Nichols family history goes back to the beginning

RBC I Meeker and Rangely history can’t go back much farther then Fred Nichols, the grandfather of Nancy Sullivan.
Nichols’ father, Ben, joined the Union Army a week before his 16th birthday and fought in the Civil War. After he was discharged, he married Anna Marie Von Kennel in 1874 and took his wife west. Fred Nichols was born April 28, 1884, in North Park with Mrs. Louis Allen as a midwife.
Soon after Fred’s…