Phariby
Nicholson was my 3rd great-grandmother. She was born 12 May 1803 in
Pasquotank County North Carolina, the daughter of Quaker parents
Nathan and Peninah (Parker) Nicholson. She married a man with the
same first name as her father, Nathan Albertson. They were married in
Oct 1824 at Suttons Creek Meeting House in northeastern North
Carolina.
I
wrote about her husband Nathan on his birthday 5 Jan 2017. As I wrote
then, the family moved north in the 1830s and resided in Indiana and
then Iowa. It is probable that Phariby became a widow in Jan 1883.
She was still living in 1885 as she was listed on the 1885 Nebraska
State Census in the household of her son Benjamin.
In
the first part of this month (May) I wrote about 6 of her
grandchildren. I did mention that her son Jordan had served in the
Civil War from Oct 1861 and was killed in the battle of Atlanta in
1864. Another one of her sons, Jesse, had enlisted in Sep 1862 and
received a disability discharge in Mar 1863. He died back in Hardin
County in December of that same year, 1863. It must have been extra
sad for a Quaker mother to lose 2 sons during the Civil War.
I
don't have good documentation about Phariby's death, but the Bell
family history published in 1907 gives the date as 24 Dec 1888, which
is most likely correct. If so, Phariby lived to be 85 years old.
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