This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nichols, Ettleman, Proudfit, Henderson, Irwin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4235 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. December 30, 1943. "Hold Services for Tilghman Nichols".-- Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist church at Thurman for Tilghman H. Nichols, 84, of Thurman,who passed away at the Hamburg hospital December 23, conducted by Rev.Charles Aitken of Bartlett. Interment was made in the Thurman cemetery. The son "Heaven is My home" was sung by Jay Leeka, accompanied by Mrs.P.M. Hanson. Casket bearers were Claude Case, Bert Gray, Charlie Wright, Ray Doil, Alvin Gardner and E. C. Axtell. Norma Cupp, Marion Cupp, Marilyn Leeka and Colleen Leeka were in charge of flowers. Tilghman Howard Nichols, son of James S. and Rachael Nichols,was born in Worth county, Mo., Jan. 2, 1859, and at the time of his death was 84 years 11 months and 21 days of age. When the Civil war broke out his father enlisted in the Union army and because of the unpopularity of northerners in the state of Missouri at that time, the family moved to Fremont county, and located on a farm just north of Sidney. After the close of the war, his family moved to the vicinity of Thurman, where, with the exception of a year in Nebraska, he spent his entire life. On December 31, 1885, he was married to Sarah C. Ettleman with whom he lived very happily until her death November 29, 1918. To this union six children were born: Earl, who died in 1891; Floyd, who died in 1903; Lloyd, who died in 1933; and Etha Proudfit, of Hamburg; and Glenn and Paul Nichols of Sidney, who survive him. He is also survived by a brother, W. D. Nichols, of Tabor, and a sister Belle Henderson, of Tilden, Neb. and a host of friends and relatives. He devoted most of his life to farming but he was a skilled carpenter and many buildings are standing in Fremont county as a memeorial to his craftsmanship. He was always interested in his community and had served as councilman and school director. Because of failing health he retired from active work in 1936 and moved to the town of Thurman where he spent the remainder of his life doing whatever work his health would permit and visiting with his friends and neighbors. Although afflicted with ill health for many years, he refused to surrender to its afflictions and was up and about until the day preceding his death. N.B.: Howard Nichols was a brother of "Don" Nichols of Tabor who married Carrie Irwin, daughter of Solomon Irwin.-- W.F.