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Capt Thomas Nichols born May 15, 1732 in Connaught, Ireland. Lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts and
married Miss Elizabeth Wells on April 03, 1758, producing four children. Elizabeth died January 17, 1765.
Thomas then married Miss Elizabeth Pierce on November 07, 1765 and they had twelve more children.
Thomas served in the Revolutionary War.
Joshua Nichols, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Pierce), born May 21, 1783 in Charlemont, Massachusetts.
Married Miss Sally Cook in Ashfield, Franklin County Massachusetts in 1810. Lived in Broadalbin, Fonda's Bush,
New York, and Manlius Square, Onandago County, New York, where they raised 12 children.
David Thomas Nichols, son of Joshua and Elizabeth. In 1834 he married Miss Clarisa Watkins of New York,
producing three children, William, Minerva and Horace. Clarisa died in 1845 and David moved to Illinois and
married Miss Hudah G Barry on May 14, 1846 in St Charles, Illinois. In 1850 he travelled with a party to
Sacramento, California during the gold rush and returned to Kane County, Illinois, in 1851. Settling in Wyanet,
Bureau County, Illinois in 1854, he was then hired by C. G. Hammond to be the first agent for the
Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad in Wyanet, Illinois.
David and Hulda had six children, Clarissa, Dexter, David, Sarah, Clifford and Emerette.
William Irving Nichols, first son born to David Thomas and Clarisa (Watkins) Nichols on June 08, 1836.
Accompanied his father when they journeyed West from Illinois through the great plains by mule, en route to
Sacramento, California in 1850. William married Miss Elizabeth Root of Canada Corners on January 01, 1859.
Clarissa Eunice Nichols, daughter of David and Hulda (Barry) Nichols, born in Kane County, Illinois on
August 02, 1847. Married James Crawford of Wyanet, Illinois on May 02, 1866.
David Thomas Crawford, son of James and Clarissa (Nichols) Crawford, born February 19, 1867 in
Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois. He married Mary (May) Hughey on October 06, 1886.
Henry Lee Crawford, son of James and Clarissa, born September 05, 1868 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois.
Henry married Katherine Purtill on June 07, 1890.
Marie C Crawford, daughter of Henry and Katherine (Purtill) Crawford, born January 23, 1892 in Marceline,
Missouri. She married Hewitt E Lovelace on August 17,1918 in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
Hewitt Eldridge Lovelace Jr, born May 31, 1924 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri to Hewitt Eldridge
and Marie C (Crawford) Lovelace. Hewitt married Madeline Ames Scates in Miami, Florida in 1940.
Robert Irving Crawford, son of James and Clarissa, born September 27, 1875 in Wyanet, Bureau County,
Illinois. Robert married Miss Mayme Laughlin on February 19, 1900. Mayme died in 1903 and
Robert then married Miss Cora B Halliday on March 11, 1920 in Argentine, Kansas.
Sarah Ellen "Sadie" Nichols, daughter of David and Hulda Nichols. Born in Wyanet, Bureau County Illinois on
December 15, 1854. Married Edward John Engel, August 17th, 1876 in Wyanet, Illinois. Sadie was very active
in the women's suffrage era, helping organize the Hawthorne Club in Argentine, Kansas.
Clifford Lamotte Nichols, son of David and Hulda (Barry) Nichols. Born November 30, 1856 in Wyanet, Bureau
County, Illinois. Married Mabel E Frans of Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois on February 02, 1878.
Emerette Alma Nichols, daughter of David and Hulda (Barry) Nichols. Born December 10, 1858 in Wyanet,
Bureau County, Illinois. Married William A Yearnshaw of Wyanet, Illinois on February 05, 1879.
John Blaine Sr, born in Ireland in 1825. Came to Bureau County, Illinois in 1840. Married Miss Anna Malvina
Barry of New York, sister of Hulda Barry Nichols. Was a Captain and brigade inspector for the
65th Illinois Infantry Volunteers, "Scotch Regiment", Company K.I.V.I during the Civil War.
John B Blaine Jr, born in Wyanet Bureau County, Illinois in 1853. Travelled with his brother, Charles to
Cowles, Webster County Nebraska in 1878.
Anna Malvina Barry, wife of John Blaine Sr, born in Waterville, Oneida County, New York in 1826.
John and Anna had five children, Ellen, John B, Charles C, William B, and Jennie.
Charles C Blaine, son of John and Annie Blaine, born in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois in 1858, Was a station
agent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Mount Clare, Nebraska in 1890.
William B Blaine, son of John and Annie Blaine, born in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois on January 02, 1861. In
1886,married Miss Clara Griswold in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
Jennie Anna Blaine, daughter of John and Anna Blaine, born January, 1872 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois.
Married Thomas E Penman in Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska in 1890.
Thomas and Jennie had one daughter, Lea born in Red Cloud, Nebraska in 1895.
Lea Penman, daughter of Thomas and Jennie (Blaine) Penman, born October 04, 1895 in Red Cloud, Webster
County Nebraska. Lea was an accredited screen and stage actress starting in 1914. Her most successful role
was Dolly Tate in the 1946 Broadway production of "Annie Get Your Gun" which was first staged at the
Imperial Theater on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances.
John B Engel born November 09, 1821 in Lorraine, France and immigrated to the United States in 1852,
settling first in Auburn, New York, then Covington, Kentucky and finally to Bureau County, Illinois in 1856.
Married Miss Jacobine Hauter in May of 1844, who was born in Zwiebrucken, Germany in 1825.
Katherine Engel, daughter of John Engel, born February 1848 in France. Married Albert Gustave Hugo in
Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois on July 02, 1871.
Albert Gustave Hugo, husband of Katherine Engel. Born July 16, 1842 in Helmstedt, Germany.
Came to the United States and settled in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois in 1867.
Edward John Engel, son of John and Jacobine Engel, born November 29, 1854 in Auburn, Cayuga County New
York. He married Sarah Ellyn Nichols on August 17, 1876 in Wyanet,Bureau County, Illinois. Edward started his
career with the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad at Wyanet in 1872, the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific in
1875 and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe in 1881
George David Engel, son of Edward and Sadie born in Argentine, Kansas in 1890. George worked for the
Kansas City Structural Steel Company in Argentine, Kansas in 1908, the Swift Company in 1920, retiring in
1956 and finally the Clay County Assessors office in Liberty, Missouri.
He married Dorothy Lee Lange on February 22, 1914 in Argentine, Kansas.
Louis Skidmore Lange, born in Romines Mills, West Virginia, November 16th, 1867. Arrived in Kansas City
with his father, John in 1885. Married Willmina Johnson on December 24th, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dorothy Lee Lange, daughter of Louis and Wilmina Lange. Dot married George D Engel,
February 22nd, 1914 in Argentine, Kansas. They had one daughter, Ruth Mildred Engel, born
January 10th, 1915 in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
Ruth M Engel, daughter of George who grew up in Argentine, Kansas, moved to Liberty, Missouri
in 1927, graduated from Liberty High School in 1931, attended William Jewell College from 1931-36, worked
at William Jewell during WWll, married Robert E Jacobs and settled in Liberty, Missouri.
Josephine Alice Lange, daughter of Louis and Wilmina Lange, born January 14, 1902 in Wolcott, Kansas.
Married Charles Ervin on September 08, 1922 in Argentine, Kansas
Robert Eugene Jacobs came to Liberty, Missouri in 1943 at the age of sixteen with his younger brother Edgar.
He worked at the NAA factory in the Fairfax District of Kansas City, Kansas, building B-25 bombers.
In 1944 he was hired by the Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad, the Liberty Police Department part time in
1956 and Trans World Airlines, full time also in 1956, retiring from TWA in 1993.
Edgar Wayne Jacobs who came to Liberty, Missouri in 1943 at the age of fifteen with his older brother,
Robert Eugene. He worked on a farm in Liberty, Missouri until he found work in 1946 at
Safeway Stores in Kansas City Missouri as a driver.
Helen Velma Hailey, Edgar & Gene's mother, who was born in Hazelwood, Webster County, Missouri in 1904,
living in Jerico Springs, Missouri in 1933 and finally Wichita, Kansas in 1962.
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