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Estella May Culbertson Nichols Family

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Estella May Culbertson Nichols tombstone

ESTELLA MAY (STELLA) CULBERTSON NICHOLS (1899-1973) married (and later divorced) Audie Elwood Nichols (1894-1987). Stella lived and worked with her two children, JOE THOMAS NICHOLS (1922-1967) and Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Nichols Freeman (1930-2019) in Wood River, Illinois, before returning to Martin. She owned a small farm just off Lee Road in Weakley County, and died at the home of her daughter, Beth Freeman (and her husband Doyle Freeman) in Indiana, but was brought home to be buried in Freeman Cemetery, alongside her son. Stella was a gracious, kind, and lovely lady.

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Joe Thomas Nichols was a World War II veteran. He and his wife, Doris Nichols, had one son, Nicky. They lived in the Chicago area, where Joe loved to play games and enjoy life to the fullest.

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Beth Nichols Freeman is buried in the Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Nashville.

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In our bodies we carry the blood of our ancestors and the seeds of the future generations. We are a living conduit to all life. When we contemplate the vastness of the interwoven network that we are tied to, our individual threads of life seem far less fragile. We are strengthened by who we come from and inspired by the those who will follow.

--Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

--Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

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