BIO:  NICHOLAS, Nathan - Washington Co. KY (1804)

Submitted by Dianna Flynn  ivie@tima.com  30 Sep 1998

NICHOLAS,   GRESHAM,   KEARBY,   HANCOCK

COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND
BIOGRAPHICAL. CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
PUBLISHERS. 1884.  F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 345

NATHAN NICHOLAS, farmer, is a native of Washington County, Ky., was born September 16, 1804,
and is a son of Nathan and Nancy (Gresham) Nicholas, natives respectively of North Carolina 
and Virginia, who emigrated to Orange County, Ind., in 1815, where Mr. Nicholas died. Our
subject settled in this county in 1830, near Mooresville, and in this township in 1848. Mr.
Nicholas has been twice married--first, October 23, 1828, to Sarah Kearby, a native of
Kentucky, with an issue of seven children--Edward C. (deceased), Nancy M., Giles H., 
Elizabeth B., Sophia Jane, Mary and Thomas K. (deceased).  The mother of these died in 1843,
and November 1, 1853, Mr. Nicholas married Mrs. Lena Hancock, by which marriage succeeded
five children--Delphina (deceased), Samuel, Loretta F., Lena Finetta (deceased) and Arlita
T.  Mr. Nicholas is owner of eighty acres of excellent and improved land, which possession
is wholly his own acquirement.  He is in political matters a Republican, and he and wife are
communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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