OBIT:
"Daily Reporter, Martinsville, 22 May 1944"
DIES SUNDAY AT WAKELAND

Mrs. Milda A. Grounds, age 84, died at her home in Wakeland, Ashland township at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning.
She had spent practically all her life in the Paragon and Wakeland communities.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. lee McDowell, of Paragon, and Mrs. Mary Fullerton, of Denver, Colo, and a
son, Alfred Goss of near Paragon.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at the Olive Christian church in Ashland township,

with burial near the church. The body was taken from Beggeman funeral home to the Grounds residence Sunday

afternoon and friends may call there anytime.

NOTE: Milda A. Grounds was the d/o Jacob Nichols and Mary E. Calahan
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OBIT:
"Daily Reporter, Martinsville, Tuesday, 8 August 1939"
FUNERAL WAS HELD MONDAY

FINAL RITES FOR WINFIELD NICHOLS WERE CONDUCTED
By REV. MASTEN at CORINTH CHURCH

Funeral services for Winfield Nichols, who took his own life Friday morning at the home of his daughter near

Lewisville, were conducted Monday forenoon at Corinth church, Rev. Reubin Masten, of Belle Union, officiating.
Pall bearers, all close friends and neighbors were Dick Edwards, Henry Edwards, Sr., Henry Edwards, Jr., of

Martinsville, Homer Pottorff, Robert Arbor and Burton Dorsett.
Flowers were carried by Goldie Rice, Elnora McCollum, Mary Frances Edwards, Theresa Chenoweth, Hell Ruth

Wheeler, Pauline Wilson, Jean Ross, Betty Wilson and Mary Wilson.
The Greencastle Order of Odd Fellows gave rituallistic services at the church. The burial was in Mannan cemetery.

NOTE: Winfield Nichols was the s/o Jacob Nichols and Mary E. Calahan
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Lafayette S. Nichols
Birth: 12 Oct 1867 -- Death: 5 Feb 1940
Oaklawn Cemetey, Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida

Funeral Services for L. S. Nichols Held Thursday Afternoon

An attack of cerebral hemorage at midnight Monday claimed the life of L. S. Nichols, 72, one of Winter Haven's best

known citizens, who passed away at his home, 151 Second street, S. W.. Mr. Nochols had apparently been enjoying

good health and his sudden demise came as a distinct shock to the entire community and has caused widespread

sorrow in the city where he had been a prominate citizen for the past 26 years.
Mr. Nichols was the son of Jacob and Mary (Calahan) Nichols and was born at Eminence, Indiana, on Oct. 12, 1867,

making his age 72 years, 3 months and 23 days. In early age he moved to the state of Kansas, where he operated a

large stock farm at Norton for a number of years before coming to Florida in 1913 and locating in Winter Haven. For

some years he was manager of a large oil agency in this section and then for 10 years was connected with the county

road department, furnishing large quanitities of materials and many workers in the building of new highways in and

around Winter Haven district.
After severing his connection with the county department, Mr. Nichols a few seasons ago developed his automobile

trailer grounds on Second street, between Avenues A and B, Southwest, making it one of the most modern and

comfortable camps of its kind in the state. In addition, Mr. Nichols had always been prominently identified with the

citrus business and at the time of his death owned a large grove on the Lynchburg road, north of the city.
Mr. Nichols was a man of affable personality, hearty and genial in his approach, lovable in his attitudes toward

young and old, and a prime favorite with the entire community. He was known by practically everybody in the entire

region as well as throughout Polk county and in recent years also made hundreds of friends among tourists who came

here or used the facilities of his trailer park. Manyexpressions of the esteem in which he was held and sorrow over his

passing were heard on every hand in the city.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Cora Nichols, one son, Rhea Nochols, of Winter Haven, one granddaughter, Iris

Nichols of Washington, D. C., a sister, Milda Grounds of Paragon, Indiana, a brother, Homer J. Nichols --------?

Webster City, Iowa.
Last rites for Mr. Nichols ----? conducted from the -----? funeral parlor at 3:30 --- --? Interment was made at ____?

cemetery.

NOTE: Lafayette S. Nichols was the s/o Jacob Nichols and Mary E. Calahan