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James Monrow (Close Up) NICHOLS

Hatch Cemetery
Bourbon County,
Kansas

September 1848 - April 14, 1902

James was the son of Elizabeth King and John W. Nichols and was born in Montgomery Co., IL. He came to Kansas by way of Missouri with his widowed Mother in 1870. There he met and married Margaret Melvina "Maggie" Ralston Henton who was a young widow with a small daughter, Effie Henton, on October 18, 1972.

James and Maggie were the parents of Etta "Elzora" Guttry L'Heureux, Joseph "Everett", Ora, and Silar "Homer"
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BRONSON PILOT, April 24, 1902
South Fairview News
James M. Nichols committed suicide by hanging himself last Monday morning. He was a prominent and well to do farmer, residing six miles south east of Bronson being one of the oldest settlers of Bourbon county. The deceased has been acting rather strangely for some time and his many friends in this locality are of the opinion that his rash act was the result of an unbalanced mind; as the manner in which he took his life would indicate. The body was found by a member of the family hanging to a large oak tree near the barn with the feet almost touching the ground. It is understood that he climbed the tree, tied one end of the rope around his neck and the other to a limb, then jumped a distance of about thirty feet.

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Evelyn Jones Christensen
Great-great granddaughter

Contributed on 3/14/14 by evychristensen
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Submitted: 3/14/14 • Approved: 3/14/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R29335-G0-S3

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