When Ema Floy Nichols was born on 21 April 1896, in Texas, United States, her father, John Thomas Nichols, was 27 and her mother, Georgia Lenora Gillespie, was 24. She had at least 1 son with William James Kiger Sr.. She lived in Wilson, Texas, United States in 1920 and Houston, Harris, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 August 1986, at the age of 90, and was buried in Carmen Nelson Bostick-Pillot Cemetery, Tomball, Harris, Texas, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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