Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Mary J. Nichols, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Mrs. Mary J. Nichols, widow of Lazarus Nichols, was born in the "Blue
Grass State" and is the daughter of Pleasant and Elizabeth (Cowden)
McClure, also natives of Kentucky.  They came to Missouri when our 
subject was about grown, settling in Webster County, near Waldo post-
office, and there passed their last days.  The mother died in 1866 or
1867, and the fther in 1886.  Mrs. Mary J. Nichols was married to
Lazarus Nichols about the close of the war, and to this union were
born seven children: Laura, wife of Alexander Barnett; George; 
Nircissus, wife of J. G. Piatt; J. C.; Lola, wife of A. N. Allen;
Hattie and Charley.  The youngest son accidentally received a gunshot
wound, which terminated fatally for him eight days after the accident
occurred.  After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Nichols moved on the farm where 
Mrs. Nichols is now living, and there the family was reared.  Mr.
Nichols was a native of Kentucky, and was an early settler of Missouri.
He was a man of industry, who accumulated much wealth in Wright County,
and left to his family 800 acres of good land.  He died in this county
in 1877, and his son George is living on the farm and taking care of 
his mother, and looking after the interest of the farm.  He was born in
1866, and received his education in the district schools and at Hart-
ville, Marshfield and Seymour.  J. C. Nichols attended the Christian
Brothers College in St. Louis, and also attended the school at Marion-
ville.  The mother and all her daughters are members of the Baptist
Church.
 
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