Some Nickel Family Geneaology
My parents wereAvis August Nickel & Naomia Alice Erickson who married in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1925.
According to my paternal aunt (Harriet Nickel-Langrill)Avis August's great, great grandparents were James N. Taylor and Margaret Adams-Taylor.August and Harriet's grandparents were Thomas Taylor & Elmyra M. Hank-Taylor who farmed near Mandon, Illinois, around 1820.
My paternal grandparents were Walter Valentine Nickel & Estella Rose Pierrot, both born in Illinois and married in that state in 1898.
My mother, step-father (Clifford J. Savage) and sister, Mildred A. Nickel, moved to the Willamette Valley of Oregon in 1942.