. CRAFT; b. Ohio ca. 1836; d. Taylor Co., Iowa, 16 June 1880. They were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Memory, Iowa, when it was founded 24 Nov. 1878.109 They are buried in the Memory Cemetery, Page Co., Iowa. Children, all b. Iowa:110

1. Leonidas E. Craft, b. Oct. 1858; d. Greensburg, Kans., 22 May 1917; m. Taylor Co., 19 July 1885, Clarice Lillian Zentz,111 daughter of Henry Welker and Mary (Bowman) Zentz.112 Five children. 2. Elsworth Nichols Craft, b. Sept. 1861; m. Page Co., 13 June 1883, Rhoda A. Campbell, b. Ill. June 1862.113 Two sons: (i) Ellery C. Craft, b. Sept. 1884. (ii) Lawrence E. Craft, b. May 1891. As a grandnephew residing in Des Moines, he was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 3. Warren E. Craft, b. 18 Jan. 1864; d. 20 May 1932;114 m. (1) Fremont Co., Iowa, 19 Sept. 1889, Grace Mann, b. 3 Feb. 1869; d. 19 Feb. 1900, daughter of Asa Mann.115 Two daughters: (i) Helen Craft, b. Aug. 1891. (ii) Gladys/Georgia G. Craft, b. Sept. 1893. Warren m. (2) Page Co., 1 Sept. 1904, Margaret Bryte, b. Iowa ca. 1879.116 Two daughters: (iii) Margaret B. Craft, b. ca. 1906. (iv) Warrene E. Craft, b. ca. 1908. As a grandnephew of Sidney, Iowa, he was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 4. Nettie E. Craft, b. Aug. 1867; m. Frank W. Abbott, b. Iowa, ca. 1865.117 As Nettie Abbot, a grandniece residing in Coal Creek, Colo., she was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 5. Alberta G. Craft, b. April 1869; m. Eimert Sabra, b. Denmark ca. 1884.118 As Alberta Sabra, a grandniece residing in Florence, Colo., she was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

6 14 vi. MARTIN W. NICHOLS, b. 18 July 1842; m. FANNIE M. MCCANN. 6 15 vii. JACOB A. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1844; m. (1) ELLEN DRISCOLL; m. (2) LOUISA M. CASE. 6 16 viii. PERRY NICHOLS, b. 1847; m. CHARLOTTE J. FULLER.

Children of John5 and Diana (Merris) (Bacon) Nichols:

6 119 ix. ELLEN P. NICHOLS, b. Ohio 23 Nov. 1850; d. 12 July 1915; m. Lake Co., 27 Feb. 1868, ORRIN O. 120 121 DEWITT, b. 14 May 1842; d. 19 June 1919. He was a farmer in 1870, 1880, and 1900. Four of Ellen’s children

107 Her birthday from the family Bible is consistent with that calculated from age at death. The birth date in Arthaud, ―Odell – O’Dell Family Records,‖ erroneously repeats that of her next older sibling; Supplement to Taylor County, Iowa, Tombstone Record, 240. 108 Bedford Times Republican, 24 June 1880. 109 History of Taylor County, Iowa … (Des Moines, 1881), 576. The minister was the Rev. H. W. Zentz. 110 1860 U.S. Census, Mason Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, p. 23, fam. 151. Fam. 150 = Clark Odell. 1870 U.S. Census, Dallas Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, p. 14/29R, fam. 98; 1880 U.S. Census, Taylor Co., Iowa, E.D. blurred p. 47A, fam. blurred; 1900 U.S. Census, Dallas Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, E.D. 117, sheet 16B, fam. 239, 5 of 5 children living. Both daughters at home. 1910 U.S. Census, Dallas Twp., Taylor Co., Iowa, E.D. blurred, sheet 3B, fam. 79, daughter Nettie still at home. 111 Pedigree Resource File. 112 History of Taylor County, Iowa … (Des Moines, 1881), 681-2. 113 1900 U.S. Census, Fisher Twp., Fremont Co., Iowa, E.D. 54, sheet 6A, fam. 115. Married 17 years; both children living. 114 http://iagenweb.org/fremont/cemetery/wpa-cr.htm has exact dates for him and first wife. 115 Grace’s two daughters were enumerated with her parents in 1900 U.S. Census, Washington Twp., Fremont Co., Iowa, E.D. 67, sheet 12B, fam. 232. 116 1910 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Shenandoah, Grant Twp., Page Co., Iowa, E.D. , sheet 9A, fam. 212 117 1920 U.S. Census, Coal Creek, Fremont Co., Colo., E.D. 62, sheet 6A, fam. 32. 118 1920 U.S. Census, Florence, Fremont Co., Colo., E.D. 59, sheet 5B, fam. 129. He immigrated in 1902, naturalized 1904. 119 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 12, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, row 11, both exact dates for her and her husband, whose marker has Corp. Co. A. 73 Ind. Infantry. 120 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 3:101. 121 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 14, fam. 95, Lyman E. DeWitt, b. ca. 1868; 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 616A, fam. 176. Elery DeWitt, son, 10; Edward DeWitt, 9, Adih DeWitt, 5, and Etta, 1 month.

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were living in 1900 and 1910. There is considerable variation between the first and second given names in the records. Ada Linz, a grandniece residing in Chicago, was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Ellery DeWitt, a grandnephew residing in Oklahoma City, was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). John DeWitt, a grandnephew residing in E. Hammond, Ind., was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Loren DeWitt, a grandnephew residing in Chicago, was assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Children, all b. Ind.:122

1. Lyman Elery DeWitt, b. ca. 1868; lived Okla. 2. John Edward/Edward John DeWitt, b. Aug. 1870; d. after the 1920 census; m. Stella —.123 3. Ada DeWitt, b. ca. 1875; m. Lake Co., 2 July 1892, Martin Linz.124 No children.125 4. Jesse O. DeWitt, b. (calc.) 26 May 1878; d. 16 Dec. 1878. 126 5. Etta DeWitt, b. ca. May 1880; n.f.r. 6. Loren George DeWitt, b. Aug. 1890; m. Lake Co., 3 Aug. 1917,127 Lula Mary Parks.128

6 17 x. ELERY MERRIS NICHOLS, b. 18 Feb. 1852; m. (1) OCENA HILL; m. (2) CAROLINE FEHRMAN.

6 129 130 xi. NELLIE C. NICHOLS, b. Ind. Nov. 1859; d. 1946; m. Lake Co., 5 April 1879, PAUL WILLIAM 131 132 MAHLER/MOHLER, b. Germany April1856; d. 1936. Enumerated in her parents’ household in 1880. A farmer, Paul immigrated in 1871. As a niece, Nellie was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Nine children:133

1. Etta Mahler, d. 7 Feb. 1880, 1 week old. 2. Jessie E. Mahler, b. 29 June 1881; d. 17 Feb. 1898. 5. Edna Mahler, b. April 1884; m. J. C. Dexter. 3. Carl E. Mahler, b. May 1885; d. Gary 16 Dec. 1957; m. 30 Oct. 1912, Lottie E. Hajic. No children. 4. Pearl Mahler, b. April 1887; m. Lake Co., 15 March 1911, Grave C. Rouse.134 6. Geraldine ―Dean,‖ Mahler, b. Sept. 1891 (1900 census); d. Walnut Creek, Calif., 23 Sept. 1989;135 m. Lake Co., 10 June 1916, Edward Glover,136 of Lowell. Children.

1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 23, sheet 7B, fam. 144; m. 32 years, 4 of 6 children living. Lorin DeWitt, b. Aug. 1890 and John E. DeWitt, b. Aug. 1870; m. 8 years Stella —, b. Dec. 1870 with a son Homer E. DeWitt, b. June 1894, 1 of her 2 children living. 1910 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D.39, sheet 13B, fam. 345. 122 Parent’s censuses and letter 1972 from Vessie (Mahler) Fehlman to Pat (Combs) O’Dell. 123 1910 U.S. Census, 1st Ward, Hammond, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 55, sheet 5A, fam. 79, also Pearl Mahler, 23-year-old boarder. 1920 U.S. Census, 1st Ward, Hammond, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 60, sheet 7B, fam. 162, Edward O. DeWitt, 25, son, Ethel (—) DeWitt, 25, daughter-in-law, and Richard E. DeWitt, 2 11/12, grandson. 124 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-D.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 6:111. 125 1910 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Hammond, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 57, sheet 11B, fam. 139. 126 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 12, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, row 11, ―son of Orrin & Ellen‖ age 6m 21d. 127 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-D.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 31:166. 128 1920 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Hammond, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 64, sheet 2A, fam. 13, son Martin James DeWitt, 7/12. 129 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D.23, sheet 5A, fam. 93; farmer, m. 21 years, 6 of 8 children living. Bertha Mahler, his mother, b. Germany Dec. 1814 was living with them. 1910 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D.38, sheet 13B, fam. 298. 130 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 12, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, row 11, years only, same row as sister. 131 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 4:119. 132 Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 12, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, row 11, years only, same row as wife and two daughters—Jessie E. Mahler, b. 29 June 1881; d. 17 Feb. 1898 and Ettie May Mahler, d. 7 Feb. 1880. 133 Vessie (Mahler) Fehlman, resident of Lowell, letter to Pat (Combs) O’Dell in 1972. Lowell Public Library history file. 134 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-M.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 18:158. 135 Geraldine Glover, b. 5 Sept. 1890; social security # issued in Ind.

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7. Merle Edward Mahler, b. 19 March 1895; d. 13 Oct. 1928; m. 29 Nov. 1917, Blanche Stowell. 8. Vessie Mahler, b. 3June 1899; d. May 1981;137 m. Greenville, S.Car., 1 April 1943 Gerald (Jerry) Fehlman. 9. Neil Mahler, d. 7 weeks old, order uncertain.

3. HENRY5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio 1810. He was ―killed by the cars‖ 138 in 1874. Henry married say 1829 ELIZA DARLE,139 of unknown ancestry, who was born in New York 1813 and died between 5 September 1874 and 1 May 1878. Henry and Eliza are buried in the Elmwood Cemetery, Fairfield County: ―Father, 1810–1874‖ and ―Mother 1813–1874‖ [sic]. 140

Henry Nicholz, 15–19, was a head of family by 1830.141John Nichols and his sons Henry and Eli appeared alphabetically in the 1840 census.142 Henry was a laborer 1850–70.143

On 19 April 1878 Virgil E. Shaw applied to be appointed the administrator of the estate of Henry Nichols, with Paul Carpenter and — Flowers as sureties.144 ―The first and final‖ account was filed 31 December 1879 by Virgil E. Shaw and settled on 27 February 1880.145 The account recorded a payment on 4 November 1878 for sale of Lot 116 by order of the probate court in the case of Virgil E. Shaw, administrator vs. Joseph Nichols et al. On 16 January 1877 John C. Hite, auditor of Fairfield County, reported the tax due on Lots 116, 117, and 118.

Eliza Nichols, widow of Henry Nichols, late of Fairfield County, signed her will by mark on 5 September 1874. On 19 April 1878 Virgil E. Shaw applied to be appointed the administrator with Paul Carpenter and — Flowers as sureties.146 She bequeathed all her real estate to her two single daughters Emma Eliza Nichols and Cynthia Ellen Nichols ―so long as they or either of them remain single so that my two single sons Joseph [Nichols] and Elizy [Nichols] shall have a home with their sisters, so long as they live or remain single.‖ After the death or marriage of both of her ―said daughters,‖ her property was to be equally divided among her legal heirs. On 1 May 1878 Amanda Prather and William Mitchell swore that they had seen Eliza Nichols subscribe to her will.147 An inventory and appraisement were filed 4 May 1878. 148

―The first and final‖ account was filed 23 November 1880 by Virgil E. Shaw and heard on 17 December 1880. The balance of $294.54 was divided equally among seven persons: Joseph Nichols, Jesse Nichols, Catherine Benadum, Elza Nichols, Emma E. Winner, Cynthia Clover, and Margaret Richwine. Margaret was the daughter and only heir of Ann Richwine, deceased, formerly Ann Nichols, daughter of Eliza Nichols. Margaret E. Richwine, ―now Margaret E. Friedhoff,‖ received a payment of $42.05 5/7.

136 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-M.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 27:482. 137 Social Security Death Index. 138 A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 295, biographical sketch of his younger half brother George. 139 Her maiden name from Pedigree Chart, filed with Fairfield County chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society, for Thomas Clover Pearce, her great-grandson. 140 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 135, years only for both. Their ages vary in the censuses. 141 1830 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 135, woman 15-19 and boy < 5 completed this entry. The next entry is for James Darle. 142 1840 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 393. 143 1850 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 432R, fam. 25, laborer, first eight children. 1860 U.S. Census, E. Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 86, fam. 634, day laborer, last two children. 1870 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 25, fam. 85, general laborer. 144 Fairfield County Probate Court case # 5416, proceeding C. Real estate estimated to be valued at $300. Henry had no widow (accurate at this date) and no minor children. 145 Fairfield County Probate Court case # 5416, proceeding J, book 26:597. 146 Fairfield County Probate Court case # 5418. Real estate estimated to be valued at $500. 147 Fairfield County Probate Court case # 5418, 7:74. 148 Fairfield County Probate Court case # 5418, 19:176.

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Adjustments for the sale of land (Lots 116 and 117) by the single children on 13 January 1875 were included in the calculations.

Children of Henry5 and Eliza (Darle) Nichols, all b. Ohio:

6 i. JOHN NICHOLS, b. ca. 1830; a 30-year-old millwright in his sister Mary’s household in 1860 census. Civil War. He died, without heirs, before 23 Nov. 1880. 6 ii. REBECCA J. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1823; not present in parents’ 1860 census. She died, without heirs, before 23 Nov. 1880. 6 iii. MARY ANN NICHOLS, b. ca. 1836; d. after the 1860 census, before father; m. Fairfield Co., 24 Jan. 149 150 151 1856, JOHN RICHWINE, b. Pa. ca. 1831; d. after the 1880 census. Richwine resided Salisbury, N. Car. One daughter Margaret E. Richwine, b. Ohio ca. 1858;152 m. — Friedhoff before 17 Dec. 1880. She was enumerated with her father in 1870.153 As the sole child of a deceased niece, Margaret Richwine (last address Columbus, Ohio) was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).154 Her placement among the other children and grandchildren of Henry and Eliza (Darle) Nichols leaves no doubt about belonging here. 6 155 iv. ASA NICHOLS, b. ca. 1837-8; d. in prison at Andersonville, Ga., 26 Aug. 1864. Private Asa Nichols, 23, mustered in 16 April 1861 and mustered out 3 Aug. 1861, in 1st Ohio Infantry, Company A —―The Lancaster Guards.‖ On 27 Dec. 1861 Asa, 24, enrolled in 12th Infantry, Company. He had no heirs on 23 Nov. 1880. 6 18 v. JESSE NICHOLS, b. ca. 1838-9; m. HANNAH V. FORSYTHE. 6 156 vi. JOSEPH NICHOLS, b. 3 Oct. 1839; d. 6 Dec. 1920; bur. Forest Rose Cemetery; m. Perry Co., Ohio, 15 157 April 1886, HILA BURGESS, b. Perry Co. 30 May 1867; d. Lancaster 12 March 1953, daughter of William and Sally (Nicholia/Nicola) Burgess.158 A Civil War veteran, he was wounded at Peachtree Creek and Atlanta, Ga. No children.159 6 160 vii. ELZA M. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1844; d. Lancaster 13 April 1897. (Enumerated in 1850 as Eliza, a female [sic]). Civil War veteran. Bur. Forest Rose Cemetery.161 No children. 6 viii. CATHERINE NICHOLS, b. ca. 1849; m. Lancaster, 22 July 1869, PHILIP EUGENE BENADUM. Eugene Benadum, as the sole child of a deceased niece, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). His last address was Columbus, Ohio. He was born 18 Aug. 1870; d. 22 June 1957; bur. Columbus.162 6 163 ix. EMMA ELIZA NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 20 April 1852; d. there 9 Dec. 1927; m. ca. 1878 JOHN 164 165 WINNER, b. Lancaster 17 Oct. 1848; d. there 9 Dec. 1932, son of Daniel and Rebecca (Pearce) Winner. Four children: Mabel Brown, Akron, Ohio; William Winner, Lancaster; George Winner, Lancaster; and Ellen Winner

149 Fairfield County Marriages, 2:115; Lancaster Gazette, 31 Jan. 1856. 150 1860 U.S. Census, E. Lancaster, Fairfield County, p. 90/336R, fam. 672. Richwine was a 29-year-old painter. Her 30-year-old brother John was enumerated with them. 151 1880 U.S. Census, Salisbury Twp., Rowan Co., N. Car., E.D. 246, fam. 251, p. 405C-D. 152 Parents’ census. 153 1870 U.S. Census, Salisbury Twp., Rowan Co., N. Car., p. 16/583R, fam. 98. 154 Her unclaimed share of $147.05 was paid to the Fairfield County Auditor on 26 Feb. 1931. 155 Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C. 156 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/oh/tombpics/fairfield/greenfieldtwp/forestrosecem/nichols708.jpg years only and Co. E 17 Reg O.V.V.I. 157 http://www.perrycountyohio.us/PerryMarr1/Marr1N.htm, citing 7:71. 158 Ohio Death Certificate 17,004, bur. Forest Rose Cemetery, 159 1900 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 12, sheet 6A, fam. 120, his parents-in-law enumerated with them. 1910 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 66, sheet 5B, fam. 120, explicitly no children. 160 Fairfield County Deaths 2:128, names both parents. While designated as married, no record has been found. 161 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/oh/tombpics/fairfield/greenfieldtwp/forestrosecem/nichols648.jpg, years only and ―Brother.‖ Style similar to that of Joseph. 162 http://greenlawn.delaohio.com/greenlawn/greenlawndata/b.txt accessed 21 December 2008. 163 Ohio Death Certificate 68,860, bur. Forest Rose Cemetery, informant Mrs. Fred Brown, Akron. 164 1900 U.S. Census, Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 14, sheet 7B, fam. 169. A day laborer, m. 21 years. Four of six children living, Mabel, b. May 1879, William, b. Dec. 1880, George, b. Aug. 1887, and Ellen, b. May 1879. 165 Ohio Death Certificate 70,748, bur. Forest Rose Cemetery, widower of Emma. Informant Mrs. George Orman, Lancaster.

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Orman,166 Lancaster, as the children of a deceased niece, were each assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 6 167 x. CYNTHIA ELLEN NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 17 April 1855; d. there 29 Nov. 1935; m. 14 Feb. 1878, JACOB BOYLES CLOVER, b. Berne Twp., Fairfield County, 21 Jan. 1848; d. 4 Jan. 1918, son of George and Maria (Hause) Clover. 168 Cynthia Clover, Lancaster, as a niece, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Cynthia was the grandmother of Thomas Clover Pearce, whose pedigree chart filed with the Fairfield County chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, shows his parents as Herbert D. and Florence Mae (Clover) Pearce.

4. JESSE5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born 20 February 1815 and died 12 December 1880.169 He married in Fairfield County, 4 June 1840, ANNA BARR,170 who was born in Fairfield County1719 February 1815 and died 16 January 1901,172 daughter of David and Mary (Bibler) Barr,173 who are buried in the Applegate Cemetery, Fairfield County.174

David Barr was the executor of his father, Joseph Barr’s, estate.175 David Barr’s partition record in 1842 mentions Jesse Nichols and Ann his wife.176 David’s widow Mary (Bibler) Barr married at Fairfield County, 23 August 1827, Jacob Lantz.177

A 34-year-old farmer in 1850, Jesse was named in the partition of his father’s estate in 1876. Ann and a single daughter, born October 1845, were enumerated as a family unit in 1900178 when they were close to her son Oliver. Jesse, Ann, and three single children are buried in the Asbury Cemetery, Berne Township, Fairfield County. 179

Children of Jesse and Anna (Barr) Nichols, all b. Ohio:180

6 181 i. JOSHUA NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 19 Dec. 1840; d. 14 March 1889, age 48y 2m 26d. He was a single carpenter enumerated with his parents in 1880. On 9 March 1892 Oliver P. Nichols, Administrator, filed an account

166 Obituary Daily Eagle 25 May 1971. Ellen J. Orman, 82, d. Lancaster 24 May 1971, widow of George B. Orman. Two daughters, Mrs. Harlin Schaeffer, Lancaster and Mrs. Richard Bowers, Buckeye Lake, among survivors. 167 Ohio Death Certificate 65,797, bur. Forest Rose Cemetery, informant Mrs. H.D. Pearce, Lancaster. Widow of Jacob. 168 Ohio Death Certificate 2,084, bur. Forest Rose Cemetery, informant Mrs. J.B. Clover. 169 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery, has both exact dates. 170 Fairfield County Marriages, 1:134. Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803–1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9, married by David H. Swartz, J.P. Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library. Also, Ohio Eagle, 13 June 1840. 171 Daughter Serepta Nichols’s death certificate, informant Oliver Nichols. 172 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery, has both exact dates. 173 Anna’s maternal grandparents often appear on internet sites as Jacob and Catherine (Hite) Bibler. Confirmation of this ancestry has not been made. 174 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 67. This typescript is in the Fairfield County District Library, Lancaster, Ohio. David Barr, d. 20 Sept. 1824, aged 40y 2m 5d (b. calc. 15 July 1784). Mary A. Lantz, ―wife of Jacob,‖ d. 19 March 1876, aged 83y. Her second husband Jacob Lantz, d. 28 Nov. 1875, aged 75. Jacob consistently younger than she in the 1850–70 censuses. 1850 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 336, fam. 2. 175 Jean S. Collier, Fairfield County Wills and Estate Abstracts Cases 1–500 (Lancaster, Ohio, 1996), 28 (Case 259), Joseph Barr. Jean S. Collier, Fairfield County Wills and Estate Abstracts Cases 501–1000 (Lancaster, Ohio, 1996), 23 (Case 718). David Barr. 176 Jean S. Collier, Fairfield County , Ohio, Common Pleas Court Abstracts from partition records 1812–1940 (Lancaster, Ohio, 1987-), 1:31, citing original 4:133. 177 Fairfield County Marriages, C:103. 178 1900 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 18, sheet 8A, fam. 165, six of nine children living. Accurate. 179 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 77, 79. 180 1850 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 336, fam. 6, first six children; 1860 Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, p. 118/232, fam. 1571; 1870 Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, p. 1/275, fam. 6, nine children. 1880 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 206, p. 229A, fam. 204. Jesse was a farmer. 181 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery.

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of the final distribution of Joshua’s estate.182 Six heirs, Serepta Nichols, Sarah McFarland, Lizzie Smith, Catherine Crook, Harvey Nichols, and Oliver P. Nichols, received equal payments. 6 19 ii. HARVEY NICHOLS, b. ca. 1843; m. AMANDA/HATTIE SMITH. 6 iii. MARY ELLEN NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 22 May 1844; single with parents in 1880. Mary E. Nichols, d. 28 Aug. 1888, age 44y 3m 6d,183 bur. Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. 6 184 iv. SEREPTA A. Nichols, b. Pleasant township 24 Oct. 1845; d. there 22 June 1910. Single with parents in 1880; single with brother Oliver P. Nichols in the 1910 census. 6 185 v. CATHERINE SOPHIA NICHOLS, b. Fairfield County 10 Oct. 1847; d. Lancaster 17 Oct. 1935; m. ca. 186 1871 GEORGE W. CROOK, b. Ohio Sept. 1841. (As Sophia in the 1850 and 1860 censuses.) As a niece of ―full blood,‖ she was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Ralph E. Crook, son, only child mentioned in her obituary.187 6 20 vi. OLIVER P. NICHOLS, b. 1850; m. CATHERINE ANN SMITH. 6 188 vii. SARAH NICHOLS, b. Sept. 1856; d. 6 April 1906; bur. as Sarah Breitkeitz in Grand View Cemetery, 189 Anacortes, Wash.; m. (1) say 1875 (first child), CHARLES MCFARLAND, b. Ohio ca. 1856; m. (2) ca. 1896 EDWARD BREITKSERTZ, b. Minn. June 1853. Children: 1. Owen McFarland, b. Ohio ca. 1876; d. 13 Jan. 1900; bur. Grand View Cemetery, Anacortes.190 2. Candace Lorena McFarland, b. Ohio 25 July 1878; d. Los Angeles 19 Sept. 1946;191 m. ca. 1903 John C. Rehm, b. Calif., ca. 1878-1880. 192 Candace Rehm, Cucamonga, Calif., sole surviving child of a deceased niece of the full blood, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 3. Unidentified McFarland or Breitkeitz. 6 193 viii. DAVID B. NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 19 Sept. 1854; d. 13 July 1881, age 26y 9m 24d. Paralysis; single with parents in 1880. 6 194 195 ix. ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) NICHOLS, b. March 1861; d. after the 1930 census; m. ca. 1890, GEORGE W. SMITH, b. Ohio June 1862; d. after the 1930 census. As a niece of ―full blood,‖ she was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Lizzie’s nephew Russell B. Nichols was enumerated with them in 1920.196

5. ELI5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born 16 November 1817197 and died at Lowell 18 June 1907.198 He married in Fairfield County, 6 December 1838, CATHERINE JOHNSON,199 who was born

182 Fairfield County Probate Court photocopies of loose papers, record in Testamentary 39:335. 183 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. 184 Ohio Death Certificate #26,132, informant O.P. Nichols. Buried Asbury Cemetery. 185 Ohio Death Certificate #59,557, exact dates, informant Ralph E. Crook. Buried Forest Rose Cemetery. Widow. Both parents’ full names. 186 1900 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 12, sheet 13A, fam. 49, house builder, married 29 years 8 of 9 children living. Three including Ralph Crook, b. May 1890, at home. 1880 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 337B, fam. 171, carpenter, might be this couple although the ages are slightly inconsistent with this couple. There is no overlap of the children in 1880 with those in 1900. 187 Obituary Daily Eagle, 17 Oct. 1935. 188 1900 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Anacortes, Skagit Co., Wash., E.D. 204, sheet 16A, Sarah had been married 4 years; 1 of 3 children living. Her second husband. Daughter Candace at home. Cemetery record has 1856. 189 1880 U.S. Census, 4th Ward Delaware, Delaware Co., Ohio, p. 523C, fam. 23, 24-year-old carpenter. 190 Skagit Valley Genealogical Society, Skagit County, Washington Death Records, 1891 - 1907 (n.p., 1995). Skagit Valley Genealogical Society, Skagit County, Washington Cemetery Records, Vol. 3, Grand View Cemetery, Anacortes, Wash. 191 California Death Index. 192 1910 U.S. Census, Cucamonga, San Bernardino Co., Calif., E.D. 95, sheet 11B, fam. 265; m. 7 years, 1 of 2 children living. 1920 U.S. Census, Cucamonga, San Bernardino Co., Calif., E.D. 152, sheet 21A, fam. 457, citrus farmer. Children: 1. Charles Wilbur Rehm, b. 25 Feb. 1907; d. San Bernardino 19 Feb. 1983. 2. John Edward Rehm, b. 12 April 1913; d. Los Angeles 8 Nov. 1978. 3. unidentified. 193 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. 194 1900 U.S. Census, Berne Twp. Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 4, sheet 4A, fam. 75, m. 10 years, no children. 1910 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 73, sheet 11B, fam. 260. 195 1930 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 27, sheet 1A, fam. 1. Neither of their deaths has been found in the Family Search program. 196 1920 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 27, sheet 4B, fam. 95. 197 Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Nichols Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 133, submitted by Carolynne L. (Wendel) Miller, a great-granddaughter.

15 JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY in Ohio ca. March 1820 and died 27 September 1863, age 43 years 6 months. She, as ―wife of Eli‖ and two children were buried in the Asbury Cemetery, Berne Township. 200 He married second in Fairfield County, 13 March 1866, ELSIE VAN METER.201 In 1880 Eli was a 62-year-old divorced laborer living with his brother Jacob. 202

Eli Nichols, his father, and brother Henry Nichols appeared alphabetically in the 1840 census.203 Eli, a farmer in 1850 and 1860,204 moved from Fairfield County to Lake County, Indiana, between March 1866 and the 1870 census, when no wife was recorded in his enumeration.205 He was named in the partition of his father’s estate.

Children of Eli5 and Catherine (Johnson) Nichols, all born presumably in Ohio:

6 206 i. ZURA NICHOLS, presumably d. young. 6 207 ii. HARRIET MINERVA NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 21 July 1842; d. Lowell 22 Nov. 1914; m. probably 208 209 Fairfield Co., 10 April 1860, REESE MARTIN WEBB, b. Hocking Co., Ohio, 1837; d. 26 Oct. 1894, son of Garrett and Verlinda (Bright) Webb. Four children210 were assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Children:

1. Albert Webb, b. Ohio Feb. 1861;211 m. Lake Co., 25 Jan. 1888, Alice Lavender.212 He was a resident of Hammond, Ind. 2. Ella Webb, b. Ohio ca. 1863; m. Lake Co., 22 Sept. 1881, James O. Kenney,213 b. Ind. ca. 1854;214 resident of New Albany, Ind. 3. Clara E. Webb, b. Ill., ca. 1868; m. Lake Co., 3 Sept. 1890, Harry Williams;215 resident of Reynolds, Ind. 4. Myrtle E. Webb, b. Ind. ca. 1872; m. Lake Co., 8 Dec. 1898, Clifford O. Hill, 216 b. Ind. ca. 1874;217 resident of Lowell, Ind.

198 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 7, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5, years only. Exact dates from Ancestral File. 199 Fairfield County Marriages, 1:94. Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803– 1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9, married by George Weiz, minister. Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library. 200 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. This transcription has her age as 75y [sic] 6m. An earlier version has the more reasonable age of 43y 6m. She was 41 in the 1860 census. 201 Fairfield County Marriages, 2:367; Lancaster Gazette, 15 March 1866. 202 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 75, p. 623C, fam. 188. 203 1840 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 393. 204 1850 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 433R/434, fam. 40; 1860 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 103, fam. 762. 205 1870 U.S. Census, P.O. Crown Point, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 10, fam. 67. A farmer, the family of his son-in-law Samuel Hamock [sic] was in his household. Horatio J. Nichols, head of family 68, is unrelated. 206 Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Nichols Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 133. Presumably a nickname for Missouri Nichols, she has not been found in any other source. 207 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/webb.htm, she 72y 4m 1d. 208 Date of marriage from her obituary. 1860 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co/, Ohio, p. 119/234, fam. 1597 209 His three exact dates and parents’ names from ―Sealings for the Dead‖ at the IGI. 2101870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 28/336R, fam. 197, laborer, Garret Webb, b. Ind. Aug. 1869, not present in parents’ next census; 1880 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., p. 608A, fam. 40. 211 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 7A, fam. 164, 3 of 4 children living: 1. Hazel Webb, b. Sept. 1888. 2. Myrtle Webb, b. April 1894. 3. Hugo Webb, b. Sept. 1896. 212 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-W.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 5:223. 213 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-W.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 4:279. 214 1910 U.S. Census,, 7th Ward New Albany, Floyd Co., Ind. E.D. 84, sheet 2A, fam. 35; m. 29 years, 6 of 8 children living. 215 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-W.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 5:469, groom was 24.

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5. Virlinda Webb, d. infancy.218 6. Ernie Webb, d. infancy.

6 219 iii. REBECCA A. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1845; d. probably before the 1900 census; m. Fairfield County, 11 Feb. 220 221 1864, SAMUEL HAMMOCK, b. Ohio May 1840; d. after the 1900 census. They and their two oldest daughters were enumerated with her father in 1860. Their family, not located in the 1870 census, was scattered by 1880. They were the parents of six daughters who were each assigned a 1/252 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).222

1. Catherine Hammock, b. Ohio [March?] 1864;223 d. Casey, Ill., 11 Dec. 1932;224 m. ca. 1887 James N. Houser, b. Ind. April 1864; d. after the 1920 census.225 Six children. 2. Mary Louise Hammock,226 b. Lowell, Ind., 10 June 1868;227 d. Tiffin, Ohio, 30 May 1942;228 m. possibly Ill. ca. 1890, James J. Turner, 229 b. Fleming, Ky., 27 Sept. 1865; d. Tiffin 24 April 1947, son of John R. and Margaret (Ross) Turner.230 Bur. Fountain Cemetery, Washington Twp., Hancock Co.231 Three children. 3. Hattie Hammock, b. Lake Co., Ind.,232 25 Sept. 1869; d. Andrew Co., Mo., 26 July 1943;233 m. ca. 1892 Willard Edwin Pitsenbarger/ Pit[t]senb[a/e]rger.234 As W. Ed. and Hattie Pittsenbarger, they are buried in the Bolckow Baptist Church cemetery in Andrew Co., Mo.235 Children:236 (i) Ernest Hammack, b. Ill. Nov.

216 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-W.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 7:545. 217 1910 U.S. Census, 1st Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 4A, fam. 84, m. 12 years, 1 of 2 children living. 218 Mother’s obituary for two that died in infancy. 219 1900 U.S. Census, Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 3, sheet 7B-8A, fam. 151. Grandson Earnest Hammach, b. Ill. Nov. 1888 whose mother was b. Ind. and whose father’s birthplace was unknown enumerated with Samuel. One suspects that this boy was the son of an unmarried daughter; otherwise surely the father who would have been Samuel’s son would have had a ―known‖ birthplace. Indiana as the mother’s birth state is consistent. Also in this family was Samuel’s widowed daughter Rosa Ryan and her daughter Edith Ryan. 220 Fairfield County Marriages, 2-309. 221 Samuel H. Hammack, 10, 1850 U.S. Census, Walnut Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 213R/424, fam. 1243, headed by S[amuel] S. and Louisa Hammack. 222 The daughters’ birth places are inconsistently stated in various records. 223 1900 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 4, sheet 15B, fam. 387; carpenter, m. 13 years, 5 of 5 children living. 1. Harvey Houser, b. Dec. 1887. 2. Ethel Houser, b. May 1890. 3. Floyd Houser, b. Dec. 1892. 4. John Houser, b. Nov. 1896. 5. Grace Houser, b. Aug. 1898. 224 Ill. Sec. State Death Index, as Katie A. Houser, age unknown. 225 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 6, sheet 12A, fam. 111, his middle initial, m. 23 years, 6 of 6 children living, Rex Houser, b. ca. 1901. Son John not enumerated. 1920 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 6, sheet 7B, fam. 10, carpenter, Floyd Houser, 27, and Charles Houser, 18, only two children at home. Charles and Rex might be different names for the same son. 226 Both first names on her death certificate; however, in the censuses from 1900-1920 as Lou, Louisa, Louise. 227 Ohio Death Certificate 32,389, has birthplace of Lowell, Ind. Her census entries 1900-20 all had Illinois, which was the birth place of her 3 sons. Her birth was June 1867 [sic] in the 1900 census. 228 Ohio Death Certificate 32,389, has exact dates for birth and death, married, daughter of Samuel and Re [sic] (Nichols) Hammock, bur. Fountain Cemetery, informant Hazel M. Smith. 229 1900 U.S. Census, Pitt Twp., Wyandot Co., Ohio, E.D. 128, sheet 5B, fam. 106, farmer, m. 10 years. Three of 3 children living, all b. Ill.: 1. Vaughn Turner, b. April 1891. 2. Howard B. Turner, b. July 1893. 3. John B. Turner, b. May 1896. 1910 U.S. Census, Crawford Twp., Wyandot Co., Ohio, E.D. 176, sheet 7A, fam. 134, Hazel Turner, 9, dau., b. Ohio, Howard and John at home. James was a farmer, married 20 years. Four of 4 children living. 1920 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Tiffin, Seneca Co., Ohio, E.D. 110, sheet 4A, fam. 103. He was a machinist. No children. He and his parents were always shown as born in Ky. 230 Ohio Death certificate 34,150, bur. Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria, Ohio, informant H. B. Turner. 231 Hancock County, Ohio, Cemetery Inscriptions, Washington Township, vol. 3, book 2, p. 408. 232 Record seen in Lake Co. by Marcella Derrenberger. 233 Missouri Death Certificate #24,224, age 73y 10m 1d, informant Nellie Hubbell. Has Clark Co., Ill., [sic] as birthplace. 234 1910 U.S. Census, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., Mo., E.D. 83, sheet 5B, fam. 78, famer, married 18 years, 6 of 7 children living. 235 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~moacc/bolckow/bolckow2table.htm, accessed 12 Dec. 2008. 1860-1933 and 1869-1943, years only. His parents are buried in the same cemetery. 236 1900 U.S. Census, Dallas, DeKalb Co., Mo., E.D. 68, sheet 3B, fam. 56 (Pittsenbarger) for Willard’s first three children; m. 8 years, 3 of 4 children living.1910 U.S. Census, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., Mo., E.D. 83, sheet 5B, fam. 78, m. 18 years, 6 of 7 children living. 1920 U.S. Census, Benton Twp., Andrew Co., Mo., E.D. 1, sheet 9B-10A, fam. 119 (Pitsenbarger), Artie and Velma at home.

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1888;237 d. after the 1930 census.238 (ii) Mary E. Pitsenbarger, b. Aug. 1892. (iii) Nina G. Pitsenbarger, b. Aug. 1894. (iv) Artie B. Pitsenbarger, b. 7 Nov. 1898; d. Bolckow April 1974.239 (v) Nellie E. Pitsenbarger, b. ca. 1902. (vi) Velma Pitsenbarger, b. ca. 1904. (vii) Unidentified, order uncertain. Willard Edwin Pittsenberger, b. Darke Co., Ohio, 16 Sept. 1860; d. Andrew Co., 4 Nov. 1933, son of Hiram J. and Katherine (Pittsenberger) Pittsenberger.240 Catherine (Pittsenberger) Pittsenbarger, b. Ohio 16 October 1837; d. Andrew Co. 18 July 1922, daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Miller) Pittsenberger. 241 Hiram, b. Ind. 12 Aug. 1833; d. Bolckow, Mo., 19 Dec. 1921, son of Abraham Pittsenberger, b. Tenn. 242 243 4. Rose Hammock, b. Ind. Oct. 1871; d. after the 1920 census; m. (1) say 1892 — Ryan, b. Canada; d. before the 1900 census; 244 m. (2) — Williams, b. Ill.; d. before the 1910 census.245 Rose was enumerated as an 8-year-old niece with Sam and Mary E. Anderson in 1880.246 5. Maude Albina Hammock, b. Casey, Ill., 11 March 1874; d. Canyon, Randall Co., Texas, 27 March 247 248 1965; m. ca. 1898 John O. McFarland, b. Ill. ca. April 1876; d. after the 1930 census. Five children. 6. Ona Hammock, b. Ill. May 1876;249 d. after the 1920 census;250 m. ca. 1894 Jacob C. Cooper, b. Ill. March 1874; d. after the 1920 census. Children, all b. Ill.: (i) Clyde Cooper, b. Dec. 1894; d. before the 1910 census. (ii) Flo Cooper, b. Feb. 1900; m. Oliver Turner, b. Ohio ca. 1899.251 (iii) Warne [Warren] Cooper, b. ca. 1904. (iv) Leo Cooper, b. ca. 1907. (v) unidentified.

6 252 253 254 iv. ALBINA NICHOLS, b. Sept. 1846; d. 1923; m. Baptist Church, Lake County, 21 Sept. 1869, HEZEKIAH 255 256 HOWELL PURDY, b. Ind. 20 Feb. 1847; d. 19 Feb. 1918. H. H. Purdy was a farmer in 1870. They had two

237 1900 U.S. Census, Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 3, sheet 7B-8A, fam. 151. Grandson Earnest Hammach, b. Ill. Nov. 1888 whose mother was b. Ind. and whose father’s birthplace was unknown enumerated as a grandson with Samuel Hammack. 238 1930 U.S. Census, Benton Twp., Andrew Co., Mo., E.D. 3, sheet 7B, fam. 184 (Willard E. Pitsenbarger) includes Ernest Hammack, 41-year-old widower, ―son W,‖ who is interpreted as Hattie’s son b. Ill. ca. 1889 before her marriage to Pitsenbarger. The relationship does not read as son-in-law. If the ages are correct Hattie would have been 19 when Ernest was born. She might have had a first isonymous marriage, she stated she was 22 at her first marriage. Cecil L. Hammack, 15, and Edwin D. Hammack, 12, were also in the household. Ernest Hammack, 31, b. Ill., and Eva C. Hammack, 26, were enumerated without children in nearby Gentry County (1920 U.S. Census, King City, Jackson Twp., Gentry Co., Mo., E.D. 90, sheet 17B, fam. 168. Earnest Hammich, b. Ill. Nov.1888 was enumerated with his grandfather in 1900 (see above). 239 Social Security Death Index. 240 Missouri Death Certificate # 35,545, age73y 1m 18d. Informant A. B. Pittsenberger. 241 Missouri Death Certificate # 20,334, age 84y 9m 2d. Informant W.E. Pitsenbarger. 242 Missouri Death Certificate # 31,387, age 88y 4m 7d. Informant W.E. Pitsenbarger. 243 1920 U.S. Census, 5th Ward E. St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Ill., E.D. 154, sheet 9A, fam. 199. She was a widow with two daughters: Edith J. (Ryan) Geer and Ruth G. Williams. 244 1900 U.S. Census, Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 3, sheet 7B-8A, fam. 151. Rosa Ryan and her daughter Edith, b. Oct. 1893. 245 1910 U.S. Census, U.S. Census, 8th Ward E. St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Ill., E.D. 137, sheet 11A, fam. 226, Rose Williams and her 2 of 2 children, Edith Ryan and Ruth Williams, b. Ill. ca. 1904. 246 1880 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 220D, fam. 36. Mary might have been her paternal aunt based on the birth place of Virginia. 247 Texas Death Certificate, #18,975, widow, aged 91, daughter of Samuel Hammack [sic] and Rebecca Nichols, informant Gwen McFarland (? a son). Maude was bur. Dreamland Cemetery, Canyon, Texas. Her usual residence was Swisher Co., Texas. 248 1900 U.S. Census, Casey, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 3, sheet 7B, fam. 143, Clorine, b. Ill. Aug. 1898; 1910 U.S. Census, Rock, Ellis Co., Okla., E.D. 154, sheet 14A-B, fam. 264, Corrine, 11, Gwyn, 9, Wade, 5, Bonnie, 3, all b. Ill.; 1920 U.S. Census, Rock, Ellis Co., Okla., E.D. 64, sheet 5A, fam. 88, 43-year-old farmer. Children: 1. Gwen E. McFarland, b. Ill. ca. 1902. 2. Wade E. McFarland, b. Ill. ca. 1905. 3. Bonnie F. McFarland, b. Ill. ca. 1908. 4. Merle L. McFarland, b. Okla. ca. 1911. 1930 U.S. Census, Comm. Pct 4, Castro Co., Texas, E.D. 35-8, sheet 7B, fam. 136, John O. McFarland, 55-year-old farmer and son Muriel, 19, b. Okla. Wife not listed. Gwen McFarland was a single 28-year-old farmer in fam. 137. 249 1900 U.S. Census, Hutton Twp., Ward 2, Coles Co., Ill., E.D. 25, sheet 2B, fam. 30, m. 6 years, 2 of 3 children living. 250 1910 U.S. Census, Union Twp., Cumberland Co., Ill., E.D. 35, sheet 5A, fam. 93, m. 16 years, 3 of 5 children living. 1920 U.S. Census, 1st Ward Casey City, Clark Co., Ill., E.D. 6, sheet 4A, fam. 95. 251 He was enumerated in father-in-law’s 1920 census. 252 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 12B, fam. 281. 253 A marker with exact dates in Lowell Cemetery, Row A5, p. 8. Marker for the couple has years only. Three children in same row. 254 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:185. 255 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 8, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5. A marker with exact dates in Lowell Cemetery, Row A5, p. 8 has ―Co. G, 132 Ill. Inf. Separate marker for the couple has years only. 256 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 10/327R, fam. 62.

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daughters by 1880.257 In 1900 three of her five children were living.258 Albina Purdy, 72, widowed sister, was enumerated with Walter Nichols in 1920.259 Alpha McNay, of Ruth, Nev., and Herme Purdy, Hammond, Ind., were each assigned a 1/84 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii), as the only surviving children of Albina (Nichols) Purdy. Children:

1. Alpha A. Purdy, b. Oct. 1870; m. Lake Co., 30 Oct. 1888, Charles H. McNay,260 b. Ind. May 1866. 261 Children. 2. Zura M. Purdy/Mabel M. Purdy, b. 6 Feb. 1873; d. 9 Sept. 1908, bur. in Lowell Cemetery,262 a single dressmaker enumerated with parents in 1900. 3 & 4. Berl Purdy and Bertie Purdy, each of whom d. 21 Aug. 1879 and is buried in the Lowell Cemetery as an ―infant of Howell and Albina‖ might have been twins.263 5. Herman V. Purdy, b. Feb. 1882; m. (1) Lake Co., 25 Nov. 1905, Olive Bates; 264 m. (2) Lake Co., 8 Sept. 1909, Cora B. Fuller.265

6 266 v. JAMES B. NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 12 Jan. 1849; d. 24 Dec. 1859, age 10y 11m 12d, ― son of E & C.‖ 6 267 vi. MARY M. NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 26 June 1851; d. 4 March 1871, age 19y 8m 8d, ―dau of E & C.‖ 6 21 vii. JOHN J. NICHOLS, b. Jan. 1854; m. SARAH ANN FULLER. 6 22 viii. BENJAMIN F. NICHOLS, b. Nov. 1855; m. (1) JOHANNA GRANT; m. (2) MARY ALICE BATES. 6 x. CHARLES NICHOLS, b. ca. 1858; n.f.r after father’s 1870 census. He was not mentioned in his sister Harriet’s obituary. 6 m. (1) 23 xi. WALTER SCOTT NICHOLS, b. 1860; MARY ELIZABETH DINWIDDIE; m. (2) CAROLINE BAKER.

6. MARTIN5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio ca. 1819–25268 and died after the 1880 census. He married in Fairfield County, 29 April 1847, MATILDA SCHULTZ,269 who was born in Pennsylvania December 1819.270 She usually appears as two years older than her husband. Martin’s order in the partition of his father’s real estate is consistent with this birth placement.271 He was a carpenter in 1860 and 1880 and a farmer in 1870.272 They moved from Ohio to Adams County, Indiana, between the 1870 census and the settlement partition record of his father’s estate in 1876.

Children of Martin5 and Matilda (Schultz) Nichols, all b. Ohio:

257 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 75, p. 612A, fam. 113, Alpha A. Purdey, 9, and Mabel M. Purdey, 7. Howell Purdey, a farmer. 258 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 12B, fam. 281. 259 1920 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 12B, fam. 321. 260 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-M.pdf, citing Lake County marriages 5:293. 261 1900 U.S. Census, Addison Twp., Du Page Co., Ill., E.D. 25, sheet 1A, fam. 8, railroad agent. 1910 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah, E.D. 127, sheet 5B, fam. 117, telegraph operator for railroad. 1920 U.S. Census, Ruth, White Pine Co., Nev. E.D. 66, sheet 15A, fam. 55. Fam. 54 that of their son Gerald McNay, his wife Ora (—) McNay and their son Gerald McNay, 5; possibly Gerald McNay, b. 23 Sept. 1914; d. July 1971 (Social Security Death Index). 262 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 8, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5, same as parents. 263 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 8, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5, same as parents. 264 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-P.pdf citing Lake County Marriages 12:167 and 16:221. 265 1910 U.S. Census, 1st Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 3B, fam. 78; 1920 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Hammond, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 62, sheet 8A, fam. 151, daughters True Purdy, 8, and Faith Purdy, 7. 266 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. 267 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 79, Row 8 Asbury Cemetery. 268 Based on ages of 36, 45, and 61 in the 1860-80 censuses. 269 Fairfield County Marriages, 1:315; Lancaster Gazette, 7 May 1847. 270 She was a widow in her son Ferdinand’s household in 1900 when two of her nine children were living. 271 The clerk’s copy of the partition states that Martin was of Adair [sic] County, Indiana, a county which does not exist. 272 1860 U.S. Census, Lancaster, Fairfield County, p. 49/97, fam. 673; 1870 U.S. Census, Greenfield Twp., Fairfield County, p. 5-6/110-110R, fam. 36; 1880 U.S. Census, Decatur, Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 139, p. 164B, fam. 345. Martin in 1880 indicated that his father had been born in England and that his mother was born in Ohio [sic].

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6 273 274 i. SAMANTHA J. NICHOLS, b. 1 April 1848 or March 1846; d. Lancaster 27 April 1924; living with parents in 1880, as a 30-year-old seamstress, with her brother Ferdinand in 1900. Single in 1920 census of Fairfield County, living with a cousin, Maria Shaeffer.275 6 24 ii. JOHN NICHOLS, b. ca. 1850-51; m. HATTIE CONNERS. 6 25 iii. FERDINAND NICHOLS, b. ca. 1853; m. RACHEL SAMANTHA HOWER. 6 276 iv. MATILDA NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 24 Feb. 1855; d. Adams Co., Ind., 17 March 1890; m. Adams Co., 4 277 278 279 Nov. 1875, JOSEPH D. BEERY , b. 1854; d. 1931, son of Abraham Beery. Seven children as six grandnephews and one grandniece of the full blood were assigned a 1/294 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii): 1. Charles E. Beery, Clarkston, Wash. 2. Joseph D. Beery, Jr., Clarkston, Wash. 3. Robert D. Beery, Long Prairie, Minn. 4. Harry Beery, Indianapolis, Ind. 5. Leroy Beery, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 6. Dessie M. Kiefer, Litchfield, Mich. 7. James A. Beery, Decatur, Ind. Children:280

1. Charles E. Beery, b. 2 Aug. 1876; m. Cora V. Hower. Soldier in Spanish American War. 2. Robert D. Beery, b. 2 March 1878. 3. Katie Beery, b. Feb. 1880; d. 22 May 1883.281 4. James A. Beery, b. 24 June 1881. 5. William H. (same as Harry in estate papers?) Beery, b. 19 Feb. 1883.282 6. Joseph D. Beery, b. 24 Jan. 1885. 7. Dessie M. Beery, b. 3 June 1887;283 m. Hillsdale Co., Mich., 30 June 1915, Emery Guy Kiefer.284 8. Leroy Beery, b. 21 Dec. 1889.

6 v. ELLEN NICHOLS, b. Fairfield Co. 2 May 1856; d. Decatur, Ind., 3 Aug. 1878; m. Adams Co., Ind., 27 Oct. 285 1874, FRANKLIN WILLIAM MIESSE. Ella Nichols Miesse and Franklin William Miesse bur. in Beery Cemetery, Adams Co., Ind.286 One child: William Miesse, b. Ind. 8 Aug. 1875; d. Los Angeles, Calif., 18 Nov. 1958. William Miesse, as the sole surviving child of a deceased niece, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 6 vi. FRANK H. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1859; living with parents in 1880. Neither he nor any children were mentioned in the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 6 vii. CHARLEY NICHOLS, b. ca. 1862; not present in 1880 census. Neither he nor any children were mentioned in the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). 6 viii. WILLIAM NICHOLS, b. ca. 1866; not present in 1870 census. ix. Unknown, based on total of nine children reported by mother in 1900.

7. JACOB5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Fairfield County 20 February 1824287 and died at Lowell, Indiana, 6 August 1906.288 He was buried in the Lowell Cemetery.289 He married first in

273 1900 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Decatur, Washington Twp., Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 16, sheet 10A-B, fam. 224, probably a year or two early based on her age in earlier censuses. 274 Ohio Death Records, 21,305, inf. Miss Emma Hoffer(?), bur. Decatur, Ind. 275 1920 U.S. Census, Greenfield Pct., Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 10, sheet 9A, fam. 222. 276 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/beery.htm, age 35y 21 d. 277 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/marriage/marr024.htm, citing D:7. He m. (2) 4 June 1899, Lucinda B. Whitesell, citing G:497. 278 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/beery.htm, years only. 279 1900 U.S. Census, Kirkland Twp., Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 5, sheet 1B, fam. 12. Father b. Ohio Oct. 1821. Four sons and one daughter. 1910 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward, Decatur, Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 18, sheet 13B, fam. 290. 280 Joseph H. Wenger, History of the descendants of Nicholas Beery, born in 1707 … (South English, Iowa: The author, 1911), 246-7, 251. 281 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/beery.htm, 3y 3m. ―Feb.‖ in parents’ 1880 census. 282 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/birth/birth030.htm, exact date for a son. 283 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/birth/birth030.htm, exact date for a daughter. 284 Hillsdale County Marriages 2:257. 285 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/marriage/marr024.htm, citing G:571. 286 www.findagrave.com. 287 Weston A. Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, eds., Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana (Chicago, 1882), 654-5, his biographical sketch. 288 http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/INLAKE/2007-05/1178127769, citing Lake County Times, 7 Aug. 1906. Obituary has several surnames misspelled; age as 82y 5m 20d [sic].

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Wyandot County, Ohio, 20 March 1849, ELIZABETH L. HITE,290 who was born in Ohio 1826 and died in Lake County, Indiana, in June 1871,291 daughter of David and Elizabeth (DeLong) Hite,292 granddaughter of Andrew Hite,293 and a first cousin of Elizabeth (Bibler) Nichols. Jacob married second in Lake County, 12 September 1872, JULIA A. HENDERSON, 294 who was born in Huron County, Ohio, daughter of George and Bethia B. (Newton) Henderson.295 Julia A. Nichols, ―wife of Jacob‖ who was born 18 March 1844 [sic] and died 30 April 1884, is buried in the Cedar Creek Cemetery, Lake County.296

Jacob resided in Fairfield, Crawford,297 Wyandot, and Marion Counties, Ohio, and briefly in Washington County, Iowa, before settling in Lake County.298 By 1860 Jacob, a farmer, was in Lake County, Indiana, where he remained the rest of his life.299 His first wife had eight children, his second wife had four children.300 The possibility of a daughter Emma Nichols by a third wife has not been verified.301

He was named in the partition of his father’s estate in 1876. His six youngest children, all born in Indiana, were at home in 1880. Jacob’s will, which he signed 19 March 1903, was filed in 1906 and names Herschel J. Nichols, Marshall A. Nichols, Milfred E. Nichols, Celia J. Palmer, Elizabeth A. Seramur, and Celina M. Stenson, children, and Edward R. Garrison, grandson, ―Heir of my daughter Mary Garrison deceased.‖302 Edward was named before the last two daughters.

Jacob, both wives, and two children of each wife, are buried in Row 2 of the Cedar Creek Cemetery.303

Children of Jacob5 and Elizabeth L. (Hite) Nichols:

6 26 i. HERSCHEL J. NICHOLS, JR., b. 22 Dec. 1849; m. MARIA ROSINA LAMBERT. 6 27 ii. MARSHALL A. NICHOLS, b. Aug. 1854; m. EMMA L. TAYLOR. 6 iii. MARY L. NICHOLS, b. Ind. (calc.) 11 March 1857; d. 8 Jan. 1881; m. Lake Co., 6 Dec. 1873, ALFRED E. 304 305 GARRISON, b. Ind. (calc.) 4 July 1850; d. 18 Dec. 1882. Edward R. Garrison was named as grandson by his

289 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 2, years only. 290 Weston A. Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, eds., Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana (Chicago, 1882), 654-5, Jacob’s biographical sketch, which mistakenly states that Mrs. Nichols died 12 Aug. 1853. Her death in June 1871, at 324, sketch of her oldest son. 291 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 2, years only. 292 Married in May 1819 http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/research/swain408a.html (abstract from Lancaster Gazette). http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohwyand2/w/masedonia.htm, Buried in the Masedonia [sic] Cemetery, Antrim Twp., Wyandot Co., Ohio. 293 His ancestry and wife are unknown, despite many undocumented claims of her identity. 294 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:348. 295 Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: historical and biographical (Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1882), 654. 296 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 1. ―Leaving four children.‖ Her two sons are buried in the same row. 297 1850 U.S. Census, Bucyrus Twp., Crawford Co., Ohio, p. 439R, fam. 1560. 298 Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: historical and biographical (Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1882), 654. 299 1860 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 50/912, fam. 359, 36-year-old farmer, wife 34, first four children; 1870 U.S. Census, Crown Point P.O., Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind. p. 21/333 fam. 151, 35-year-old farmer, wife 34 [sic]. She had not aged in a decade and he was a year younger! Bertha and Milford E. were two more children. 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 75, p. 623C, fam. 188, 56-year-old farmer, Julia was 36. 1900 U.S. Census, West Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind. E.D. 42, sheet 7A, fam. 71, enumerated with his 25-year-old grandson Edward R. Garrison. 300 Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: historical and biographical (Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1882), 654. 301 Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Nichols Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 133, submitted by Carolynne L. (Wendel) Miller. 302 Lake County Case # 1296. 303 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 1-2. 304 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:429. 305 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 1. Buried in Row 2, same as her parents. Dates of death with exact ages.

21 JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY maternal grandfather.306 As a sole survivor of a deceased niece, Edward Garrison, Butte, Montana, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Edward R. Garrison, b. 19 April 1874, registered for the draft in Bozeman, Mont. He d. 6 Feb. 1946. 6 iv .CELIA JANE NICHOLS, b. 22 May 1859; d. Walkerton, Ind., 20 Oct. 1949; m. Lake Co., 20 March 1879, 307 308 JAMES CALVIN PALMER., b. Ind. Aug. 1855; d. 1942. As a niece Celia J. Palmer, Grand Haven, Mich., was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Seven children.309 6 310 v. ELLA NICHOLS, b. 1862; d. 1863. 6 311 vi. BERTHA N. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1865; d. 1883; m. Lake Co., 17 Dec. 1882, EDWARD GRANT PALMER. 6 28 vii. MILFORD EATON NICHOLS, b. ca. 1867; m. MARY LUCENA SIGLER.

Children of Jacob5 and Julia A. (Henderson) Nichols, birth years estimated from 1880 census:

6 312 viii. ELIZABETH A. NICHOLS, b. Ind. June 1872; d. after 1928; m. Lake Co., 25 Aug. 1891, PETER 313 SERAMUR, b. Ind. Aug. 1871; d. after the 1920 census. As Elizabeth Seramur, a niece of Chicago, she was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Children, all b. Ind.:

1. Murl/Merle Seramur, b. May 1890. 2. George Seramur, b. Oct 1891; possibly d. bef. 1910 census. 3. Mary Seramur, b. Dec. 1894. 4. Bernice Seramur, b. Dec. 1896. 5. Mabel Seramur, b. Dec. 1898. 6. Ella Seramur, b. ca. 1901. 7. Gerald E. Seramur, b. ca. 1907.

6 314 315 ix. RALPH NICHOLS, b. Ind. (calc.) 2 Feb. 1875; d. 13 Sept. 1895; bur. Cedar Creek Cemetery. 6 316 x. CELINA/SALINA M. NICHOLS, b. Lake Co., Ind., 13 April 1877; d. after the 1930 census; m. Chicago, 317 318 319 14 Sept. 1896, JAMES STENSON, b. Norway Sept. 1873; d. before the 1920 census. She m. (2) before the 1930 census, William Hart, b. Eng. ca. 1866.320 As Salina Hart, a niece of Indiana Harbor, Ind., she was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Four children, b. Ill.:

306 1880 U.S. Census, West Creek Twp., Lake Co., p. 603B, fam. 196. She had kidney disease. Edward, b. Ind., was 5. 307 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 4:118. 308 David Berns, a great-grandson of Westlake, Ohio, provided. his dates and other helpful information. 309 1900 U.S. Census, West Creek Pct., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 42, sheet 9A, fam. 106; 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 9B, fam. 234. 310 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 2, ―dau of Jacob and Elizabeth.‖ Buried in Row 2, same as her parents. 311 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 4:370. 312 1900 U.S. Census, Crown Point, Center Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 25, sheet 5A, fam. 36 Searmore [sic], m. 9 years, 5 of 5 children living. 1910 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., 3rd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 12 A, fam. 296, m. 20 years, 6 of 6 children living [sic]; 1920 U.S. Census, S. Green St., 31st Ward Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 1887, sheet 10B, fam. 231. 313 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 5:579. 314 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholsr.htm, age 20y 7m 11d. 315 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 1. Years only. 316 1930 U.S. Census, 5th Ward, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 111, sheet 11A, fam. 212. William Hart, 64, b. England and Celina Hart, 52, b. Ind. 317 Cook County Marriages 1871-1920. STINSON in her father’s obituary. 318 1900 U.S. Census, 15th Ward, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 466, sheet 11A, fam. 228. A naturalized citizen, he had immigrated in 1882. 319 1920 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 11B, fam. 290, three daughters with widowed mother. 320 1930 U.S. Census, 5th Ward, East Chicago, North Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 111, sheet 11A, fam. 212.

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1. William Stenson, b. July 1898. 2. Edith Stenson, b. Sept. 1899. 3. Julie Stenson, b. ca. 1904. 4. Bertha Stenson, b. ca. 1906.

6 321 xi. HENRY NICHOLS, b. Ind. 1879; d. 1885; bur. Row 1, Cedar Creek Cemetery, Lake Co.

8. GEORGE W.5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Berne Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1 May 1830 and died in Lancaster, Ohio, 12 April 1916.322 He married there, 8 January 1860, MARY LOUISE RAMSEY,323 who was born in Ohio 1 July 1841 and died in Fairfield County 29 March 1914, daughter of Robert and Audelia (Perry) Ramsey. 324 Robert Ramsey had a teaming business in Groveport, Ohio.325

George Nichols, 28, blacksmith, his wife Mary, 19, single brother Joseph, 38, farmer, and John Harmon, 20, born Germany, were enumerated in 1860 consecutively before George’s father.326 He was a widow and a retired blacksmith at the time of his death. George and Mary are buried in the Forest Rose Cemetery. On 23 October 1876 George Nichols, plaintiff, filed a petition against numerous others as part of the settlement of his father’s estate.327

He was a blacksmith in 1870 and 1900.328 He was a 56-year-old wagon builder in 1880 when Olive Perry, 80, ―grandmother,‖ born in Massachusetts and Vic Perry, ―uncle,‖ 38, born in Ohio, were enumerated in his household just after George and Mary’s children.329 They, their two sons, and Clara Gillette are buried in Lot E6, Forest Rose Cemetery.

Children of George5 and Mary Louise (Ramsey) Nichols:330

6 331 i. EDWARD O. NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 16 April 1862; d. Fairfield County 30 June 1894; bur. as Oliver Edward Nichols in Forest Rose Cemetery. 6 332 ii. CORA ALICE NICHOLS, b. 17 Jan. 1864; d. Lancaster 28 May 1947; m. say 1887 HARRY VORYS, merchant of Lancaster. As a niece, she was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Children.333 6 334 iii. CLARA E. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1866; d. New York City 14 May 1926; m. Fairfield Co., 30 Oct. 1890, 335 336 EDWARD MITHOFF GILLETTE, b. Carrol, Ohio, 3 Dec. 1865; d. Columbus 19 Feb. 1916. No children in 1910.337

321 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 1. Years only. 322 Ohio Death File 24,516 has both dates and age as 85y 11m 11d, retired blacksmith. Informant Mrs. Harry Vorys. 323 Fairfield County Marriages 2:217; Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803–1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9. Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library. Also, Lancaster Gazette, 12 Jan. 1860; her middle name from birth record of son Horace. 324 Ohio Death File 14,477 has both dates and age as 72y 8m 22d, widow [sic] explicitly written. Informant Mrs. Harry Vorys. 325 A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 294-5, long biographical sketch of George and has his birth date as 1 May 1832 [sic]. 326 1860 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 115, fam. 1526. 327 Partition Record, Fairfield County, Ohio, Book #11, Page 259. Court of Common Pleas, Nov. term, 20 Nov. 1876. 328 1870 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 4/276R, fam. 29, blacksmith, first three children. 329 1880 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 227A/B, fam. 164. 330 A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 294-5. 331 Fairfield County Deaths, 2:81, age 32y 2m 14d, single. 332 Ohio Death Certificate, 30,597, widow of Harry Vorys, age 83y 4m 11d, bur. Forest Rose Cemetery, informant F. W. Vorys. 333 1910 U.S. Census, Pct 2, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 64, sheet 3B, fam. 69, tailor. 1920 U.S. Census, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 18, sheet 1B, fam. 20, daughter Martha. Obituary Eagle Gazette, 29 May 1947 names four children: Mrs. Frank Stuckey, Lancaster; Ralph Vorys, Detroit; Dr. Charles D. Vorys, Detroit; and Attorney George W. Vorys, Lancaster.

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6 6 338 339 iv. HORACE J. NICHOLS/ JOHN W. NICHOLS, b. 3 July 1872; d. Columbus 17 May 1915. Bur. Forest Rose Cemetery. As John in the 1880 census; Horace in 1900 census,340 and John in 1910.341

9. OLIVER PERRY5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio October 1834 and died between the 1900 and 1910 censuses.342 As OLIVER P. NICHOLAS he married in Fairfield County, 1 September 1859, MARY ELLEN BURGETT,343 who was born at Circleville, Ohio, 7 February 1837 and died at Lancaster 13 April 1923, age 86 years 2 months 6 days.344

Perry was a farmer in the 1860-1880 censuses.345 He was named in the partition of his father’s estate in 1876. Only two of Mary’s seven children were living in 1900, when their daughter Fannie Nichols was living with them.

Children of Perry5 and Mary Ellen (Burgett) Nichols:

6 346 i. ALLEN H. NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 3 Oct. 1859; d. 31 Dec. 1881, age 22y 2m 28d. 6 347 ii. MARYETTA (MARY M./ETTA) NICHOLS, b. 22 March 1862; d. Lancaster 20 June 1894; m. Fairfield 348 349 County, 17 April 1889, WILL E. NEWMAN, b. Lithopolis, Ohio, 27 Feb. 1861; d. there 22 May 1939. 6 350 iii. GEORGE W. NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 19 Feb. 1863; d. Lancaster 26 Jan. 1883, age 19y 11m 7d. 6 351 iv. RUTH NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 16 Feb. 1865; d. Pleasant Twp. 26 Feb. 1884, age 19y 10d. 6 v. ALBINA NICHOLS, b. ca. 1867 (1870 census), as EMMA NICHOLS, b. ca. 1868 (1880 census); d. April or May 1888.352 6 353 29 vi. ARCHIBALD B. NICHOLS, b. 4 Sept. 1870; m. (1) [E]STELLA DOUGLAS; m. (2) MINNIE 354 JEFFERSON. 6 355 vii. FANNIE NICHOLS, b. 5 June 1875; d. Lancaster 27 March 1922.

334 Obituary, Lancaster Daily Eagle, Lancaster, Ohio, 15 May 1926. Edward is buried with his parents and Clara is buried with her parents in Forest Rose Cemetery. 335 Fairfield County Marriages, 6:384. A biographical record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio (New York and Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902), 298. 336 Ohio Death Certificate, 10,641, divorced. 337 1910 U.S. Census, Pct 1, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 63, sheet 4A, fam. 82, m. 20 years no children. One adopted son in household. 338 Fairfield County Births, 1:158. 339 Ohio Death Certificate, 32,752, single, no occupation, buried Lancaster, informant Mrs. Harry Vorys. 340 1900 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D.18, sheet 6B, fam. 135. Horace J. Nichols, single, b. July 1875. 341 1910 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 73, sheet 9B-10A, fam. 227. Three of 4 children were living. 342 1900 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, E.D. 18, sheet 8A, fam. 161, as O.P. Nichols. 1910 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 73, sheet 10A, fam. 235, Mary E. Nichols, 72, widow; 2 of 7 children living. Clyde Coffman, a boarder, enumerated with her. 343 Fairfield County Marriages, 2:208. Elizabeth Sherman Reese Chapter, DAR, ―Marriage Records, Fairfield County, Ohio, 1803–1865‖ (n.p., n.d.), 2:N9, married by William Mitchell, J.P. Typescript at the Fairfield County District Library. 344 Ohio Death Certificate 25,536, a widow, informant Archie Nichols, relation not stated, presumably her son. Parents unknown. 345 1860 U.S. Census, Berne Twp., Fairfield County, p. 102/342R, fam. 757, farmer; 1870 U.S. Census, Twp., Fairfield Co., p. 281R, fam. 98; 1880 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield Co., E.D. 206, p. 229B, fam. 211. 346 Fairfield County Deaths, 1:B236. 347 Genealogical Abstracts from the Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette 1891 - 1895, Vol. 4, all three dates. 348 Fairfield County Marriages, 6:262. 349 Jean S. Collier, Genealogical Abstracts from the Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette, vol. 4 1891–1895, where the year of her birth is 1864 [sic]. Asbury Cemetery records, p. 80 for their birth and death dates. Ohio Death Certificate # 30511 (his). 350 Fairfield County Deaths, 1:B256. 351 Fairfield County Deaths, 1:B274. 352 Genealogical Abstracts from the Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette, vol. 3, 1885–1890, issue of 2 May 1888. Bur. Asbury Cemetery. 353 Her maiden name and town of birth from her son’s death certificate, Archie Nichols, informant. 354 1920 U.S. Census, 10th Ward, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, E.D. 180, sheet 5B, fam. 67, carpenter. 355 Ohio Death Certificate 15042 signed by Mrs. Perry Nichols (her mother).

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10. SAMUEL5 NICHOLS (John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, 10 August 1842 and died in Lake County 27 November 1918.356 Samuel married in Lake County, 16 February 1873, FLORA FOWLER,357 who was born in Indiana July 1856 and died in Lake County 15 October 1907, daughter of George R. and Lovina (—) Fowler.358 Samuel and Flora are buried in the Lowell Cemetery.

Samuel was named in the partition of his father’s estate. As a 30-year-old blacksmith, he was enumerated in a hotel in 1870. 359

As a niece or nephew, each of their three children was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Benjamin Nichols resided in Henry, Illinois. Ethel and Howard, who were residents of Gary, Indiana, were enumerated in Lake County in 1930.360

Children of Samuel5 and Flora (Fowler) Nichols: 361

6 i. HOWARD MELVILLE NICHOLS, b. Lowell 30 March 1874; d. Gary, Ind., 4 Oct. 1932; bur. Lowell Cemetery.362 Single in 1910 and 1930.363 Served in the Spanish-American War.364 6 30 ii. BENJAMIN R. NICHOLS, b. 1876; m. CATHERINE/KATHRYN —. 6 iii. ETHEL L. NICHOLS, b. 11 July 1878; d. 28 April 1957; bur. Lowell Cemetery. Single 40-year-old head of household in 1920.

356 Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Nichols Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 133, submitted by Carolynne L. (Wendel) Miller. 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 10A, fam. 224, daughter at home; 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 9A, fam. 226, widower, daughter with him. 357 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:376. Lake County Memories in library at Plymouth, Ind. The article was written from recollections of Nichols family members. 358 1860 U.S. Census, Ross Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 3/741, fam. 20. 359 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 23/334, fam. 168. 360 1910 U.S. Census, 5th Ward Gary, 361 1880 U.S. Census, Lowell, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 75, p. 610A, fam. 80. 38-year-old blacksmith. 362 Obituary, The Vidette Messenger, 4 Oct. 1932. 363 1930 U.S. Census, Calumet Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 50, sheet 13A, fam. 245; sister Ethel and nephew Howard and Kathryn niece. 364 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholhm.htm, unidentified undated newspaper article in a collection owned by Lowell Town Historian Richard Schmal. Survived by his brother and sister.

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Honour thy father and the mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Exodus 20:12

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GENERATION 6

11. SAMUEL R.6 NICHOLS (John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio 18 November 1827365 and died at Lowell, Indiana, 16 March 1916.366 He married in Wyandot County, Ohio, 7 August 1851, ACHSAH KELL[E]Y,367 who was born in Ohio 10 January 1830 and died 28 February 1913.368

Based on the birthplaces of their children they moved to Indiana in the mid-1850s and remained there for the rest of their lives.369 He was a farmer.

[E]ight children: Mrs. Lizzie Fancher, of Lowell, Mrs. Esther Bruckman, of Tolleston, Ind., Mrs. Emma King, of Momence, Ill., Kelley, Fremont, and Andy, of Lowell. Edward and Edwin died in infancy. … Coming to Lake county as he did in an early day, he experienced many of the hardships and inconveniences of a new settlement, which was almost a wilderness, and which he saw grow into a most beautiful country. Mr. Nichols located about five miles northeast of Lowell, where he resided for 50 years, moving to Lowell in the fall of 1904, where he has since made his home. In 1860 he united with the M.E. church at Orchard Grove, and has lived a consistent Christian life since. He leaves to mourn him his six children, three brothers – Martin Nichols and Elery Nichols, of Hebron, and Jacob Nichols, of Horace, Kansas; two sisters – Mrs. Polly Odell, Bedford, Iowa, and Mrs. Nellie Mahler, of Lowell; 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, who have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.370

On 18 March 1916 Andrew Nichols applied for letters of administration of his father’s estate and named six children as heirs. Elizabeth Fancher, 64, Lowell; Esther Bruckman, 62, Tolletson, Indiana; Emma King, 59, Momence, Illinois; Samuel Kelley Nichols, 57, Lowell; John Fremont Nichols, 54, Lowell; and Andrew Nichols, 51, Lowell.

Five children (Samuel Kelley Nichols excepted): Esther Bruckman, Momence, Illinois; Elizabeth Fancher, Lowell, Indiana; Emma King, John T. [sic] Nichols; and Andrew Nichols, last four all of Lowell, as grandnieces and grandnephews, were assigned a 1/210 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Samuel R.6 and ACHSAH (KELL[E]Y) NICHOLS:371

7 372 373 i. ELIZABETH NICHOLS, b. Ohio 20 June 1852; m. Lake Co., 28 Aug. 1887, ANDREW J. FANCHER, b. Ind. March 1855.374

365 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 14, Lowell Cemetery, Section B, row 4, both exact dates. 366 Photocopy of ―Application for Letters of Administration‖ dated 18 March 1916 submitted by Andrew Nichols. 367 Wyandot County Marriages 1:198. 368 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 14, Lowell Cemetery, Section B, row 4, both exact dates. 369 1860 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 57/919, fam. 407; 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 15/330, fam. 104; 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 618B, fam. 222; 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 23, sheet 3A, fam. 39; 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 10B, fam. 260, only Andrew at home. 370 Obituary from an unnamed newspaper in Lowell Town Historian Richard Schmal's collection. 371 The six who survived to adulthood were all in their parents’ 1870 census, exact birth dates from family records of Michael J. Nichols (33.i), a grandson of Louisville, Ky., who provided extensive records of their descendants. 372 Family records of Michael J. Nichols (33.i). 373 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 5:169.

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7 375 ii. ESTHER NICHOLS, b. Ohio 26 Nov. 1853; m. Lake Co., 2 April 1874, GEORGE H. 376 377 378 379 BRUCKMAN/BRICKMAN, b. Germany Aug. 1850; d. after the 1920 census. Children. 7 380 iii. EDWIN NICHOLS (twin), b. 18 Nov. 1855; d. 21 Nov. 1855. 7 381 iv. EDWARD NICHOLS (twin), b. 18 Nov. 1855; d. 21 Nov. 1855. 7 382 v. EMMA NICHOLS, b. Lake Co. 13 Oct. 1856; d. 19 Dec. 1945; m. Lake Co., 24 Sept. 1874, 383 384 MARSHALL KING, b. Ind. July 1851; d. 11 March 1937. Children: 1. Norah King, d. 8 years old. 2. Charles King, d. 7 years old. 7 31 vi. SAMUEL KELLEY NICHOLS, b. 11 March 1859; m. OLA (OLLIE) C. WRIGHT. 7 32 vii. JOHN FREMONT NICHOLS, b. 28 Aug. 1861; m. LUCY JANE MARTIN. 7 33 viii. ANDREW A. NICHOLS, b. 14 Nov. 1864; m. (1) EMMA CAROLINE DILLEY; m. (2) ELLA B. (WHITE)

NERENHEIM.

5-4 12. ASA6 NICHOLS (John , Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio ca. 1830 and died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, 26 August 1873.385 He married in Vigo County, Indiana, 18 July 1853, MINERVA STATELER,386 who was born at Springfield, Ohio, (calc.) 1836 387 and died at Champaign, Illinois, 10 October 1904, aged 68 years and 10 days.388

Asa Nickols was a 30-year-old shoemaker in 1860.389 He was a short boot maker in 1870. They settled in Chattanooga after the close of the War Between the States. After Asa’s death Minerva moved to Tolono, Illinois, where she remained until about 1900 when she moved to her sister’s home in Champaign.390 A 47-year-old dressmaker, she was enumerated with her sister Sarah Stateler in 1880.391 Minerva’s obituary named three survivors: Mrs. Emma Bosey, sister of Champaign, one son Harry J. Nichols, Chicago, and a brother Sylvester Statler [sic], Nebraska. She was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery, Champaign.392

Children of Asa6 and Minerva (Stateler) Nichols, order uncertain and conjectural:

7 393 i. JOHN A./HARRY J. NICHOLS, b. Tenn. 14 Jan. 1868. John A. Nichols, 12, was enumerated in 1880 with his mother. On 23 Feb. 1883 John was the only surviving child under the age of 16 years when his father died.

374 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 3A, fam. 58; married 13 years, no children. 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 10A, fam. 254; married 22 years. Not found in the 1920 census. 375 Family records of Michael J. Nichols (33.i) for both exact dates. The 1900 census has Nov. 1854 for her birth. 376 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:384. 377 1900 U.S. Census, Hanover Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 28, sheet 3A, fam. 49. A naturalized citizen, he immigrated in 1854. Six of seven children living. Hattie Bruckman, b. April 1893, only one at home. 378 1920 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 8A, fam. 213, immediately before Marshall and Emma King. 379 1910 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 44, sheet 14A, fam. 130. Six of seven children living. George Bruckman, Jr., 29, Willie Bruckman, 26, and Hattie Bruckman, 18, enumerated with parents. 380 Family records of Michael J. Nichols (33.i). 381 Family records of Michael J. Nichols (33.i). 382 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/kingemma.htm, undated newspaper article in collection of Lowell Town Historian Richard Schmal. Emma’s exact dates and children. 383 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3: 471. 384 1900 U.S. Census, 25th Ward Chicago (Lakeview), Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 749, sheet 8B, fam. 173. No children [sic]. 385 Widow’s Pension file 202,209 has exact date; her obituary has the place and 1874. 386 Photocopy of marriage license and certificate from Civil War Pension file 302,873. 387 1900 U.S. Census, Homer, S. Homer Twp., Champaign Co., Ill., E.D. 28, sheet 10A, fam. 234, has her birth as Nov. 1845 [sic] and 1 of 6 children living. Emma Busey [sic], her sister, was head of household. 388 Photocopy of Illinois certificate of death #44,452. 389 1860 U.S. Census, Town 20, NE 7E, Mahomet P.O., Champaign Co., Ill., p. 24/310, fam. 155. No children. 390 Obituary, Champaign Daily News, 11 Oct. 1904, which states she was born 69 [sic] years ago. 391 1880 U.S. Census, Tolono, Champaign Co., Ill., E.D. 28, p. 3886B, fam. 54. Only one son with her. 392 Obituary, Champaign Daily News, 11 Oct. 1904. 393 Widow’s Pension file 202,209 has statement from attending physician for date, which is repeated on other forms that have the name John. Harry J. from mother’s obituary.

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John A. Nichols was Asa’s only heir 24 May 1898 according to John’s paternal grandfather’s estate. 394 He is interpreted as the grantor to Elery Nichols 5 Oct. 1897.395 He presumably was the Harry J. Nichols in his mother’s obituary (1904). Apparently as John Nichols, address unknown, the sole child of a deceased nephew, he was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). On 27 Oct. 1938 John Albert Nichols of Baltimore, Md., signed an affidavit that his father was Asa Nichols and that Mary Nichols, deceased was his father’s aunt. His middle name of Albert is consistent with the middle initial A. in 1880. He also stated that he had a sister Marg[aret] Nichols Richwine, living in Baltimore. Margaret’s appearance at this late date leaves unexplained her absence in her paternal grandfather’s estate records and in her putative mother’s 1900 census and obituary. 7 396 ii. FRANK NICHOLS, b. Oct. 1869; n.f.r. 7 iii. MARGARET NICHOLS, known only from her application and that of her brother [q.v.]; m — RICHWINE; d. after 27 Oct. 1938. Possibly she was the oldest child, and over 16 when her father died, thus born in 1857 or earlier. iv.-vi. Unidentified.

13. LEWIS6 NICHOLS (John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born was born in Marion County, Ohio, 23 October 1835 and died Nevada, Ohio, 26 June 1878. He married in Richland County, Ohio, 12 September 1867, RACHEL SOPHIA ORCHARD, who was born in England 3 January 1840 and died at Mansfield, Ohio, 21 March 1929, the daughter of Edmond and Rachel (Brache/Brochet) Orchard. Albert Nichols and Charles Nichols were Lewis’ only heirs 24 May 1898 according to their paternal grandfather’s estate. 397

In 1860 Lewis was a 24-year-old clerk in a general store in Lowell, Indiana.398 In 1870 his occupation was quaintly termed a ―dealer in drugs.‖399 On 26 February 1931 George Smith, executor of Mary Nichols’s estate paid to the treasurer of Fairfield County an unclaimed $73.53 due to each of his two sons.

Children of Lewis6 and Rachel Sophia (Orchard) Nichols:

7 34 i. CHARLES MELVILLE NICHOLS, b. 5 June 1868; m. MINNIE VANDALIA JOHNSON. 7 35 ii. JAMES ALBERT NICHOLS, b. 22 Feb. 1874; m. MARY ANN KAUBLE.

14. MARTIN W.6 NICHOLS (John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born at Marion, Ohio, 18 July 1842 and died at Hebron, Indiana, 15 May 1923.400 He married there, 21 February 1867, FANNIE M. MCCANN,401 who was born in Wayne County, Michigan, 16 March 1845 and died 22 December 1934,402 daughter of Aaron J. and Mary Ann (Hannan) McCann.403 Martin and Fannie are buried in Row NC 28, Hebron Cemetery.

On 2 August 1862 Martin Nichols, 5 feet 6 ½ inches with light complexion and blue eyes, enrolled at Lake County as a private in Co. A, 73rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry. He was captured at Cedar Bluff,

394 Photocopy of administrator’s report. 395 Lake County Deeds Book 84:134 (#17,905). 396 1870 U.S. Census, Ward 4, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tenn., p. 6-7/710R-711, fam. 51. Oct. explicitly stated on census. John Nichols, 2, and M[unclear, but not argaret] S. Nichols, 2, both b. Tenn., enumerated same locality p. 8-9/711R-712, in a family headed by William P. Crow, a locomotive engineer. There were eight Crow children, the eldest seven, b. Ga. Possibly the Nichols children (twins?) were Asa’s. 397 Photocopy of administrator’s report. 398 1860 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., p. 38/899, fam. 274. 399 1870 U.S. Census, Nevada, Wyandot Co., Ohio, p. 9-10/763, fam. 78. 400 Photocopy of a transcribed certificate of death dated 26 Oct. 1971, 9:43. He was buried in the Hebron Cemetery. 401 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:45. 402 Letter from Murl M. Nichols (38.ii), Hebron, 17 Nov. 1971 to Pat (Combs) O’Dell. Murl was a grandson of Martin and son of Frank Nichols. 403 1860 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 68/930, fam. 478. Mary Ann’s maiden name from Ancestral File.

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Alabama, 3 May 1863 and confined at Richmond, Virginia, and Rome, Georgia. He was appointed corporal on 30 October 1863.404

He was a farmer in the 1870-1910 censuses.405 A member of the Grand Army of the Republic, he marched with the boys, including his nephew Ellery Nichols, who had volunteered for service in World War I.406

Children of Martin W.6 and Fannie M. (McCann) Nichols: 407

7 36 i. JESSE ARTHUR NICHOLS, b. 28 Nov. 1867; m. GERTRUDE (OTTO) DEEN. 7 37 ii. JOHN JAY NICHOLS, b. 22 Aug. 1876; m. MAMIE MARTIN. 7 38 iii. FRANK E. NICHOLS, b. 26 April 1883; m. FAY E. FOLSOM.

15. JACOB A.6 NICHOLS (John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio ca. 1844-45408 and died at Fort Scott, Kansas, 23 February 1930 and is buried in the Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita.409 He married first in Lake County, Indiana, 11 October 1863, ELLEN DRISCOLL,410 who was born in Marion County, Ohio, or Indiana (calc.) 27 December 1847 and died in Lake County 3 February 1871.411 He married second say 1874 LOUISA M. CASE, who was born in Tama, Iowa, in 1850 and died in Denver 2 August 1932, daughter of Marvin and Ann (Staley) Case.412 Louisa married second — Duncan and resided in Denver.

Jacob was enumerated with his father in 1860. He was a farmer in 1870. 413 He lived in Iowa in the mid- 1870s and was a resident of Fremont, Nebraska, in 1880. 414 By 1900 he was a ―widowed‖ [sic] carpenter residing with his son-in-law William H. Surprise in Greeley County, Kansas.415 In 1910 he was close to his son-in-law and moved to Rock with the Surprise family. In the late 1920s, Jacob moved to an old folks home in Fort Scott, Kansas, to be near his granddaughter, Elizabeth (Surprise) Armstrong.416 He has not been found in either the 1920 or 1930 census. Jacob Nichols, as a nephew of the ―half blood‖ whose address was Rock, Kansas, c/o W.A. [sic] Surprise, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Jacob A.6 and Ellen (Driscoll) Nichols:

404 Photocopies of multiple roster rolls for Co. A and of Memorandum from Prisoner of War records at National Archives. 405 1870 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 4/367R, fam. 26; 1880 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 625B, fam. 18. 1900 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 79, sheet 3B, fam. 68 (farmer), youngest two sons at home. 1910 U.S. Census, Hebron, Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 136, sheet 2A, fam. 39, fam. 40, son John J. Nichols. 1920 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 138, sheet 5B, fam. 135. Her sister Emma Castle enumerated with them. 406 Letter from Neva (Nichols) Carson, 23 Nov. 1972 to Pat (Combs) O’Dell. 407 Letter from a grandson, Murl M. Nichols (38.ii), Hebron, 17 Nov. 1971 to Pat (Combs) O’Dell. 408 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 19/332 fam. 136. 409 Personal knowledge of his great-granddaughter Mary (Corrigan) McEnulty, Wichita, Kans. The year of birth on his stone is 1847. 410 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 2:453. 411 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 5, Row 7 ―wife of Jacob A,‖ same row as her son. 412 Her parents’ names from her great-grandson Michael Corrigan, Wichita, Kans. Luise Duncan, 71, b. Ohio [sic] might be this woman. 1920 U.S. Census, 9th District, Denver, Denver Co., Colo., E.D. 9, sheet 7A, fam. 177. 413 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 19/332, fam. 136, Ellen B. [sic]. 414 1880 U.S. Census, Fremont, Dodge Co., Nebr., p. 435D, fam. 260. He was a 35-year-old hostler. 415 1900 U.S. Census, Colony Twp., Greeley Co., Kans., E.D. 54, sheet 6A, fam. 107, widowed [sic] father-in-law, b. Nov. 1848, which is a little later than his ages in the earlier censuses. 416 Personal knowledge of her great-grandson Michael Corrigan, Wichita, Kans.

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7 i. ALPHA E. NICHOLS, b. Ind. ca. 1865; d. 6 Aug. 1890; m. Lake Co., 31 Dec. 1885, EDWARD H. 417 HANDLEY. In 1880 Alpha, a 15-year-old granddaughter, was in the household of her paternal grandparents. 7 418 ii. JOHN W. NICHOLS , b. (calc.) 3 July 1867; d. 24 Aug. 1869, age 2y 1m 21d.

Children of Jacob A.6 and Louisa M. (Case) Nichols:

7 iii. MUSA NICHOLS, b. Iowa ca. 1875; not found after the 1880 census. 7 iv. HERMIA A. NICHOLS, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 16 May 1877; d. Wichita, Kans., 22 June 1937; m. Lake 419 420 Co., 11 Aug. 1897 WILLIAM H. SURPRISE, b. Ind. March 1863; d. Wichita 1948, son of Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Hill) Surprise.421 The Surprise family moved from Greeley Co., Kans., to Rock, Kans., in 1915.They are buried in the Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita. Five daughters, all b. Kans.:

1. Josephine Surprise, b. 14 July 1898; d. Fort Worth, Tex., 20 Jan. 1974; m. (1) Robert Horner; m. (2) Bob Simmons. 2. Carolyn E. Surprise, b. 18 Feb. 1900; d. 21 April 1990;422 m. George F. Corrigan. 3. Elizabeth Surprise, b. 17 Aug. 1903; m. James Armstrong. 4. Edna K. Surprise, b. 22 April 1907; d. 6 Jan. 1997;423 m. R.L. McBrian. 5. Maude (Billie) Surprise, b. 6 Aug. 1909; m. West Cassidy.

16. PERRY JEROME6 NICHOLS (John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio September 1847424 and died in 1915.425 He married in Lake County, Indiana, 24 September 1868, CHARLOTTE J. FULLER,426 who was born June 1850427 and died after the 1910 census, daughter of Benjamin and Levina (DeWitt) Fuller.428 Corporal Co. E, 151 Indiana Infantry is on his tombstone.429 He was a 21-year-old farmer in 1870.430 As their only daughter, Maud, died before Mary E. Nichols’s estate was settled Maud’s heirs did not inherit.

Child of Perry Jerome and Charlotte J. (Fuller) Nichols:431

417 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 617C, fam. 196. 418 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 5. Row 7, same as mother. 419 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 7:286. 420 1900 U.S. Census, Colony Twp., Greeley Co., Kans., E.D. 54, sheet 6A, fam. 107; 1910 U.S. Census, Colony Twp., Greeley Co., Kans., E.D. 60, sheet 4A, fam. 108; 1920 U.S. Census, Rock Creek Twp, Cowley Co., Kans., E.D. 63, sheet 4B, retails hardware. Youngest three daughters at home. 1930 U.S. Census, Rock Creek Twp., Cowley Co., Kans., E.D. 27, sheet 1B, fam. 24. 421 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 75, p. 621C, fam. 261, William H. Suprise, 16. L. Wallace Duncan and Charles. F. Scott, History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas … (Iola, Kans.: 1901), 762-4, long biographical sketch of William’s paternal uncle Harvey Surprise. 422 Obituary, The Wichita Eagle, 22 April 1990, p. 2B city edition. Five children, including Mary (Corrigan) McEnulty and Michael Corrigan, who provided data on Jacob A. Nichols’ family. 423 Obituary, The Wichita Eagle, 8 Jan. 1997, p. 12A main edition. No children. 424 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 11A, fam. 253, married 33 years, months and years of birth. 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 9B, fam. 234. 425 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 43, Lowell Cemetery, years only. 426 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:138. 427 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 43, Lowell Cemetery, years only. 428 1850 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 258, fam. 49; 1860 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 51/913, fam. 365. Her parents m. Lake Co., 18 Sept. 1849. (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-F.pdf). 429 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 43, Lowell Cemetery, years only. 430 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 13/329, fam. 92. Farmer, b. Va. [sic]. 431 1880 U.S. Census, Lowell, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 607D, fam. 35, laborer. Maud was 6.

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7 432 433 i. MAUD NICHOLS, b. Oct. 1873; d. 1912; m. Lake Co., 9 June 1896, FRED TURNER, b. Ind. Oct. 1872. Their daughter, Ruth Turner, married Leo Dierks. Two children.434

17. ELERY MERRIS6 NICHOLS (John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio 18 February 1852 and died in Gary, Indiana, 13 December 1937. He married first in the Baptist Church, Lake County, 22 February 1875, OCENA HILL,435 who was born in Indiana (calc.) 2 January 1856 and died 8 July 1880,436 daughter of William M. and Mary Ann (Wilkinson) Hill.437 Elery, his wife, and their three children were enumerated in his father-in-law’s household in 1880.438

Elery married second in Hebron, 14 November 1884, CAROLINE FEHRMAN, who was born in 1864 and died in 1939, daughter of Christian and Wilhelmina (Misner) Fehrman.439 A librarian, she and her husband were buried in the Hebron Cemetery.440

According to his daughter Neva he lay across his mother’s lap as she drove a covered wagon when they moved to Indiana, while his older sister was in a copper kettle at their mother’s feet. Elery M. Nichols moved from Lowell to Hebron before 5 October 1897 when he, ―of Hebron,‖ recorded a quit-claim from John A. Nichols.441 The grantor is presumably Elery’s nephew, son of Asa Nichols. As a nephew living in Gary, Indiana, Elery was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Elery Merris6 and Ocena (Hill) Nichols:

7 39 i. OLO ELERY NICHOLS, b. 19 July 1875; m. CHARLOTTE (―LOTTIE‖) MEMPHIS IRELAND. 7 ii. BERNARD NICHOLS, b. 1877; d. 1893. He is buried in Row NC 3, Hebron Cemetery. 7 442 iii. GERTRUDE NICHOLS, b. (calc.) 19 June 1879; d. 6 June 1880.

Children of Elery Merris6 and Caroline (Fehrman) Nichols:443

7 444 iv. NEVA NICHOLS, b. 6 June 1888; d. Gary Aug. 1973; m. WILLIAM CARSON, b. Ind. ca. 1886. He was a dentist. A resident of Gary in 1972, she provided family information to Pat (Combs) O’Dell. One daughter.445 7 446 447 v. HAROLD F. NICHOLS, b. 17 Feb. 1892; d. May 1965; m. BESS HOGAN, b. Ind. ca. 1893. One adopted son in 1930.448

432 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf, citing Lake County Marriages 7:286. 433 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 13A, dwelling 304. 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 10B fam. 262; m. 14 yrs. One child living. Ruth Turner, b. ca. 1906. 434 1930 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 69, sheet 1B, fam. 18. 435 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:503. 436 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 8, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 6, age 24y 6m 6d. 437 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 8, for Ocena’s mother’s maiden name. 438 1880 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., p. 610B, fam. 91. 439 1860 U.S. Census, Porter Twp., Porter Co., Ind., p. 131/389, fam. 965; 1880 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., p. 558B, fam. 270 (widowed mother, b. Wurtemburg). Wilhelmina’s maiden name from IGI. 440 Family record of Joseph Nichols (39.ii), her step-grandson. 441 Lake County Deeds 84:134 (#17,905). 442 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 8, age 11m 17d. 443 1900 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 79, sheet 4B, fam. 90, postmaster, m. 15 years, five children all living. Wilhelmina Fehrman, mother-in-law, b. Germany April 1836. 1910 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 136, sheet 2B, fam. 52, Wilhelmina —, 74-year-old widow, mother-in-law, b. Germany. 1920 U.S. Census, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 138, sheet 6B, fam. 167. Letter from Vessie (Mahler) Fehlman, Lowell, Ind. in 1972. 444 Social Security Death Index. 445 1920 U.S. Census, Hebron, Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 138, sheet 7B, fam. 200; 1930 U.S. Census, part of Ward 8 Gary, Lake Co., Ind. E.D. 53, sheet 5A, fam. 109, enumerated in household of her father, along with her sister and youngest brother. 446 Social Security Death Index. 447 1920 U.S. Census, Pct 6, Calumet Twp., Gary, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 118, sheet 7B, fam. 371.

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7 449 vi. WILHELMINA (―WILMA‖) NICHOLS, b. 19 Jan. 1894; d. Gary, Ind., March 1986. Never married. She is buried in Row NC 3, Hebron Cemetery. 7 450 vii. NEIL B. NICHOLS, b. 10 Jan. 1897; d. Gary, September 1975; m. between the 1920 and 1930 451 452 censuses, probably as a second wife, THELMA FILER, b. 4 Sept. 1898; d. Gary Sept. 1974. They are buried in Row S 19, Hebron Cemetery. Children. 7 453 viii. JOHN HERBERT NICHOLS, b. April 1900; d. 1979; m. MARIE GRESS. He lived in Gary in 1972. Enumerated with his parents in 1920 and 1930. One daughter.

18. JESSE6 NICHOLS (Henry5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio ca. 1838-9 and was buried in the New Lexington Cemetery, New Lexington, Ohio, 19 May 1893. He was not listed in his parents’ 1860 census, but in 1870. He married in Perry County, Ohio, 1873 HANNAH V. FORSYTHE,454 who was born in Ohio 23 January 1843 and died at New Lexington 23 March 1915, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Donaldson) Forsythe.455 A carpenter, Jesse and his family were enumerated in the household of his parents-in-law in 1880.456 Four of their children: Joseph Nichols, William Nichols, Lillian N. King, and Harry Nichols, all of New Lexington, Ohio, as the children of a deceased nephew, were each assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). They were heirs of ―half blood.‖ The three sons were enumerated with their brother-in-law Albert C. King in 1920.457

Children of Jesse6 and Hannah V. (Forsythe) Nichols, born presumably in Perry County: 458

7 i. JOSEPH H. NICHOLS, b. Perry Co. 22 Jan. 1874; d. Zanesville, Ohio, 10 April 1946; m. probably after 459 1930, OLIVE —. 7 460 ii. WILLIAM JACOB NICHOLS, b. 20 Oct. 1875; d. Perry Co. 12 Aug. 1948; m. Perry Co., 1907, VIVA 461 MAE BUGHMAN, b. Ohio 5 May 1886; d. New Lexington 7 Aug. 1917, daughter of Henry and Mary A. (Lehman) Bughman.462 One daughter: 1. Evelyn L. Nichols, b. ca. 1908.463 7 464 iii. MARY LILLIAN NICHOLS, b. 16 June 1880; d. New Lexington 27 June 1935; m. ALBERT C. KING, b. 1887; d. 1939.465 7 iv. HARRY M. NICHOLS, b. March 1882; d. Perry Co. 31 Jan. 1973; bur. New Lexington Cemetery, New Lexington.466 Never married. 7 467 v. JESSE J. NICHOLS, b. 6 Aug. 1885; d. New Lexington 26 April 1918.

448 1930 U.S. Census, part of Ward 8 Gary, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 53, sheet 13B, fam. 331. 449 Social Security Death Index 450 Exact dates from Social Security Death Index. 451 1930 U.S. Census, part of Ward 2 Gary, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 9, sheet 10B, fam. 226. His age at first m. indicates m. 1921, and a 7-year-old daughter. Thelma’s first m. would have been in 1926. 452 Her name from Joseph Nichols (39.ii), dates from Social Security Death Index. 453 Family record of Joseph Nichols (39.ii). 454 http://www.perrycountyohio.us/PerryMarr1/Marr1N.htm, citing 5:317. 455 Ohio Death Certificate 17, 936, informant Mrs. A. King, had both exact dates and both parents’ full names. 456 1880 U.S. Census, Pike Twp., Perry Co., Ohio, E.D. 209, p. 145B, fam. 93. 457 1920 U.S. Census, Pike Twp., Perry Co., Ohio, E.D. 75, sheet 10A, fam. 260. 458 1900 U.S. Census, New Lexington, Perry Co., Ohio, E.D. 70, sheet 13B, fam. 319. Hannah was a widow. Five of her five living children were all enumerated with her. 1910 U.S. Census, New Lexington, Perry Co., Ohio, E.D. 138, 9A, fam. 215, three sons and one daughter in her household. 459 Ohio Death Certificate 25,290, image unavailable. He was single in the 1920 census household of his brother-in-law. 460 Ohio Death Certificate, 51,304, informant Evelyn Nichols, Columbus, Ohio. 461 Perry County, Ohio, index of males at OGS library, 12:383. 462 Ohio Death Certificate 58,432. 463 1910 U.S. Census, New Lexington, Perry Co., Ohio, E.D. 138, sheet blurred, fam. 177. Eve C. Nichols, 2, daughter. 1920 U.S. Census, Pike Twp., Perry Co., Ohio, E.D. 75, sheet 10A, fam. 260, when he was a 42-year-old widower, with one daughter Evelyn L. Nichols, a 12-year-old niece of Albert King, the head of the family. 464 Ohio Death Certificate 39,221, age 55y 11d, informant Joseph Nichols. 465 Years from tombstone in New Lexington Cemetery. 466 Ohio Death Certificate 5,569.

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7 vi. MARTHA NICHOLS, b. 3 March 1881; presumably d. before 1900 census.

6 5 4 3 2 1 19. HARVEY NICHOLS (Jesse , John , Joseph , — , John ) was born in Ohio ca. 1843 and has not been located after the 1880 census,468 although he presumably was living in 1900. In his parents’ 1850 census he was enumerated as a 7-year-old male Hanna [sic] in proper birth order among their first six children. As Harvey Nichols of Lancaster, he married at Columbus, Ohio, 22 November 1870, HATTIE SMITH, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.469 His wife was AMANDA SMITH, at the birth of their first child. Amanda was born ca. 1847 according to the 1880 census.

Their four children, Leota M. Tucker, San Jose, California, Jeanette Barlow, Washington, D.C., Dan S. Nichols, Chico, Butte County, California, and Winfield Nichols, of ―full blood‖ were assigned a 1/168 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Harvey6 and Amanda/Hattie (Smith) Nichols:

7 470 471 i. LEOTA M. NICHOLS, b. ―Franklin,‖ Ohio, 7 Oct. 1871; d. after the 1920 census; m. ca. 1890, JOHN 472 O. TUCKER, b. Mass., Dec. 1865. 7 473 ii. DANIEL S./DARLINGTON S. NICHOLS, b. Ohio ca. 1873-76; d. after the 1930 census; m. ca. 1893 (1) 474 475 476 — —; m. (2) before the 1920 census ALICE B. (—) —, b. Maine ca. 1872; d. after the 1930 census. 7 477 iii. JEANETTE NICHOLS, b. ca. 1878; d. after the 1930 census; m. ca. 1899 CHESTER A. BARLOW, b. May 1874; 478 d. 1901. 7 479 iv. WINFIELD NICHOLS, b. Santa Cruz, Calif., 19 Dec. 1883; a 46-year-old artist living alone in New York City in 1930;480 40 at first marriage (ca. 1924). On 16 March 1928 he sailed from Honolulu to San Francisco aboard the S.S. Manllo.

20. OLIVER P.6 NICHOLS (Jesse5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Pleasant township, Fairfield County, 9 March 1850 and died there 27 April 1919.481 He married Fairfield County, 29 May 1883, CATHERINE ANN SMITH,482 born Pleasant Township 15 May 1858 and died there 1 August 1944,

467 Ohio Death Certificate 27,305, informant Mrs. Albert King. He was a single musician, age 32y 8m 20d. 468 1880 U.S. Census, Reynoldsburg/Truro Twp., Franklin Co., Ohio, p. 313C, fam. 35. Harvey Nichols, 37, clerk shoe store; Amanda Nichols, 33; Leota Nichols, 8; Darlington Nichols, 5, and Jennie Nichols, 2. N.Y. [sic] by ditto marks from preceding family, was stated as birthplace for all five. The preceding family was J.T. and Eliza Smith, both of whom, b. N.Y. 469 Franklin County Marriages, 11:317. Harvey Nichols, of Lancaster, m. at Columbus, Hattie Smith, of Reynoldsburg (Jean S. Collier, Lancaster Gazette Genealogical Abstracts 1869 – 1879). Weekly newspaper published 1 Dec. 1870. 470 Daughter of H. M. Nichol and Amanda Smith, extracted record in IGI. 471 1920 U.S. Census, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Co., Calif., E.D. 195, sheet 15B, fam. 344, she and her parents b. Ohio. 472 1900 U.S. Census, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Co., Calif., E.D. 78, sheet 11B, fam. 195, m. 10 years, no children. 1910 U.S. Census, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Co., Calif., E.D. 111, sheet 11B, fam. 255, she and parents b. Ohio; m. 20 years, no children. He owned his photography shop. 473 1930 U.S. Census, Chico Twp., Butte Co., Calif., E.D. 15, sheet 1A, fam. 7, he and parents b. Ohio, 37 at first marriage; she and parents b. Maine, age at first marriage 17. 474 Based on his age of first marriage reported in 1930 census. 475 1920 U.S. Census, Chico Twp., Butte Co., Calif., E.D. 5, sheet 16B, fam. 373 as Darlington S. Nicholls [sic], 44, Ohio, parents b. USA, laborer cement contractor. 476 Based on her age of first marriage reported in 1930 census. 477 1930 U.S. Census, Block 375, Washington, D.C., E.D. 7, sheet 6B, fam. 103, b. US, blotted age, widow, father b. Calif. [sic], she was a photographer and a guest. 478 1900 U.S. Census, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Co., Calif., E.D. 78, sheet 10A, fam. 152, m. 1 year, no children. 479 Birth place and date from California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893 – 1957 at ancestry.com. 480 1930 U.S. Census, District 1215, Manhattan, New York, E.D. 31-1215, sheet 14B, fam. 288. His birthplace was Calif.; parents’ Ohio. 481 Ohio Death Certificate #26,132, informant Mrs. Geo. N. Smith. Buried Asbury Cemetery. 482 Fairfield County Marriages, 5:321.

34 GENERATION 6 daughter of George and Catherine (Smallers) Smith.483 Oliver, Catherine, and two children are buried in Row 2, Asbury Cemetery, Fairfield County.484

Oliver, a single teacher, was enumerated with his parents in 1880. Oliver’s mother-in-law, Catherine Smith, born in Ohio, May 1835, was enumerated with him in 1900.485 Oliver’s sister Serepta Nichols was enumerated in his household in 1910 when he had been married once for 27 years.486

The partition record of his estate named his widow Catherine Nichols of Athens County, Ohio, and children Glenn J. Nichols and wife Ethel, Herschel G. Nichols, Russell Nichols, Pearl Nichols, Myra Nichols, Alice Nichols, wife of Ralph D. George, and Ethel Nichols, wife of W. [sic] H. Strider.487

Each of their seven surviving children as the heirs of a deceased nephew of ―full blood,‖ was assigned a 1/294 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii) and received $73.89 on 18 December 1929.

Children of Oliver P. 6 and Catherine Ann (Smith) Nichols:

7 488 i. ETHEL LORENA NICHOLS, b. Fairfield County 12 Nov. 1884; d. Royal Oak, Mich., 9 July 1971; m. 4 April 1914, UBERTO HENRY STRIDER. Ethel living in Detroit, Mich., in 1930. Parents of Virginia Strider, b. Columbus, Ohio, 4 Feb. 1915; d. Birmingham, Mich., 2 Dec. 2006; m. Bay City, Mich., 27 April 1939, Clarence George Clohset, b. there 29 Dec. 1913;489 d. Mich. 19 Feb. 1999. Her research of the Nichols family in Maryland provided the data for the early generations of this family. 7 40 ii. GLENN J. NICHOLS, b. 17 Aug. 1886; m. ETHEL L. AWALT. 7 490 iii. MYRA WINIFRED NICHOLS, b. Pleasantville 30 April 1888; d. Columbus, Ohio, 23 Nov. 1952, age 64y 6m 23d,491 buried in Row 2, Asbury Cemetery. Living in Lancaster in 1930. 7 492 493 iv. ALICE NICHOLS, b. 27 July 1890; d. Lancaster 12April 1974; m. Fairfield Co., 5 Jan. 1916, RALPH 494 495 D. GEORGE, b. Fairfield Co. 22 April 1893; d. Lancaster Sept. 1977, son of Charles and Stella (Upp) George. Resident of Thurston, Ohio, in 1930.496 Survivors: husband, daughter Marjorie George, wife of Carl Beougher, and seven grandchildren. Bur. Grandview Cemetery, Bremen,Ohio. 7 497 498 v. HERSCHEL G. NICHOLS, b. Pleasant Twp. 11Aug. 1892; d. Thornville, Ohio, March 1982; m. say 499 500 501 1922 (first child) JENNIE L. FALLER, b. Perry Co. 30 Oct. 1900; d. Jackstown, Licking Co., 7 Feb. 1980. Children.

483 Ohio Death Certificate #49,614, informant Mrs. Ralph George. Buried Asbury Cemetery. 484 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 77. This typescript is in the Fairfield County District Library, Ohio. 485 1900 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 18, sheet 8B, fam. 171. He was a farmer. The columns for children of Catherine Smith were empty. 486 1910 U.S. Census, Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 73, sheet 11A, fam. 254. There was no wife in that enumeration. 487 Fairfield County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court, Partition Record, 21:576, 1919. 488 Fairfield County Births, 2:122. 489 DAR lineage papers 473,111 for this paragraph except for the Clohsets’ dates of death, from Social Security Death Index. 490 Fairfield County Births, 3:8, as Winnie A. Nichols, record corrected to Myra Winifred. 491 Ohio Death Certificate #70,700, which has 11/23/52 as birth date [sic]. Informant Mrs. Alice George. 492 Social Security Death Index for day of birth. 493 Obituary Daily Eagle, 13 April 1974. 494 Fairfield County Marriages 12:386, has birth dates and parents. 495 Social Security Death Index. 496 1930 U.S. Census, Walnut Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 38, sheet 5B, fam. 122. Child. 497 Fairfield County Births, 2:88, as George Herschel Nichols. 498 Social Security Death Index for day of birth. 499 1930 U.S. Census, Madison Twp., Licking Co., Ohio, E.D. 39, sheet 4B-5A, fam. 81. One son: Herschel W. Nichols, b. ca. 1923. Widowed mother also living with them. 500 Maiden name and place of birth from Ohio Death Certificate 15,251 for their daughter Emma Jenita Nichols, b. Licking Co. 14 Feb. 1929; d. 24 Feb. 1929; bur. Cedar Hill Cemetery. 501 Social Security Death Index for date of birth.

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7 502 503 vi. RUSSELL BRYAN NICHOLS, b. 28 March 1896; d. Dayton, Ohio, 5 May 1967, buried in Row 2, Asbury Cemetery, Ohio, MMI USNR World War II. He resided with his aunt Lizzie (Nichols) Smith in 1920.504 Living Oakland City, Ind., in 1930. 505 Divorced before death. No children mentioned in his obituary.506 7 507 508 vii. HOWARD PEARL NICHOLS, b. 22 Feb. 1898; d. Pike Co., Ind., Sept. 1975; m. Winslow, Ind., 6 Oct. 1934, HELEN MARGARET LINDSAY, b. 13 Nov. 1914; d. Huntsville, Ala., 9 Dec. 1998, daughter of Ben Wilson and Nellie Bryant (Green) Lindsay.509 As Howard P. Nichols, 31, he was enumerated with his brother Russell in 1930. Two sons. 7 510 viii. MILDRED NICHOLS, b. 28 Feb. 1903; d. 22 Aug. 1903; bur. in Row 3, Asbury Cemetery, as daughter of ―O.P. & C.A.‖511

21. JOHN J.6 NICHOLS (Eli5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in January 1854512 and died 29 January 1918.513 He married ca. 1880 SARAH ANN FULLER, who was born in Indiana November 1857, and died 25 May 1935, 514 daughter of Benjamin and Levina (DeWitt) Fuller.515 This John Nichols is named in the obituary of his sister Harriet (Nichols) Webb and thus distinguished from his contemporary first cousin, son of Martin and Matilda (Schultz) Nichols.

He was a mason.516 They, their younger daughter, her husband, and a grandson Paul Quarry are buried in the same plot in the Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 517 Two daughters, each as a grandniece, was assigned a 1/84 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of John J.6 and Sarah Ann (Fuller) Nichols, both born Michigan:

7 518 i. CLARA NICHOLS, b. Jan. 1882; d. 14 Sept. 1967; m. ca. 1909-1910 JOHN E. QUARRY, b. 9 Nov. 1881; d. 25 Feb. 1963 They d. after the 1920 census.519 Two children, possibly incomplete: 1. Paul F. Quarry, b. Mich. ca. 1911; d. 28 Sept. 1944.520 2. Maude M. Quarry, b. Mich. ca. 1914. Clara was a witness to her sister’s marriage.

7 ii. DAISY DEAN NICHOLS, b. Jan. 1884; d. 31 Jan. 1961; m. Kalamazoo, Mich., 22 Aug. 1907, EARL C. 521 522 GUYBERSON, b. Ionia, Mich., 1884; d. 10 May 1937, son of Carl and Nellie (McGuin) Guyberson. They d. after the 1920 census.523 Two children, possibly incomplete:

502 Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Has exact birthday and place. Fairfield County Births, 2:153 as unnamed son. 503 Social Security Death Index. 504 1920 U.S. Census, Pleasant Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 27, sheet 4B, fam. 95. 505 1930 U.S. Census, Monroe Twp., Pike Co., Ind., E.D. 8, sheet 11B, fam. 259, younger brother with him. 506 Lancaster Gazette, 5 May 1967. 507 World War I registration card for exact birth date. 508 Social Security Death Index. 509 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilcchs/familytrees/lindsayfamilytree/d7.html#i36438. accessed 6 April 2009. 510 Fairfield County Births 4:194, Deaths 3. 511 ―Cemeteries of Berne Township‖ (Lancaster, Ohio, 1983), 77, year only of 1902 [sic]. 5121900 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., E.D. 112, sheet 7B, fam. 189, brick mason, m. 20 years. Two of two children living. 513 http://kalamazoogenealogy.org/Cemeteries/KalCity/Riverside%20City%20LL.htm#122, the dates have been interpreted as dates of death, but are possibly those of the burial. 514 http://kalamazoogenealogy.org/Cemeteries/KalCity/Riverside%20City%20LL.htm#122. 515 1860 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 51/913, fam. 365; 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 26/335R, fam. 184 (Sarah Fuller). 516 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., E.D. 136, sheet 4A, fam. 65. Mason, m. 29 years. Daughter Daisy Guyberson, m. 3 yrs, no children with them. 517 http://kalamazoogenealogy.org/Cemeteries/KalCity/Riverside%20City%20LL.htm#122. 518 Social Security Death Index for exact birth date. 519 1910 U.S. Census, Ward 2, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., E.D. 139, sheet 3B, fam. 73; m. 0 years. 1920 U.S. Census, Ward 2, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., E.D. 159, sheet 5A, fam. 102, pattern makers in iron works. 520 http://kalamazoogenealogy.org/Cemeteries/KalCity/Riverside%20City%20LL.htm#122. 521 http://kalamazoogenealogy.org/Cemeteries/KalCity/Riverside%20City%20LL.htm#122.

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1. John A. Guyberson, b. Mich. 18 May 1913; d. Kalamazoo Co. Dec. 1982.524 2. Eugene Carl Guyberson, b. Mich. 5 Dec. 1918; d. Galesburg, Mich., 22 Nov. 2001.525

22. BENJAMIN F.6 NICHOLS (Eli5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio November 1855 and died at his home in South Bend, Indiana, 31 December 1927.526 He married (1) in Lake County, 25 February 1880, JOHANNA GRANT, 527 who was born in Indiana ca. 1858528 and died at Hebron 19 January 1881, aged 23.529 Benjamin married (2) say 1884 MARY ALICE BATES, who was born in Indiana November 1865 and died on or before 3 January 1941,530 daughter of Christopher W. and Hannah (Adams) Bates.531 Christopher W. Bates, 80, widowed father-in-law, was enumerated with them in 1910.532 Their son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter were enumerated with them in the 1920 census.533 Benjamin Nichols was named in the obituary of his sister Harriet (Nichols) Webb. He and his second wife are buried in Row N 19, Hebron Cemetery.

Children of Benjamin F.6 and Mary Alice (Bates) Nichols:534

7 535 i. FLORENCE B. NICHOLS, b. Aug. 1885; m. say 1911 CLARENCE SHOUP, b. Ind. ca. 1884; d. between the 1920 and 1930 censuses.536 As Florence Shupe [sic], grandniece of South Bend, Ind., she was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Three children by 1930: 1. Howard Shoup, b. ca. 1912. 2. Clarence Shoup, Jr., b. ca. 1915. 3. Richard Shoup, b. ca. 1922.

7 537 ii. WILLIAM B. NICHOLS, b. Aug. 1888; d. 1943; m. say 1919 IVA —, b. Mich. ca. 1890. As William Nichols, grandnephew of Hebron, Ind.,538 he was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). He is buried in Row N 19, Hebron Cemetery.

522 Michigan Marriages 1868-1925, 3:85, #9388. Bride’s parents’ full names. 523 1920 U.S. Census, Ward 2, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., E.D. 182, sheet 1A, fam. 5, house plasterer. 524 Social Security Death Index; he was 6 years old in parents’ 1920 census. 525 Social Security Death Index. 526 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=nichols&GScnty=855&GRid=6714248&, citing Vidette Messenger 17 Jan. 1928. Funeral at home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Nichols. Burial in North Section 4, Row 19 of the Hebron Cemetery was delayed two weeks because of snow drifts. 527 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 4:185. 528 1880 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., p. 558A, fam. 268, clerk in store, married in census year. Her father was born in Ireland. 529 http://ingenweb.org/inporter/Data/Obits/Nichols4356.html, obituary from Porter County Vidette, 27 Jan. 1881, p. 1, col. 2. Married 11 months, she was bur. in Lowell. No children mentioned. 530 Obituary in The Videtta Messenger (Valparaiso) 3 Jan. 1941, says her husband died 10 years ago [sic]. Names three children. 531 1870 U.S. Census, (Valparaiso P.O.), Porter Twp., Porter Co., Ind., p. 106, fam. 145; 1880 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., p. 558B-559C, fam. 284; 1900 U.S. Census, Porter Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 91, sheet 1A, fam. 9, Christopher W. Bates, b. Oct. 1829, Hannah, b. Ohio Aug. 1830. Pictorial and Biographical Record of LaPorte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana … (Chicago, 1894), 174-5. 532 1910 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 136, sheet 3A, fam. 59. Family 58 (of no known relation): George E. Nichols, b. Ind., who m. ca. 1901 Charlotte —, 31, two children: Dorothy Nichols, 8, and Joseph [?E.] Nichols, 1 4/12. 533 1920 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 138, sheet 4A, fam. 94. 534 1900 U.S. Census, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 79, sheet 2B, fam. 41, button maker, m. 15 years, three of 4 children living. All three named in mother’s obituary and as heirs. Middle initials for children from 1910 U.S. Census, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 136, sheet 3A, fam. 59, salesman in retail store, m. 24 years. 535 1920 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward South Bend, St. Joseph, Ind., E.D. 229, sheet 3B, fam. 63. Myra Beach, b. Ind., ca. 1899, niece, enumerated with them. 536 1930 U.S. Census, 1st Ward South Bend, St. Joseph, Ind., E.D. 14, sheet 11A, fam. 269. Her widowed mother enumerated with her. 537 Buried Hebron Cemetery, North Section, 4, Row 19. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi- bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=nichols&GScnty=855&GRid=6714250& 538 1930 U.S. Census, Hebron, Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 1, sheet 4A, fam. 108. Two daughters.

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7 539 iii. MILDRED H. NICHOLS, b. Feb. 1894; m. Chicago, 31 March 1914, TRACY F. WILCOX, b. Ind. ca. 1892.540 As Mildred Wilcox, grandniece of South Bend, Ind., she was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). She was enumerated with her sister in 1930. 7 iv. HAZEL B. NICHOLS, b. 11 Feb. 1890, d. 23 Feb. 1892, bur. Hebron Cemetery.

23. WALTER SCOTT6 NICHOLS (Eli5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born at Lancaster, Ohio, 20 May 1860541 and died at Lowell, Indiana, 22 May 1929.542 He married (1) in Lake County, 1 September 1880, MARY ELIZABETH DINWIDDIE, 543 who was born (calc.) 18 July 1859 and died 28 September 1888, age 29y 2m 10d,544 daughter of John Wilson and Mary Janette (Perkins) Dinwidde.545 He married (2) in Lake County, 11 December 1892, CAROLINE (CARRIE) BAKER/BECKER,546 who was born in Indiana July 1871 and died in 1944.547 As Walter Nichols, nephew of Lowell, Indiana, he was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Walter Scott6 and Mary E. (Dinwiddie) Nichols:548

7 41 i. JOHN BERNARD NICHOLS b. 24 June 1881; m. MARGARET JANETTE TURNER. 7 42 ii. HARRY BURTON NICHOLS, b. 7 Aug. 1883; m. (1) CARRIE ESTELL TOPPING; m. (2) IDA SCHILLING.

Children of Walter Scott6 and Carrie (Baker) Nichols:549

7 iii. LOLITA NICHOLS, b. Lowell 6. Jan. 1905; d. Indianapolis 12 Oct. 1956; m. 1928 CARL (KARL) LOUIS 550 RAY WENDEL, b. Lansing, Ill., 19 July 1903; d. Dec. 1936. Three children: 1. Carolynne (Wendel) Miller of Indianapolis. She was head of the Genealogy section of the Indiana State Library for several years. 2. Margaret (Wendel) Budney of Plattsburg, N.Y. 3. Robert Wendel of Lowell. 7 551 552 iv. LEONARD E. NICHOLS, b. Ind. b. 11 Oct. 1910; d. Lowell Jan. 1977; m. PATRICIA CONNELLY. Three children.553

539 Cook County Marriages 1871-1920. 540 1920 U.S. Census, 7th Ward Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 446, sheet 5A, fam. 121. 541 The exact dates for him and his first wife and their middle names, consistent with the censuses and cemetery records, are from an Ancestral File submitted by Melvin Dean Nichols of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Lake County heritage, 133, has 6 May 1860 and 21 May 1929. 542 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 7, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5. Exact dates from Ancestral File. 543 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 4:216. 544 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 7, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5, ―wife of Walter S. Nichols.‖ 545 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/s1980jul.htm. 546 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 6:169. 547 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 7, Lowell Cemetery, Section A, Row 5, ―wife of Walter S. Nichols.‖ 548 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 2A, fam. 26. He was a farmer, b. May 1861 [sic]; m. 7 years. Carrie had no children. 549 1910 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 34, sheet 11A, fam. 270, farmer. His sons were not in his household. 1920 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 12B, fam. 321. Albina Purdy, 72, widowed sister was enumerated with them. 550 Obituary at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/wendel.htm. Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Wendel Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 188, submitted by Carolynne L. (Wendel) Miller. 551 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), as unnamed son. 552 Social Security Death Index. 553 Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Nichols Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 133, submitted by Carolynne L. (Wendel) Miller, Leonard’s niece.

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24. JOHN6 NICHOLS (Martin5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio ca. 1850-51 and married in Adams County, Indiana, 18 March 1880, HATTIE CONNERS,554 who was born in New York ca. 1864. They had married in the census year and were enumerated in Adams County, Indiana, consecutively after his father in 1880.555

Child of John6 and Hattie (Conners) Nichols:

7 556 i. CLARA B. NICHOLS, b. 23 March 1885; d. March 1975; m. Allen Co., Ind., 12 July 1907, OLIVER W. 557 558 LINN, b. 10 March 1881; d. June 1971. Residents of Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1920. No known children. As a surviving child of a deceased nephew Clara Linn, of Fort Wayne, was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

25. FERDINAND6 NICHOLS (Martin5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio February 1850 [sic] and died after the settlement of his aunt’s estate. He married in Adams County, Indiana, 14 December 1876, RACHEL SAMANTHA HOWER,559 who was born in Indiana October 1857. He was a butcher in 1880, 1900, and 1920.560 As a nephew and an heir of the ―full blood‖ resident in Decatur, Indiana, he was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Ferdinand6 and Rachel Samantha (Hower) Nichols, all born in Indiana:

7 561 i. ALVA/ALVIN MARION NICHOLS, b. Decatur, Ind., 1877; d. St. Cloud, Fla., 13 Feb. 1953; m. 14 Oct. 1903, ANNA A. MILLER , b. Switzerland 1878; d. 1954, daughter of Frank Xavier and Verena Mary (Keller) Miller. A naturalized citizen, Anna had immigrated in 1881.562 Three daughters by 1910.563 1. Beulah Beatrice8 Nichols, b. 1904; d. 1953; m. Arthur C. Meyer. Three children. 2. Margaret Jesteen8 Nichols, b. 1905; d. 1925. 3. Catherine Mildred8 Nichols, b. 25 Nov. 1907; d. Adams Co. Dec. 1984;564 m. Alfred Kenneth Beavers. One son. 4. Harriet Elizabeth8 Nichols, b. & d. 1912. 7 565 ii. CLYDE NICHOLS, b. Sept. 1886; d. 24 Jan. 1908. 7 566 iii. NELLIE NICHOLS, b. Sept. 1890; m. Adams Co., Ind., 25 June 1913 ALBERT CLARK SPAHR.

26. HERSCHEL J.6 NICHOLS, JR., (Jacob5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Ohio 22 December 1849567 and died before the 1920 census.568 In 1870 he was a 20-year-old clerk in a store.569 As HERSHEL

554 Adams County Marriages, exact vol. and page, not in current notes. 555 1880 U.S. Census, Decatur, Adams Co., Ind., p. 164B, fam. 346, a 27-year-old laborer. 556 Social Security Death Index. 557 Social Security Death Index. 558 1920 U.S. Census, 6th Ward Ft. Wayne, Allen Co., Ind., E.D. 60, sheet 1B, fam. 26. 559 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inadams/marriage/marr024.htm, citing D:89. Her first name and second name alternate in various records. 560 1900 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Decatur, Washington Twp., Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 16, sheet 10A-B, fam. 224; 1920 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Decatur, Washington Twp., Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 19, sheet 17A, fam. 443. 561 1880 U.S. Census, Decatur, Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 139, p. 165D, fam. 357. or Oct. 1876 (1900 census). 562 Dick D. Heller, Jr., ed., 1979 History of Adams County, Indiana (n.p., n.d.), 324, written by their daughter Catherine Mildred (Nichols) Beaver. 563 1910 U.S. Census, 1st Ward, Decatur, Adams Co., Ind., E.D. 16, sheet 1A, fam. 2, married 7 years, three of three children living. He was a 32-year-old clerk in a shoe store. 564 Social Security Death Index. 565 IGI for date of death. 566 IGI for marriage. 567 Weston A. Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, eds., Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana (Chicago, 1882), 324, a biographical sketch, which names their three sons. 568 1920 U.S. Census, 1st Ward Wheaton, Du Page Co., Ill., E.D. 18, sheet 11B, fam. 237, headed by Rosina M. Nichols, a 65- year-old widow, b. Wisc.

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J. NICHOLS he married in the Baptist Church, Lake County, Indiana, 13 September 1872, MARIA ROSINA LAMBERT,570 born in Wisconsin ca. 1854, and died at Wheaton, Illinois, 18 March 1948,571 daughter of Cornelius Lambert.572 He was a merchant. 573

Children of Herschel J.6 and Maria Rosina (Lambert) Nichols, all born Indiana:

7 i. VIRGIL NICHOLS, b. ca. 1874. As a grandnephew of ―full blood‖ Virgil N. Nichols, Omaha, Nebr., was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Presumably Virgil H. Nichols, b. Ind., 36, with his 574 second wife EDNA E. (—) NICHOLS, b. Iowa ca. 1876. He was a manager of wholesale rubber. Almost certainly 575 Virgil H. Nichols, 29, of Hennepin Co., Minn., who m. Chicago, 1 May 1901, EDNA ENNIS. 7 ii. MARSHALL E. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1875. As a grandnephew of ―full blood‖ Marshall E. Nichols, Wheaton, Ill., was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). A single 44-year-old manager in a retail grocery store, he was enumerated with his mother in 1920. 7 iii FLOYD NICHOLS, b. ca. 1879; d. Seattle 8 May 1946; m. FRANCES E. —. As a grandnephew of ―full blood‖ Floyd Nichols, Seattle, Wash.,576 was assigned a 1/126 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

27. MARSHALL A.6 NICHOLS, (Jacob5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born near Sandusky, Ohio, 29 August 1854 and died in Lowell 27 June 1953.577 He married in Lake County, 12 April 1877, EMMA L. TAYLOR, 578 who was born in Indiana March 1858579 and died in 1934, daughter of G. and Julia Ann (Taylor) 580 Taylor.581 As a nephew of Lowell, Marshall was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). He and his wife are buried in Row C51, Lowell Cemetery.

Children of Marshall A.6 and Emma L. (Taylor) Nichols, all born Indiana:

7 582 i. CLARA B. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1879; m. Lake Co., 20 Oct. 1898, ROBERT S. SCRITCHFIELD, b. Ind. ca. 1872.583 Two children by 1910: Clara was the enumerator in 1930 when their daughter was living with them.584 1. Virgil R. Scritchfield, b. ca. 1900. 2. V. Aline Scritchfield, b. ca. 1906. 7 ii. ALICE BLANCHE NICHOLS, b. Feb. 1884; d. after 1 May 1952; m. Lake Co., 22 June 1904, CHARLES 585 586 FRANCIS KEUPER, resident of St. Louis, Mo. She had had no children in 1910.

569 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 24/334R, fam. 168, an unrelated household. 570 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:349. 571 http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/IDPHDeathSearchServlet, citing certificate # 10,506 for Rosina M. Nichols. 572 1870 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 28/336R, fam. 200. Has her birthplace as Wisconsin. Her father named in her husband’s sketch above. 573 1880 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., p. 558A, fam. 263. Curiously they were enumerated as H.J. Nichols, 30, b. Ohio (married) and Maria Nichols, 24, b. Indiana [sic] (single) with three boys. No relationship among the 5 persons was stated on the census page. 574 1910 U.S. Census, Dundee Precinct, Douglas Co., Nebr., E.D. 98, sheet 10B, fam. 241. No children in the census. 1930 U.S. Census, E. Omaha, Pottawattomie Co., Iowa, E.D. 67, sheet 6A, fam. 18. 575 Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920, bride was 25. 576 1920 U.S. Census, Pct 272, Seattle, King Co., Wash., E.D. 335, sheet 14A, fam. 360. Floyd N. Nichols, 39, b. Ind. (ca. 1881), father, b. Ohio, mother b. Wisc. His wife was Frances E. Nichols, b. Ill. ca. 1890. No children. 577 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholma.htm, his obituary for information on children. 578 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 3:635. 579 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 23, sheet 9B, fam. 177, farmer, 3 of 4 children living. 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 6A, fam. 143, thresherman on farm, 3 of 4 children living. 580 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-T.pdf , her maiden name from their marriage in Lake Co., 30 April 1845, citing Lake County Marriages 1:108. 581 1920 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 9A, fam. 235; 1930 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 69, sheet 13A, fam. 367, their daughter Hattie (divorced [sic]) and her two sons were enumerated with them. 582 1880 U.S. Census, West Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 603B, fam. 80, he was a farmer. 583 1910 U.S. Census, West Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D.78, p. 6A, fam. 108, farmer. 584 1930 U.S. Census, Lowell, West Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D.186, p. 2A, fam. 26.

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7 587 iii. HATTIE EDITH NICHOLS, b. 13 July 1886; d. Lake Co. March 1982; m. Lake Co., 26 Oct. 1905, 588 589 GILBERT A. MCNAY, b. Ind. March 1882; d. 1910. In 1910 she was enumerated, as a 22-year-old widow, with her parents-in-law, Peter A. and Laura L. (Wheeler)590 McNay.591 Buried in Cedar Creek Cemetery. She was enumerated with her parents in 1920 and 1930. Two children, as grandchildren, in her father’s 1920 and 1930 censuses:592 1. Wendell LaVerne McNay, b. 13 Jan. 1907; d. Lake Co. 6 July 1995.593 A veteran of World War II, he had a family. 2. Marshall Gilbert McNay, b. ca. 1908.

7 594 iv. BENSON RAY NICHOLS, b. 19 March 1888; d. young.

28. MILFORD EATON6 NICHOLS (Jacob5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born 11 June 1867 and died 8 March 1951.595 He married in Indiana, 6 November 1889, MARY LUCENA SIGLER, who was born 28 November 1868 and died 15 May 1908.596 Their gravestones in Row N 40, Hebron Cemetery, have exact dates. He was enumerated with his father in 1870 and 1880. As Eaton Nichols, nephew of Gary, Indiana, he was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Milford Eaton6 and Mary Lucena (Sigler) Nichols:597

7 i. MARGUERITE NICHOLS, b. Ind. Oct. 1895. 7 ii. VICTOR NICHOLS, b. Ind. Feb. 1898.

29. ARCHIBALD B.6 NICHOLS (Perry5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born at Lancaster 4 September 1870 and died at Columbus, Ohio,598 12 December 1951. He was buried in the Green Lawn Cemetery.599 He married (1) at Fairfield County, 29 August 1895, [E]STELLA DOUGLAS,600 who was born at Lancaster601 January 1877602 and presumably died before the 1910 census. She was possibly the daughter of and Rebecca (—) Douglass.603 Archibald married (2) before the 1920 census MINNIE

585 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/keuper.htm. 586 1910 U.S. Census, 28th Ward St. Louis City, Mo., E.D. 444, sheet 12A, fam. 265. 587 Social Security Death Index. 588 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-M.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 12:102. 589 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 24, sheet 7B, fam. 171. 590 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf , her maiden name from their marriage in Lake Co., 10 March 1864, citing Lake County Marriages 2: 465. 591 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 39, sheet 10B, fam. 257, Wendell L. McNay, 3. 592 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/s1987jan.htm. 593 Social Security Death Index. 594 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), placed as the unnamed son. 595 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=nichols&GScnty=855&GRid=6714491. 596 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/PorterCo-DeathIndex/PorterDeathIndex-N.htm, accessed 13 March 2009. 597 1900 U.S. Census, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 79, sheet 6A, fam. 131, carpenter, m. 10 years, 2 of 2 children living. 598 Obituary, Columbus Dispatch, 14 Dec. 1951, p. 6A. 599 Ohio Death Certificate 76,247, retired carpenter, parents unknown, informant Minnie Nichols. 600 Fairfield County Marriages, 7:263. 601 Her birth place from her son’s death certificate, informant, Archie Nichols. 602 1900 U.S. Census, Lancaster, Lancaster Twp., Fairfield County, Ohio E.D. 23, sheet 14B, 28-year-old house carpenter, b. Sept. 1872 [sic]. Married 5 years. 603 1880 U.S. Census, 5th Ward Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, p. 362B, fam. 53, a 4-year-old daughter.

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JEFFERSON,604 who was born in West Virginia605 4 February 1885 and died at Raceland, Greenup County, Kentucky, 24 April 1974,606 daughter of Dink Jefferson.

He was single in the 1910 census.607 As a nephew living in Columbus, he was assigned a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Archibald B.6 and Estella (Douglas) Nichols:

7 608 609 i. GEORGE H. NICHOLS, b. 12 March 1898; d. Columbus 20 June 1948. Three children: 1. Jack8 Nichols. 2. George H. 8 Nichols, Jr. 3. Patricia8 Nichols.

7 610 ii. DELORES FANNY NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 9 Nov. 1900; d. Los Angeles 24 Sept. 1986; m. before 1935 611 612 (1) JOHN HOWARD; m. before 1948 (2) — BLEVINS/BLEVENS. Lived in Glendale, Calif., in 1953 and in Mission Hills, Calif., in 1973. 7 613 614 iii. HELEN GRACE NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 17 March 1902/3; d. Columbus 8 Sept. 1935; m. HARRY 615 RUDDOCK, b. Shawnee, Ohio, 8 Sep 1896; drowned 15 July 1941 Franklin Co.

Child of Archibald B.6 and Minnie (Jefferson) Nichols:

7 iv. MARY L. NICHOLS, b. Ohio ca. 1920; m. before 1974, EDWARD PORTER. Resided Raceland, Ky., in 1974.616

30. BENJAMIN R.6 NICHOLS (Samuel5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana in1876 and died in 1951. He married ca. 1904 CATHERINE/KATHRYN —, b. 1884; d. 1949. A barber in 1910 and 1920,617 he owned his own shop. In 1930 he was termed a ―tonsorial artist.‖ 618 They are buried in Row C 28, Lowell Cemetery.

As a nephew, resident of Henry, Illinois, Benjamin received a 1/42 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

604 1920 U.S. Census, 10th Ward, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, E.D. 180, sheet 5B, fam. 67, carpenter. 605 1930 U.S. Census, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, E.D. 21, sheet 29B, fam. 414, cabinet maker, Mary L. Nichols, 10, daughter. 606 http://greenlawn.delaohio.com/greenlawn/greenlawndata/n.txt. Father’s name. Obituary, Columbus Dispatch, 25 April 1974, p. 28B. 607 1910 U.S. Census, 7th Ward Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, E.D. 14, sheet 8B, fam. 118, 40-year-old carpenter as lodger. 608 Ohio death certificate 36,495. Divorced, same address as Archie Nichols, informant. Birth as Columbus [sic]. Buried Green Lawn Cemetery. 609 Columbus Dispatch, 21 June 1943, p. 6A. One unnamed grandchild. 610 Fairfield County Births, 4:194 has first name of Vivia. 611 Sister Helen’s obituary. 612 Brother George’s obituary. 613 Fairfield County Births, 4:194 has 1903. 614 Ohio death certificate 53,893, has dates and parents’ names; bur. Green Lawn Cemetery. Middle name from death notice in Columbus Dispatch, 9 Sept. 1935, p. 6A. No children among survivors. 615 Ohio death certificate 42,637. 616 Mother’s obituary. 617 1910 U.S. Census, Fulton, Whiteside Co., Ill., E.D. 127, sheet 10A, fam. 222; 1920 U.S. Census, Henry, Marshall Co., Ill., E.D. 37, sheet 3A, wife and all children b. Ill. 618 1930 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Henry, Marshall Co., Ill., E.D. 7, sheet 13B, fam. 445.

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Children of Benjamin R.6 and Catherine (—) Nichols:619

7 i. FLORENCE M. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1905; m. say 1924 — BRADY; divorced before the 1930 census when enumerated with her parents. Helen Brady, 5, as a granddaughter in her maternal grandfather’s household. 7 ii. HOWARD E. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1907; enumerated with his paternal uncle Howard Nichols in 1930. 7 iii. BENJAMIN R. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1909. In 1943 Cpl. Ben Nichols of Camp Butner, N. Car., on a 12-day furlough, visited his sister, Miss Kathryn Nichols and his aunt, Miss Ethel Nichols, Lowell, several days the past week. He also visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nichols, at Henry, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. Brady, in Chicago.620 7 iv. GEORGE H. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1912, living with parents in 1930. 7 v. CATHERINE M. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1914; enumerated with her paternal uncle Howard Nichols in 1930. 7 vi. PAUL H. NICHOLS, b. ca. 1917, living with parents in 1930.

619 Their 1920 census. 620 http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholbn.htm, citing Lowell Tribune, 11 March 1943, p. 6, col 2.

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Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 17:6

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GENERATION 7

31. SAMUEL KELLEY7 NICHOLS (Samuel R.6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana 11 March 1859 and died at Lowell 4 January 1920.621 He married at Lake County, 7 March 1894, OLA (OLLIE) C. WRIGHT,622 who was born in Illinois January 1873.623 On 27 January 1920 Andrew Nichols, of Lowell, asked that he be granted letters of administration for Samuel Kelley Nichols.624 Ole Nichols, 47, wife, Glen Nichols, 25, son, Iva Nichols, 18, daughter, Guy Nichols, 16, son, and Elery Nichols, 8, son, all of Lowell were the heirs.

Children of Samuel Kelley7 and Ola (Ollie) C. (Wright) Nichols, all born presumably in Indiana:625

8 626 i. GLENWOOD/GLENN NICHOLS, b. 20 March 1895; d. July1976; m. Indianapolis, 24 Dec. 1924, 627 628 629 CLARICE HEADY, b. 1905; d. 1967. Buried in Row C5, Lowell Cemetery. Eight children. 8 ii. IVA PEARL NICHOLS, b. ca. 1901. 8 iii. GUY EDDIE NICHOLS, b. ca. 1903. 8 630 631 iv. MARGARET ELLA NICHOLS, b. 31 March 1906; d. in infancy before the 1910 census. 8 632 v. ELERY WARREN NICHOLS, b. 4 July 1911.

32. JOHN FREMONT7 NICHOLS (Samuel R.6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana 28 August 1861 and died 25 May 1936.633 He married in Lake County, 3 September 1884, LUCY JANE MARTIN,634 who was born in Lake County 14 April 1865635 and died 23 November 1897.636 Their sons-in- law were identified in an obituary of their son Charles.637

621 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 16 Row 21. Years only, birth year for wife. Exact dates from Family Records of Michael J. Nichols (33.i). http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholsk.htm, obituary. 622 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 6:355. 623 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 23, sheet 3A, fam. 59, famer, one of one living. 624 Photocopy of the application from Lake County. 625 Lowell Tribune, 15 Jan. 1920, p. 1, col. 4, has middle names and names a deceased daughter. The three sons were at home in 1920 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 9A, fam. 234. 626 Social Security Death Index for exact birth date. 627 Lowell Tribune, 1 Jan. 1925, p. 1, at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholsg.htm. 628 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ 24, Lowell Cemetery, Section C, Row 5. Years only. 629 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, 1921-1942‖ (n.p., 1938), a typescript, alphabetically arranged, with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 5), for her maiden name at the births of eight children. 630 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), as unnamed daughter. 631 1910 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 38, sheet 15A-B, fam. 258 (Kelley Nicholas). 632 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), as unnamed son. 633 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 16 Row 21. Exact dates for him and his wife. 634 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 4:500. 635 She might be the 15-year-old Lucy M. [sic] Martin, daughter of George W. Martin (1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 614C, fam. 151). 636 Undated, unidentified newspaper article in Helen Craft's Scrapbook at the Lowell Public Library, has her exact dates and states 4 of 5 children were living. An obituary of her son Charles had her date of death as 21 Nov. 1897 (Lowell Tribune, 24 July 1924, p. 8, col. 3). 637 Lowell Tribune, 24 July 1924, p. 8, col. 3.

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Children of John Fremont7 and Lucy Jane (Martin) Nichols, all born presumably in Indiana, order uncertain:

8 638 i. GRACE M. NICHOLS, b. 5 May 1886; d. resident of La Porte Co., Ind., Feb. 1979; m. Lake Co., 8 Feb. 639 1911, FRANK W. BEACH. 8 640 ii. CHARLES ALBERT NICHOLS, b. 29 Dec. 1887; d. Lowell 19 July 1924; m. Lake Co., 17 Jan. 1912, EDITH 641 RUTH BELSHAW, b. Lake Co. 22 March 1894, daughter of William Edward and Lucina Cornelia (Brannon) Belshaw.642 On 27 March 1921 he, his wife, and daughter united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lowell. One child. 1. Madeline Ruth9 Nichols, b. Ind. 1919.643 8 644 iii. MYRTLE OLIVE NICHOLS, b. Jan. 1890; m. Lake Co., 17 Aug. 1910, CHARLES HORNER, b. Ill. ca. 1889.645 iv. Unidentified. 8 646 v. EDWARD STARR NICHOLS, b. 10 Dec. 1894; d. 17 Aug. 1898.

33. ANDREW A.7 NICHOLS (Samuel R.6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Lake County 14 November 1864 and died at Lowell 28 April 1942. 647 He married first in Lake County, 14 August 1888, EMMA CAROLINE DILLEY.648 She was born at Hebron 14 August 1871 and died at Lowell 26 February 1904. They are buried in Row NC 33, Hebron Cemetery. They had no children before the 1900 census.649 He married second Lake County, 25 May 1911, as her second of four husbands, ELLA B. (WHITE) NERENHEIM,650 who was born at Brookston, Indiana, 25 May 1885 and died at Dyer, Indiana, 25 May 1955, daughter of James and Lucinda (White) White.651

Children of Andrew A.7 and Ella B. (White) (Nerenheim) Nichols, all b. at Lowell: 652

8 i. KENNETH SAMUEL NICHOLS, b. 26 Sept. 1915; d. 24 Dec. 1990; m. 26 June 1943, HELEN FLORENCE WEHLE, b. Chicago 21 Aug. 1919; d. Louisville, Ky., 3 May 1997, daughter of Peter Joseph and Catherine Florence (Hurley) Wehle. He is buried in Row NC 33, Hebron Cemetery. Their son Michael J.9 Nichols, attorney of Louisville, provided helpful comments and extensive data on his grandparents’ family. 8 ii. MARTHA MAXINE NICHOLS, b. 28 Dec. 1916; m. (1) PETE PETERSON; m. (2) BERNARD C. SCOTT.

638 Social Security Death Index. 639 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 18:91. 640 Lowell Tribune, 24 July 1924, p. 8, col. 3. 641 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 19:234. 642 1900 U.S. Census, West Creek Pct., Lake Co., Ind. E.D. 42, sheet 9B, fam. 114. Ancestral file for her exact birth date and parents’ full names. 643 1920 U.S. Census, Lowell, Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 1A, fam. 8. He was a salesman in a department store. 644 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 17:297. 645 1920 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 34, sheet 1B, fam. 20. Three children all b. Ind.: 1. Ruth Horner, 8. 2. George M. Horner, 6. 3. Ethel G. Horner, 3. 646 ―Cedar Creek Township Cemeteries, Lake County, Indiana,‖ Cedar Creek Cemetery, 16 Row 21. ―their son.‖ 647 Michael J. Nichols (33.i), his grandson, family records. 648 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 5:269. 649 1900 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 23, sheet 3A, fam. 38. 650 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 18:292. Michael J. Nichols (33.i), her grandson, family records. 651 Obituary at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/feltwell.htm. Her third husband was William Stratton; her widow Harry Feltwell. Ernest Nichols was also named in her obituary. 652 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6). Her maiden name on all four births. Michael J. Nichols (33.i), their grandson, family records. 1920 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 10A, fam. 251, has their first three children and Ernest ―Nichols,‖ b. ca. 1911, her son by a previous marriage according to Michael J. Nichols (33.i).

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8 iii. LOUELLA MAY NICHOLS, b. 29 May 1919; m. CARL LUNDGREN. 8 653 iv. JAMES ANDREW NICHOLS, b. 19 Oct. 1920; d. Boca Raton, Fla., 14 Feb. 2006; m. 16 Aug. 1942, DOROTHY TEMPAS.

34. CHARLES MELVILLE7 NICHOLS (Lewis6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born 5 June 1868 and died at Mansfield, Ohio, 2 December 1950.654 He married at Nevada, Ohio, 5 August 1895, MINNIE VANDALIA JOHNSON, who was born there 7 July 1871 and died there 22 March 1904, daughter of James Melford and Alvira Genevera (Scott) Johnson.655 He was the proprietor of a printing office in 1920.656 Resident of Nevada, Ohio, when as a grandnephew, he was assigned a 1/84 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

Children of Charles Melville7 and Minnie Vandalia (Johnson) Nichols, all b. Ohio:657

8 i. RUBY ODETTE NICHOLS, b. Bellville 25 May 1896; d. Mansfield 25 Jan. 1984; m. 15 June 1919 658 ORLAND TONE CHAMPION, b. 28 Sept. 1894; d. 20 Dec. 1980. Two sons, one daughter. 8 659 ii. ROBERT JAMES NICHOLS (twin), b. Nevada 12 Dec. 1897; d. Mansfield 20 June 1980; m. Fremont, 660 Nebr., 9 March 1927, BARBARA JONES, b. 1899; d. 1989. 8 661 iii. RUSSELL LEWIS NICHOLS (twin), b. Nevada 12 Dec. 1897; d. San Bernadino, Calif., 12 July 1963; m. 662 Ada, Ohio, ca. 1922, OPAL AVIS VERSHEY, b. 13 Feb. 1903; d. 1 Dec. 1989. 8 663 vi. DARRELL AUDLEY NICHOLS, b. Bellville 12 July 1899; d. Mansfield 26 Sept. 1958; m. ca. 1922 664 MADELINE HAZEL ZEHNER, b. 22 May 1901; d. 27 April 1993.

35. JAMES ALBERT (BERT)7 NICHOLS (Lewis6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born at Wyandot County, Ohio, 22 February 1874 and died at Richland County, Ohio, 7 March 1950. 665 He married at Wharton, Ohio, 9 November 1901, MARY ANN KAUBLE,666 who was born at Wharton, Ohio, 14 September 1879 and died at Mansfield 27 May 1930, daughter of David and Sarah Matilda (Nichols) Kauble.667 Sarah was the daughter of John and Margaret (Baughman) Nichols.668

He was a typesetter in a printing office in 1910.669 Bert Nichols was a printer in a newspaper office in 1920.670 Resident of Nevada, Ohio, when as a grandnephew, he was assigned a 1/84 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). His first name varies among sources: as Albert in 1880 census and in will of both grandfathers, John Bibler and John Nichols; as James Albert on death certificate.

653 Social Security Death Index, number issued in Indiana. 654 Ohio Death Certificate 78,600, bur. Nevada, Ohio, informant son Robert J. Nichols. 655 Exact dates from granddaughter Betsy J. (Champion) Delashmitt, b. Sandusky, Ohio, 22 May 1924; d. Mansfield 1 Nov. 2009. 656 1920 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Mansfield, Madison Twp., Richland Co., Ohio, E.D. 198 sheet 2A, fam. 152, three sons at home. 657 1900 U.S. Census, 8th Ward, Mansfield, Madison Twp., Richland Co., Ohio, E.D. 125, sheet 5A-B, fam. 104, he was a printer. Four of four children were living. 658 Exact dates from daughter Betsy J. (Champion) Delashmitt, obituary 3 Nov. 2009 Mansfield News Journal. Five children. 659 Ancestral File for his exact dates. 660 Family records of Marcella Derrenberger. 661 Ancestral File for his exact dates. 662 Social Security Death Index for her exact dates. 663 IGI for date of death. 664 Social Security Death Index for her exact dates. 665 Ohio Death Certificate 18,968, bur. Mansfield, Ohio, informant Adelaid Porch. 666 Rebecca Hite, compiler, A Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings about the Hite Families and others in and near Wyandot County, Ohio – with clippings from at least as early as 1883, 56. This scrapbook has been indexed and scanned by the Wyandot County chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. 667 Ohio Death Certificate 32,592, bur. Mansfield, Ohio, informant Adelaid Nichols. 668 John Nichols, b. 1790-1800 (1840 census); d. about 1848 (guardianship papers for Sarah). Margaret, a daughter of Daniel Baughman, was b. in Muskingum Co., about 1823; d. about 1844. 669 1910 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, E.D. 183, sheet 11, fam. 105, ―supplemental page.‖ 670 1920 U.S. Census, 2nd Ward, Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, E.D. 203, sheet 11A, fam. 289, both daughters.

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Children of James Albert7 and Mary Ann (Kauble) Nichols, all b. Ohio

8 671 i. DOROTHY ANN NICHOLS, b. Mansfield 17 Feb. 1903; d. there 6 Dec. 1942; m. (1) Crestline, Ohio, 27 Aug. 1921, DEWEY COMMODORE HEISZ, b. Wayne Co., Ohio, 30 Nov. 1898; d. Cleveland 16 June 1966. Dorothy m. (2) Richland Co., 21 Nov. 1936, HARRY T. CROUSE, b. 1893.

One child: 1. Maxwell Albert Heisz, b. Mansfield, Ohio, 21 Dec. 1922; d. there 21 Jan. 1998; m. Elyria, Ohio, 7 Feb. 1942, Rosemary Jean Kelley (birth certificate) or Jeanne Elizabeth Kelley (marriage certificate) or Jeanne Lizbeth Kelley (death certificate). Three Heisz daughters including Marcella Anne Heisz, b. Elyria, Ohio, 15 Aug. 1942; m. (1) Mansfield, 20 Aug. 1960, Kenneth Alan Muir, b. Mansfield 20 Nov. 1938; m. (2) Williston, Ohio, 25 March 1975, Dwight Glen Derrenberger, b. Loudonville, Ohio, 27 Aug. 1938. Two children: (i) Sharon Leigh Muir, b. Mansfield 13 Jan. 1962. (ii) David Maxwell (né Callahan) Derrenberger, b. Mansfield 18 Nov. 1969. Marcella (Missy) Derrenberger, of Mansfield, collected data for this work over many years.

8 ii. MARY ―ADELAIDE‖ NICHOLS, b. Mansfield 27 April 1911; d. Richland Co. 15 Dec. 1996; m. Mansfield, 23 Sept. 1941, RUSSELL DEVON PORCH, b. Richland Co. 3 Sept. 1902; d. Mansfield 8 Oct. 1981. They and their two oldest sons are buried in the Mansfield Cemetery. Three sons.

36. JESSE ARTHUR7 NICHOLS (Martin6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana 28 673 November 1867 and died at Chicago 28 January 1942.672 He married (1) ca. 1892 ALDA (—) (—). He married (2) at Chicago, 12 October 1918, GERTRUDE (OTTO) DEEN,674 who was born in Illinois June 1880,675 daughter of Peter and Annie (—) Otto, natives of Holland,676 and widow of Orris E. Deen.677 As a young widow she resided with her widowed mother in 1910.678

He was a resident of Chicago, when as a grandnephew, he was assigned a 1/84 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii).

One son of Jesse Arthur7 and Gertrude (Otto) (Deen) Nichols:679

8 i. JESSE ARTHUR NICHOLS, b. Chicago 24 Sept. 1918; d. Galesburg, Ill., 30 Dec. 2000; m. Chicago, 11 July 1942, RUTH E. SWEENEY. He was a staff sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Glider Troop in the European Theater with the U.S. Army during World War II. His survivors were his wife, Ruth E. Sweeney of Knoxville, Ill., one son, Todd (Becky) Nichols of Rockford, Ill., a daughter, Mrs. John (Debra) Younge of Knoxville, Ill.; five grandchildren, Christy Nichols, Mrs. Alan (Tammy) Palmer, Jennifer Younge, Marcey Younge and Monique Younge, all of Knoxville, Ill.; and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded by a brother, Raymond [né Deen] Nichols.680

37. JOHN JAY 7 NICHOLS (Martin6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana 22 August 1876 and died 31 January 1919. He married MAMIE MARTIN.681

671 Ohio Death Certificate 75,789, bur. Mansfield, informant Maxwell Heisz 672 http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/IDPHDeathSearchServlet. 673 1910 U.S. Census, 7th Ward, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 424, sheet 6A, fam. 132. She was 42, 2nd marriage. 674 Family Search Labs for marriage certificate. Family records of nephew Murl M. Nichols (38.ii). 675 She is possibly the Gertrude E. Nichols, unknown age, d. Chicago, 15 Feb. 1937. 676 1880 U.S. Census, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 86, p. 29A, fam. 18. 677 1900 U.S. Census, Hyde Park Twp., 34th Ward, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 1086, sheet 7A, fam. 139. 678 1910 U.S. Census, 31st Ward, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 1357, sheet 2B, fam. 41. Her son Raymond Deen, b. ca. 1902. 679 1920 U.S. Census, 8th Ward Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 478, sheet 3A, fam. 53. Raymond O. Dean, 16, stepson. Jesse A. Nichols, Jr. 680 Obituary for J. Arthur Nichols in DeSoto Sun, Arcadia, Fla., 10 Aug. 2001. 681 Family records of nephew Murl M. Nichols (38.ii). 1910 U.S. Census, Hebron, Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 136, sheet 2A, fam. 40, consecutive after father.

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One daughter:

8 682 i. BEATRICE NICHOLS; b. Ind. 18 Sept. 1912; d. Oxnard, Calif., 17 Oct. 1996; m. ROBERT E. STARR. She lived at Fallbrook, Calif., in the 1970s.

38. FRANK E.7 NICHOLS (Martin6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana 26 April 1883 and died 13 April 1960.683 He married FAY E. FOLSOM, who was born in Indiana in 1887 and died in1947. They are buried in Row NC 20, Hebron Cemetery.

He worked as a telegrapher and block operator on the Pennsylvania railroad for 50 years. Resident of Hebron, Indiana, when as a grandnephew, he was assigned a 1/84 share of the estate of Mary E. Nichols (1.xii). Fay Nichols wrote The Kankakee: Chronicle of an Indiana river and its fabled marshes, an account, published posthumously by her daughter, of the region of the Kankakee River south of Hebron.

Children of Frank E.7 and Fay E. (Folsom) Nichols: 684

8 i. AUDREY FOLSOM NICHOLS, b. Hebron 26 Oct. 1912; d. Ft. Wayne 31 May 2003. An editor of House and Garden, she resided in New York City for over 50 years. She retained an interest in her native state, settled by her maternal ancestors in 1842. She was survived by her two nephews and their wives, Rick and Barbara Nichols of Hebron, Ind., and Kevin and Donna Nichols of Fort Wayne, Ind.; also, two great-nephews, Aaron Nichols of Kouts, Ind., and Ryan Nichols of Hebron, Ind.685 8 686 ii. MURL M. NICHOLS, b. 15 Feb. 1918; d. Hebron, Ind., 21 Nov. 1995; m. Porter Co., Ind., 21 July 1945, SUSANNE THERESA SLAGER, b. 22 Feb. 1926; d. 15 June 1996. They are buried in Row SC 6, Hebron Cemetery. See his sister’s obituary for family.

39. OLO ELERY7 NICHOLS (Elery Merris6, John5-4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born at Lowell, Indiana, 19 July 1875 and died 10 September 1966. He married October 1900, CHARLOTTE (―LOTTIE‖) MEMPHIS IRELAND, who was born in 1878 and died in 1941. They are buried in Row NC 3, Hebron Cemetery.687

Children of Olo Elery7 and Charlotte Memphis (Ireland) Nichols:688

8 689 i. DOROTHY NICHOLS, b. 12 March 1902; d. Lancaster Co., Pa., Oct. 1979; m. MORRIS DOYLE, b. 1900; d. 1955.690 Two children. 8 ii. JOSEPH NICHOLS, b. 20 Dec. 1908; d. Richmond, Va., 14 April 2004; m. MARTHA DUNGAN. One daughter. 8 691 iii. HARRIET NICHOLS, b. 27 July 1913; d. Hebron 26 June 2005; m. ERLING KALDAHL, b. 16 June 1912; d. 12 Aug. 2004. One daughter.

40. GLENN J.7 NICHOLS (Oliver P.6, Jesse5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born at Fairfield County 17 August 1886692and died at Lancaster 29 April 1939.693He married at Fairfield County, 18 February

682 Social Security Death Index. 683 Family records of son, Murl M. Nichols (38.ii). 684 1920 U.S. Census, Hebron, Boone Twp., Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 138, sheet 8B, fam. 217. 685 Obituary Post-Tribune (Fort Wayne, Ind.), 4 June 2003. 686 Social Security Death Index. 687 Much information on this family from their son Joseph Nichols (39.ii), who wrote several letters in the early 1980s to John Bradley Arthaud and Pat O’Dell. 688 1910 U.S. Census, Hebron, Porter Co., Ind., E.D. 136, sheet 3A, fam. 58, engineer, bridge building. 689 Years of birth and death from her brother; exact dates and locations from Social Security Death Index. 690 Family records of her brother Joseph. 691 Family records of her brother Joseph. Their exact dates from Social Security Death Index. 692 Fairfield County Births, 2:154, as Jesse G. Nichols. 693 Ohio Death Certificate #23,813, informant Mrs. Ethel Nichols. Buried Forest Rose Cemetery.

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1911, ETHEL L. AWALT,694 who was born at Hocking County, Ohio, 6 June 1889 and died at Lancaster 12 September 1978,695 daughter of Simon and Clara (Hendrickson) Awalt.

Children of Glenn J.7 and Ethel L. (Awalt) Nichols:696

8 i. FOREST LUCILLE NICHOLS, b. Lancaster 8 July 1911; d. Williamson Co., Texas, 2 Nov. 2001; m. Fairfield Co., 18 Sept. 1931, William Bradley Richardson,697 b. Groveport, Ohio, 23 April 1909, son of William and Emma (Ruble) Richardson. 8 698 699 ii. EILEEN W. NICHOLS, b. ca. Oct. 1919; m. York, S. Car., 27 Dec. 1942, Pfc. PAUL D. MCGEE, who was stationed at Morris Field.700 8 701 iii. TWILA M. NICHOLS, b. 1922, d. Pickaway Co. 16 Aug. 1976. Single, bur. in Forest Rose Cemetery.702

41. JOHN BERNARD7 NICHOLS (Walter Scott6, Eli5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Indiana 24 June 1881703and died 16 September 1956.704 He married at Lake County, 25 December 1903, MARGARET JANETTE (JENNIE) TURNER,705 who was born in Indiana ca. 1882. He and his brother Harry were consecutively enumerated in 1910.706 As J. Bernard Nichols, 48, farmer in Lake Co. in 1930. Five children were named in his obituary, Mary Story of Dyer, Florence Nichols of Fort Wayne, [John] Milford Nichols of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Mable Reeves, and Bernard Nichols, Jr., both of Lowell. His entire life was spent in the vicinity of Lowell707 with the exception of three and one-half years when he moved his family to Gillette, Wyoming.

Children of John Bernard7 and Margaret Janette (Turner) Nichols:708

709 i. MARY NICHOLS, b. possibly 2 Sept. 1904; d. bef. 15 Feb. 1990; m. — STORY. 710 711 ii. FLORENCE NICHOLS, b. 8 July 1907; d. South Bend, Ind., 10 Oct. 1999; m. — KIDDER. 712 713 iii. JOHN MILFORD NICHOLS, b. 13 May 1909; d. Yuma, Ariz., 2 March 1987; m. Pocatello, Idaho, 1 June 1940, BEULAH CALL. 714 iv. MABEL NICHOLS, b. 9 Sept. 1914; m. HAROLD REEVES.

694 Fairfield County Marriages 11:207, parents’ names and her calculated birth date. 695 Obituary Lancaster Eagle Gazette, 13 Sept. 1978. 696 1930 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 17, sheet 7A, fam. 192. 697 Fairfield County Marriages, 16:416, calculated birth dates and their parents’ names. 698 1920 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, E.D. 20, sheet 7A, fam. 181, Eileen 3 months old. 699 Lancaster Eagle Gazette, 12 Jan. 1963, ―TWENTY YEARS AGO.‖ 700 Residents of Lancaster in mother’s obituary. 701 Death Certificate, #61,161. 702 Same marker as parents. 703 1900 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 27, sheet 3A, fam. 47. A farm laborer living with his brother. 704 Obituary, Lowell Tribune, 20 Sept. 1956, p. 1 col. 3 < http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nichober.htm >. 705 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 10:489. 706 1910 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 43, sheet 1A, fam. 4 & 5. 707 1920 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lowell Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 32, sheet 9B, fam. 246; 1930 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 77, sheet 5A, fam. 92, three daughters and Milford at home. 708 Parents’ censuses. The first three children are placed in order of birth from the census, ages vary with three unnamed children. 709 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), unnamed. 710 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), unnamed. 711 Social Security Death Index. 712 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), unnamed. 713 Social Security Death Index. 714 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6).

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715 716 v. BERNARD NICHOLS, b. 5 Dec. 1921; d. 15 Feb. 1990. Bernard Junior Nichols, age 68, of Lowell, passed away Thurs., Feb. 15, 1990. He was survived by his wife, Mary Nichols; three sons, Donald (Nancy) Nichols, and George (Deborah) Nichols, both of Lowell, and Seth Nichols of Hebron; one daughter, Teresa (Warren) Smith of Huntsville, Mo.; two grandchildren; three great grandchildren; two step-granddaughters, and two sisters, Florence Kidder of Elkhart and Mabel (Harold) Reeves of Lowell. He was preceded in death by one brother and one sister. Bernard Nichols was engaged in farming and excavating, and also worked as a machinist. He was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army.717

42. HARRY BURTON7 NICHOLS (Walter Scott6, Eli5, John4, Joseph3, —2, John1) was born in Lake County, Indiana, 7 August 1883718 and died 2 November 1957. 719 He married (1) in Lake County, 25 August 1901, CARRIE ESTELL TOPPING,720 who was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, 28 March 1883 and died 7 May 1937. He married (2) 7 March 1942 IDA SCHILLING. In 1920 he was a farmer in Wyoming.721

Three children of Harry Burton7 and Carrie Estell (Topping) Nichols: 722

8 i. WALTER NICHOLS, b. ca. 1903. 8 723 ii. HAROLD NICHOLS, b. 18 April 1906. 8 724 iii. LEOTA NICHOLS, b. 10 Oct. 1910.

715 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, 1921-1942‖ (n.p., 1938), a typescript, alphabetically arranged, with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 5), unnamed son. 716 Social Security Death Index for both exact dates. 717 Obituary at < http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/nicholbe.htm>. 718 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), as unnamed son. 719 The exact dates for him and his first wife and their middle names, consistent with the censuses and cemetery records, are from an Ancestral File record by Melvin Dean Nichols of Idaho Falls, Idaho. 720 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-N.pdf accessed 23 March 2009, citing Lake County Marriages 9:126. 721 1920 U.S. Census, Gillette, Campbell Co., Wyo., E.D. 15, sheet 5A, fam. 103 722 Ann Weitgenant, project director, ―Nichols Family,‖ Lake County heritage (Dallas, Tex., ca. 1990), 133, submitted by Carolynne L. (Wendel) Miller, Harry’s niece. 1910 U.S. Census, Eagle Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., E.D. 43, sheet 1A, fam. 4. 723 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), as unnamed son. 724 United States Works Progress Administration, ―Index to birth records of Lake County, Indiana, 1882-1920‖ (n.p., 1938), 32, a typescript with multiple paginations (FHL microfilm # 1,299,982, item 6), unnamed daughter.

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Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And Give attention to know understanding.

Proverbs 4:1

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APPENDIX

BACON FAMILY

1. DEXTER2 BACON (Ralph1) was born about 1775 and died in 1826. He married 7 April 1816 HANNAH JORDAN, a daughter of Thomas and Priscilla (Cookson) Jordan,1 whose maternal grandparents were Joseph and Priscilla (Clark) Cookson. On 13 March 1803 Joseph Cookson, of Fermanagh Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, signed his will, which named five children: Daniel Cookson, Charles Cookson, and William Cookson, Mary Jordan, and Esther Leonard and granddaughter Jane Jordan.2 Joseph had a distillery in Fermanagh Township in 1783.3 Priscilla Clark was the daughter of William and Esther (—) Clark. The Clark ancestry is documented in the wills of William Clark4 and his single daughter Sarah Clark.5

Dexter’s father, Ralph Bacon, was one of 14 members of the surveying party that completed a survey of the Western Reserve east of Cuyahoga on 17 October 1796.6 The farm Ralph settled on was eventually owned by President James A. Garfield and is now a national historic site.

William Bacon, Dexter’s brother, who was murdered in Sanilac County, Michigan, had two sons living in Lexington, Michigan, in 1865.7 Hiram Bacon8 and William Bacon,9 the only Bacon men in Lexington in 1860, would seem likely to be nephews of Dexter; however, New York was the stated birthplace of each man. The onomastics of their children are mildly supportive of the idea that Hiram and William are brothers, despite the difference in their ages.

Children of Dexter2 and Hannah (Jordan) Bacon, order uncertain:10

3 2 i. ISAAC BACON, b. 1816; m. DIANA MERRIS. 3 3 ii. THOMAS BACON, b. ca. 1820; m. HARRIET SMITH. 3 11 iii. EMMA BACON.

1 Elizabeth Jordan Miller, The Thomas Jordan Family, 1766–1993 (n.p., 1993), 27-8, documentation for Dexter and Hannah’s ancestry and family. John Bradley Arthaud, ―An Index to Elizabeth Jordan Miller’s The Thomas Jordan Family 1766–1993‖ (Columbia, Mo., 2000), FHL microfilm 1440640, item 6. 2 Mifflin County Wills, 2:14, probated 1804. 3 F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford, eds., History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania... (Philadelphia: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), 865-74. 4 William Henry Egle, editor, Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series 30 vols. (Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1894–99) Some other descendants of William Clark can be found in Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s, Third Series Volume III, Notes and Queries- CCXVI, 262-5. A son William Clark and his family are sketchily covered in William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical Chiefly relating to Interior Pennsylvania (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, reprint 1970), 262–5. 5 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Wills C:76. She d. Salisbury, Lancaster Co., 4 Oct. 1752. 6 History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio … (Philadelphia, 1878, reprint 1973), 11-2. 7 Arthur L. Taylor and Cassius F. Bacon, Bacon family genealogy (n.p., 1922), 3. 8 1850 U.S. Census, Lexington, Sanilac Co., Mich., p. 9R/18, fam. 257, Hiram Bacon, 36, Harriet Bacon, 21, b. Vt.; and Reuben Bacon, 9 months, b. Mich. 1860 U.S. Census, Lexington Twp., Sanilac Co., Mich., p. 45, fam. 316, Hiram Bacon, 45; Harriet Bacon, 30; Reuben Bacon, 11; William Bacon, 8; James Bacon, 4, and Harriet Bacon, 2 months, children all b. Mich. 9 1860 U.S. Census, Lexington Twp., Sanilac Co., Mich., p. 43, fam. 297, William Bacon, 32, Catherine Bacon 22; Emily Bacon, 6 (first three b. N.Y.); Mary Bacon, 4; and Annette Bacon, 2, both b. Mich. Emily’s birthplace in N.Y. seems inconsistent with placement in the Ralph Bacon family. 1870 U.S. Census, Lexington Twp., Sanilac Co., Mich., p. 12/75R, fam. 93, has three additional children: William Bacon, b. ca. 1862; Carrie Bacon, b. ca. 1867; and Lafayette Bacon, 7 months old, all b. Mich. Emily’s birthplace again shown as N.Y. 1880 U.S. Census, Cedron Twp., Lincoln Co., Kans., p. 405C, fam. 8. Two more children: Hattie Bacon, b. ca. 1874 and Frank Bacon, b. ca. 1878, both b. Mich. Mary Helen Cook, granddaughter, 5, b. Mich. also in the household. 10 Arthur L. Taylor and Cassius F. Bacon, Bacon family genealogy (n.p., 1922), 2. No further information about Emma.

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2. ISAAC3 BACON (Dexter2, Ralph1) was born ca. 181712 and died in the mid-1840s. He married in Crawford County, Ohio, 10 July 1840,13 DIANA MERRIS,14 who was born in New York 7 August 1815 and died in Lake County, Indiana, 28 November 1882,15 daughter of Joseph S. Merris.16 She married second in Crawford County, Ohio, 22 July 1848, John Nichols.17 The Nichols family was in Grand Prairie Township, Marion County, Ohio, in 1850.18 By 1860 they were in Lake County, Indiana, where they remained the rest of their lives.19

Children of Isaac3 and Diana (Merris) Bacon:

4 i. SARAH ANN BACON, was born in Ohio 1842-3, married in Lake County, Indiana, 9 February 1862, 20 JOSEPH A. DEWITT. She presumably died between 1863 and 27 March 1870 when Joseph A. DeWitt married in Lake County Susan A. Dell. Emma DeWitt, a 7-year-old girl, enumerated with Joseph and Susan in 1870, is probably Sally Bacon’s daughter. No further study has been made of this girl. 4 4 ii. SETH ANDERSON BACON, b. ca. 1844; m. MARY A. JOHNSON.

3. THOMAS3 BACON (Dexter2, Ralph1) was born in Ohio ca. 1820 and died in 1893.21 He married HARRIET SMITH, who was born in New York, ca. 1820 and died in 1894. They moved to McHenry County, Illinois, in the mid-1840s, based on their children’s birth places.22 He was a butcher and a farmer.

Children of Thomas3 and Harriet (Smith) Bacon:

i. FRANCIS M.4 BACON, b. Ohio ca. 1843; d. 12 April 1915; m. SARAH JANE MCLANE, b. Ind. ca. 1844; d. 1883.23

Three children of Francis M.4 and Sarah Jane (McLane) Bacon:24

11 1820 U.S. Census, Chagrin Twp., Cuyahoga Co., p. 79, two boys and one girl less than 10 years old. 12 Presumably his parents’ first child. Dexter was listed before his brother Thomas in the Bacon family genealogy. 13 IGI, citing extracted records for locality. 14 Arthur L. Taylor and Cassius F. Bacon, Bacon family genealogy (n.p., 1922), 2. Isaac was the son of Dexter and Hannah (Jordan) Bacon (Elizabeth Jordan Miller, The Thomas Jordan Family, 1766–1993 (n.p., 1993), 27-8 [documentation for Hannah Jordan’s ancestry and family]; John Bradley Arthaud, ―An Index to Elizabeth Jordan Miller’s The Thomas Jordan Family 1766– 1993‖ [Columbia, Mo., 2000], FHL microfilm 1440640, item 6). 15 Gravestone in Lowell Cemetery for both her dates. 16 Crawford Co. Probate file 59, 1:479, Diana Nichols (Nicholas) signed 3 Aug. 1861 for her share of her father’s estate. 17 J. Bradley Arthaud and Patricia Combs O’Dell, ―The Two Wives of John Nichols,‖ The American Genealogist 56(1980):183– 184. 18 1850 U.S. Census, Grand Prairie Twp., Marion Co., Ohio, p. 151R, fam. 1205 has eight Nichols children, Sarah A. Bacon, 8, and Seth Bacon, 6, all b. Ohio. 19 1860 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 57/919, fam. 406. Sally Bacon, 17, and Seth A. Bacon, 16, both b. Ohio. 20 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Bride/Lake-Marriages-Bride-B.pdf accessed 23 March 2009. 21 Taylor, Bacon family genealogy, 2, their years of death. 22 1850 U.S. Census, Marengo, McHenry Co., Ill., p. 331/655, fam. 137. 1860 U.S. Census, Marengo, McHenry Co., Ill., p. 388, fam. 2821; 1870 U.S. Census, Marengo, McHenry Co., Ill., p. 1, fam. 1; 1880 U.S. Census, Marengo, McHenry Co., Ill., p. 183D, fam. 46, Mary Smith, 51, sister-in-law. 23 Taylor, Bacon family genealogy, 2, their years of death. 24 1870 U.S. Census, Marengo, McHenry Co., Ill., p. 32, fam. 292, 27-year-old cattle dealer;1880 U.S. Census, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., p. 294A, fam. 558.

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1. William F.5 Bacon, b. 19 June 1867, d. after the 1920 census;25 m. (1) ca. 1893 (first child) [?]ena —, b. Ill. Nov. 1875; m. (2) Belle M. —, b. Ill. ca. 1867; d. after the 1920 census. Four children, possibly incomplete:26

(i) Ina6 Bacon, b. July 1894. (ii) Guy6 Bacon, b. Feb. 1896; presumably their son Marion G. Bacon, who was adopted by George D. Bacon. (iii) Lester6 Bacon, b. July 1894. (iv) Ruth6 Bacon, b. July 1899.

2. Eva/Evelina5 Bacon, b. 1870; m. 1908 John Potter. Resided at Delavan Lake, Wisc. 27 3. Daisy5 Bacon, b. Sept. 1877; m. ca. 1899 George C. Beldam, b. Ill. May 1868.28 They d. after the 1920 census.29 Two sons: 30

(i) George Francis Beldam, b. ca. 1904; d. Las Vegas 4 July 1962; m. there, 3 Dec. 1931, Clara Bow, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., 29 July 1905; d. Los Angeles 27 Dec. 1965.31 Later known as Rex Bell, the actor. He was the Lt. Governor of Nevada, when he died during a campaign for Governor. The parents of two sons, they are bur. in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif. (ii) Hodson McLane Beldam, b. ca. 1908, who played in the 1928 film Upper Cut O’Brien, was with his brother when Rex Bell died.

ii. MARTHA E.5 BACON, b. Ill. ca. 1849; d. about 18 years old.32 iii. GEORGE D.5 BACON, b. Ill. Nov. 1855; d. after the 1910 census;33 m. ca. 1878 MATTIE —, b. Ill. Sept. 1859; d. after the 1920 census. They adopted his nephew’s son Marion Bacon, b. Iowa Sept. 1896.

4. SETH ANDERSON4 BACON (Isaac3, Dexter2, Ralph1) was born in Ohio ca. 1844-5 and died probably in Oklahoma between the 1910 and 1920 censuses. He was reared in the home of his stepfather, John Nichols. He married in Lake County, Indiana, 19 April 1866, MARY A. JOHNSON,34 who was born in Indiana ca. 1846-7 and died possibly in Oklahoma after the 1920 census35 when she was a 71-year-old widow enumerated with her single son Seth L. Bacon. Seth was a farmer in 1870 and 1880.36

25 1920 U.S. Census, Pct 1, Boise, Ada Co., Idaho, E.D. 1, sheet 8A, fam. 186. 26 1900 U.S. Census, McHenry, McHenry Co., Ill., E.D. 160, sheet 7B, fam. 172, well digger. 27 Taylor, Bacon family genealogy, 2. 28 1900 U.S. Census, 34th Ward Chicago, Hyde Park Twp., Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 1079, sheet 13A-B, fam. 279, enumerated with his widowed mother Elizabeth Beldam, b. England. 29 1920 U.S. Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., Calif., E.D. 135, sheet 3B, fam. 77. The surname is Beldan/Beldon, which was used by a grandson. 30 1910 U.S. Census, 7th Ward Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., E.D. 405, sheet 13A, fam. 276. 31 David Stenn, Clara Bow Runnin’ Wild (New York, 1988). Interesting biography. 32 Taylor, Bacon family genealogy, 3. 33 1880 U.S. Census, Vinton, Benton Co., Iowa, p. 324C, fam. 116, proprietor meat market; 1900 U.S. Census, Ward 1 Vinton, Benton Co., Iowa, E.D. 21, sheet 19A, fam. 466, 1910 U.S. Census, Ward 1 Vinton, Benton Co., Iowa, E.D. 23, sheet 9B, fam. 244; 1920 U.S. Census, Ward 1 Vinton, Benton Co., Iowa, E.D. 24, sheet 6A, fam. 146, 61-year-old widow living alone. 34 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/Archives/MarriageIndex-Lake-Groom/Lake-Marriages-Groom-B.pdf accessed 23 March 2009. 35 1920 U.S. Census, Oakdale Twp., Washita Co., Oklahoma, E.D. 193, sheet 3A, fam. 55. 36 1870 U.S. Census, West Creek Twp., Lake Co., Ind., p. 28/481R, fam. 198; 1880 U.S. Census, Beaver Twp., Lincoln Co., Kansas, E.D. 142, p. 470C, fam. 21. Son Seth W. Bacon, 8, presumably the same as Seth Linden Bacon, who age is somewhat too young in the later censuses.

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Children of Seth Anderson4 and Mary A. (Johnson) Bacon:37

5 i. CLAYTON A. BACON, b. Ind. ca. 1867; d. before the 1900 census. 5 38 ii. CAPITOLA D. BACON, b. Lake Co., Ind., 17 Sept. 1868; d. Twin Falls, Idaho, 25 June 1932; m. 18 May 39 1890 WILLIAM BRUNT SMITH, b. Madison Co., Ind., 4 April 1864; d. Kans. 11 May 1929. She was buried in Manhattan, Kansas. Nine children. b. in Kans.40

1. Lee Robert Smith, b. 10 April 1890; d. Twin Falls, Idaho, 16 June 1948. 2. George Hugh Smith, b. 2 Oct. 1892; d. Twin Falls, Idaho, 9 Jan. 1964; presumably the husband of Katie J. (—) Smith, 21, enumerated as daughter-in-law in 1920 census. 3. Edna Beatrice Smith, b. 29 June 1894; d. Twin Falls, Idaho, 16 Nov. 1990. 4. Nellie G. Smith, b. Feb. 1896; n.f.r. 5. Grace Fay Smith, b. 11 Dec. 1897; d. Twin Falls, Idaho, 29 Jan. 1973. 6. James Joseph Smith, b. 1 Sept. 1899; d. Jan. 1975. 7. Ralph V. Smith, b. ca. 1903. 8. Edith Lauava Lydia Smith, b. 5 Sept. 1904; d. Kansas City Jan. 1980. 9. Seth Stanley/Stanley Seth Smith, b. 5 Jan. 1909; d. Wichita, Kans., Nov. 1985.41

5 iii. JAMES E. BACON, b. Ind., Dec. 1859; presumably d. before the 1900 census. 5 iv. SETH LINDEN BACON, b. Ind. ca. 1872-6. Enumerated as Linden Bacon, 24, b. Kans., in the 1900 42 census. Seth L. Bacon in 1910. A first wife has not been identified. He m. (2) before the 1930 census JESSIE (—) 43 THORNTON, b. Ark. ca. 1890. 5 v. JOHN N. BACON, 5, b. Ind. or Kans. ca. 1875-8. 5 vi.WILLIAM J. BACON, b. Kans. Sept. 1879; m. say 1903 (first child) — —, d. before the 1910 census, when he was a 27-year-old widower, farmer. Presumably the father of Gladys C. Bacon, 6, granddaughter, b. ca. 1904 Okla., father b. Kans., mother b. Kans. [sic]. William enumerated in 1920 as a widower with his brother Seth. Velma [V.?] Bacon, 14, niece, b. Okla., father Kans., mother, N.Y. [sic]. Same as Gladys? Younger half sister with a different mother? 5 vii. BERNARD BACON, b. Kans. ca. 1884.

37 Parents’ censuses. 1900 U.S. Census, North Enid Twp., Garfield Co., Okla., E.D. 59, sheet 8B, fam. 154; married 30 [sic] years, 5 of 7 children living. So 2 of the 6 children in the 1880 census d. before the 1900 census. Seth, Capitola, John, and William were alive in 1900 so Clayton and James were dead by the 1900 census. No month was recorded for the parents’ birth. No year or month was recorded for the 4 children at home. 1910 U.S. Census, Oakdale Twp., Washita Co., Oklahoma, E.D. 263, sheet 20A, fam. 373; married 43 years, 5 of 7 children living. No additional children d. between the 1900 and 1910 censuses. 38 Idaho Death Certificates . She was a resident of Kimberly, Idaho. 39 All five exact dates for this couple from IGI. 40 1900 U.S. Census, Beaver Twp., Lincoln Co., Kansas, E.D. 59, sheet 3A, fam. 48. Married 11 years, 6 of 6 children living. 1910 U.S. Census, Jerome Twp., Gove Co., Kans., E.D. 39, sheet 1B, fam. 13; 1920 U.S. Census, Jerome Twp., Gove Co., Kans., E.D. 46, sheet 2A-2B, fam. 33. Exact birth dates and full names from IGI, all consistent with census data. 41 Social Security Death Index for his birth date. 42 1910 U.S. Census, Oakdale Twp., Washita Co., Oklahoma, E.D. 263, sheet 20A, fam. 377, 34-year-old farmer. 43 1930 U.S. Census, Oakdale Twp. (East part), Washita Co., Oklahoma, E.D. 18, sheet 10A, fam. 203. His age at first m. 22 [sic]; her age at first m. 17. Two stepsons: R. B. Thornton, 11, b. Okla., father, b. Tex., mother, b. Ark. and Jessie R. Thornton, 9.

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WILLIAM CLARK = ESTHER —

JOSEPH COOKSON = PRISCILLA CLARK

THOMAS JORDAN = PRISCILLA COOKSON

MARY JORDAN = RALPH BACON HANNAH JORDAN = DEXTER BACON

SALLY BACON = PHILANDER ODELL ISAAC BACON = DIANA MERRIS

CLARK ODELL = MARY NICHOLS SETH ANDERSON BACON = MARY JOHNSON

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Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions … I Timothy 1:4

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INDEX

ABBOTT Isaac, 7, 53–4, 57 Olive, 19 Frank W., 10 James, 53 BAUGHMAN Nettie E. (Craft), 10 James E., 56 Daniel, 47 ADAMS Jessie (—) (Thornton), 56 Margaret, 47 Hannah, 37 John N., 56 BEACH ANDERSON Lafayette, 53 Frank W., 46 Edward, 1 Lester, 55 Grace M. (Nichols), 46 Mary E. (—), 18 Linden, 56 Myra, 37 Sam, 18 Marion, 55 BEAVERS ARMSTRONG Marion G., 55 Alfred Kenneth, 39 Elizabeth (Surprise), 30, 31 Martha E., 55 Catherine Mildred (Nichols), James, 31 Mary, 53 39 Jane, 4 Mary (Jordan), 9, 57 BECKER ARTHAUD Mary A. (Johnson), 54, 55, Caroline, 19, 38 Annazella (O'Dell), 9 57 BEERY John B., 9 Mattie (—), 55 Abraham, 20 John Bradley, 7, 9, 49, 53, 54 Ralph, 9, 53, 57 Charles E., 20 ATCHISON Reuben, 53 Dessie M., 20 William, 1 Ruth, 55 Harry, 20 AWALT Sally, 9, 57 James A., 20 Clara (Hendrickson), 50 Sarah Ann, 8, 54 Joseph D., 20 Ethel L., 35, 49–50 Sarah Jane (McLane), 54 Katie, 20 Simon, 50 Seth Anderson, 8, 9, Leroy, 20 BACON 54–7 Lucinda B. (Whitesell), 20 Annette, 53 Seth Linden, 55–6 Matilda (Nichols), 20 Belle M. (—), 55 Seth W., 55 Robert D., 20 Bernard, 56 Thomas, 53–4 William H., 20 Capitola D., 56 Velma V., 56 BELDAM/ BELDAN/BELDON Carrie, 53 William, 53 Clara (Bow), 55 Cassius F., 9, 53–4 William F., 55 Daisy (Bacon), 55 Catherine (—), 53 William J., 56 Elizabeth (—), 55 Clayton A., 56 BAKER George C., 55 Daisy, 55 Caroline, 19, 38 George Francis, 55 Dexter, 53–4, 57 Hazel Bennett, 7 Hodson McLane, 55 Diana (Merris), 5, 7–10, BARLOW BELL 53–4, 57 Chester A., 34 Clara (Bow), 55 Emily, 53 Jeanette (Nichols), 34 Rex, 55 Emma, 53 BARR BELSHAW Eva, 55 Anna, 5, 14 Edith Ruth, 46 Evelina, 55 Catherine, 3 Lucina Cornelia (Brannon), Francis M., 54 David, 14 46 Frank, 53 Joseph, 3, 14 William Edward, 46 George D., 55 Mary A. (Bibler), 14 BENADUM Gladys C., 56 BARRETT Catherine (Nichols), 12, 13 Guy, 55 Samuel, 3 Eugene, 13 Hannah (Jordan), 53, 57 BARTRAM Philip Eugene, 13 Harriet, 53 S.H., 8 BENNETT Harriet (—), 53 BATES Thomas, 3 Harriet (Smith), 53–4 Christopher W., 37 BEOUGHER Hiram, 53 Hannah (Adams), 37 Carl, 35 Ina, 55 Mary Alice, 19, 37 Marjorie (George), 35

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BERNS BUGHMAN COLLIER David, 22 Henry, 33 Jean S., 3, 7, 14, 24, 34 BIBLER Mary A. (Lehman), 33 COMBS Barbara (Hite), 7 Viva Mae, 33 Pat, 7, 9, 11, 29, 30, 32, 49, Catherine (Hite), 14 BURGESS 54 Elizabeth, 5, 7–9, 21 Hila, 13 CONNELLY Jacob, 14 Sally (Nicola), 13 Patricia, 38 John, 7, 8 William, 13 CONNERS Mary A., 14 BURGETT Hattie, 20, 39 BLANCHARD Mary Ellen, 5, 24 COOK Charles, 20–1, 39 CAHIL Mary Helen, 53 BLEVINS/BLEVENS R.W., 7 COOKSON —, 42 CALL Charles, 53 Delores Fanny (Nichols) Beulah, 50 Daniel, 53 (Howard), 42 CALLAHAN Esther, 53 BOSEY David Maxwell, 48 Joseph, 9, 53, 57 Emma (Stateler), 28 CAMPBELL Mary, 53 BOW Rhoda A., 10 Priscilla, 9, 53, 57 Clara, 55 CARPENTER Priscilla (Clark), 9, 53, 57 BOWERS Paul, 12 William, 53 (Mrs.) Richard, 14 CARSON COOPER BOWMAN Neva (Nichols), 30, 32 Clyde, 18 Mary, 9–10 William, 32 Flo, 18 BRACHE CASE Jacob C., 18 Rachel, 29 Ann (Staley), 30 Leo, 18 BRADY Louisa M., 10, 30–1 Ona (Hammock), 18 Florence M. (Nichols), 43 Marvin, 30 Warne, 18 Helen, 43 CASSIDY Warren, 18 BRANNON Billie (Surprise), 31 CORRIGAN Lucina Cornelia, 46 Maude A. (Surpise), 31 Carolyn E. (Surprise), 31 BREITKEITZ/BREITKSERTZ West, 31 George F., 31 Edward, 15 CASTLE Mary, 30–1 Sarah (Nichols) (McFarland), Emma, 30 Michael, 30–1 15 CHAMPION COTTON BRIGHT Betsy J., 47 Jane Baldwin, 1 Nimrod, 2, 7 Orland Tone, 47 CRAFT Verlinda, 16 Ruby Odette (Nichols), 47 Alberta G., 10 BRINKER CLARK Almira (Nichols), 10 George, 8 Ambrose, 3 Clarice Lillian (Zentz), 10 BROCHET Esther (—), 9, 53, 57 Ellery C., 10 Rachel, 29 Priscilla, 9, 53, 57 Elmira (Nichols), 8 BROWN Sarah, 9, 53 Elsworth Nichols, 10 Fred, 14 William, 9, 53, 57 Genevieve Margaret (Bryte), Mabel (Winner), 13, 14 CLOHSET 10 Thomas, 1 Clarence George, 35 Georgia G., 10 BRUCKMAN/BRICKMAN Virginia C. (Strider), Gladys, 10 Esther (Nichols), 27–8 1–4, 35 Grace (Mann), 10 George H., 28 CLOVER Helen, 10, 45 Hattie, 28 Cynthia Ellen (Nichols), 12, John J., 10 Willie, 28 14 Lawrence E., 10 BRUMBAUGH Florence Mae, 14 Leonidas E., 10 Gaius Marcus, 2 George, 14 Margaret B., 10 BRYTE Jacob Boyles, 14 Nettie E., 10 Genevieve Margaret, 10 Maria (Hause), 14 Rhoda A. (Campbell), 10 BUDNEY COFFMAN Warren E., 10 Margaret (Nichols), 38 Clyde, 24 Warrene E., 10

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CRESAP Lyman Elery, 11 Caroline, 11, 32 James, 1 Martin James, 11 Christian, 32 Mary, 1 Orrin O., 10 Wilhelmina (Misner), 32 Mary (—), 1 Richard E., 11 FELTWELL Michael, 1–2 Sally Ann (Bacon), 54 Ella B. (White) (Nerenheim) Thomas, 1 Stella (—), 11 (Nichols) (Stratton), 46 CROOK Susan A. (Dell), 54 Harry, 46 Catherine Sophia (Nichols), DEXTER FILER 5, 15 Edna (Mahler), 11 Thelma, 33 George W., 15 J.C., 11 FITCH Ralph E., 15 DIERKS Emma May, 9 William, 3 Leo, 32 FLOWERS CROUSE Ruth (Turner), 32 —, 12 Dorothy Ann (Nichols) DILLEY FOLSOM (Heisz), 48 Emma Caroline, 46 Fay E., 30, 49 Harry T., 48 DINWIDDIE FORSYTHE CROW John Wilson, 38 Hannah V., 13, 33 William P., 29 Mary Elizabeth, 19, 38 Jacob, 33 DAILEY Mary Janette (Perkins), 38 Mary (Donaldson), 33 Ann, 2 DONALDSON FOWLER DARLE Mary, 33 Flora, 6, 25 Eliza, 5, 12–3 DOUGLAS George, 25 James, 12 Estella, 24, 41–2 Lovina (—), 25 DEEN Moses, 41 FRIEDHOFF Gertrude (Otto), 30, 48 Rebecca (—), 41 —, 13 Orris E., 48 Stella, 24, 41–2 Margaret E. (Richwine), 12– Raymond O., 48 DOYLE 3 DELASHMITT Dorothy (Nichols), 49 FULLER Betsy J. (Champion), 47 Morris, 49 Benjamin, 31, 36 DELL DRAKE Cora B., 19 Susan A., 54 Daniel B., 8 Charlotte J., 10, 31 DELONG DRISCOLL Levina (DeWitt), 31, 36 Elizabeth, 21 Ellen, 10, 30 Sarah Ann, 19, 36 DERRENBERGER DUNCAN GARFIELD David Maxwell (né —, 30 James A., 53 Callahan), 48 L. Wallace, 31 GARRISON Dwight Glen, 48 Louisa M. (Case) (Nichols), Alfred E., 21 Marcella Anne (Heisz) 30–1 Edward R., 21–2 (Muir), 17, 47–8 Luise, 30 Mary L. (Nichols), 21 DEWITT DUNGAN GEER Ada, 10–1 Martha, 49 Edith J. (Ryan), 18 Edward, 10 EGLE GEORGE Edward John, 11 William Henry, 53 Alice (Nichols), 35 Edward O., 11 ELLIS Charles, 35 Ellen P. (Nichols), 8, 10, 11 F., 53 Marjorie, 35 Emma, 54 ENNIS Ralph D., 35 Ethel (—), 11 Edna E., 40 Stella (Upp), 35 Etta, 10, 11 FALLER GIGER Homer E., 11 Jennie L., 35 Anna, 7 Jessie O., 11 FANCHER Eliza, 7 John Edward, 11 Andrew J., 27 Magdalena (Hite), 7 Joseph A., 54 Elizabeth (Nichols), 27 Martin, 7 Levina, 31, 36 FEHLMAN Mary, 7 Loren George, 11 Jerry, 12 Samuel, 7 Lula Mary (Parks), 11 Vessie (Mahler), 11–2, 32 GILLETT Lyman E., 10, 11 FEHRMAN Clara E. (Nichols), 23

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Edward Mithoff, 23 Emory, 8 HOGAN GLOVER HAUSE Bess, 32 Edward, 11 Maria, 14 HOPSON Geradline (Mahler), 11 HAWKINS Mary Edith (—), 9 GOODALE John, 1 HORNER Marvin, 8 HEADY Charles, 46 GOODSPEED Clarice, 45 Ethel G., 46 Weston A., 20–1, 39 HEISZ George M., 46 GORDON Dewey Commodore, 48 Josephine (Surprise), 31 George, 1 Dorothy Ann (Nichols), 48 Myrtle Olive (Nichols), 46 GRANT Jeanne Elizabeth (Kelley), 48 Robert, 31 Johanna, 19, 37 Marcella Anne, 17, 48 Ruth, 46 GREEN Maxwell Albert, 48 HOUSER Nellie Bryant, 36 Rosemary Jean (Kelley), 48 Catherine (Hammock), 17 GRESS HELLER Charles, 17 Marie, 33 Dick D., 39 Ethel, 17 GUYBERSON HENDERSON Floyd, 17 Carl, 36 Bethia B. (Newton), 21 Grace, 17 Daisy Dean (Nichols), 36 George, 21 Harvey, 17 Earl C., 36 Julia A., 5, 21, 22 James N., 17 Eugene Carl, 37 HENDRICKSON John, 17 John A., 37 Clara, 50 Katie A., 17 Nellie (McGuin), 36 HENRY Rex, 17 HAJIC Alexander, 3 HOW Lottie E., 11 HILL W. T., 8 HAMMOCK/ HAMMACH Clement, 1 HOWARD /HAMMICH Clifford O., 16 Delores Fanny (Nichols), 42 Catherine, 17 Mary Ann (Wilkinson), 32 John, 42 Cecil L., 18 Mary Elizabeth, 31 HOWER Edwin D., 18 Myrtle E. (Webb), 16 Cora V., 20 Ernest, 17–8 Ocena, 11, 32 Rachel Samantha, 20, 39 Eva C. (—), 18 William M., 32 HUBBELL Hattie, 17–8 HINDS Nellie, 17 Louisa, 17 Kenneth, 9 HUNGERFORD Louisa (—), 17 HITE A. N., 53 Mary Louise, 17 Andrew, 7, 21 HURLEY Maude Albina, 18 Ann (—), 7 Catherine Florence, 46 Ona, 18 Anna, 7 IRELAND Rebecca A. (Nichols), 17–8 Barbara, 7 Charlotte Memphis, 32, 49 Rose, 17, 18 Catherine, 7, 14 JACOB Samuel, 16–8 David, 7, 21 John Jeremiah, 1 Samuel H., 17 Elizabeth, 7 Mary (—), 1 Samuel S., 17 Elizabeth (DeLong), 21 JANSON HANDLEY Elizabeth L., 5, 21–2 Helen, 9 Alpha E. (Nichols), 31 Eve, 7 JEFFERSON Edward H., 31 Isaac, 7 Dink, 42 HANNAN Jacob, 7 Minnie, 24, 41, 42 Mary Ann, 29 John, 7 JOHNSON HARMON/HARMAN John C., 12 Alvira Genevera (Scott), 47 Catherine (Nichols), 4, 5 Magdalena, 7 Catherine, 5, 15–6 John, 5, 6, 23 Magdalena (—), 7 James Melford, 47 HART Martin, 7 Mary A., 54–7 Salina M. (Nichols) Rebecca, 8, 47 Minnie Vandalia, 29, 47 (Stenson), 22 Samuel, 7 JONES William, 22 HOFFER Barbara, 47 HATHAWAY Emma, 20

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JORDAN LEHMAN MCENULTY Clark, 34 Mary A., 33 Mary (Corrigan), 30–1 Elizabeth, 9, 53 LEONARD MCFARLAND Hannah, 53, 57 Esther (Cookson), 53 Bonnie F., 18 Jane, 53 LEVINE Candace Lorena, 15 Mary, 9, 57 Rachel (Scherf), 9 Charles, 15 Priscilla (Cookson), 9, 53, 57 LINDSAY Corrine, 18 Thomas, 9, 53, 57 Ben Wilson, 36 Gwen E., 18 JURY Dora Bell, 9 John O., 18 John, 8 Helen Margaret, 36 Maude Albina (Hammock), KALDAHL Nellie Bryant (Green), 36 18 Erling, 49 LINN Merle L., 18 Harriet (Nichols), 49 Clara B. (Nichols), 39 Muriel, 18 KAMINSKY Oliver W., 39 Owen, 15 Donna, 2 LINZ Sarah (Nichols), 5, 15 KAUBLE Ada (DeWitt), 11 Wade E., 18 David, 47 Martin, 11 MCGEE Mary Ann, 29, 47–8 LUNDGREN Eileen M. (Nichols), 50 Sarah Matilda (Nichols), 47 Carl, 47 Paul D., 50 KELL[E]Y Louella May (Nichols), 47 MCGUIN Allen, 8 MAHLER Nellie, 36 Achsah, 9, 27 Bertha (—), 11 MCLANE Jeanne Elizabeth, 48 Blanche (Stowell), 12 Sarah Jane, 54 Rosemary Jean, 48 Carl E., 11 MCNAY KELLER Edna, 11 Alpha A. (Purdy), 19 Verena Mary, 39 Etta May, 11 Charles H., 19 KENNEY Geraldine, 11 Gerald, 19 Ella (Webb), 16 Jessie E., 11 Gilbert A., 41 James O., 16 Lottie E. (Hajic), 11 Hattie Edith (Nichols), 40–1 KEUPER Merle Edward, 11, 12 Laura L. (Wheeler), 41 Alice Blanche (Nichols), 40 Neil, 12 Marshall Gilbert, 41 Charles Francis, 40 Nellie C. (Nichols), 8, 11, 27 Ora (—), 19 KIDDER Paul William, 11 Peter A., 41 Florence (Nichols), 51 Pearl, 11 Wendell LaVerne, 41 KIEFER Vessie, 11, 12, 32 MERRIS Dessie M. (Beery), 20 MANN Diana, 5, 7–10, 53–4, 57 Emery Guy, 20 Asa, 10 Joseph S., 7, 54 KING Grace, 10 MEYER Albert C., 33–4 MARKEE Arthur C., 39 Charles, 28 Kitty, 2–3 Beulah Beatrice (Nichols), 39 Emma (Nichols), 27–8 MARQUISS MIESSE Marshall, 28 Ann (__), 3 Ellen (Nichols), 20 MARY Lillian (Nichols), 33–4 Catherine, 2–3, 5 Franklin William, 20 Norah, 28 Richard, 3 William, 20 LAMBERT MARTIN MILLER Cornelius, 40 George W., 45 Anna A., 39 Maria Rosina, 21, 40 Lucy Jane, 28, 45–6 Carolynne L. (Wendel), 15, Rosina Maria, 21, 40 Lucy M., 45 21, 25, 38, 51 LANTZ Mamie, 30, 48 Elizabeth (Jordan), 9, 53 Catherine (Barr), 3 MCBRIAN Frank Xavier, 39 Jacob, 14 Edna K. (Surprise), 31 Rebecca, 18 Martin, 3 R. L., 31 Verena Mary (Keller), 39 Mary, 2, 3, 5 MCCANN MISNER Mary A. (Bibler) (Barr), 14 Aaron J., 29 Wilhelmina, 32 LAVENDER Fannie M., 10, 29–30 MITCHELL Alice, 16 Mary Ann (Hannan), 29 William, 12, 24

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MUIR Bert, 47 Eaton, 41 Kenneth Alan, 48 Bertha N., 21–2 Edith Ruth (Belshaw), 46 Marcella Anne (Heisz), 48 Bess (Hogan), 32 Edna E. (Ennis), 40 Sharon Leigh, 48 Beulah (Call), 50 Edward, 23, 27–8 MUMAH Beulah Beatrice, 39 Edward Oliver, 23 Sandra Elaine Heppes, 3 Blanche Alice, 40 Edward Starr, 46 MUNNETT Caroline (Baker/Becker), 19, Edwin, 27–8 Thomas, 4 38 Eileen W., 50 MYERS Caroline (Fehrman), 11, 32 Elery, 27, 29 Margaret E., 3 Carrie Estell (Topping), 38, Elery Merris, 11, 32 NERENHEIM 51 Elery Warren, 45 Ella B. (White), 28, 46 Catherine, 4–5, 12–3 Eli, 4–5, 12, 15–6 Ernest, 46 Catherine (—), 25, 42, 43 Eliza, 13 NEWMAN Catherine (Johnson), 5, 15–6 Eliza (Darle), 5, 12–3 Maryetta (Nichols), 24 Catherine (Marquiss), 2, 3, 5 Elizabeth, 15, 27 Will E., 24 Catherine Ann (Smith), 15, Elizabeth (Bibler), 5, NEWTON 34–6 7–9, 21 Bethia B., 21 Catherine M., 43 Elizabeth A., 21–2 NICHOLIA/NICOLA Catherine Mildred, 39 Elizabeth L. (Hite), 5, 21–2 Sally, 13 Catherine Sophia, 15 Ella, 22 NICHOLS Celia J., 21 Ella B. (White) (Nerenheim), —, 2 Celia Jane, 21–2 28, 46 Aaron, 49 Celina M., 21–2 Ellen, 5, 8, 20 Abraham, 4–5 Charles, 8, 19 Ellen (Driscoll), 10, 30 Achsah (Kelley), 9, 27 Charles Albert, 45–6 Ellen P., 10 Adelaide, 47–8 Charles Melville, 29, 47 Ellery, 8, 30 Albert, 8, 47 Charley, 20 Elmira, 8 Albina, 18–9, 24, 38 Charlotte (—), 37 Elsie (Van Meter), 5, 16 Alda (—) (—), 48 Charlotte J. (Fuller), 10, 31 Elza M., 12–3 Alice, 35 Charlotte Memphis (Ireland), Emma, 21, 24, 27–8 Alice B. (—) (—), 34 32, 49 Emma Caroline (Dilley), 28, Alice Blanche, 40 Christy, 48 46 Allen H., 24 Clara, 36 Emma Eliza, 12–3 Almira, 10 Clara B., 39, 40 Emma Jenita, 35 Alpha, 8 Clara E., 23 Emma L. (Taylor), 21, 40 Alpha E., 31 Clarice (Heady), 45 Ernest (né Nerenheim), 46 Alva/Alvin Marion, 39 Clyde, 39 Estella (Douglas), 24, 41–2 Amanda (Smith), 15, 34 Cora Alice, 6, 23–4 Esther, 27, 28 Andrew A., 27–8, 45, 46 Cora V. (Hower), 20 Ethel L., 25, 43 Ann, 12 Cynthia Ellen, 12, 14 Ethel L. (Awalt), 35, 49, 50 Ann (Dailey), 2 Daisy Dean, 36 Ethel Lorena, 35 Anna (Barr), 5, 14 Daniel S., 34 Etta, 24 Anna A. (Miller), 39 Darlington S., 34 Eve C., 33 Archibald B., 24, 41–2 Darrell Audley, 47 Evelyn L., 33 Arthur, 48 David, 5 Fannie, 24 Asa, 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 13, 28–9, David B., 15 Fannie M. (McCann), 10, 29– 32 Deborah (—), 51 0 Audrey Folsom, 49 Debra, 48 Fay E. (Folsom), 30, 49 Barbara (—), 49 Delores Fanny, 42 Ferdinand, 19, 20, 39 Barbara (Jones), 47 Diana (Merris) (Bacon), 5, 7– Flora (Fowler), 6, 25 Beatrice, 49 10, 54, 57 Florence, 50–1 Becky (—), 48 Donald, 51 Florence B., 37 Benjamin F., 19, 37 Donna (—), 49 Florence M., 43 Benjamin R., 25, 42–3 Dorothy, 37, 49 Floyd, 40 Benson Ray, 41 Dorothy (Tempas), 47 Forest Lucille, 50 Bernard, 32, 50–1 Dorothy Ann, 48 Frances (—), 2–4, 40

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NICHOLS (continued) Jennie L. (Faller), 35 Martin, 5, 8, 19, 36 Frank, 29 Jesse, 5, 12–4, 33 Martin W., 10, 27, 29, 30 Frank E., 29, 30, 49 Jesse Arthur, 30, 48 Mary, 4–5, 8–9, 27, 50, 57 Frank H., 20 Jesse G., 49 Mary (—), 51 George, 2–4, 12, 23–4, 51 Jesse J., 33 Mary (Lantz), 2–3, 5 George E., 37 Johanna (Grant), 19, 37 Mary Adelaide, 48 George H., 42–3 John, 1–5, 7–10, 12–3, 16, Mary Alice (Bates), 19, 37 George Herschel, 35 20, 23, 29, 39, 47, 54–5 Mary Ann, 13 George W., 5, 23–4 John A., 8, 28–9, 32 Mary Ann (Kauble), 29, 47–8 Gertrude, 32 John Albert, 29 Mary E., 5, 6, 9–11, 13–7,19, Gertrude (Otto) (Deen), 30, John Bernard, 38, 50 20, 22–3, 25, 27, 29–42, 48 John Fremont, 27–8, 45, 46 47–9 Glenn, 45 John Herbert, 33 Mary Elizabeth (Dinwiddie), Glenn J., 35, 49, 50 John J., 19, 36 19, 38 Glenwood, 45 John Jay, 30, 48 Mary Ellen, 15 Grace M., 46 John Milford, 50 Mary Ellen (Burgett), 5, 24 Guy Eddie, 45 John W., 23, 31 Mary L., 21, 42 Hanna, 34 Joseph, 1–5, 12–3, 23, 32–3, Mary Lillian, 33 Hannah V. (Forsythe), 13, 33 49 Mary Louise (Ramsey), 5, 23 Harold, 51 Joseph E., 37 Mary Lucena (Sigler), 22, 41 Harold F., 32 Joseph H., 33 Mary M., 19, 24 Harriet, 49 Joshua, 5, 14, 15 Maryetta, 24 Harriet Elizabeth, 39 Julia A. (Henderson), 5, 21–2 Matilda, 20 Harriet Minerva, 16, 19, 36–7 Kenneth Samuel, 46 Matilda (Schultz), 5, 19, 36 Harry Burton, 38, 50–1 Kevin, 49 Maud, 32 Harry J., 28–9 Kitty (Markee), 2–3 Maud E., 31 Harry M., 33 Leonard E., 38 Melvin Dean, 38, 51 Harvey, 5, 15, 34 Leota, 51 Michael J., 27–8, 45–6 Hattie (Conners), 20, 39 Leota M., 34 Mildred, 36 Hattie (Smith), 15, 34 Lewis, 8, 10, 29 Mildred H., 38 Hattie Edith, 40–1 Lillian, 33 Milford, 50 Hazel B., 38 Lizzie, 5 Milford Eaton, 21–2, 41 Helen Florence (Wehle), 46 Lolita, 38 Minerva (Stateler), 9, 28–9 Helen Grace, 42 Louella May, 47 Minerva S., 29 Helen Margaret (Lindsay), 36 Louisa M. (Case), 10, 30–1 Minnie (Jefferson), 24, 41–2 Henry, 4–5, 12–3, 16, 22–3 Lucy Jane (Martin), 28, 45–6 Minnie Vandalia (Johnson), Hermia A., 31 Mabel, 50, 51 29, 47 Herschel G., 35 Madeline Hazel (Zehner), 47 Missouri, 16 Herschel J., 21, 39–40 Madeline Ruth, 46 Murl M., 29–30, 48–9 Herschel W., 35 Mamie (Martin), 30, 48 Musa, 31 Hila (Burgess), 13 Margaret, 29 Myra Winifred, 35 Horace J., 23–4 Margaret (Baughman), 47 Myrtle Olive, 46 Horatio J., 16 Margaret Ella, 45 Nancy (—), 51 Howard E., 43 Margaret Janette (Turner), Neil B., 33 Howard Melville, 25 38, 50 Nellie, 8, 39 Howard Pearl, 36 Margaret Jesteen, 39 Nellie C., 11, 27 Ida (Schilling), 38, 51 Marguerite, 41 Neva, 30, 32 Iva (—), 37 Maria Rosina (Lambert), 21, O. P., 6 Iva Pearl, 45 39–40 Ocena (Hill), 11, 32 Jack, 42 Marie (Gress), 33 Ola C. (Wright), 28, 45 Jacob, 5, 8, 16, 20–2, 27 Marshall A., 21, 40 Olive (—), 33 Jacob A., 10, 30–1 Marshall E., 40 Oliver, 5 James Albert, 29, 47–8 Martha, 34 Oliver Edward, 23 James Andrew, 47 Martha (Dungan), 49 Oliver P., 14–5, 34–6 James B., 19 Martha (Payne), 2 Oliver Perry, 5, 24 Jeanette, 34 Martha Maxine, 46 Olo Elery, 32, 49

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NICHOLS (continued) O’DELL Pete, 46 Opal Avis (Vershey), 47 Alora Ellen, 10 PHILLIPS Patricia, 42 Annazella, 9 Phebe, 1 Patricia (Connelly), 38 Clark, 9, 10, 57 Philip, 1 Paul H., 43 Dora Bell (Lindsay), 9 Sarah, 1 Pearl, 35 Emma May (Fitch), 9 William, 1 Perry, 4–5, 8, 24 Keith Lester, 9 PITSENBARGER Perry Jerome, 10, 31 Leona E. (—), 9 Abraham, 18 Polly, 5 Leonidos Nichols, 9 Artie B., 17–8 Rachel Samantha (Hower), Loren Lester, 9 Hattie (Hammock), 17, 18 20, 39 Mary, 9 Henry, 18 Rachel Sophia (Orchard), 10, Mary (Nichols), 8–9, 27, 57 Hiram J., 18 29 Mary Edith (Hopson) (—), 9 Katherine, 18 Ralph, 22 Pat (Combs), 7, 9, 11, 29, 30, Katherine (Pittsenberger), 18 Raymond O. (né Deen), 48 32, 49, 54 Mary E., 18 Rebecca A., 17, 18 Philander, 9, 57 Nellie E., 18 Rebecca J., 13 Sally (Bacon), 9, 57 Nina G., 18 Rick, 49 Warren Everett, 9 Rebecca (Miller), 18 Robert James, 47 ORCHARD Velma, 17–8 Rosina Maria (Lambert), 21, Edmond, 29 Willard Edwin, 17–8 39–40 Rachel (Brache), 29 PORCH Ruby Odette, 47 Rachel Sophia, 10, 29 Mary Adelaide (Nichols), Russell Bryan, 15, 35–6 ORMAN 47–8 Russell Lewis, 47 Ellen J. (Winner), 13, 14 Russell Devon, 48 Ruth, 24 George B., 14 PORTER Ruth E. (Sweeney), 48 OTTO Edward, 42 Ryan, 49 Annie, 48 Mary L. (Nichols), 42 Salina M., 22 Gertrude, 30, 48 POTTER Samantha J., 20 Peter, 48 Eva (Bacon), 55 Samuel, 4–6, 8, 25, 30 PALMER John, 55 Samuel Kelley, 27–8, 45 Alan, 48 PRATHER Samuel R., 9, 27 Bertha N. (Nichols), 22 Amanda, 12 Sarah, 5, 15 Celia Jane (Nichols), 21, 22 PURDY Sarah Ann (Fuller), 19, 36 Edward Grant, 22 Albina (Nichols), 18–9, 38 Sarah Matilda, 47 James Calvin, 22 Alpha A., 19 Serepta A., 5, 14–5, 35 Tammy (—), 48 Berl, 19 Seth, 51 PARKS Bertie, 19 Sophia, 15 Lulu Mary, 11 Cora B. (Fuller), 19 Stella (Douglas), 24, 41, 42 PATTEN Faith, 19 Susanne Theresa (Slager), 49 R., 8 Herman V., 19 Teresa, 51 PAYNE Hezekiah Howell, 18–9 Thelma (Filer), 33 Flayl, 2 Howell, 18–19 Todd, 48 Martha, 2 Mabel M., 19 Twila M., 50 PEARCE Olive (Bates), 19 Victor, 41 Florence Mae (Clover), 14 True, 19 Virgil N./H., 40 Herbert D., 14 Zura M., 19 Viva Mae (Bughman), 33 Rebecca, 13 QUARRY Vivia, 42 Thomas Clover, 12, 14 Clara (Nichols), 36 Walter Scott, 19, 38 PERKINS John E., 36 Wilhelmina, 33 Mary Janette, 38 Maude M., 36 William, 20 PERRY Paul F., 36 William B., 37 Audelia, 23 RAMSEY William Jacob, 33 Olive (—), 23 Audelia (Perry), 23 Winfield, 34 Vic, 23 Mary Louise, 5, 23 Winnie A., 35 PETERSON Robert, 23 Zura, 16 Martha Maxine (Nichols), 46

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REEVES Ida, 38, 51 Catherine Ann, 15, 34–6 Harold, 51 SCHMAL Edith Lauava Lydia, 56 Mabel (Nichols), 50–1 Richard, 25, 27–8 Edna Beatrice, 56 REHM SCHULTZ Eliza (—), 34 Candace Lorena Matilda, 5, 19, 36 Elizabeth (Nichols), 15, 36 (McFarland), 15 SCOTT George, 35 Charles Wilbur, 15 Alvira Genevera, 47 George Hugh, 56 John C., 15 Bernard C., 46 George N., 34–6 John Edward, 15 Charles F., 31 George W., 6, 15, 29 RICHARDSON Hervey, 7 Grace Fay, 56 Emma (Ruble), 50 Martha Maxine (Nichols) Harriet, 53 Forest Lucille (Nichols), 50 (Peterson), 46 Hattie, 15, 34 William, 50 SCRITCHFIELD Hazel M. (Turner), 17 William Bradley, 50 Clara B. (Nichols), 40 J. T., 34 RICHWINE Robert S., 40 James Joseph, 56 —, 29 V. Aline, 40 Katie J. (—), 56 Ann (Nichols), 12 Virgil R., 40 Lee Robert, 56 John, 13 SERAMUR Mary, 54 Margaret (Nichols), 29 Bernice, 22 Nellie G., 56 Margaret E., 12–3 Elizabeth A. (Nichols), 21–2 Ralph V., 56 Mary Ann (Nichols), 13 Ella, 22 Seth Stanley, 56 ROBERTS George, 22 Stanley Seth, 56 James B., 9 Gerald E., 22 Teresa (Nichols), 51 Mary (O'Dell), 9 Mabel, 22 Warren, 51 Olla Orene, 9 Mary, 22 William Brunt, 56 ROGERS Merle, 22 SPAHR David, 1 Peter, 22 Albert Clark, 39 Mary (—) (Cresap), 1 SHAEFFER Nellie (Nichols), 39 ROSS Maria, 20 SPANGLER Margaret, 17 SHAW William, 1 ROUSE Virgil E., 12 STALEY Grave C., 11 SHOUP/SHUPE Ann, 30 Pearl (Mahler), 11 Clarence, 37 STARR ROWSE Florence B. (Nichols), 37 Beatrice (Nichols), 49 Z., 7 Howard, 37 Robert E., 49 RUBLE Richard, 37 STATELER Emma, 50 SIGLER Emma, 28 RUDDOCK Mary Lucena, 22, 41 Minerva, 9, 28 Harry, 42 SIMMONS Sarah, 28 Helen Grace (Nichols), 42 Bob, 31 Sylvester, 28 RUSSELL Josephine (Surprise) STENN George Ely, 2 (Horner), 31 David, 55 RYAN SITES STENSON/ STINSON —, 18 Daniel, 7 Bertha, 23 Edith J., 17–8 Elizabeth (Hite), 7 Celina M. (Nichols), 21, 22 Rose (Hammock), 17, 18 J.B., 9 Edith, 23 SABRA SKIDMORE James, 22 Alberta G. (Craft), 10 Warren, 2 Julie, 23 Eimert, 10 SLAGER Salina M. (Nichols), 21, 22 SAGE Susanne Theresa, 49 William, 23 Clara McCormack, 3 SMALLERS STEPHENS SCHAEFFER Catherine, 35 Esther, 9 (Mrs.) Harlin, 14 SMITH STORY SCHERF Amanda, 15, 34 Mary (Nichols), 50 Rachel, 9 Capitola D. (Bacon), 56 STOWELL SCHILLING Catherine (Smallers), 35 Blanche, 12

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STRATTON Margaret (Ross), 17 Margaret, 38 Ella B. (White) (Nerenheim) Margaret Janette, 38, 50 Robert, 38 (Nichols), 46 Mary Louise (Hammock), 17 WENGER William, 46 Maud (Nichols), 32 Joseph H., 20 STRIDER Oliver, 18 WHEELER Ethel Lorena (Nichols), 35 Ruth, 32 Laura L., 41 Uberto Henry, 35 Vaughn, 17 WHITE Virginia C., 1–4, 35 UPP Ella B., 28, 46 STUCKEY Stella, 35 James, 46 Frank, 23 VAN METER Lucinda, 46 Martha (Vorys), 23 Elsie, 5, 16 Lucinda (White), 46 SURPRISE Jacob, 4 WHITESELL Billie, 31 VERSHEY Lucinda B., 20 Carolyn E., 31 Opal Avis, 47 WILCOX Edna K., 31 VORYS Mildred H. (Nichols), 38 Elizabeth, 30–1 Charles D., 23 Tracy F., 38 Harvey, 31 Cora Alice (Nichols), 6, 16, WILKINSON Henry, 31 23–4 Mary Ann, 32 Hermia A. (Nichols), 31 F. W., 23 WILLIAMS Josephine, 31 George W., 6, 23 —, 18 Mary Elizabeth (Hill), 31 Harry, 6, 23–4 Clara E. (Webb), 16 Maude A., 31 Martha, 23 Harry, 16 William H., 30–1 Ralph, 23 Rose (Hammock) (Ryan), 18 SWARTZ WEBB Ruth G., 18 David, 14 Albert, 16 WINNER SWEENEY Alice (Lavender), 16 Daniel, 13 Ruth E., 48 Clara E., 16 Ellen, 13–4 TAYLOR Ella, 16 Emma Eliza (Nichols), 12–3 Anna, 7 Ernie, 17 George, 13 Arthur L., 9, 53–4 Garret, 16 John, 13 Emma L., 21, 40 Garrett, 16 Mabel, 13 Julia Ann, 40 Harriet Minerva (Nichols), Rebecca (Pearce), 13 Julia Ann (Taylor), 40 16, 19, 36, 37 William, 13 Obadiah G., 40 Hazel, 16 WRIGHT TEMPAS Hugo, 16 Ola C., 28 Dorothy, 47 Myrtle, 16 WRIGHT, THORNBURG Myrtle E., 16 Ola C., 45 Charles C., 9 Reese Martin, 16 YOUNGE THORNTON Verlinda (Bright), 16 Debra (Nichols), 48 Jessie (—), 56 Virlinda, 17 Jennifer, 48 Jessie R., 56 WEHLE John, 48 R. B., 56 Catherine Florence (Hurley), Marcey, 48 TOPPING 46 Monique, 48 Carrie Estell, 38, 51 Helen Florence, 46 ZEHNER TUCKER Peter Joseph, 46 Madeline Hazel, 47 John O., 34 WEITGENANT ZENTZ Leota M. (Nichols), 34 Ann, 15–6, 21, 25, 38, 51 Clarice Lillian, 10 TURNER WEIZ Elmer Ellsworth, 9 Flo (Cooper), 18 George, 16 Henry Welker, 9–10 Fred, 32 WELSH Mary (Bowman), 9–10 Hazel M., 17 Hiram, 8 Olla Orene (Roberts), 9 Howard B., 17 WENDEL James J., 17 Carl Louis Ray, 38 Jennie, 38, 50 Carolynne L., 15, 21, 25, 38, John B., 17 51 John R., 17 Lolita (Nichols), 38

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