HI Jimmie, good to hear from you. I never did have any info on my Joshua's lst wife. She would have been more than likely the mother of Joshua and his brother Benjamin. My Joshua was b. 1821 (supposedly in Rutherford Co., TN). It's hard to keep up with the counties in that period because they were always changing boundaries, etc. You have given me a lot more information that I didn't have. I will search the links you listed and see what else I can glean. The puzzles do sometimes come together. Hope you are well. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmie" <dors1933@vvm.com> To: <almarion@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:43 AM Subject: [ALMARION] Fw: Isaac and Joshua Nichols, War of 1812,Sumter District SC > Joshua and Isaac Nichols moved to Marion County, AL by way of Bedford > County, TN. According to bounty-land applications filed in Marion County, > AL, they served in the War of 1812 from Sumter District, SC. Joshua's > military papers state that he was discharged in Charleston, SC and his > place of rendezvous after discharge was Salem County, SC. In 2003, I > posted the contents of Joshua's and Isaac's bounty land applications to > the Marion County Message Board at Rootsweb. You will find the > information at the following links. > > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.marion/1090/mb.ashx > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.marion/1090/mb.ashx > > Joshua and Isaac Nichols are both listed on the 1820 Sumter County, SC > census. Joshua is listed living alone and Isaac is listed as having a > wife and children. I have a set of old South Carolina Maps and they show > the evolvement of the South Carolina Counties. Salem County the place of > Joshua's rendezvous (see above) was done away with sometime between 1810 > and 1820 and I believe that put them in the newly formed county of Sumter. > > After the 1820 Sumter, SC census was taken, it appears that Joshua and > Isaac Nichols moved to Bedford County, TN where Isaac's first wife died > and he then married Chania/Chaney Cochran in Bedford County. Chania as > Isaac's widow filed for bounty land in Marion County and she said in her > application that she married Isaac Nichols on the 22 September 1826 in > Bedford County, TN and that Isaac died in Marion County, AL on 9 May 1847, > aged 57 years. Joshua Nichols married Elizabeth Cochran. Proof of > Elizabeth's maiden name is found in her daughter Mary Elizabeth (Nichols) > Wiginton's death certificate which says her father was Joshua Nichols and > her mother was Elizabeth Cochran. It may be that Chania and Elizabeth > were sisters and that Joshua married Elizabeth after moving to Bedford > County. > > James C. Lawler's first book of Marion County land records, entitled > "First Land Settlers of Marion County, AL, 1820-1850" lists Isaac Nichols > in "Section 33, Township 9, Range 14, Certificate #19562, dated 30 Oct > 1844. In Mr. Lawler's second land book, entitled "Land Settlers of Marion > County, AL, 1851-1860's", Benjamin Nichols is listed in this same Section, > Township and Range. Certificate # 29146, dated 4 Oct 1858. According to > Marion County Section, Townsh8ip and Range map, this land is located near > Bethany Church. I've been told that a record found in Benjamin Nichols' > granddaughter's papers states that Benjamin's parents were Isaac and Mary > Alice Nichols. According to Benjamin Nichols tombstone at one of the > Nichols cemeteries in Marion County, he died 23 Dec. 1887 - age about 62 > years. By this tombstone record, he apparently was born about 1825, the > year before Chania Cochran married Isaac Nichols. > > Jimmie > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Barbara, Yes, The 1850 Marion County, AL census of Joshua Nichols (who married Matilda Bean) shows his age as 29 years, born about 1821 in Tennessee. Aparently he was the son of Isaac Nichols and his first wife Mary Alice. After the death of Mary Alice, Isaac married Chania/Chaney Cochran in 1826, Bedford County. Since Bedford and Rutherford Counties adjoin one another they may have married in one county and lived in an adjoining county. The 1850 Marion County census shows 13 or so Nichols families living there by 1850. In looking at the Bedford and Rutherford County census records, I've thought that some may have lived in both counties. There was another family of Nichols who lived in Bedford County, TN, town of Bell Buckle. Their names were William Lee Nichols and his wife Sarah Cochran Nichols. William Lee Nichols died and after his death his widow Sarah and her children moved to Bell County, TX in the 1850s. I now live in Bell County and some of these Nichols descendants have been to visit me. In fact one of them gave me the copy of Mary Elizabeth (Nichols) Wiginton's death certificate which list her mother as Elizabeth Cochran. (see my previous message today). Mary Elizabeth Wiginton and her husband James Wiginton moved to Bell County, TX after the Civil War. They lived here for awhile and moved back to Marion County, AL, leaving some of their children here. Jimmie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Mitchell" <Auntiwise65@clas.net> To: <almarion@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [ALMARION] Fw: Isaac and Joshua Nichols, War of 1812, Sumter District SC > HI Jimmie, good to hear from you. I never did have any info on my > Joshua's > lst wife. She would have been > more than likely the mother of Joshua and his brother Benjamin. My Joshua > was b. 1821 (supposedly in Rutherford Co., TN). It's hard to keep up with > the counties in that period because they were always changing boundaries, > etc. You have given me a lot more information that I didn't have. I will > search the links you listed and see what else I can glean. The puzzles do > sometimes come together. Hope you are well. > Barbara > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jimmie" <dors1933@vvm.com> > To: <almarion@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:43 AM > Subject: [ALMARION] Fw: Isaac and Joshua Nichols, War of 1812,Sumter > District SC > > >> Joshua and Isaac Nichols moved to Marion County, AL by way of Bedford >> County, TN. According to bounty-land applications filed in Marion >> County, >> AL, they served in the War of 1812 from Sumter District, SC. Joshua's >> military papers state that he was discharged in Charleston, SC and his >> place of rendezvous after discharge was Salem County, SC. In 2003, I >> posted the contents of Joshua's and Isaac's bounty land applications to >> the Marion County Message Board at Rootsweb. You will find the >> information at the following links. >> >> >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.marion/1090/mb.ashx >> >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.marion/1090/mb.ashx >> >> Joshua and Isaac Nichols are both listed on the 1820 Sumter County, SC >> census. Joshua is listed living alone and Isaac is listed as having a >> wife and children. I have a set of old South Carolina Maps and they show >> the evolvement of the South Carolina Counties. Salem County the place of >> Joshua's rendezvous (see above) was done away with sometime between 1810 >> and 1820 and I believe that put them in the newly formed county of >> Sumter. >> >> After the 1820 Sumter, SC census was taken, it appears that Joshua and >> Isaac Nichols moved to Bedford County, TN where Isaac's first wife died >> and he then married Chania/Chaney Cochran in Bedford County. Chania as >> Isaac's widow filed for bounty land in Marion County and she said in her >> application that she married Isaac Nichols on the 22 September 1826 in >> Bedford County, TN and that Isaac died in Marion County, AL on 9 May >> 1847, >> aged 57 years. Joshua Nichols married Elizabeth Cochran. Proof of >> Elizabeth's maiden name is found in her daughter Mary Elizabeth (Nichols) >> Wiginton's death certificate which says her father was Joshua Nichols and >> her mother was Elizabeth Cochran. It may be that Chania and Elizabeth >> were sisters and that Joshua married Elizabeth after moving to Bedford >> County. >> >> James C. Lawler's first book of Marion County land records, entitled >> "First Land Settlers of Marion County, AL, 1820-1850" lists Isaac Nichols >> in "Section 33, Township 9, Range 14, Certificate #19562, dated 30 Oct >> 1844. In Mr. Lawler's second land book, entitled "Land Settlers of >> Marion >> County, AL, 1851-1860's", Benjamin Nichols is listed in this same >> Section, >> Township and Range. Certificate # 29146, dated 4 Oct 1858. According >> to >> Marion County Section, Townsh8ip and Range map, this land is located near >> Bethany Church. I've been told that a record found in Benjamin Nichols' >> granddaughter's papers states that Benjamin's parents were Isaac and >> Mary >> Alice Nichols. According to Benjamin Nichols tombstone at one of the >> Nichols cemeteries in Marion County, he died 23 Dec. 1887 - age about 62 >> years. By this tombstone record, he apparently was born about 1825, the >> year before Chania Cochran married Isaac Nichols. >> >> Jimmie >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ALMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >