Charles Nichols was married twice. The first time was March 22, 1868, to 22-year-old Sarah E. White who died in 1874. He married again to 16-year-old Harriett Ann Allen on Sept. 26, 1875. She died in 1938.
Nichols' Union service was as a replacement for Charles A. Nobles who hired him to take his place.
From the May 26, 1941, Chronicle.
Charles Nichols died May 25, 1941 at age 95. He was the last surviving member of the Luther Post of the GAR. and became ill May 17th.
Muskegon now has only one remaining Civil War veteran, Howard Bond, 97, at 1366 Sanford Street. Nichols lived at his son Clayton's home at 710 Catawba Avenue. He had been born at Rutland, Vermont, on December 27, 1845 and and came to Michigan as a child.
On Feb. 15, 1864, at age 19, he enlisted at grand Rapids and was wounded later and taken to a hospital in Washington, D.C., before being discharged in May 1865.
--Old Secesh
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