Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — Medaryville Honors Its Centenarian [ARTICLE]

Medaryville Honors Its Centenarian

Medaryville celebrated the onehundredth birthday of one of its Respected citizens on Thursday, and the day was declared a legal holiday by the town board. William B. Nicoles was born in Highland county, Ohio, September 14, 1816, and is therefore about two months older than the state of Indiana. He became a resident of Indiana while yet a young boy, and at the age of 16 he returned to Ohio to learn the tailoring trade. Four years later, 1836, he again came to Indiana and located at Peru. In 1850 he moved to Rensselaer where he conducted a tailor shop for five years, and it is probable that some of our older citizens may remember him. He then moved to Francesville and one year later to Medaryville, which place has since been his home. Mr. Nicoles has been a member of the Masonic lodge for seventythree years, and is probably the oldest living Mason in Indiana, although this fact has not been < established. He has been a member of the Methodist church for eighty years. He was married in 1837, and his wife died in 1895. He is the father of nine children, and has ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren.