Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Jefferson County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 572. MRS. REBECCA S. NICHOLS Was a native of Greenwich, New Jersey; brought to the West during her childhood, by her father, Dr. E. B. Reed; married in 1838, while a resident of Louisville; assisted her husband in editing a daily newspaper in St. Louis; in 1846, conducted a literary newspaper in Cincinnatti, The Guest; was a frequent or regular contributor to a number of newspapers and periodicals, in Louisville, Cincinnati, and the Eastern cities. Her earliest poems were published, over the signature of ELLEN, in the Louisville Journal and the Louisville News Letter. In 1844 and again in 1857, her poems were collected and published, in an elegant volume. The length of her best poems forbids their insertion here. [Note: Poems shown: "Indian Summer," and "To-Day."] Nichols Reed = NJ St._Louis-St._Louis-MO OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/nichols.rs.txt