Beckham County, OK - Obits: John Kirke Nicholson, 1926
Sunday, 08 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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NICHOLSON, JOHN KIRKE
(Sep 1926, Sayre Newspaper, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
John Kirke Nicholson died at Sayre, Oklahoma, September 21, 1926, and was
buried September 22 in the Buffalo cemetery near Sweetwater.
Mr. Nicholson was born March 17, 1850, in Clay county, Kentucky, the
eldest child of Leonidas B. and Salina C. Nicholson, and was raised in
that county, and was married there in 1870 to Miss Mary Catherine Bruner,
with whom he lived fifty-four years, she dying at Sayre, Oklahoma,
December 16, 1924, and he was buried beside her.
He was for some years a justice of the peace in Clay county, Kentucky,
later moving to Laurel county, Kentucky, was justice of the peace in the
Hazel Patch District of that county, coming to Oklahoma in 1911 and
locating near Sayre.  His second marriage was to Eleanor, sister to his
first wife, and is survived by her, and one son and two daughters, Robert
George Nicholson, Cooksville, Texas; Mrs. Julia A. Branson, Sayre,
Oklahoma, and Mrs. Myrtle Roberts, Mayfield, Oklahoma.  His eldest son,
Elijah died at Hazel Patch, Kentucky; and his youngest son, James F., died
at Sayre, Oklahoma, September 23, 1924.
At his funeral were nineteen grandchildren and a large number of relatives
and friends, and the services were conducted by Geo. Goins of Crawford,
Oklahoma.

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