Person:Joseph Nichols (28)

Excerpt from "A History of Kentucky" by William Elsey Connelley and E. M. Coulter, Vol 4, published 1922

Joseph Allen Nichols was born October 23, 1843, in Grayson County, Kentucky, where he was reared and married and where he passed his life in extensive agricultural operations, in which he was most successful. He met his death on his farm April 23, 1896, when struck by lightning. During the war between the states he was a sympathizer of the Union, subsequently was an independent voter and late in life adopted the principles of the republican party. He and his wife were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Nichols, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Adeline Carter, was born June 1, 1852, in Washington County, Tennessee, and died January 31, 1893, in Grayson County. There were ten children in the family, as follows: Dr. Washington Fletcher; Martha Ann, who is the wife of John S. Paris, connected with the city street railway company of Louisville; Rosetta, who died at Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in June, 1898, as the wife of Charles Jeffries, who is still engaged in farming in that locality; Rebecca Ellen, the wife of Charles Waters, formerly a telegraph operator, but now engaged in farming at Fragrant, Grayson County; James Madison, first a telegraph operator and later a test board operator or "trouble man" with the telegraph company, who died at the age of thirty-two years at Casenovia, Michigan; William Clarence, who died in 1906, aged twenty three years in Hardin County, Kentucky; Nancy Emeline, who died at Chicago as the wife of Rudolph Corrigan, a brass finisher; Eli Allen, a fireman for the Big Four Railroad Company, who met his death in a railroad accident at Mount Carmel, Illinois at the age of twenty-three years; Joseph Taylor, chief bookkeeper at Bessemer, Alabama, for the American Biscuit Company of New York City, who died aged twenty-eight years at Bessemer, Alabama, where his widow survives him; and Edgar Jackson, a lineman for a telephone company at St. Paul, Minnesota.