Family:Samuel Nicholas and Matilda Prather (1)

Parents: George Nicholas and Mary Smith Samuel Smith Nicholas, Esq. b. 6 Apr 1797 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States d. 27 Nov 1869 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States	Parents: Thomas Prather and Matilda Fontaine Matilda Prather b. 17 Sep 1811 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States d. 19 Mar 1844 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States

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Marriage^[1]

1829

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Julia Nicholas	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States	Aft 1920 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
2.	George Nicholas	13 Aug 1831 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States	15 Mar 1896 Shelby, Kentucky, United States
3.	Samuel Smith Nicholas, Jr.	1845 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States	25 Aug 1911

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References

↑ The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century. (Cincinnati, Ohio: J.M. Armstrong, 1878)
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... In 1829, he married Matilda Prather, daughter of Thomas Prather, a wealthy merchant of Louisville, and in this marriage he had seven children. This wife died in 1844; and, in 1848, he married Mary Smith, a cousin, and the granddaughter of General Samuel Smith, who had taken him to live with him when a boy. She survived him, but died in 1874. In this second marriage, he had three children, making in all a family of ten children — seven daughters and three sons. ...