Grace Annis (Gwartney) Nichols (1889 - 1983)

Born 19 Aug 1889 in Hiwasse, Benton, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of James Gwartney and Laura Ann (Hassell) Edwards

Wife of Clinton Wakefield Nichols — married 17 Jan 1906 in Pineville, McDonald, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1983 at age 93 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States

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Biography

Grace was born in Dickson Twp (near Hiwasse), Benton Co, AR, on 19 Aug 1889 to James Gwartney (1850-1890) and Laura Ann (Hassell) Gwartney (1857-1931)^[1].

Grace's father died when she was one year old. Her mother first remarried Francis Boggs (1840-1897), and then second to Richard David Edwards (1842-1939). Richard and his first wife, Mary Galyean (1844-1894), had had nine daughters and no sons.

By the time Grace first appears in a US Census (in 1900)^[2], it was to a combined Edwards and Gwartney household. The family included her mother, stepfather, four Edwards step-sisters (ages 15 to 33) , and two older Gwartney siblings (including Grace, ages 11 to 20). All of the children at home in 1900 (from both families) were born in Benton Co AR.

Shortly after her 16th birthday, Grace married Clinton Wakefield Nichols (1885-1964) - a Galyean cousin of her stepsisters. They married in Pineville, McDonald Co, MO on 17 Jan 1906^[3]. Pineville was just a few miles (across the state line) from their home in Hiwasse AR. Shortly after their marriage, they moved to Kansas City KS, where they lived the remainder of their lives.

Grace and Clint had six children; two sons and four daughters:

• Harold Clint Nichols (1907-1978)
• Leona Hazel Nichols (1908-1995)
• B Clarease (Nichols) Ireland (1909-2009)
• Vivian Marjorie (Nichols) Wall (1911-1999)
• Paul Gwartney Nichols (1915-1990)
• D Maxine (Nichols) Bowers Heineman (1916-2004)

The 1910 US Census^[4] lists Clint and Grace with their oldest three children. Clint's brother, Archie Herbert Nichols (1891-1967), was living with the family, as was Grace's first cousin, Grover C Wages.

In the 1920 US Census^[5], Clint and Grace are living with all six of their children in Kansas City KS. They also all appeared in the 1925 Kansas State Census^[6].

The entire family was documented for the last time all together in the 1930 US Census^[7].

By 1940^[8], only their never-married daughter, Leona, lived with them.

Clint passed away in 1964. Grace lived almost twenty more years before she died on 29 Mar 1983 in Kansas City KS^[9]. She's buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Kansas City KS^[10].

DNA Confirmation

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between G Ireland and E (Boyd) Cobb, his 2nd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are James Gwartney and Laura Hassell, the great grandparents of both G Ireland and E (Boyd) Cobb. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: second cousin, based on sharing 310 cM across 15 segments.

Sources

1. ↑ Arkansas Department of Vital Records; Little Rock, Arkansas; Birth Certificates - #2325 - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61774/images/61774_01_00354-02393?pId=630388
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3XJ-SKK : accessed 5 January 2021), Grace A Gwartney in household of Richard Edwards, Dickson Township, Benton, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 9, sheet 4B, family 71, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,050.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2ZR-G29 : accessed 5 January 2021), Grace Nichols in household of Clinton Nichols, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 185, sheet 2B, family 41, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 461; FHL microfilm 1,374,474.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFFM-FWV : 3 January 2021), Clint Nichols, 1920.
6. ↑ "Kansas State Census, 1925", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLBR-DKV2 : 14 October 2019), Clint Nichols, .
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X77Y-34Z : accessed 5 January 2021), Clint Nichols, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 41, sheet 6A, line 33, family 77, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 728; FHL microfilm 2,340,463.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR25-MMP : 3 February 2020), Clint Nichols, Ward 5, Kansas City, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 106-75, sheet 62B, line 78, family 326, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1269.
9. ↑ Obituary: The Parsons Sun, 30 Mar 1983, page 4 - https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63085044/ted-detrick-was-the-brother-in-law-of/
10. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLN-4QQ9 : 15 December 2020), Grace Annis Gwartney Nichols, ; Burial, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States of America, Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens; citing record ID 97165156, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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