Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Nicholson, Effie Jean Squires May 12, 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danielle Mozingo danisue1970@yahoo.com October 21, 2011, 9:37 pm Charlotte Observer MRS. NICHOLSON ANSWERS SUMMONS Was One of City's Most Active Religious and Civic Workers. MADE A BRAVE FIGHT. Funeral Will Be Conducted This Afternoon From Tryon Street Methodist Church. After a brave struggle which was a triumph for her Christian faith and her unfaltering personal courage, despite the fatal outcome, Mrs. Effie Squires Nicholson, iwfe of Rev. Walter Lee Nicholson, died last night at 7:30 o'clock at the Charlotte Sanatorium where she had been taken Sunday when it was realized that her condition was desperate and that extreme measures furnished the only hope for her recovery. For six months Mrs. Nicholson had not been strong, and for a month she had been confined to her room in her home at 811 East avenue. Not until Friday was her condition believed to be very serious. For the past two days her friends had been forced to face the fact that she was nearing the end. Nevertheless the news of her death will come as a profound shock to her hundreds of friends throughout this city and elsewhere. In proportion to her strength there was probably no woman in the city who was a more tireless worker for the public good not only in the religious but in the civic and educational fields. The city, therefore, is poorer by reason of her passing. BORN NEAR CHARLOTTE. Mrs. Nicholson was 42 years old and is survived by her husband, one three and a hal-year-old son, her mother, three brothers and three sisters. She was born December 8, 1871, near the edge of Mecklenburg and Union Counties, 18 miles from Charlotte. She was Miss Effie Jean Squires, daughter of the late John B. Squires, who died 20 years ago, and Mrs. Mary A. Squires, sho lives in this county eight miles north of Charlotte. Mrs. Nicholson's birthplace was just beyond the Union County line, but practically all her childhood friends were Mecklenburg people and she herself was a descendant of some of the early settlers of this county. She was reared at the home place and when she attained to young womanhood she entered Greensboro Female College from which she was graduated with high honor. She then devoted herslef to teaching music and it was while she was giving instruction in this at the Wilkesboro High School that she first met Mr. Nicholson who was also a teacher in this school. They were together there from the Fall of 1894 until the Spring of 1896. They were married November 25, 1896, at Lenoir where her family had moved during the previous year. They later returned to this county. Mr. Nicholson was then a member of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference and thereafter served numerous charges, several of them in this section. In the Fall on 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson located in Charlotte, the former retiring from the ministry to engage in business. AS A RELIGIOUS WORKER. Mrs. Nicholson in young womanhood attained distinction as a Bible student and she was active in every phase of religious work. For the past six years she had been editor of the woman's missionary department of The Western North Carolina Christian Advocate, published at Greensobor. Only a year ago she relinquished this work on account of her failing strength. She gave freely of her time to local missionary effort. She had been president of the woman's missionary society of Tryon street and also of that of Trinity Methodist Churches. She was identified with the Young Women's Christian Association work being a member of the board of directors of that institution and one of the four editors of the special paper which that association is preparing to issue. She had done already much work on this. Mrs. Nicholson was a member of Trinity Church and was the teacher of the class of adult women, which has 35 members. This was nearest her heart and was first of all her outside interests in her thhoughts. PROMINENT IN WOMAN'S CLUB. In the Woman's Club much of Mrs. Nicholson's interest had centered. She was first vice president of this at the time of her death, having recently been elected for th enew year. She had held this position previously. she had been chairman of the educational department and had been decidedly successful in this undertaking. For both the Woamn's Club and Liberty Hall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of which she was a member, she wrote many able papers. Everything she attempted was done thoroughly and with painstaking care, and the articles she wrote were of a high standard of excellence. Mrs. Nicholson was registrar of Stonewall Jackson United Daughters of the Confederacy. She represented Liberty Hall Chapter of the National D. A. R. Congress in Washington once or more. Mrs. Nicholson's life both within the home and outside of it was beautiful. She thought first of others and was never happier than when doing good. Spontaneous hospitality in the broadest sense of the word was one of the elements of her nature and her attractive home on East avenue has reflected this attribute. No one ever called there in vain for aid of any kind. She was responsive to the call of distress and swift to answer it. Personally she was sweet-spirited and ever pleasant and tactful. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson. One died when a few days old. The other is Walter Lee, Jr., who will be four years of age in October. Her three brothers are Mr. J. S. Squires, who lives with his mother in the northern part of the county; Mr. Mark Squires, an attorney who is mayor of Lenoir; Dr. John H. Squires, of Wilmington, Del., special representative to the Du Pont Powder Company. He is the only absent member of the family. The sister are Miss M. Catherine Squires of the county; Mrs. J. W. DeLaney, who lives 10 miles north of Charlotte, and Mrs. Lula S. Clegg of the faculty of the city schools. Mr. Nicholson's brother, Mr. W. T. Nicholson of Statesville, will arrive today from Atlanta. The funeral will be conducted this afternoon at 4 o'clock from Tryon Street Methodist Church by Rev. Dr. J. C. Rowe, pastor of First Methodist Church of Asheville, assisted by Rev. Dr. E. K. McLarty, pastor of Tryon Street Church. The pall-bearers will be Messrs. A. J. Hagood, J. H. Little, C. W. Tillett, John A. McRae, E. M. Cole, Walter Brem, J. B. Ivey and Dr. A. M. Whisnant. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mecklenburg/obits/n/nicholso2869gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 6.9 Kb