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Sheldon Nichols (1788 - abt. 1871)

Sheldon Nichols
Born in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , , , , , , , , , , , and
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , and
Died about at about age 82 in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah Territory, United Statesmap
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Contents

Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Sheldon /NICHOLS/ [1][2]
Name: Shelden /Nichols/
Given Name: Shelden
Surname: Nichols
Type: other spelling
Date: 1 JUN 1870[3]
Name: Seldon /Nichols/
Given Name: Seldon
Surname: Nichols
Type: other spelling
Date: 1 JUN 1850[4]
Name: Sheldin /Nickels/
Given Name: Sheldin
Surname: Nickels
Type: other spelling
Date: 1801[5]
Name: Shilden /Nickols/
Given Name: Shilden
Surname: Nickols
Type: other spelling
Date: 1805[6]

Birth

Birth:
Date: 14 NOV 1788
Place: Danby (Danville), Rutland, VT[7]
Birth:
Date: ABT 1786[8]
Birth:
Date: ABT OCT 1786
Place: Rhode Island, United States[9]
Birth:
Date: 14 NOV 1788
Place: Rhode Island, United States[10]
Birth:
Date: 14 NOV 1788[11]
Birth:
Date: ABT 1789
Place: Rhode Island, United States[12][13][14]

Event

Event: male child
Type: Misc
Date: 1801[15]
Event: 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 1 male under seven, 2 females under 7
Type: Misc
Date: 1817
Place: Bastard, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America[16]
Event: Member of the committee at a Gourlay's Meeting
Type: Elected
Date: 23 JUN 1818
Place: Bastard, Canada West[17]
Event: Mormon missionaries came to Bastard in 1837, converting some who were unhappy with the government and some "ignorant and poor people".
Type: Misc
Date: 1837
Place: Bastard, Canada West
Note: This could be how Sheldon and Alvin ended up in Utah.[18]
Event: father and mother not of foreign birth
Type: Misc
Date: 1 JUN 1870[19]
Event: Lived with David and Ruth Wilder. David was born in New York, Ruth in Canada West.
Type: Misc
Date: 1 JUN 1870
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States
Note: Ruth is a possible daughter since Sheldon and Susanna are living with the family. If so, then the family could have lived in Canada for a time.[20]

Residence

Residence: In Bastard and Kitley census group
Date: 1801
Place: A Lest, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America[21]
Residence:
Date: 1805
Place: Bastard, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America[22]
Residence:
Date: 1817
Place: Bastard, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America[23]
Residence:
Date: 1841
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin Territory, United States[24]
Residence:
Date: BEF 1842
Place: Canada[25]
Residence:
Date: 1842
Place: San Prairie, Dane, Wisconsin Territory, United States[26]
Residence:
Date: 1842
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin Territory, United States[27]
Residence:
PROOF proven
Date: 1 JUN 1860
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States[28]
Residence:
PROOF proven
Date: 1 JUN 1870
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States[29]

Occupation

Occupation: day laborer
Date: 1 JUN 1860
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States[30]
Occupation: retired farmer
Date: 1 JUN 1870
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States[31]

Property

Property: no real estate, personal estate valued at $100
Date: 1 JUN 1860
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States[32]

Nationality

Nationality: male citizen of the U.S 21 and upwards
Date: 1 JUN 1870
Place: Bristol, Dane, Wisconsin, United States[33]

Death

Death:
Date: SEP 1871[34]
Death:
Date: 29 SEP 1871
Place: Brigham City, Utah Territory, United States[35][36]
Death:
Date: 29 SEP 1871[37]

Burial

Burial:
Date: 02 OCT 1871
Place: Brigham City, Box Elder, UT[38]
Burial:
Date: AFT 29 SEP 1871
Place: Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States[39]

Marriage

Marriage:
Husband: Sheldon Nichols
Wife: Susanna Chipman
Child: Alvin Nichols
Child: Jonas J. Nichols
Child: Ruth Nichols
Child: Hiram Nichols
Child: Beula Nichols

LDS Endowment

LDS Endowment: [40]

Event

Event:
Type: Event-Misc
Place: 1NQ9-QP[41]

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S2
  2. ↑ Source: #S4
  3. ↑ Source: #S1
  4. ↑ Source: #S3
  5. ↑ Source: #S10
  6. ↑ Source: #S12
  7. ↑ Source: #S4
  8. ↑ Source: #S13
  9. ↑ Source: #S6
  10. ↑ Source: #S7 Page:
  11. ↑ Source: #S8
  12. ↑ Source: #S1
  13. ↑ Source: #S2
  14. ↑ Source: #S3
  15. ↑ Source: #S10
  16. ↑ Source: #S13 Page: Sheldon Nichols
  17. ↑ Source: #S9
  18. ↑ Source: #S9
  19. ↑ Source: #S1
  20. ↑ Source: #S1
  21. ↑ Source: #S10 Page: p. 3; col. 1, line 29; Sheldin Nickels
  22. ↑ Source: #S12 Page: p. 2; col. 3, line 14; Shilden Nickols
  23. ↑ Source: #S13
  24. ↑ Source: #S6 Page: 2
  25. ↑ Source: #S6 Page: 3
  26. ↑ Source: #S4 Page: 1
  27. ↑ Source: #S6
  28. ↑ Source: #S2
  29. ↑ Source: #S1
  30. ↑ Source: #S2
  31. ↑ Source: #S1
  32. ↑ Source: #S2
  33. ↑ Source: #S1
  34. ↑ Source: #S6 Page: 1111
  35. ↑ Source: #S7 Page:
  36. ↑ Source: #S4
  37. ↑ Source: #S8
  38. ↑ Source: #S4
  39. ↑ Source: #S7
  40. ↑ Source: #S4
  41. ↑ Source: #S1629
  • Source: S1629 Title: Type: Ancestral File Number
  • Source: S2 Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
  • Source: S4 Title: hofundssonAnces.ged Repository: #R1
  • Repository: R1 Name: Unknown
  • Source: S1 Title: 1870 U.S. Census, Dane County, Wisconsin, population schedule, , ; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed ); NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1708. Page: Bristol; p. 24 (penned); dwelling 167, family 165; Shelden Nichols
  • Source: S10 Title: 1801, Bastard and Kitley Twps, Ontario, population schedule, , ; digital images, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census.html : accessed ); Ron Cox. Page: p. 3; col. 1, line 29; Sheldin Nickels;
  • Source: S11 Title: 1802, Bastard, Kitley, Leeds and Lansdowne (rear) twps, population, , ; digital images, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census.html : accessed ); Ron Cox.
  • Source: S12 Title: Bastard Township census, Bastard Township, population schedule, , ; digital images, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb Page: p. 2; col. 3, line 14; Shilden Nickols; (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census.html : accessed ); Ron Cox.
  • Source: S13 Title: Sandy Wunder, "1817 Census of Bastard Township, Leeds County,", database, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census-leeds-bast_1817.html : accessed ), ; Record Grp F 1721-6 Reel MS 2547, Johnstown District Municipal Records, Archives of Ontario. Page: Sheldon Nichols
  • Source: S2 Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Dane County, population schedule, , ; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ww.ancestry.com : accessed ); NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1438. Page: Bristol; p. 139 (penned); dwelling 201, family 211; Sheldon Nichols
  • Source: S3Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Dane County, population schedule, , ; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed ); NARA Microfilm Publication M432. Page: Bristol; p. 50 (penned lower left); dwelling 401, family 410; Selden Nichols
  • Source: S4 Title: Ron V. Jackson, Accelerated Indexing Systems, "Wisconsin Census, 1820-90, WI 1842 State Census Index," database on-line, ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed ), .
  • Source: S5 Jonas J. Nichols marriage Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS], "International Genealogical Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XJZF-R6F : accessed ), ; citing FHL microfilm .
  • Source: S6 Title: Consul Willshire Butterfield, editor, History of Dane County, Wisconsin: preceded by a history of Wisconsin... (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), ; online images, Google, Google Books (books.google.com : accessed . Page: 1111
  • Source: S7 Title: Brigham City Cemetery, manage and upload, "Managed Cemetery Record," database, Names In Stone (https://www.namesinstone.com : accessed ), Page: 3; Sheldon Nichols (1788-1871)
  • Source: S8 Title: Find A Grave, Find A Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ). Page: Sheldon Nichols (1788-1871), Box Elder County FindAGrave.com; Created by: Kim Millett; Record added: May 02, 2007; Find A Grave Memorial# 19187047
  • Source: S9 Title: Thad. W. H. Leavitt, History of Leeds and Grenville Ontario: From 1749 to 1879, ... (Brockville: Recorder Press, 1879), ; digital images, Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org : accessed . Page: 43 Page: 121-122
  • 1870 United States Federal Census, Wisconsin, Dane, Bristol Page 24
  • 1860 United States Federal Census, Wisconsin, Dane, Bristol
  • Deseret News, 1871-10-18 Died






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Pieterse-13 Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen
Nichols-6339 and Nichols-906 appear to represent the same person because: Exact dates, same mother and spouse.Difference in dates to be noted in the biography until a source can be added.
posted by Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen

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