Mahalia Ellen Nicholson
b. November 1847, d. 21 December 1935
- Father: O. P. Nicholson b. circa 1820
- Mother: Rebecca (?) b. circa 1825
- Mahalia Ellen Nicholson was born in November 1847 in Louisiana.
- O. P. Nicholson and Rebecca (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Columbia, Brazoria County, Texas, and also children Rufus, Oral, Sarah, James and Walker, not yet recorded.. Other members of the household included Mahalia Ellen Nicholson.
- Rebecca (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Brazoria PO, Brazoria County, Texas, and also children Sarah, James, Walker, Eliza and Ida, not yet recorded.. Other members of the household included Mahalia Ellen Nicholson.
- She married (?) McNeal circa 1872.
- Rebecca (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Brazoria County, Texas, and also children Willie, Eliza and Ida, not yet recorded.. Other members of the household included Mahalia Ellen Nicholson, Ella McNeal, John McNeal and George Isaac Tinsley.
- She married Samuel Preston Tinsley, son of Isaac Turner Tinsley and Mary Anne Turner, on 7 December 1881.
- Mahalia Ellen Nicholson died on 21 December 1935 at age 88 in Brazoria County, Texas.
- She was interred at Columbia Cemetery, Brazoria County, Texas.
- Last Edited: 27 Mar 2008
Family 1: (?) McNeal
- Ella McNeal b. circa 1873
- John McNeal b. circa 1875
Family 2: Samuel Preston Tinsley b. 8 November 1844, d. 16 March 1890
- Effie Rebecca Tinsley b. 16 June 1887