John M. Nichol (1884)

NICHOL

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Date: 9/22/2007 at 18:02:29

Winterset Madisonian - June 19, 1884
Winterset, Iowa
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DEATH OF MR. J. M. NICHOL

On Thursday last the sad news reached us by telegraph that J. M. Nichol was dead. The circumstances attending his death were peculiarly sad. Mrs. Nichol has long been an invalid, requiring great attention and care. Some weeks ago, as a last resort, he took her to Chicago for treatment. There he watched and waited upon her and she slightly improved. But he could stand the strain upon him no longer, and he was taken down. His daughter, Miss Ella, was telegraphed for and she hastened to his bedside and arrived to find her mother helpless and her father dying. And there was this young girl, alone in a great city, her mother lying very low and father gone to his last home.

Mr. Nichol was an affectionate father, a kind and loving husband. Through the bereavement that fell upon the daughter a little over a year ago he was her support, and affectionately and tenderly helped to bear her burden. And all this time and since and years before he waited upon his sick wife, tending to her as carefully as a woman could, no labor too great for his loving heart, no waiting or watching but it was cheerfully done. But at last he is at rest, though his loss will fall doubly heavy upon the daughter. She and her mother need all that sympathetic hands and pitying hearts can do for them.

Mr Nichol was buried at Keokuk on Friday.

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Winterset Madisonian- June 26, 1884
Winterset, Iowa

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OBITUARY

Died, in Chicago, Wednesday evening, June 11th, 1884, John M. Nichol, of Winterset, Iowa, formerly of Keokuk.

Deceased was born in Butler county, Ohio, Oct. 1834 and was nearly fifty years of age. He was an active, good business man and for many years was connected with some of the largest wholesale dry good's and boot and shoe houses in Iowa. He was a man of great strength of character and possessed of a ----- and loving nature. When he thought he was right nothing could turn him from the path of duty. Such devoted tenderness and thoughtfulness is seldom found in husband and father. He was true to his friends, to his family and to his God. He brought his invalid wife to Chicago where she could receive the most skillful medical treatment and careful nursing. He was stricken down one week after their arrival, and after two weeks of great suffering, died of meningetis. His remains were taken to his old home at Keokuk, Iowa, where they were followed to the grave by a very large number of relatives and friends, who held him in the highest esteem and believed him an honest man, the noblest work of God.

He leaves a wife and daughter who have the tenderest sympathy of all who know them.