Obituaries
MRS. MARY NICHOLS DIES AT SON'S HOME
The Webster City Daily News" Monday, 4 February 1929
Mrs. Mary E. Nichols, who had been making her home with her son, H. J. Nichols, five miles southeast of this city, for the last six years, died at the Nichols home Friday evening at 5:15 o'clock. She had been gradually failing in health for some time. The funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. at Foster's, the Rev. Thomas B. Collins, pastor of the Methodist church officiating. Mrs. Nichols was born May 7, 1843, near Paragon, Ind. It was there that she and Mr. Nichols were married Oct. 21 1858. To them six children were born, four of whom survive their mother. They are Milda A. Grounds and W. C. Nichols of Paragon, Ind.; S. S. Nichols of Winterhaven, Fla., and H. J. Nichols with whom she made her home. A son, J. R. or B. and a daughter Chloe Barham, preceded their mother in death. In 1877 the Nichols family moved in a covered wagon to Coffeeville, Kansas, but returned to Indiana after spending a year in Kansas. In the spring of 1887 the family again moved to Kansas, this time locating at Norton. It was there in 1890 that Mr. Nichols died, and since then Mrs. Nichols had made her home with her children.
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d/o James Ballard Callahan & Milda Harriet Murphy
FINAL RITES FOR WINFIELD NICHOLS WERE CONDUCTED
By REV. MASTEN at CORINTH CHURCH
"Daily Reporter, Martinsville, Tuesday, 8 August 1939"
Funeral services for Winfield Nichols, who took his own life Friday morning at the home of his daughter near Lewisville, were conducted Monday forenoon at Corinth church, Rev. Reubin Masten, of Belle Union, officiating. Pall bearers, all close friends and neighbors were Dick Edwards, Henry Edwards, Sr., Henry Edwards, Jr., of Martinsville, Homer Pottorff, Robert Arbor and Burton Dorsett. Flowers were carried by Goldie Rice, Elnora McCollum, Mary Frances Edwards, Theresa Chenoweth, Hell Ruth Wheeler, Pauline Wilson, Jean Ross, Betty Wilson and Mary Wilson. The Greencastle Order of Odd Fellows gave rituallistic services at the church. The burial was in Mannan cemetery.
Posted by Kathy Bargerhuff
Winfield Nichols was the s/o Jacob Nichols and Mary E. Calahan
Funeral Services for L. S. Nichols Held Thursday Afternoon
Lafayette S. Nichols
Birth: 12 Oct 1867 -- Death: 5 Feb 1940
Oaklawn Cemetey, Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida
An attack of cerebral hemorage at midnight Monday claimed the life of L. S. Nichols, 72, one of Winter Haven's best known citizens, who passed away at his home, 151 Second street, S. W.. Mr. Nochols had apparently been enjoying good health and his sudden demise came as a distinct shock to the entire community and has caused widespread sorrow in the city where he had been a prominate citizen for the past 26 years. Mr. Nichols was the son of Jacob and Mary (Calahan) Nichols and was born at Eminence, Indiana, on Oct. 12, 1867, making his age 72 years, 3 months and 23 days. In early age he moved to the state of Kansas, where he operated a large stock farm at Norton for a number of years before coming to Florida in 1913 and locating in Winter Haven. For some years he was manager of a large oil agency in this section and then for 10 years was connected with the county road department, furnishing large quanitities of materials and many workers in the building of new highways in and around Winter Haven district. After severing his connection with the county department, Mr. Nichols a few seasons ago developed his automobile trailer grounds on Second street, between Avenues A and B, Southwest, making it one of the most modern and comfortable camps of its kind in the state. In addition, Mr. Nichols had always been prominently identified with the citrus business and at the time of his death owned a large grove on the Lynchburg road, north of the city. Mr. Nichols was a man of affable personality, hearty and genial in his approach, lovable in his attitudes toward young and old, and a prime favorite with the entire community. He was known by practically everybody in the entire region as well as throughout Polk county and in recent years also made hundreds of friends among tourists who came here or used the facilities of his trailer park. Many expressions of the esteem in which he was held and sorrow over his passing were heard on every hand in the city. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Cora Nichols, one son, Rhea Nochols, of Winter Haven, one granddaughter, Iris Nichols of Washington, D. C., a sister, Milda Grounds of Paragon, Indiana, a brother, Homer J. Nichols --------?
Posted by Kathy Bargerhuff
Winfield Nichols was the s/o Jacob Nichols and Mary E. Calahan