Marty and Karla Grant

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 189-

NICHOLS.—The Nichols family, so far as the county is concerned, sprang from old Averett Nichols, of Columbus County, N. C. His youngest son, Averett, born 8th March, 1803, settled in Marion County in 1830 ; he married a Miss Burney, of Columbus County, N. C. ; he located near what is now called Nichols, in the woods, apparently a poor place, lived there during his long life, and died there at the age of near ninety three, on the 7th January, 1896; he raised a family of ten children, eight daughters and two sons ; the sons, McKendree (called Kendree) and Averitt Burney. Kendree was a very promising young man, unmarried; went into the Southern army as a Lieutenant, and was killed, as I think, in second Manassas, 30th August, 1862. A. B. Nichols, a prominent and progressive citizen, merchant and farmer at Nichols, S. C, married a Miss Sophronia Daniel, and has a family of children, how many is unknown—be is doing his full duty in that respect, as well as in every other ; he is a first class man, and safe in every way. Averitt Nichols' oldest daughter, Mary, married Isham H. Watson, and is now a widow, and childless his daughter, Lucy, married a Mr. Lawson ; they emigrated to Texas many years ago, and, I suppose, are contributing their share to the population and wealth of that great State. Sarah (or Sallie) married our modest but successful fellow-citizen, J. Thomas Jones; she has been dead many years, but left several sons and daughters, all of whom are now among us I do not know the names of all the sons ; Eli is one, Beverly another, Kendree, Evander and Robert Boyd, maybe another one or two. There are four daughters, Lucy Ellen, who married J. B. Williams; Lola, who married William E. Hewit; Catharine, married David N. Bethea; and Miss Fannie is yet single. Of this family, it may be said, they are all first class citizens, doing well and law-abiding. Anne Nichols married the late T. B. Braddy, who was killed by D. W. McLaurin, in 1881 ; he left a son, Oscar Braddy, by his Nichols wife ; he and his mother reside in Hillsboro Township, and, I suppose, arc doing fairly well. Fannie Nichols married our respected fellow-citizen, Jacob W. Smith, and has several children; I do not know how many ; he lives in Latta. I know his son, Alonzo Smith, who is a progressive and first class young business man, and promises to become one of the leading men of the county. Miss Rebecca Nichols, youngest daughter of Averitt Nichols, never married ; she was, after the death of her mother, the controling (sic) spirit and manager of the female department of the household until a few years ago, she unexpectedly and suddenly died; she was a charming young woman, just the sort to have made a good housewife. There were two other daughters, who died about maturity and unmarried. Averitt Nichols was a very exemplary man ; he had the faculty in large degree of attending to his own business and of letting other people's business severely alone; the result was that he amassed a large property, raised a large and respectable family would not go in debt — paid as he went ; he was never in a hurry or in a flurry about anything ; had in the Bank of New Hanover, Wilmington, N. C, several thousand dollars when it failed some seven or eight years ago, and which was mostly lost. In his later days the old gentleman partially lost his mind, and his affairs, financial and otherwise, were managed by his son, A. B. Nichols. The old man was never informed of the loss of his money by the failure of the bank ; he died not knowing anything about it. ;

!NOTES:I (Marty Grant) am not related to this person as far as I've been able to determine.
(1) I am a Horry Co., SC Lewis researcher, so I'm interested for this reason.
(2) This person is an uncle/aunt of my uncle Joe Skipper;


!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/


!NAMED-WILL:14 May 1811 Horry Co., SC William Lewis, proven 23 Aug 1811.
Daughter Polley Nichols.
Daughter Salley Nichols.
Son James Lewis.
Son Isaac Lewis.
Son Hardy Lewis.
Son Jonathan Lewis.
Son Joel Lewis.
Son Elisha Lewis.
Daughter Zilpha Lewis.
Son Patrick Lewis.
Wife Morning Lewis.
Granddaughter and Grandson, heirs of William Lewis, deceased:
Salley Lewis, Evrit Lewis.
Executors: Sons James Lewis, Hardey Lewis, Jonathan Lewis and Joel Lewis.
Witnesses: Samuel Garrell, Benj. Lewis, Cathron X Garrell
Transcription of Will at Three Rivers Historical Society website:
<http://www.hchsonline.org/wills/wl.html>



!NOTES:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina", W. W. Sellers, 1902. pp 480-483 covers the Lewis family. An extract from pp 480-481:
"Lewis.-This family were from Ireland, and settled in Virginia. A son of this family, named William, came to South Carolina before the Revolution; he married Miss Mourning Vampelt, a Hollander. Tradition informs us that her father and she came from Holland together, leaving his family in Holland; they came, as it seems, prospecting, and got down into South Carolina, where they met up with William Lewis, and soon an attachment (mutual) sprang up between the two young people, and they got married; whereupon old man Vampelt went back to Holland for his family, and was never afterwards heard of. William Lewis settled in Horry County ; they had and raised seven sons and two daughters ; the sons were William, James, Isaac, Hardy, Joel, Jonathan and Patrick; the girls were Polly and Zilpha. Of these, Polly married Averitt Nichols, of Columbus County, N. C, and was the mother of the late venerable Averitt Nichols, of Nichols, S. C. The other daughter, Zilpha, married William Gerald, of Horry. Of the sons, Hardy, Joel and Jonathan settled in Marion County Hardy on Little Pee Dee, below Gilchrist's Bridge, Joel and Jonathan higher up the river, on the south side, near where Miller's Church now stands ; and James at Allen's Bridge."