Catherine Nichols

Born: About 1833
Place: North Carolina

Husband: Wilson Lea
Married: About 1856
Place: Jasper or Newton County, Missouri

Died: October 1898
Place: Newton County, Missouri

Children:
James J. Lea
Elizabeth Lea
Sarah E. Lea
Samuel Huston Lea
John Wilson Lea
Polly Ann Lea

Father: Green Nichols
Mother: Ellenor (Nelly) Iseley

Notes:
1850 - Jasper County, Missouri with parents.
1860 - Newton County, Missouri with husband and 2 children.
1870 - Newton County, Missouri with husband and 6 children.
Wilson Lea died sometime between 1874 and 1877.
1880 - Newton County, Missouri with husband, Charles A. Powell, 3 of her children and 1 of his.
Katherine and several of her children are listed on an application made to the Dawes Commission about 1896. They do not appear on the final rolls, however. According to Pioneers of the Six Bulls - The Newton County Saga, Volume XXIV, Catherine was full-blood Cherokee.

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