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Friday, May 12, 2017

Ancestor Birthday - May 12th - Phariby Nicholson 1803 - 1888


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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