Charles Nichols (1817 - 1862)

Born 3 Apr 1817 in New Windsor, Orange, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy Boyd (Eckles) Nichols — married 12 Mar 1840 in Scott, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Nov 1862 at age 45 in Scott, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Charles Nichols was born on 3 April 1817 in New Windsor, Orange County, New York. ^{[1] [2] [3][4]}

He probably appeared on the census of 7 August 1820 in the household of Moses Nichols in New Windsor, Orange County, New York, as one of the four males under ten. ^[5]

He lived in New Windsor when it was a post township southwest of Newburgh but considered much less significant. The actual village of New Windsor was located on the west bank of the Hudson River just 2½ miles south of Newburgh. By the 1820s Little Britain was a former postoffice in the town of New Windsor that was a farming neighborhood. Statistics from 1820 for the Town of New Windsor were a population of 2,425 of whom 404 were employed in agriculture, 129 in manufactures, and 20 in commerce. Fifteen were foreigners, 46 were free blacks and 84 were slaves. Taxable property totalled $583,349 with 10 schools. There were 14,791 acres of improved land, 2,293 cattle, 469 horses, 1757 sheep, 9050 yard of cloth manufactured, 4 grist mills, 5 saw mills and 2 distilleries. ^{[6] [7]}

He appeared on the New York state census of 4 October 1825 in New Windsor, Orange County, New York, in the household of Mary Ann Nichols head of a household of four males, none of militia or voting age, and one female. They had six cattle and two hogs and had not produced any yards of cloth. ^[8]

He was appointed a guardian, his uncle Samuel Nichols (1770-1856)s, of New Windsor on 30 August 1831 in Orange County, New York^[9].

He served an apprenticeship at the carriage maker's trade in Newark, New Jersey, after leaving school in New York, his father having died when Charles was about five and his mother five years later. He went to Pittsburgh and down the Ohio River arriving in 1838 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky. Charles and his brother Robert established a carriage factory which they ran for a few years in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky ^[10].

He married Nancy B. Eckles, daughter of Charles Eckles and Nancy Boyd, on 12 March 1840 in Scott County, Kentucky, H. J. Perry officiating, their license issued March 11th, joining families of carriage and wagon makers ^{[11] [12]}.

He probably appeared on the census of 1 June 1840 in the household of his father-in-law Charles Eckles in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, as the male age 20-30 in a household consisting of one male 20-30 and one 50-60; one female 15-20, one 20-30 and one 40-50; slaves: three males 10-24, two females 10-24, one female 36-55; total: eleven people, of whom three engaged in manufacture and trade ^[13]. His brother, R. J. Nicholls, was head of the next enumerated household. ^[14].

He and Charles Eckles along with Joseph B. Kenney and Thomas H. Lambe were ordained and installed Ruling Elders of the Presbyterian Church on 17 April 1846 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky ^[15].

He appeared on the census of 31 July 1850 in Scott County, Kentucky, a blacksmith with real estate valued at $1500; with the family was also Mary Eckels, age 33 and born in Kentucky ^[16].

He appeared on the census of 9 August 1860 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky ^[17]. He was a blacksmith born in New York. In 1860 his real estate was valued at $3,000 and personal property at $2,000. Living with the family was fifty-year-old James Dighington of Midlothian, Scotland.

He was the owner of a blacksmith shop that he ran with slave labor until his untimely death in 1862 ^[18].

Charles and Nancy B. Nichols had eight children. Their first daughter died at age twenty-one and the middle three, James Henry, Susan, and Samuel R. Nichols all died in childhood. The remaining four all married and had children of their own ^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}.

He died on 2 November 1862 at age 45 (Nancy Nickol household, 1870 U.S. census, Scott County, Kentucky, population schedule, Town of Georgetown, page 258, dwelling 3, family 3, NARA M593, roll 497, (she is head of household implying Charles had died).^{[23] [24]}. He was buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky ^[25][26].

Having been appointed administrator of the estate of Charles Nichols, Moses E. Nichols signed the bond with Charles Eckles as his surety (with their actual signatures) on 15 November 1862 in Scott County, Kentucky ^[27].

Charles, Nancy B. Eckels Nichols, and Mary Ann Nichols were commemorated with a marker together, the reverse of the stone dedicated to his son, Charles Boyd Nichols with his wife and infant daughter in Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky ^[28].

Sources

1. ↑ 1850 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Scott County, Kentucky, Kentucky, Scott Co, District No. 2, p. 449, "line 17, 33, 33, Charles Nichols, 33, M, Blacksmith, 1500, New York", NARA M432, roll 218.
2. ↑ Georgetown Cemetery (Scott County, Kentucky, 710 South Broadway), Charles Nichols marker with wife, Nancy B. Eckels, and daughter, Mary Ann, photographed by Jean M. Hoffman, 27 August 2008, year of 1817.
3. ↑ E. Polk Johnson A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Vol. 3 (Chicago - New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), Google Books digital images (http://www.google.com : accessed 16 August 2009), 1593, born and brought up in Newburgh, Orange County, New York.)
4. ↑ Orange County, New York, Letters of Guardianship, B: 99, Aaron W. Nichols entry, (1829), Surrogate Court Clerk's Office, Goshen, son of the late Moses Nichols of New Windsor, age 14 on 3 April last past (i.e., 1831).
5. ↑ 1820 U.S. census, Orange County, New York, Town of New Windsor, population schedule, p. 479 (handwritten), p. 194 (stamped), line 18, Moses Nichols; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com: accessed 17 August 2009); citing NARA M33, roll 64.
6. ↑ John C Van Horne, "The History and Collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia," The Magazine Antiques Vol. 170, No. 2 (August 2006): 76, Newburg[h] 1825, from William Guy Wall (1792-after 1864) and John Hill, Hudson River Port Folio (New York, 1821--1825), Pl. 14.
7. ↑ Horatio Gates Spafford, A Gazetteer of the State of New-York: etc. (1824; reprint Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1981), 345-46.
8. ↑ ”Census records 1825-1875, Orange County, New York,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4Y-69CY-L?i=118&cat=293559 : viewed 9 August 2020), digital film 007902332, image 119, 1825 New York state census, Orange County, Town of New Windsor, p. 7 (unnumbered), line 19, Mary Nichols entry.
9. ↑ (Orange County, New York, Letters of Guardianship, B: 197, Charles Nichols entry, (1831), Surrogate Court Clerk's Office, Goshen.
10. ↑ Johnson A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, 1593.
11. ↑ Joan Gilbert Gioe, Scott County Kentucky Records #1: Marriages 1837-1850; Willls 1795-1822; Estates Listed in Books A, B, and C; Births, Heirs, Marriages Listed in Potpourri Plus Potpourri; Indexed, revised by Betty J. Masley and Carley Gioe (Indianapolis, IN: The Researchers, 1996), 5.
12. ↑ Marriage Register 1837 - 1863: Item 218 (unpaginated), Scott County Clerk's Office, Georgetown, KY.
13. ↑ 1840 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Scott County, Kentucky, Charles Eckles household, page 93, line 12 (George Town); NARA M704, roll 123.
14. ↑ 1840 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Scott County, Kentucky, R. J. Nicholls household, page 93, line 13 (George Town).
15. ↑ William Henry Perrin, History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Original edition published in 1882 by O.L. Baskin & Co., Chicago; reprint Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1979), p. 197.
16. ↑ 1850 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Scott County, Kentucky, Charles Nichols household, District No. 2, p. 448, dwelling 33, family 33.
17. ↑ 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, Chas. Nichols household, Scott County (District No. 2, Town of Georgetown, postoffice Georgetown), Kentucky, page 788, dwelling 48, family 49; NARA M653, roll 394.
18. ↑ Johnson A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, 1593.
19. ↑ Johnson A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, bio of son Charles Boyd Nichols lists all the children and some information about them apparently in birth order.
20. ↑ 1850 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Scott County, Kentucky, Charles Nichols household, District No. 2, p. 448, dwelling 33, family 33, includes oldest three children.
21. ↑ 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, Chas. Nichols household, Scott County (District No. 2, Town of Georgetown, postoffice Georgetown), Kentucky, page 788, dwelling 48, family 49; NARA M653, roll 394, includes the six then surviving children.
22. ↑ Marie Dickore, compiler, Copies of Names on Invitations to Funerals and Burials In Scott County and Fayette County, Kentucky, 1821 - 1898 (Cincinnati, Ohio: n.pub., 1942), 15, funeral invitation for James Henry Nichols, son of Charles and Nancy B. Nichols.
23. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch Record: MX49-5V8 : 2 June 2021), Nancy Nickob, 1870.
24. ↑ Georgetown Cemetery, formerly online 31 Oct 2005.
25. ↑ Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99039202/charles-nichols : accessed 31 May 2022), memorial page for Charles Nichols (1817–1862), Find A Grave: Memorial #99039202, citing Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by laribel (contributor 47740277) .
26. ↑ Georgetown Cemetery (Scott County, Kentucky; 710 South Broadway), Charles Nichols marker with wife, Nancy B. Eckels, and daughter, Mary Ann, photographed by Jean M. Hoffman, 27 August 2008, Section F, lot# 1399, Block# 5, Grave# 5, old location: Section F Lot #31.
27. ↑ ”Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP9G-Y8W?i=83&cc=1875188&cat=137670 : viewed 25 June 2018), digital film 004816099, image 84, Scott County Administrator Bonds, 1856-1874 (unpaginated), estate of Charles Nichols, 1862.
28. ↑ Mary Ann Nichols tombstone, Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, KY; photographed by Jean M. Hoffman, 27 Aug 2008, listed on the stone with her parents on the reverse of her paternal grandparents.