Olive Nichols

NICHOLS, NELSON

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 4/7/2006 at 23:03:48

Winterset Madisonian and Chronicle, April 12, 1888
Winterset, Iowa

Obituary

Died at Webster, March 31, 1888, Mrs. Olive Nichols, wife of A. Nichols, and the mother of Mrs. Dr. Nelson, of our city. Mrs. Nichols was born in Pennsylvania in 1822, was married in 1848, and with her husband removed to Polo, Ill., in 1868.

About 18 years ago they came to Adair county, this state, and for the last three years have made their home in Webster, where a number of their children now live. For some years Mrs. Nichols health has not been good and with the beginning of the past winter she began to fail quite rapidly, suffering intensely during the last week of her life, but bearing all with Christian cheerfulness and fortitude. The sustaining presence of the Saviour was with her constantly, and at times she had rapturous fortastes of heavenly joy and blessedness. She became a member of the Baptist church in 1847, and lived a Christian life whose memorg (memory) will ever be sweet and helpful to her family and friends, and well befitted the text she had chosen for her funeral sermon. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” She leaves a husband, three sons and five daughters, all of whom were present at the funeral except the two older sons, one being detained at his home in Omaha and the other in Illinois.

A large company of friends followed the remains to their last resting place on the sunny slope of the beautiful cemetery west of Webster. On easter (Easter) day we laid her in the tomb, comforted with the thought that soon for all who die in the Lord would come that easter (Easter) morn when they that are in their graves should hear the voice of the Son of God, and should come forth in his likeness to dwell with him forever.

(Note: Burial in Roberts Cemetery, Adair County, Iowa)