Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1916 — SAM NICOLES DIED AT MONTICELLO HOME [ARTICLE]

SAM NICOLES DIED AT MONTICELLO HOME

Served As Motion Agent Here Many Years Ago, Later For a Long Time Was Medaryville Agent. Rensselaer and Jasper county acquaintances of Samuel E. Nicoles will regret to learn of his death which took place at Monticello at noon Wednesday. He had been ill but a few days from a complication of diseases. He was the station agent at Monticello, having gone there only a few months ago from Medaryville, where he was the agent for many years. Back in the eighties Mr. Nicoles was a Monon operator in this city. He was a highly valued employe of the Mpnon and had friends at every station along the road. He had been an agent for 35 years and was’the agent at Medaryville for 29 years. He started as the night clerk in Rensselaer. He later worked at Roselawn and Ladoga. He was born in Medaryville in 1858. In 1884 he was married to Miss Rose Freyda, of Chicago. He was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. He served one term as postmaster at Medaryville. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Clarence and George, of Monticello, His father, William B. Nicholes, of Medaryville, also survives him and will be 100 years of age next September. A brief funeral service will be held at Monticello Friday morning and the body taken to Medaryville, where the funeral service will be held at o’clock that afternoon. Burial will be made in the Medaryville cemetery. The Monticello Journal closed an article about his death with the following tribute: “Mr. Nicoles, in spite of his brief residence here, had made a large circle of friends to whom the news of his death came as a great shock. His ability and reliability in his work is showp by the esteem with which he was regarded by the Monon railway and its employees. In his death the community lost a valued and wellliked citizen.”