NICHOLS, JOSEPH "EVERETT" - Bourbon County, Kansas | JOSEPH "EVERETT" NICHOLS - Kansas Gravestone Photos

Joseph "Everett" NICHOLS

Hatch Cemetery
Bourbon County,
Kansas

September 8, 1875 - September 2, 1957

As young children "Everett" and his half sister, Effie Henton, accompanied a wagon train to California with their parents, James M. and "Maggie" (Ralston) Henton Nichols. "Everett" and Effie walked all the way beside the wagon.
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Fort Scott Tribune, September 1957
Funeral services for Joseph Everett Nichols, 81, a well known retired farmer of south of Bronson, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry (Dorothy) Griffith, Topeka, on Sept. 2, services were held Sept. 4 at the South Fairview Methodist Church, of which he was a member. The Rev. Clarence Baker officiated. Burial was in Hatch cemetery.
The deceased, son of James and Margaret M. Ralston, Nichols, was born Sept. 8, 1875, near Uniontown. He was married Feb. 16, 1898, to Pluma Edith Turner in the Old Rockford Valley Presbyterian Church near Uniontown. With the exception of a few years spent in California, they made their home five miles south of Bronson. After Mrs. Nichols' death, Aug. 1, 1945, Mr. Nichols and his son Orland made their home together until sickness made it necessary for the deceased to live with his daughter, Mrs. Griffith, a registered nurse.
In addition to to Mrs. Griffith he is survived by four other children; Mrs. Earl (Viola) Baker, Garden City, Kansas; Mrs. Berniece Gibbs, Springfield, Illinois; Roy Nichols and Orland Nichols of rural Bronson. There are also nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

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Evelyn Jones Nichols
Great Granddaughter

Contributed on 3/13/14 by evychristensen
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Submitted: 3/13/14 • Approved: 3/13/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R29316-G29316-S3

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