Brief Life History of Cicero Granville
When Cicero Granville Nichols was born on 16 July 1878, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, his father, Elijah Samson Nichols, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Bishop, was 26. He married Myrtle Leona Pierce on 22 September 1904, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 7 February 1944, in Reddies River Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Arbor Grove Methodist Church Cemetery, Wilkesboro, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States.
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- Granville C Nicholls in household of Eliza Nicholls, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cicero Granville Nichols - Government record: Marriage record or certificate: birth-name: Cicero Granville Nichols
- Cicero G Nichols, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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