This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: NICHOLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/2650.1.1 Message Board Post: JAMES KNOX POLK NICHOLS is my great grandfather who was born to John O. NICHOLS in New Jersey April 16, 1848. and to his mother EMELINE (CHEW) NICHOLS who was came from Penn. she died in Akeley, MN 1908. James K P Nichols married Amanda Boyles in Oskaloosa, Iowa. James K P NIchols died Sept 8, 1921 in Kansas City, MO, after living from about 1902 to 1920 up in Nevis, MN in the Thorpe township. His daughter Gertrude (Nichols) & Patrick Curtis were also up there, where my mother Olive Mae Curtis was born and 6 other siblings (3 of whom were born in Iowa, MO, IN).