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3. ROBERT (BOB) NICHOLS ABT. 1795 - ?
(Son of Conrad Nichols)

No conclusive evidence has been found on Robert being a son of Conrad with the exception of him being listed as so in the research of Thomas Heflin Compton and Joe Russell Nichols. The only information found on any Robert is listed in the following Census.
In the 1820 Census of Lauren County, South Carolina there is a Robert Nichols listed that is a probable candidate. He was married and had three children, two boys and a girl. Robert appears in the 1830 Laurens County Census with his wife, 3 sons and 1 daughter. Last listing for a Robert is Robert Nickels, not Nichols, is in the 1840 United States Federal Census Record of Charleston, South Carolina. This individual has 2 sons.
As to the wife of Robert she is unknown. There is an Eliza Nichols (widower) listed in the 1850 Census of Lauren County with 3 children. They are Jane, James, and John. It is my belief that this is the family of Richard though I have no further evidence.

4. ANN NICHOLS AFT. 1800 – ?
(Daughter of Conrad Nichols)

In my search for Sallie and Ann Nichols, I have had very little success. However, reading the book written by Mary Ann Tatum-Nichols (The William E. Nichols Family), she has a letter written by an Elizabeth Redley, an aunt to John Asberry Nichols who was a son of William E. Nichols, son of Conrad. This letter holds some interesting clues. However, the dates do not match up.

June the 27, 1886

Dear Nephew

It is with great pleasure I seat myself to write and ancer to your letter I received some time a go I have not ancered it as I aught to have done but I ask you to excuse me; we are all but not well I am in very bad health and so is Sallie the rest is all well I have seen my last litle son laid away but hope to meet my dear children with father and mother in that better world where there shall be no more parting I would have been glad to have seen father and mother once more I was going to see them the fal they moved off but I hered they was gone and then I did not I want you to come and see me bring your mother Tell her and John Mann to write to me I to hear from you all very bad. Oliviar and Athenia is boath married Althenie married first She married John Wilson Vickery she has been married 6 year and is living in sight of us. Oliviar has been married about three year she married a man by the name of Louis Griffin they are living about three miles from us they hav one childe he is 13 months old his name is Elard clyde; Well i will tell you about this country. It is a poor land but is not the poorest it produces very well we hav got a good crop crops is ganerally very good------------
it is getting late and I will have to-------------- time you & your wife must write to and tell your mother i want her to write also.

excuse bad spelling and writing
write soon

I remain your aunt
Eliz zibeth Redley

(This letter seems to be written to John Asberry Nichols--It was in his letters.)

The above mentioned Elizabeth mentions Sallie. I do not believe this to be Sallie, the daughter of Conrad. See the story on Sallie Nichols and make the comparison. She also mentions her parents and obliviously knew them at a later age because she wasn't living at home. They moved and she never saw them again. In the report of Kinchen Nichols, brother of Ann and Sallie, one can see that his parents died when he was a young age. This part of the puzzle causes me some problems. Kinchen was born in 1815 and his father died about 1820. Ann would have been born before that year. Elizabeth Redley is listed as being age 52 in the 1880 Butler County, Alabama Census. This would have placed her birth about 1828. She is also listed as being born in Georgia, as well as her parents. Her initials are F. E. in the Census. This could have been a written error but for now remains a mystery. In those census however, there is Athenia and Oliviar.
My conclusion is that this is not Ann Nichols, daughter of Conrad. There are too many holes to list it as fact.

5. SALLIE NICHOLS 1806 - 1906
(Daughter of Conrad Nichols)

As it is with Ann so it is with Sallie. Very little is known of her. She is believed to have been born about 1806 or after in Laurens County, South Carolina.
Either Sallie or Ann, if not both, moved to Texas before the out break of the Civil War. One of these sisters married an Albritton or Allbritton and had a son named James W. Albritton. This can be verified from the research of Joe Russell Nichols.
RESEARCH OF JOE RUSSELL NICHOLS
Among those Nichols who came south was a man who died young in South Carolina. His wife also died early, leaving a family of small orphans. They had no estate, so these orphans were taken into the homes of various neighbors. One of these youngsters, who became my grandfather, was named Kinchen Ellis Nichols. He recalled that he had four brothers whose names were John, Bob, Simeon, and William; two sisters, Ann and Sallie. But they never corresponded and as far as we know, he lost all contact with them.
It was this writer's fortune to meet by accident with one of these sisters in 1906. I had just moved to the town of Radcliff, Texas, there to be "Principal" of their six teacher school, and I met her son, Reverend James W. Allbritton, who told me that his mother then living with him had before her marriage been a Nichols and that he believed we were kinsmen, because he said that I pocessed so many striking resemblance's to his relatives. I went to his home. The lady, I found her to be very old and feeble, of small stature and sitting in a low rocker. She let me recite my whole story about my grandfather, Kinchen Ellis Nichols, though I could see that she was deeply moved. At the conclusion of my story, she arouse, staggered up to me and up in my face she said, "And you are the flesh and blood of my dear little brother, Kinchen, the first I ever heard are saw of". She then hugged and kissed me and put her head on my breast and wept. We assisted her back in her chair and I promised to visit her again soon.
But time and tide for no man wait! She passed on before I returned. Death forever closed those lips that could have told us many interesting things about at least one more generation of our Nichols sires. I was young then and scarcely valued her knowledge I suppose. I did intend to return to confer with her, but at the time I never had heard the names of grandfather's sisters so now I am unable to say which one she was. From this experience I never see an old person laid away, but I have the thought; what a vast state of knowledge is there being buried forever, that any of the descendants would value highly in later years. This thought further prompts me to hasten the story I am writing,
Joe Russell Nichols 1932
With this information that Joe left behind, one can see that this was a daughter of Conrad. She died in Radcliff, Texas, either in 1906 or 1907 and had at least one son, that being James W. Allbrittton.
Allbritton / Albritton
In the 1900 Federal Census of Wise County, Texas there is listed a James Albritton that was born in Georgia about 1859. His wife was Jane and they had 2 sons when this Census was taken. This may be the Albritton who was a son of either Ann or Sallie.
There are several with the name Albritton and Allbritoon that fit into the right time frame. One is likely to be Ann or Sallie.

1. Martha Albritton is listed in the 1880 Census of Richland Parish, Louisiana born in South Carolina about 1816.

2. Mary Allbritton is listed in the 1880 Census of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana born in South Carolina about 1806.

3. Charity Albritton, who married James Albritton, is listed in the 1850 Census of Houston County, Texas. She was born in South Carolina about 1906.

Child of James W. Albritton, Sr. and daughter of Conrad
19. James W. Albritton, Jr.

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