OBITUARY: William Wallace Nicol, 1831-1904, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[Osage News -- Thursday, April 28, 1904]



                          William Wallace Nicol

William Wallace Nicol was born in Hammond St. Lawrence county, New York,
August 18, 1831, and died in Little Cedar, Iowa, April 22, 1904, aged
72 years 8 months and 4 days.  He was the older of twins, William Wallace
and Robert Burns Nicol, born to Mr. and Mrs. William Nicol, who were of
sturdy Scotch stock.  In 1853 he came with his parents to Stacyville, this
county, having lived here 42 years and thus becoming a pioneer of the county
which still claimed him as an honorable and respected citizen at the time
of his death.

Besides his wife and son, W. B. Nicol, of David, and daughter, Mrs. Winnie
Julius, wife of Fred Julius, of Little Cedar, he leaves three brothers, and
five sisters to mourn his loss, Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols, Cotton Hill, West
Virginia; Mrs. Margaret Kessler of Kessler's Crosslanes, near Carnifax Ferry,
West Va.; Mrs. Agnes Lynch, Auburn, New York; Robert B. Nicol, editor of
the Fostoria Record, Fostoria, Iowa; Clark L. Nicol, Milford, Iowa; Violet
Brainard, Union township, Mitchell County, Iowa and Mrs. Mattie Dickerson,
Lark Park, Iowa.  He was married to Alta Nichols on March 3, 1859, in
St. Lawrence county, N.Y. In 1894, he united with the Methodist Church
at Little Cedar.

William Nicol has left behind him a noble and honorable life record of
nearly a half century in this county, where he succeeded in accumulating
a goodly competency and in all these years there has been naught that
could be said against him as a man and citizen.  For many years he resided
on a farm near Brownville, where he was engaged in the breeding of fine
horses.  He was one of the first in Iowa to import the Norman breed of
horses, and it will be remembered that his valuable stallion "Emperor"
which he had imported from France, was poisoned in his barn some twenty-five
years ago.

For the past ten years Mr. Nicol has resided in the village of Little Cedar,
where he worked a small patch of ground adjoining the city and lived in peace
and happiness.  When he came to this county Stacyville was but a postoffice
and Osage and Mitchell little more that hamlets.

Among the relatives in attendance at the funeral were the following: R. B.
Nicol, Fostoria; Robert H. Nicol and wife, Charles City, Iowa.


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