Jackie in Jackson -- >From Amador Dispatch, 09/17/1909, article titled "Two Called By Sudden Death". (Elbridge Guptill and Melvin Nichols) Melvin Nichols, a well-known resident of the New York Ranch section, died suddenly Tuesday from what the doctor afterwards certified to be apoplexy. It seems that Nichols was doing some chores about the place, and while carrying some hay on a fork to feed some cows he sank to the ground and called for a glass of water, and in a few minutes fell over dead. The body was brought to Jackson yesterday for interment, services being held at the cemetery by Rev. Mr. Burbank, of the Ione Free Methodist church, there being no other Protestant minister in the county on account of the conference sessiion. Deceased was a native of Georgia and was 63 years of age at the time of his death. He was one of nine children, seven of whom are still living. They are Mrs. R.J. Adams, Mrs. Langford, James, Wesley, Dow, and W. Nichols; and two children, a son and daughter, are left to mourn the loss of a father. His mother died of paralysis at Jackson Valley March 1, 1899, and his father was killed by Indians while the family was crossing the plains in 1857. Judy in Winnemucca, NV [email protected]