ANDREW J. NICHOLS

PIONEER TEXAN DIED MONDAY
Rites For A. J. Nichols Near Concho Tuesday Afternoon
Special Correspondent.
Paint Rock, Dec. 22 Andrew J. Nichols, 86, a resident of this section for more than a half century, died at 9 o'clock this morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. E. T. Tickle, near Concho, northeast of Paint Rock.
    Funeral services will be conducted from the ranch home at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with the Rev. L. D. Hardt Methodist minister, officiating. Burial will be at 3 o'clock in Pony Cemetery.
    Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Tickle, Mrs. M. Hulse of Olympia, Wash. Mrs. C. D. Harris of Ballinger and Mrs. Deliah Lott of Beeville; a son, J. A. Nichols of San Angelo, a sister, Mrs. T. H. Miller of San Antonio, 15 grand children and 10 great grandchildren. Mrs. Lott is a daughter by Mr. Nichols firs marriage.
    Mr. Nichol's father came to Texas when it was a republic. Andrew J. Nichols was born Jan. 10 1844 in Guadalupe county and would have been 87 years old next month.
    He moved to Runnels county in 1879 and has lived in this section of West Texas since then.

San Angelo Times
December 23, 1930

ANDREW J. NICHOLS
    Andrew J. Nichols was born January 10 1844, in Guadalupe county, Texas. He was married to Miss Deliah Ellis in Gonzales, Texas, about 1865. One child, now Mrs. Deliah Lott, was born to this union. His wife died about 1867 and in 1871 he married to Mrs. Mollie F. Ramsey. to this union was born five children, four girls and one boy, one girl dying in infancy. The children who remain are Mrs. M. A. Hulse, of Olympia; Wash; Mrs. E. T. tickle of Concho; Mrs. C. D. Harris of Ballinger and J. A. Nichols of San Angelo.
    he also leaves 15 grand children and 16 great grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. T. H. Miller of San Antonio, Texas.
    He came to Runnels county in 1879 and his wife died in 1913.
    Funeral services were held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. T. Tickle where he died, with interment in the cemetery at Pony. The Rev. L. D. Hardt, of the Methodist church of Paint Rock conducted the services. 

Paint Rock Texan
December 26, 1930