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Note: Notes of Julia Nash Taylor say Mary Moor Nichols died at the home of her daughter, Alice Nichols Thurmond. This would be the house on Sampson Ave. in Dyersburg.
Julia Nash Taylor also found a portion of an old letter in the papers of Alice Thurmiond Meriwether which tells about the locations of the Moor and Nichols homes near the town of Franklin in Williamson Co., Tenn. Author of the letter is unknown but it reads as follows:
"The Moor's owned a farm on a cross road between Nashville Pike and a new road which leads to Hillsboro. Once, when we drove over that road, which was very rocky, Aunt Mary (Moor Nichols) talked about where she was born. That place is north of Franklin and the old Nichols estate is southeast."
Francis March Nichols Brevard, born 1883 and adopted daughter of James McAlister Nichols (and therefore niece of Harrison Nichols), prepared a writeup on Harrison's family in the 1970's or 80's. Her papers were donated to the Williamson County Historical Society after her death and are still in the posession of the Society today. In her writeup, she provides the following information:
"Harrison Nichols was born to John Nichols, Jr. and Elizabeth McCown. His parents were married in 1816 and I presume he was born about 1820."
"Harrison married Mary Moore of Williamson County and they had two children, Mollie and John M., before leaving for West Tennessee and settling in Dyersburg, making their home about six miles from town (I have seen his grave in a country church grave yard near where they lived. His son Jim Nichols took me to see his grave but we could not determine which grave was his as there were no markers.)"
"Aunt Mary lived until about 1900 and died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Alice Thurmond. I saw her three times in her life. She and a granddaughter came to visit her brother-in-law (James McAlister Nichols??) about 1889 at our home in Franklin. In 1895, I visited the family in Dyersburg and she was living with her son John at that time. In 1897, she came to the Tennessee Centenniel (in Nashville?) but was too old to make the trip to Franklin so the family went to see her at the home of her granddaughter Mary Martin Vernon. She (Mary) is buried in the cemetery in the north side of Dyersburg, along with some of her descendants. Grandma, as we called her lived in Dyersburg, and with boarders and son John's help (who was a bachelor) lived out her life in respectability."
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