John Frederick Owen Nichols

b. 11 February 1866, d. 12 November 1950
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols was born on 11 February 1866 in Marshall County, Tennessee.
  • He married Ruth Ingram, daughter of John Charles Wesley Ingram and Mandana Artemisia Musick, on 25 December 1887 in Kerr County, Tennessee. John Frederick's sister Sarah Alice later married Ruth's widowed father..
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Kerr County, Texas. Other members of the household included Emmet Harvey Nichols and Sarah Elizabeth Neely. Also in the household were children Everett E. (age 11), Wesley F. (7), John R. (5), Nettie A. (2) and William A. (1).
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Kerr County, Tennessee, at Goat Creek Road. Other members of the household included Emmet Harvey Nichols. Also in the household were children Everett (age 21), Wesley F. (17), John R. (14), Nettie A. (12), William A. (11), Mary B. (9), Melissa R. (5) and Lucy (1).
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1910 census.
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Tennessee. Also in the household were children Ruth (age 15) and Lucie (10).
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1920 census.
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Kerr County, Texas, at Goat Creek Road. Also in the household was daughter Lucy (age 20).
  • He was a grain and livestock farmer, according to the 1930 census.
  • The following appeared on 14 October 1937 in the Kerrville Mountain Sun: Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nichols are spending the month of October with Mr. Nichols' father on his ranch near Ingram.
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Texas at Goat Creek Road.
  • At the time of his death John Frederick Owen Nichols was living in Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, at Harper Road.
  • John Frederick Owen Nichols died on 12 November 1950 at age 84 in Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, at Peterson Memorial Hospital . His death was officially witnessed by Emmet Harvey Nichols.
  • Ruth Ingram became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Nichols Cemetery, Ingram, Kerr County, Texas.
  • Last Edited: 10 Apr 2017

Family: Ruth Ingram b. 20 September 1871, d. 12 October 1964