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ALGenWeb Archives File Manager Carolyn Golowka, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by Mary Ann Nichols, February 1999 Nichols Family Letters - Butler/Covington/Pike/Coffee Co.'s, AL Letters of Elizabeth Hanchey Nichols written to children in Alabama: This first one refers to the death of her mother, Sarah Rice Hanchey (widow of Daniel Hanchey of the 1830 Butler Co., 1840 Pike, 1850 Coffee Co, AL censuses) The Hancheys werer earlier in Columbus Co, NC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waldo, Florida July 2, 1873 Wm. W. H. H. Nichols Kind son with pleasure I seat myself to write you afew lines in answer to your much welcome letter of the 18th and was received the 25th of June. I was glad to..nt one more letter from yhou for it had bin a long time since I had received one from you Dear son I cannot discribe the half how sory I am to hear of your affliction but I cannot do you any good by being sorry only I can pray to God to restore you to health again which thing I know he is able to do but is it is not his will for you ever to enjoy good health again in this life I know if is his will that you should enjoy an eternal health and happiness in a fair better world than this what a greate consolation it is to have the smiles of the King of Heaven upon us when we come to contend with that grim monster death but if his sting has bin drawn he cannot harm us for he will only fass us through from this life of trouble and affliction to a world of health peace and happiness far better than we can enjoy in this life I want you to read for your own instruction the 12th chaper of Romans and present your body a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service. I hope that you have not forgeten that you was once purged from your old sins and I hope that you have not bin overcome by the world and brought back under bondage to sin agin may God forbid that you should ever be overcome by the enemy any more my hearts desire and prear is to meet you in Heaven and not only you but allso all my children and I dont stop at this only, for I try to Pray for all mankind that all m.... mout at last be saved if agreeable to the will of the Allmity Henry you requested your Grandmother to pray for you it was not quite too late for to be g ranted but she could but only mutter out with a vary weak and faltering voice - Lord have mercy on him and save him I pray she said much more but not so as to be understood for she has bin and is yet vary sick and we have no hope of hir ever recovering any more I have not time to finish my letter now but must wate for another oportunity. This is now July 9th a few minetes after midnight and as I have to set up alone will try to spend a little of my lonely time in writing to ///////// wishe to tell you something about your Grandmother she is yet alive but suffering beyond discription she was taken sich the 11th day of June with a runing off of the bowels was checked and became quite and on Saturday morning the 21st at 2 o'clock a violent pain struck her in her rite foot and ankle which in a few minis had her foot ddrawn out of shape in a few hours her foot was all a bloodshoten color and it is swolen andallmost black and is dead and cold it beats any sight I ever saw and the pain she has suffered from it is indiscribable not one mements ease has she had since the pain first struck her foot and a constant sick all over sick all the time and she eats nothing sometimes she drinks a little milk and wine and she prays constat to the Lord to take her out of her suffering condition but yet she appears meekly resined to suffer his srighous will she is conficent that he will soon take her over to a goodly land she says that she desires to meet with you and all her Grandchilren in that happy land above I do not think that it will be long before she will find a resting place this is the 20th night that we have set up with her and watcht her every day thinkg that every hour may be the last and she may go before I send this letter off if so I will put it in to you she is the weakest person I that that I ever say but her voice has become stronger than it was 10 days ago she can talk plain enough to be vary well understood. I cannot say to you that any of us is well we are all sick with bad colds and I have got the Erecypulous on boath my letgs so that I hardly can get about and we are all vary much worn out with fateague and loss of sleep I have noe with me now but Sasrah and Lorah only Billy is here to night and he has got a vary bad cauhf we are in common searse of comopany to set up at night for thare is but few familys that livs near around me it is 3 miles to Mahals and 5 to Margarets and they have so many little ones that it is a bad chance for them to come oftain C.S. lives with a family about 4 miles from us she is var titely engaged so that she only comes to see us about onst a week Henry you ......see that I have bin .......writing this letter but I hope you will excuse me M.M. and M.D. has boath writen and I expect you have heard from us this is the 23rd of July your Grandmother is gone home to the spirit world she died Monday the 21st at 1/2 after 11 o'clock she was consioius and in her right mond to the.......and reacht out her hand and bade all fairwell shakeing everyones hand and give us all the grasp of affection when she could not speak and not more than a minits before the breath left her I can say that she was vary decently buried her coffin was neatly lined and paded and.o.rd with black alapacka and had on it .. silver headed tacks and screws and nice bows her burial was attended by a large concorse of people and many dropt the tear of affection it was solomised by the preacher in charge of this Circuit a young man by the name of Robert H. Barnett he was a great favorit of hers and he appeared to have a special affection toward her we got acquanted with him and heard him Preach onst a month while we lived in LaFayette Co. and this his ..nd year here on this circuit he had frequently visited my house and he came to see your Grandmother while she was sick and talked and sung and prayed with and for her and she requested him to Preach her fu neral his reply was he sho uld think it a greate honor conferd on him to do so and when they parted she told him to meet her in Heaven he told me yesterday that her request had stuck closter to him than anything he had heard in a long time and he felt found to comply with her request he gave out her Funeral it will be preacht the 3rd Sunday in September which will be the 21st and oh how glad I wo uld be if all her Grandchilren could be present to hear it prehaps it mite be a benefit to some of them as for me I feel more bound and determined to follow on as my in her footsteps as I can until I overtake her in her happy home which prehaps will not be vary long thou my health at this time is tolerable good and Sasrah and Lorah is boath well and that is not all of my family I hope that you will recive this letter soon and answer it in some shorter a time that I have answed your but you can gess the reason why I was so long writing it and exuse me this time I wil ........................................................ that crops in this part of the country is not vary good for they have bin drowned ...... .............................. much rain the bread that is ............ here next year will have to be shipt from some other part of the country but we hear good ............... in other places corn is now being ship to Waldo and sells at $1,25 .. per bushel bacon 15 cts flower from 10 .... dollars per barrell shugar 10 sirup 5 or 60 cts per galon wages i low hand at this mill works for .... per day and finds their selves............ ..................not much R Roding work going on now in this part of the country but I think that thare is a ........................going on down about the Keys and thare is several places around here in this co untry whare a man can get good jobs to work at the carpenter trade and thare is several good chances for a man to ...............................and make a farm the land in the country produces ....well............the seasons sutes it the ...nge here for stock rite around..... ...................good but about 12 or ....miles South of here they say it is vary ... cattle at any rate they .ive a greate many vary fat....cattle from down thare that is .....what is called Plans Prairie I can say for this country is is healthy and the people here that works have a plenty to eat; you said that you wanted to get somewhare on the coasts for yourhealth and prehaps it mite be a great advantage to you to come down here or prehaps lower down nearer the coast it is about 70 miles from Waldo to the Keys I should be glad for you to get somewhare that would improve your health please give my love to Slaly and Nety and to Mrs. Baston and family and tell me in your next letter how many of her children is with her and when you see John and THomas give them this letter to read Sally send her love to all the family conection and all of you write soon for I love to ehar from all of you and I hope that you wuill not get tired of reading this long letter before you get through for it is from your affectionate mother so fairwell until I hear from you again Elizabeth Nichols to W. H. H. Nichols _______________________________________________________ Palatka, Fla Jully the 27th, 1879 Kind Son & Daughter with pleasure I will try to answer your welcom letter of the 29th of June I received it t he 25th of this inst I cannot describe how much pleasure it gave me to hear from you & to hear that you & family was all well & doing so well I am so glad that you had got Mr. hard times by the tail & are abot to dis--- him before you I hope that you will forever be able to keep him at a proper distance you have gaind power over him (in one respect by takeing a little of my advice (that was to stay at one place & if you will still continue to stay thare you will soon be able to drive that greate enemy of yours quite out of sight, I am glad to hear you speak so highly of your ---------------------glad that you have found out that she deserves praise I have known that s he was one of the best of women ever s ince I first got acquainted with her & oftain time I have said that she was the best woman that ever was conected to the Nichols family I do hope that she will live long & see many happy days & that I may meet her in Heaven after we are done with this world of troubles. I will say that we are all tolerable well at p resent but evry now and then some of us have the fever for we have had the chills & fevers more or less for over 12 months but I hop that it is about to leave us we have had a strugle to get along with so much sickness but still we keep u p tolerable well with our grub for this is a vary good country for geting work to do we get as much as we can do & thereby keep a plenty to eat & something to wear we have a rite to thank God that he has proviced so well for us I believe that we live about as well as any of our neighbors & better than some that has a man to work for them, we l ive 6 miles below Palatka & have to go all the way by water but I can go or send evry week I will now tell you about the prises of provision pearly grits is used more here in this country than anything else in the way of bred stuff it is 2 1/2 cts per lb corn meal the same flour from 20 to 25 lbs to the dollar bacon from 6 to 8 cts per lard 10 cts coffee f rom 18 to 25 cts per lb shugar from 8 to 10 cts cirup 50 cts per galon tobacco from 70 to 75 cts p er lb dry goods is vary cheap white domestic from 6 to 10 cts per yd calico from 6 to 8 cts striped or checked domestic from 10 to 12 cts per yd & evrything else in propotion John you spoke something about hearing an old man preach by the name of Cears please let me hear a little more about him for when I was a goung girl about 17 if I mistake not it was in the year of 1831 a young man by the name of Wm Cears a Methodis preacher preacht in Oakey Streek Butler Co ALA & I was a menber of that church at that time prehaps he is the same man if so let him hear from me (if not no harm done) John you will remember John Barns that that levd at Smut Eye in Coffee Co he & some of his sons was down in the neighbor whare your sister Margaret lives and she saw & converst with them they told her that your Brother Wesley was at Troy in Pike Co when they left thare which has bin about 2 years ago The Barnses & Busbees ware all unietarians when I knew them in Coffee Co but he told Margaret to tell me that he was now a Methodist he said that Wesley went down into Coffee to hunt for us but finding that we had moved clear away & could not learn whare we had gone he returned back to Troy prehaps by your makeing inquiry in that direction you may hear something about him I have writen a letter to Trooy but has got no anaswer as yet John you requested me to send you a copy of a Prayer I will try to do so when I have more paper for this is the last sheet that I have but I hope to get some more before long & then I will try to comply with your request hoping it will be of some benefit to you or some one else for my dayly prayr & harts desire is that God would bring a bout a ginuine reformation in the Hearts & lives of all my children & set them all to opraying in good earnest with faith for themselves & evrybody else) Imust say to you that I red your letter to Laura she told me to give you and her Aunt & the children her love & best respects her & her Husband is boath vary well & harty & is geting along vary well he is a greate hunter he kiled a deer yesterday & came by & gave me a piece Fredona & her Husband lives in Palatka & is boath vary well & geting along finely he is good & kind to her he makes a good deal of money he is a workman & gets good wages he is an engineer & a mecanic I hope that they will al do well I shal have to close for this time & leave the rest until another time write soon my love to you Amanda and all the children I remain your mother until death fairwell Elizabeth Nichols -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Palatka, Fla Sept the 7th 1879 Mr. J A Nichols & Mrs L A Nichols Kind sona & Daughter I with pleasure will try to answer your much welcome letter of the 11th of August it came to hand the 28th but I have not had the opertunity of answering it until now we are all tolerable well at lpresent & is geting along tolerable well considering our chance money is vary hard to get after we earn it we have a greate deal of trouble to colect it & that causes us some times to run short but up to this time we allways havve bin able to make some shift to get & keep some thing to eat but I fear that the time will soon come when we will habe to suffer for I am failing of strength & am so large & fleshy that it is with greate difficulty & pain t hat I get about to do the little that I am compeled to but I still trust in the Lord & do all I can his mercies has bin extended towards me all through my past life & shurely I can trust him for the few day that is to come he provides means for my suport & gives me grace to p upo rt my Soul & keeps it from sinking under the power of so many--------- I pray that the Lord of Heaven & ear th may have mercy on my children & bring them by his grace to a timely repentance before sin proves th eir Eternal ruin Oh that he would show t hem the exceeding sinfulness of sin & impress uppon their minds the awful idea of going to jugment unprepared, Oh may he draw them by his gr ace & by his loveing kindness to love him suprely & serve him sincearly for the sake of Christ who shed his precious blood on the cross not for our sins only but for the sins of the whole world I pray for all for whom he died Oh that the power of the spirit of God may rest on all his ministers & may their word be attended with the power of the Holy Gost sent down from the throne of Heaven & may it have the desired a ffect upon all that hear it & may the Lord grant to bestow his mercies upon the Churches & add to them daily such as shal be saved Oh that he may pity the poor back sliders & by his grace reclaim them & I pray that God may by the power of his grace & stir up the luke warm & cause them t o save him with a fervent spirit & a contrite heart Oh that he may give us all grace to love & serve him withh a full purpos of Heart determmined to love & die in his service Oh that the Lord of Heaven & earth would have mercy upon the whole creation of mankind & bring about a reformation in their Hearts in their lives & turn them from all their sinful ways I pray that God may bless all the erulers of our Churches & the rules of our states & nation & give true grace to discharge their duty towards those under their charge with an eye sinnnngle to the g lory of him who rules over all in Heaven and on earth may God bless our l and & nation with peace & quietness & grant that we may all learn to love & serve him with a full purpose of heaert that we may all die in his favor haingfaut the good fite of faith & be received into his presence & be able to give all the glory of our salvation to the father & the Son & the Holy Gost forever & ever in a happy wo rld without end Amen, Dear son you may bear it in mind if you choose to do so, that on the 22nd of July 1829 I promised the world that I was going to try to live a cristian & I also promised my God that if he would only give me suporting grace & strengthen my faith as I had need that I would live & die in his service 50 years & over has past since then & still I find his grace is sufficient for me I still hold the same resultion b ound by the grace of God to live & die in the a rmy of the Lord would the Lord g rant that I could meet all my children on that happpy shore John you must excuse me for being so long wriing this letter you will see that I wrote the foregoing pasrt of it the 7th of Sept & today is 11 of October I have bin called away from home twice & had to stay 1 & 2 weeks & when at home I was so crowded with business that I could not get time to write but I hope that you will not be so long answering this & I hope I will do better next time N B if you wish to write to your Sister Margaret you will Direct to Mrs M D Wiggins Sumter C Yallho Po Fla I know she would be proud to hear from yoou I have not had a letter from them in some time I think it has bin about 3 months I have not writen to T F C nor Sally yet but I t hink I will before long all is well today only C S has the Colic but not so vary bad & I stuck a old rusty hairpin in my foot over 2 weks since & it is vary sore yet. Fredonia & her husband is well & geting along splendid he is clerking in a store in Palatka Laura & hers is well & d o ing well so I must close I remain your Loving mother until death Elizabeth Nichols NOTE: letter to John A. & Leca Amanda Nichols, Covington Co, AL C S is Charlotta S., her daughter Mrs. M D Wiggins, her daughter, Margaret, married to James Leonard Wiggins T F C, her son Thomas Francis Cicero in Hamilton Co., Texas Sally, her daughter married to John Sparkman, in Hamilton, Texas The relationship of Fredonia and Laura are believed to be grandchildren. ------------------------------------------------------------- Palatka, Fla July 29th, 1883 Mr J. A. Nichols Kind Son I will now try to answer your much welcom letter of the first inst I was glad to hear from you & family & hear that all was well I am shure that health is one of the greatest of all earthly blessings but I have not enjoyed much of it lately I was taken sick the 11th of May about 5 weeks I lay with but little hope of recovering & when I did begin to mend it was vary slow I was so vary weak & about the time I got able to get up & down the door steps the Earecypelous taken me on boath my legs it got so bad I could not walk for a while it has got better but is not well yet I have not felt one minets ease since it first taken me when I stir a little or set up much my feet and legs swells to a site this is the reason why I have not answered your letter before now for I have had it 2 weeks the rest of my family is all tolerable well at this time it is not comon for us all to be well at one time I will say to you that I am makeing my arangements to start next Tuesday to go down South to see your Sister Margaret I have not seen her in going on 10 years I purpose going to Palatka Tuesday stay thare until Thursday evening then take the steam boat up St John, 75 miles then take a train across to lake haris then take a steamboat to near whare she lives the place whare I will land at is called Helenia I purpose staying with her some 4 or 5 weeks after which time I hope to return home again & receive an answer to this & then if you will send me about $15 or 20 I will try to go & spend the winter & prehaps the remainder of my life with you & the rest of the family it is vary hard for me to think of leaveing home but I do want to see you all so bad. you said that you had a letter from T F C the next time that you write to me please give me the name of his post office & if I live to get it I will write to him & let him know thtat I am not dead yet John prehaps you have heard of the death of you Brother Henry if you have not I will say to you that I got a letter from his wife that said he died the 30th of Apriel he was taken down for death of friday & died the next monday week she said that he had joined the Methodist church the August before & seamed to be trying to do rite a few days before his death he was visited by 2 Preachers they talked to him concerning his future hopes he told then that he did not fear death that all was well only he hatted to leeave his wife & children he was speachless 2 days before he died. after he was dead the Doctors cut him open to see what was the mater with him, an abcess had opened on his liver & had bursted inside of him & that he did not have more than one half pound of liver left, she said that he was decently buried & she had gone with her 3 children to live with her mother & Brother. I have answered her letter Nety is married to a Mr. Brown & I supose is doing vary well. so I must rest a little & write again I will tell you something about how we get along since we moved to this place it is 3 1/2 miles to town before I got sick I went myself since that C S goes hunts up work sewing such as makeing garments peaceing up or quilting bedquilts sometimes we sell a quilt top for we generaly keep a suply on hand we have lately sold 3 tops & since has quilted one of them the whole amount $12..50 cts so you see how we make our suport it comes by the littles but we have bin able so far to keep something to eat & a little to wear we could get along here vary well if we only could have health but we are oftain thrown back by sickness my love and good wishes send to Ammanda & all the children tell Julia that my prear for her is that she may hold out faithful until death & adorn her profession by a pious walk & godly conversation let her motto be never to look back. I will close for my paper is full & my pen is worn out I remain your mother as ever fairwell Elizabeth Nichols Note: Written to John A. Nichols in Covington Co., AL and wife Amanda Henry is her son Wm Henry H Nichols (our ancestor) C S is her daughter Charlotta S. Nichols Margaret S. is her daughter, Margaret Wiggins, wife of James Leonard Wiggins Julia is granddaughter (daughter of John & Amanda) T F C is son, Thomas Francis Cicero, who lived in Hamilton Co, Texas. Nety is granddaughter (daughter of Henry by his first wife) Palatka Fla November the 2nd, 1884 Kind Son to you & family I wish to send my respects & best wishes by writing you a few lines in answer to your much welcom letter of the 17th of Oct I got it the 28th. I was glad to hear that you & family was all well & doing so well this leaves me & family all in tolerable good health as for myself I have but little rite to complain when I have lived long enought on this earth until I have seen enough Sundays to make 10 years & yet I am able to do as much work as I think it is my duty to do (&that is not much) I can say that we are geting along vary well we get as much work as we are able to do C S washes & irons & sews on her mashene & I pease up & quilt & sell bed quilts we keep a plenty to eat & wear but we lack a house & home of our own & we are trying as hard as we can to reach that CS has bout 1 aker of ground near on the RR 4 miles west of Palatka 1/2 mile from a station they call Frances Station but now we want lumber & money to opay a carpenter to build a house but we hope that our luch will be to get it between this & mext Spring & then I will talk about comeing to see you after the cold wether abates for I don't think that it would do well for me to go thare in cold wether It is my wish to go & see you all one time more before I Die give me love & good wished to Elanorah, husband I was a little suprised to hear of their marage for they ware both so young it is a little strang to me to know that I have 2 grandchildren that has married in the Gaitwood family prehaps that here is some more of them that will do the same I hope they will all do well so in the close of my I will say that if you wish me to come to see you you will save up your money by the middle of march next & if I am living then I will be ready to take a plesant wide to Ala but I hope to hear from you several times between now & then so I remain you mother as ever Fairwell Elizabeth Nichols Notes for William E. Nichols: According to family historians in the John Nichols (son of WIlliam E.) line, William and Elizabeth lived in the Boggy Byo, Florida area, which was near Niceville, Florida. This would have been prior to 1840. In 1831, Elizabeth Nichols tells in her letters that she was baptised at Oakey Streak Methodist Church in Butler County, AL by a Rev. Sears. Her parents are in the 1830 Butler Co, AL census. 1840 Pike County, AL: William E. Nicholds 30-40 1 female 20-30 2 females under 5 1 male under 5 1850 Coffee County, AL: William Nichols 40 m farmer South Carolina Elizabeth 36 f North Carolina Robert 16 m AL Mahala 14 f AL Elijah 11 m AL Henry 9 m AL John 7 m AL Margarete 5 f AL Joel 3 m AL Thomas 1 m AL 1860 Covington Co p 4 #24 William E. Nichols m 50 farmer $1300 SC listed as not being able to read and write Elizabeth f 45 domestic NC Layoltla ? f 21 AL John A. m 17 farm laborer AL Wm H. H. m 19 farm laborer AL Joel L. m 13 AL Thomas C. m 11 AL Charlotte S. f 9 AL Sarah A. M. f 5 AL James Wiggins m 23 farmer AL Margaret D. f 15 AL James M. m 7/12 (June) FL William E. Nichols' military record: mustered into Capt. Geo. W. Kierce's Co. A., County Reserves of Covington County, organized August 27, 1864. He is listed as being age 59, but it pobably was miscopied; as he should be 54. He is listed as having no gun, as were many others. This account of William E. Nichols' death was passed down through John's grandson, Reubin Nichols of Wing, AL. William Nichols died around 1865 of small pox. Smallpox was supposed to have been brought back from the war by his son-in-law. William may have been buried in the Hog Foot Cemetery near Andalusia. This cemetery is believed to have been destroyed since then. William is known to have brothers Kinchen Ellis Nichols of Pike County, and a cousin Joel Nichols of Crenshaw (whose father is unknown). Their reported father is a Conrad Gunrod Nichols. However, no written records of this name have been located to date. Reportedly he died fairly young near Old 96 District SC and fought in Indian Wars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ross Texas October 27, 1884 Mr. J. A. Nichols [this is to John Asberry Nichols, in Covington Co, AL & saved by family members]] It's from John's sister, Sarah and husband, John Sparkman. Tom referred to is the brother of Sarah and John (all children of Elizabeth Hanchey and William E. Nichols --of 1860 Covington Co, AL census). Dear Brother as I have not been able to hear from you in several months I will write you again Sallie wrote you in Aug but received no answer this leaves our family all well hoping this will reach you & family in the best of health do tell me something of Mother [referring to wife's mother] I am anxious to hear from her. I am in hopes that she is at your house by this time. The health of Texas at present is as never better. We are very busy sowing sheet & oats. I have been sowing six days & want get done for 7 or 8 days yet I have got out my cotton I made 5 bales weighing over five hundred ead & about 300 bu corn I have got six fat hogs to kill this winter. Come out and look at Texas you would not live in that old country aney longer. for while you are hard at work thare - using furtlizers you could do something else for we dont kneed aney thing of the kind in Texas & I am certain we have as good health her as you do I can sho fat & harty children with aney State in the world (look red & rosy & harty although we lost our oldest daghter the 12 day of July disease was conjestion of head & bowels of shitch people is subject to in aney Stat & climate. Brother Thomas {Nichols] wrote me a few days back he is doing well & getting rich he was luckey to marry in a good family & the old man take a pride in helping Tom in aney way that he keeds help for he like Tom. I cant say that I am getting rick or ever expect to get rich but I will if I have no back set be able to independent & school my children whitch do intend to do if I live. Hance is 9 years old and Disy is six & they start school in the morning & I expect to keep them at scholl--. I pose you set your peop to come out next fall (85) & see me & Tom & we will pay you a visit in the fall of 86 should we all live. We always should look to the future & if we dont make calucation & work to them we never will no when we get there-- I am expecting to & that is my calculation to visit Ala & Florida in the winder of 1886 if I live & dont make a miss cue. Tom live about 75 miles from me & I am going to see him in a short time. what do you think of the president election do think the demicrat will be elected. I am afraid they will not get there although I will cast one vote for Cleveland & Hendericks -- Texas will go Demicratic by a big majority