The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-02-15
DEALS DOUBLE BLOW
Deaths Hand Rest Heavily on
Nicholson Family.
MRS. C. L. NICHOLSON DIES.
While Her Husband is Attending His
Brothers Funeral at New Sharon.
Snow Prevents Husbands Return.

The hand of death rests heavily upon
the Nicholson family this week. Sur
rounded by her four grief-stricken
children Mrs. c. L. Nicholson lies dead
at the home in Denison. while her
husband and his brothers are fighting
their way through the snow drifts to
reach here, having just buried their
brother Ollie Nicholson at their New
Sharon home. @
This is the brief outline of one of the
most pathetic of the many grief stricken
homes we have known in Denison.
On Wednesday last word was receiv
ed of the death of Mr.. Ollie Nicholson
the youngest of the Nicholson brothers,
at Boulder, Colorado. Mr. B. y Mich
olson Immediately went to Boulder and
accompanied the remains to the.old fam
lily home at New Sharon. Mr.. c. l.
Nicholson joined his brothers, the liv-
ing and the dead, at Denison on Sun
day. His wife has been an invalid for
some time, year ago physicians de
clared she had an affection of the heart
which might prove. fatal at any time
but there was no thought that death
was iminent.
On Tuesday Mrs. Nicholson was able
to sit up and be about the house. AS
late as last evening Mr. Amos Rouse
yrEn oH for "
during the husbands absence. inquired
by telephone and received the word
that Mama says she is fesling pretty
WE'LL.
Eva the youngest daughter slept
with her mother. during the night she
wakened and called, there was no reply
from the lips that never failed before to
answer when her children called.
frightened the child arose, toue he'd,
her mothey and fn..nda, hs,; s GELD In death !.
Not realizing however thassshe stoodin
deaths presence she called her brothers
and her sister and together they cluster
ed about the bedside of their mother.
Nettie the elder daughter rushed to the
telephone and summoned a doctor, ne
quickly came, but could only tell the
children that the spirit of their mother
had leftthem more than an hour before.
Loving friends and neighbors are now
with the children trying to assuage
their sorrow in the long interval that
must elapse before their father can
reach them Messages were immediate
ly dispatched to Mr.. Nicholson at New
Sharon, and Mr.. B. Y. Nicholson re-
sponded over the telephone with the
pitiful news that they were snow bound
that no trains were running on the
Iowa Central, but that the four brothers
would make desperate effort to fight
their way through to the main line of
the Rock Island nearly twenty miles
distant.
No arrangements have been made for
the funeral and none will be III .de un-
til Mr.. Nicholson arrives although it is
Thought that the remaiDs will be taken
to What Cheer, Iowa for interrment.
Mrs. Nicholson was an unassuming,
quiet woman. utterly devoted to her
home and her children. knowing that
she lived in the shadow of death, she
was patient kind and tender to her loved
ones caring for them with all the solicit
ude that prompts the loving hearu of
mothers. Her maiden name was Ida
Meade and her former home was at
What Cheer where her father John
Meade now resides. She has several
brothers and relatives living in Califor-
mia. Her children are Ross, Glen, Net
tie and Eva, all of whom were at hom 9
when their mother died. From the
very nature of the case we are unabl le
at this time to give fuller particulars of
her life.
Ollie Nicholson whose death occasion
cd Mr.. G. l.. Nicholson's absence from
the city. was the youngest of those
brothers whose name has for years in
this county stood US synonym for
loyalty an. lesty and uprightness
He was pl44ter by trade. was about
thirty-fiye years of age and had gone tc
Colorado for his health leaving his wife
and children at his home in Newton
Iowa.
We cannot keep the tears from ou1
yes as we think of the lonely. heart
ebroken children of Mrs. Nicholson and
the husband battling with the elements
with his heart SO full of grief and
sorrow.
We can but commend them the tc
tenderest love and mercy Of the God
who tempers the wind to tho the shorr
lamb, the God of the motherless, th,
God Of comfost sand Of strength.