Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Samuel NICHOLS, 1909
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"Evening Times" Cumberland, Maryland, Wed 4 Aug 1909: 
“AN OLD SOLDIER PASSES AWAY-Samuel Nichols Responds to Last Roll 
Call—Lonaconing, Md., Aug 4. Samuel Nichols died at his home on 
East Main Street at 11 p.m. Monday. Mr. Nichols had been on poor 
health for several years having contracted disabilities in the 
army from which he never fully recovered. He served in “A” Company, 
2nd Maryland Infantry a full term of three years. He was a native 
of Scotland, coming to this country before the Civil War. Mr. 
Nichols was married in Lonaconing in 1849 to Grace Laird, who 
survives him, as does also three sons, Archibald and Lindley, of 
Lonaconing, and Clarence, who is somewhere in Alaska. He leaves 
two brothers and a sister, John Nichols, of Lonaconing, and 
Benjamin, of Gardner, Kan., and Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, of New 
Haven, Pa. Mr. Nichols was in his 69th year and had resided in 
Lonaconing since coming to this country, save for two brief 
periods. He lived in Jeanette, Pa., a short time and spent a year 
or so in Colorado. The funeral took place this afternoon, Georges 
Creek Valley Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of which decease was a member, 
having charge. McPherson Post G.A.R. paid the soldier’s last sad 
tribute to their departed comrade. Interment was in Oak Hill 
Cemetery, Gustav Eicchorn , funeral director.”


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