George Comfort Nichols

1857 - 1928  (71 years)

• Name	George Comfort Nichols  [1]
  Birth	9 Feb 1857	Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Inform-Death	3 Dec 1924	Thames Street, Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada   [3, 4]
  Witness-Obituary	4 Dec 1924	Windsor, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Ingersoll, Dec 4 – The death occurred here of ‘Aunt' Mary Brown, of Folden's Corners, aged 101 years, the oldest woman in Oxford County. Mrs Brown had been in poor health since last winter, up until which time she had lived alone at Folden's Corners about five miles south of Ingersoll. She celebrated her 101st birthday on September 20. The funeral will be held from the residence of her son-in-law, George Nichols, West Oxford Township, to Harris street cemetery. Mrs Brown was born near Brantford, on the banks of the Grand River at a place which later came to be called Burtch's Landing, after her father Absolm Burtch, a Welshman. He mother, Elizabeth Mabee before her marriage, came of U. E. Loyalist stock. Mary Brown was baptized at the age of 17 at Boston, Ont, and had been a member of Folden Corner's Baptist Church since it was organized 61 years ago. She was married in 1842 at Burtch's Landing to Charles H. Brown, a bridge builder, who built many of the bridges on the Great Western line between Niagara Falls and London
  Reference Number	40632
  Death	18 Dec 1928  [1]
  Burial	West Oxford United Church Cemetery, Centreville, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	George C. Nichols; 1857-1928; Ida May Brown; wife of George C. Nichols; died Sept 21, 1904; aged 47 Y'rs, 1 Mo & 7 d's
  Person ID	I40367	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Ida May Brown,   b. 14 Aug 1857, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada d. 21 Sep 1904, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F15123	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S380] Find A Grave; Url: http://www.findagrave.com/, Memorial ID 110558450. [S187] The Automated Genealogy 1901 Census of Canada; Url: http://automatedgenealogy.com/, Oxford (West/Ouest), Oxford (South/Sud), Ontario; Page: 9; Family No: 93. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1948. [S483] Newspapers.com; Url: https://www.newspapers.com/, obit in The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), 4 Dec 1924, Thu, Page 11.