- James Nichols biography in "History of Oklahoma" (1916)
1916
Oklahoma
Bio of James Nichols in History of Oklahoma, by Joseph B. Thoburn (American Historical Society: 1916),
vol. 4, page 1412. https://books.google.com/books?id=Bdq7qWCr_KcC&pg=PA1412
His (James M. Nichols) father was born in DeKalb County, Alabama, in 1840, and as a young man went to Arkansas, where he resided in Polk County until 1879, in which year he was a pioneer to Indian Territory. He settled on a farm near the present site of Waurika, Oklahoma, and commenced agricultural operations, in which he had been engaged throughout his life, but did not live long after coming to the new community, as his death occurred December 1, 1879. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Protestant Church, in the faith of which he and his wife reared their children. In political matters he was a democrat, and during the Civil war his sympathies were with the South and he served for a short time as a soldier in the Confederate army, under Generals Price and McCullough. Mrs. Nichols was born in Polk County, Arkansas, in 1843, and there her death occurred in 1873. She was the mother of four children: James M., of this notice; Sarah, deceased, who was the wife of R. R. Henington, who is now a farmer of Jefferson County, Oklahoma; Ardelia, who died at the age of four years; and Charlotte, who is the widow of the late M. C. Runyan, a barber, and resides at Maysville, Oklahoma.
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