

Jim also put me in contact with several other workers across the country, who were researching their own lines of John Nichols’ family. Jim Lee Wignall of Denton, Texas provided encouragement and inspiration and always seemed to have an idea or a suggestion when it was needed most. Our field trip to visit the sites around the Fallen Timber Creek area was not only enjoyable but enlightening as well. has been most gracious in allowing me unlimited access to his cache of photographs and memorabilia collected through the years by various members of his family. Their patience in explaining to me numerous times how to adjust the copier for various size documents is to be commended. The office staff of the Barren County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office located in the courthouse annex in Glasgow, Ky. In particular, there are a number of people to whom I owe special thanks. The author would like to thank, collectively, all of those “cousins” who have taken the trouble to dig through personal papers, albums and scrapbooks in order to make this work possible. It would be nearly impossible to name all of the individuals who have supplied information, photographs, documents, and all the other bits and pieces of data that went into this manuscript. “A people which take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.”Ī project as extensive as this one can only be accomplished with the help and cooperation of many others, and this genealogy is no exception. “Of all the things that he wrote, the one that I have always felt closest to my heart is that so long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.” Family stories from her and from all of my aunts and uncles are sorely missed. At the same time, she’d probably have wondered about the lack of information pertaining to our own direct line. My mother would have been fascinated by many of the things written here concerning her Nichols kinfolk. In memory of Ruth Allyn Nichols Huffman (1915-1987).

Historic Sites in Fallen Timber Creek Area………. 1239 Chapter Twelve ………… George Webster Nichols and Descendants……….1341 Chapter Thirteen ………. Mary “Polly” Nichols and Descendants………….1183 Chapter Eleven ………….

Nichols and Descendants …………….1093 Chapter Ten ……………. VOLUME II Chapter Eight ………… Thomas Nichols and Descendants ……………….831 Chapter Nine …………… Abner K. Phillip Matthew Nichols and Descendants………. Anne Nichols and Descendants………………….527 Chapter Seven …………. Elias Lacy Nichols and Descendants…………….143 Chapter Four ………… Richard Nichols and Descendants…………………. William Franklin Nichols and Descendants…….29 Chapter Three ………….
