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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: Re: [CA-DEATH-INDEX] [CASTANIS] Nichols
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:46:15 -0800
References: <d01.5c28d4f.32c3e387@aol.com>

http://news.google.com/archivesearch
I have a paid membership with the Godfrey Library
I found quite a few articles on the Nichols in 1937

Modesto Bee And News-Herald, The | Modesto, California | Sunday, August 01,
1937 | Page 3
2nd column from left midway down the page.......
Runaway Kills County Rancher (I've attached the page)

Modesto Bee And News-Herald, The | Modesto, California | Friday, August 06,
1937 | Page 9
Services Are Held For Samuel Nichols
Last rites were held In the Sovern Funeral Home Tuesday for Samuel Jackson
Nichols, 69, Shoemake Avenue rancher, who was
killed last Friday In the runaway
of a team of horses. Burial was in
the Wood Colony Cemetery.
Nichols was the father of Paul
and Perry Nichols and Mrs. Opal
Moore, all of Modesto, Mrs. Bessie
Blocher of Riverbank and Mrs.
Neosha Beechler of Indiana, and
was a brother of Mrs. D. W. Wertz
of Arizona.

and a marriage
Modesto Bee And News-Herald, The | Modesto, California | Friday, April 30,
1937 | Page 4

Wood Colony Cemetery
http://www.cagenweb.com/lr/stanislaus/woodcolony.html

Colleen

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Subject: [CASTANIS] Nichols


>I am looking for information about Samuel Jackson Nichols, I believe born
> around 1868, possibly in VA. He was a member of the Old German Baptist
> Brethren church community around Modesto. Oral information passed down
> through
> family members say he died in Modesto on July 31, 1937 of an accident
> involving
> falling off a runaway hay wagon, and that he is buried in the Woodlawn
> cemetery. We believe he moved to CA around 1918 with his wife, named
> Maragaret Anna
> and children. Somewhere around 1926 his wife died of cancer. Samuel
> Nichols is my (elderly) father-in-law's grandfather and is someone whom
> he knows
> very little about - particulary Samuel Nichols parents. Any information
> someone has on Samuel Nichols would be greatly appreciated. Samuel
> Nichols
> daughter, Neosha Nichols Beachler, is my father-in-law's line that I am
> tracing.
>
> Linda Bryan-Beachler
>
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