Obit: George W. Nicols - Madison Parish, LA
Submitted by:  Richard P. Sevier Jackson, Mississippi

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GEORGE W. NICOLS

DIED - On Friday, the 17th (January 17, 1879)inst., GEO. W. NICOLS, in the 67th year of 
his age.

Sad indeed have been the recent bereavements which it has pleased Providence to inflict 
upon our Parish; yet throughout its length and breadth where the arrows of death have, 
of late, flown so frequent, every heart was touched with a new grief at the announcement 
of the death of GEORGE W. NICOLS. Without any pretension to be conspicuous among men for 
brilliancy of parts, the deceased possessed a strong and clear intellect, a full and 
eminently practical mind and a sound and discriminating judgment; and these capacities, 
joined with steadiness of purpose, a heart full of generous manliness, the most conscientious 
integrity and unswerving honor, ranked him among the most reliable of men - the truest of 
friends and best of citizens. Of a nature free from extravagance and excess, and imbued 
with a hardy morality which feared no contact, he mingled freely and graciously the walks 
of life, alike with humble and exalted, honored and trusted by the one and loved and 
confided in by all. His manners sedate, simple and dignified, were so tempered by a polished 
urbanity, unvarying cheerfulness and unaffected kindliness, as to conciliate and win the 
good will and kind wishes of all his acquaintances and the devoted confidence and attachment 
of those who knew him well and with whom he was intimate. He loved justice for the sake of 
justice and truth for the sake of truth; and holding ever in free appreciation, the personal 
and social obligations of life he faithfully and diligently discharged them all. His noble 
inherent qualities grew with his growth and strengthened with his strength and was so 
indelibly stamped upon his character that they seemed by some subtle mystery of nature to 
have molded his features with the very image of integrity, truthfulness and honor. As a 
friend he was frank, sincere and true - a neighbor, genial, accommodating and benevolent - a 
father most kind, assiduous and affectionate, always exercising, in a refined degree that 
parental care and consideration mingled with paternal solicitude and love, which made the 
hearth of his homestead the author of the love and devotion of his children. He had nearly 
lived his three score and ten years and few have lived them better or enjoyed them more, for 
with a fond and cherished family, a host of attached and warm friends and no enemies, he had 
passed them in all his public, private and social relations without blemish and without 
reproach. He was, in truth, a man whose example, as from a compass, we may steer our 
fortunes, our action and our age and safe arrive at a memory that shall become our arbor. 
Peace to his ashes! and honor to his Memory.

A FRIEND