Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Nicholson brothers, 1908 

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"The News-Leader" (Richmond, VA), No. 5111, Mon., Mar. 30, 1908, p. 2 

HEARS FROM HIS BROTHER AFTER 35 YEARS SILENCE 

  Thirty-five years ago, when a young man about 21 years of age, W.J. 
Nicholson, of this county, shipped aboard a merchant vessel bound on a foreign 
cruise, says the Southampton Democrat.  He left behind a father and a little 
seven-year-old half-brother, who was none other than our townsman, S.R. 
Nicholson.  The last news heard from the sailor boy was several months after 
he left home - he had been shipwrecked in the Bay of Biscay; his leg was 
broken and at the time the news was forwarded home he was in a hospital. 
This was the last heard from him until last Tuesday and he was mourned as 
dead.  Tuesday S.R. Nicholson was surprised to receive a letter from his 
supposed-dead brother, stating that he was living in Louisiana, and had 
written here to learn if any of his relatives were still living. 


Additional information: 

William John NICHOLSON, of New Iberia, LA, & Port Arthur, TX, 
   former sailor & swamp logger, retired railway man, 
b. May 1852*, Southampton Co., d. 26 Oct 1932, Port Arthur, Jefferson Co., TX, 
interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Groves, Jefferson Co., TX, 27 Oct 1932, 
Find a Grave Memorial #71386741; 
   gravestone shows "1850 - 1931" photo added by Diane Dice 

1900 Census - New Iberia, Iberia Co., LA - gives Swamper (Log man), 
   b. May 1859; m. 15 yrs, 8/9 ch surviving. 

D.Cert. 43085 gives his parents as W.A. & Bettie (EDWARDS) NICHOLSON; 
   d. age 82; the informant was his daughter, Ada E. (NICHOLSON; Mrs. Eugene 
   Levy) MACOMBER (1890 - 1975). 

Samuel Robert NICHOLSON, feed merchant, 
b. 15 Jan 1866, "Rose Hill," Southampton Co., d. 12 Aug 1925, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (PS2-19A*), Franklin, 14 Aug 1925, 
No Find a Grave Memorial 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Their father, David W. NICHOLSON, was a Confederate veteran, having served 
   as a corporal in Co. H, 5th VA Cav., until providing a substitute, then 
   as a private, drafted & assigned to Co. B, 13th VA Cav. 

David 1m. William's mother Caroline Amanda EDWARDS 14 Dec 1848, in Sussex Co. 
   Caroline d. 4 Nov 1864, in Southampton Co. of Chronic Disease. 

He 2m. Samuel's mother Mildred H. RAINEY 14 Mar 1865, in Southampton Co. 

David d. 24 Mar 1871 in Southampton Co. of Pneumonia.  The Southampton Co. 
   D.Reg. (Boykins #9) gives age 49, but other records gives b. ca. 1822 
   in Sussex Co. 


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