Descendants of Benjamin Nichols and Samantha D. Jones

"Richard Nichols: The Immigrant", by George Nichols, 1928, in Shinglehouse, PA. The family arrived in Ipswich, MA around 1640, then moved to Reading, MA, ("History of the Town of Reading, Mass., by Hon. Lilley Eaton, 1874") where they stayed until before the Revolution, when they moved first to Worcester, MA, and then to Dummerston, VT. After the war, they settled in Bainbridge, NY, where they lived until 1843, when Benjamin Nichols, his brother Maleck Adel Nichols, and one other brother,  followed the timber industry to Sharon Center, PA (near Shinglehouse). After the timber started to give out, one of Benjamin's sons (Arad Freemont Nichols) moved to Wisconsin, where he continued in the lumber business. Willard Alonzo Nichols farmed for a while, and then when the glass factory opened in Shinglehouse, became a shopkeeper. When the store burnt down in 1913 he went back to farming.
 

Richard Nichols b. 1630 England d. November 22, 1674 Reading MA m. Annas Kendal d. 1692 Reading MA James Nichols b. July 15, 1658 Ipswich, MA d. January 12, 1744 Reading MA m. Mary Poole b. 1662 d. 1711 James Nichols b. 1683 Reading MA m. Joanna Lamson b. June 16, 1682 James Nichols b. June 13, 1719 Reading, MA m. Hannah Eaton b.1721 Reading, MA James Nichols b. January 31, 1741 Reading, MA d. November 23, 1816 North Afton, NY m. Jemima Morris b. June 13, 1745 New Roxbury, CT d. April 1, 1807 North Afton, NY Benjamin Franklin Nichols b. April 20, 1776 Dummerston, VT d. April 15, 1856 Sharon Center, PA m. Phebe Dodge b. November 1781 d. February 2, 1859 Benjamin Franklin Nichols b. July 15, 1819 Bainbridge,  NY d. March 7, 1908 Sharon Center, PA m. Samantha Dorotha Jones b. March 23, 1821 Windham, VT d. April 11, 1900 Sharon Center,  PA Sobieski Nichols Roscoe Nelson Nichols b. September 1845 m. Mary E Lewis b. October 1847 Merle A Nichols b. 1867 Ralph L Nichols b. January 1880 Willard Alonzo Nichols b. February 9, 1848 d. November 16, 1914 m. Lydia Helena Warner b. March 11, 1846 d. March 27, 1929 Myrtie J Nichols b. September 18, 1869 d. January 1953 m. David Lewis b. 1871 d. 1944 Lura M Nichols b. June 16, 1871 d. July 11, 1920 m. Ira W. Bixby b. January 12, 1870 d. 1963 Arad Franklin Nichols b.July 4, 1873 d. August 19, 1948 m1. Blanche Mead b. 1881 d. March 4, 1921 m2. Laura Price b. 1886 d. 1957 Benjamin F. Nichols b. January 12, 1876 d. January 27, 1968 m1. Ella M. Sutherland b. 1876 d. 1903 m2. Leora Richards b. November 14, 1882 d. December 22, 1967 Earl Robert Nichols b. September 24, 1880 d. February 3, 1934 m. Helen Yvonne Rounsavell b. September 30, 1882 d. March 11, 1973 Arad Freemont Nichols b. June 25, 1853 d. October 8, 1913 m. Mary McGeorge  Frank Agard Nichols b. July 30, 1854 d. January 7, 1938  m. Anna McGregor b. August 4, 1860 d. September 1, 1930 Robert Nichols b. August 19, 1886 Hayward, WI d. May 1964 Dean S Nichols b. August 14, 1890 d. January 30, 1968 Wayne MacGregor Nichols b. May 19, 1896 d. February 13, 1967 m. Sarah Inez Stannard b. March 31, 1893 d. August 4, 1985

Benjamin Nichols and Samantha Jones W.A. Nichols and Family, 1892