Erastus Sumner Nichols

1818 - 1896  (78 years)

• Name	Erastus Sumner Nichols  [1]
  Born	4 Aug 1818	Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  	Census sources give "New York" but his obituary gives Brimfield, Massachusetts. Vital records of Brimfield do not include his (or any of his siblings') birth but as this source is the most reliable available, we're going with it.
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1830	Springfield, Clark, Ohio   [2]
  	Said to have traveled from New York to Ohio alone at age 12 or 13 in order to live with his brother, John D Nichols, in Springfield.
  Census	1850	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [5]
  	Dist. 44
  Occupation	1850	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [5]
  	Trader
  Residence	1850	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [5]
  	With wife Mary A (Crumbaugh), four children and two boarders
  Census	1860	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [4]
  	1st Ward, City of Xenia
  Residence	1860	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [4]
  	With wife Mary A (Crumbaugh) and nine children
  Census	1870	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [6]
  	Xenia P.O.
  Occupation	1870	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [6]
  	Fire insurance agent
  Residence	1870	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [6]
  	With wife Mary A (Crumbaugh), six children, his wife's parents, a servant and a niece and nephew
  Census	1880	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [7]
  	Enumeration District 93
  Occupation	1880	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [7]
  	Fire insurance agent
  Residence	1880	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [7]
  	33 East Second St With wife Mary A (Crumbaugh), three grown children and two servants
  Residence	24 Jan 1886	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [8]
  	On this date he attended brother John D Nichols' funeral.
  Died	13 Dec 1896	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [2, 9]
  Buried	15 Dec 1896	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [2, 9]
  	Woodland Cemetery [9]
  		Erastus Sumner Nichols (1818 - 1896) - Find A Grave Memorial Includes headstone photo. Created by: GWC Record added: May 19, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 70071765
  Notes	Not found in Greene Co., Ohio probate record indices
  Person ID	I1863	Wm L Gann Ancestors
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	David Nichols,   b. 30 Nov 1779, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts ,   d. 1855, Ohio  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Celia Blashfield,   b. 2 Oct 1782, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Jul 1840, Springfield, Clark, Ohio  (Age 57 years)
  Married	23 Dec 1802	Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [10]
  Family ID	F432	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann Crumbaugh,   b. 1820, Ohio ,   d. 13 May 1899  (Age 79 years)
  Married	22 Mar 1842	Xenia, Greene, Ohio   [2, 11]
  	Officiated by John Lehman, Minister of the Gospel
  		Nichols, Erastus S and Krumbaugh, Mary - Marriage Return - Green Co. OH, 1842
  Notes	Nine children were born to this couple. [2]
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2020
  Family ID	F992	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S30683] DISCLAIMER, This data was obtained from another researcher who believed it to be correct. However, no sources were provided with this data and this author has not yet validated it.. [S261] Xenia Daily Gazette, (Xenia, OH: W. B. Chew (1888-1902)), OCLC: 23936637., Monday, 14 Dec 1896, pg. 6, col. 2 (Reliability: 2), 9 Dec 2020. [S34621] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 629, p. 464A, Waterloo, Jackson, Michigan. [S40178] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 274, p. 7, Xenia, Greene, Ohio (Reliability: 2), 29 Jun 2010. [S34621] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 10, p. 2, Xenia, Greene, Ohio (Reliability: 2), 26 Apr 2013. [S34634] 1870 United States Federal Census, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 105, p. 14, Xenia, Greene, Ohio (Reliability: 2), 17 May 2012. [S34622] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), fam. 1, p. 1, ED 93, Xenia, Greene, Ohio (Reliability: 2), 20 Apr 2010. [S260] Springfield Globe-Republic, (Springfield, OH: Kinney, Nichols & Co. (), ISSN: 2158-4664., Monday, 25 Jan 1886, pg. 4, col. 3 (Reliability: 2), 9 Dec 2020. [S40191] Find a Grave, Jim Tipton, founder, (http://www.findagrave.com), memorial# 70071765 (Reliability: 1), 21 Mar 2012. [S26867] Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts - 1731 to 1849 - Marriages, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, comp., (The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, 2005-), http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org., vol. 1, p. 255 (Reliability: 2), 15 Dec 2009. [S32939] Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, (FamilySearch, http://www.familysearch.org, 2010-), Greene Co., LDS film 534106, p. 66 (Reliability: 3), 14 Apr 2011.