Obituary from the Blue Earth Post, Tuesday, March 9, 1933:
Obituary from the Blue Earth Post, Tuesday, March 9, 1933:
Mrs. Lydia Nichols:
Lydia Cora Scott was born near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, onJanuary 9th, 1856, and at an early age moved to Winnebago township, FaribaultCounty, Minnesota with her parents. Shepassed away at her home in Blue Earth on the fourth of March, 1933, at the ageof 77 years, one month and twenty days.
She attended school in Winnebago township, and later taught.
She was married in Winnebago City on October 13, 1880, toLewis Norton Nichols who passed away in August 1917. To this union two sons, Earle and Clarence were born. A mother's love was bestowed upon her niece,Daisy, now Mrs. Swackhamer, who came to live with Mr. and Mrs. Nichols at theage of 13.
In 1886, during the pastorate of Rev. Mitchell, she joinedthe Presbyterian church. A consistentChristian mother, she became a devoted church worker, and her nearly fiftyyears of Sunday school work speaks for itself. In former years she taught young people and through later years enjoyedher work with adult classes. She was athorough Bible student. Her intenseinterest in the Missionary Society and Prayer Meeting began at the time shejoined this church and continued unbroken to the end.
Her many and varied activities outside the church includedmembership in the French class for many years, as well as the D.A.R. andEastern Star in later years.
In her younger years her old home on East Ninth street wasalways open to young people and she spent time in providing entertainment forthem. She will ever be fondlyremembered by those who partook of that enjoyment.
Mrs. Nichols was an active worker in the Mitchell ChautauqaCircle and was one of its four surviving charter members. The class, this year, celebrated itsfiftieth anniversary, and up to her last illness she was a very active andhighly valued member of this organization, and was its presentvice-president. She will be mourned andgreatly missed by the Mitchell Circle and by her associates in all otheractivities in which she was engaged.
She was a student of Browning's works and not many weeks agoat the Mitchell Circle conducted a fine and interesting program which wasdevoted to the works of that poet.
One of the passages from Browning that she loved to havebefore her in her last weeks was from the poem, Paracelsus.