Stephen J. Nickels, son of James, Jr & Fannie (Godsey) Nickels, born Oct. 14, 1839 Nickelsville, Scott Co., VA. Died Dec 27, 1912 in Wood (near Dungannon), Scott Co., VA He served with the 37th VA Infantry (CSA)during the Civil War and fought at Gettysburg,PA.Married Lucy Gray, dau. of Colonel Alexander Mcfarland and Harriet Mason Gray.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...