JAMES B.¹ NICHOLAS was born about Abt. 1790 in North Carolina. He married (1) UNKNOWN. He married (2) SARAH REED.

JAMES B. NICHOLAS and UNKNOWN had the following children:

            i.    ELEANOR ELIZABETH² NICHOLAS was born on January 10, 1815. She died on March 13, 1891. She married JOSIAH BROOKSHIRE. He was born on May 05, 1808. He died on July 31, 1890.

            ii.   MINERVA ELIZABETH NICHOLAS was born in 1818 in Tennessee. She died about Abt. 1865 in Rusk Co., Texas. She married JAMES L. CURBO, son of James Curbo and Sarah Reed, on May 23, 1838 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee. He was born in 1819. He died about Abt. 1865 in Rusk Co., Texas.

                iii. THOMAS JEFFERSON NICHOLAS was born about Abt. 1821 in Tennessee. He died in 1900. He married (1) MINERVA G. BROOKSHIRE, daughter of Mannering Brookshire and Sarah Shelton, on June 04, 1841. She was born in 1819. She died in 1860. He married (2) SARAH E. UNKNOWN. She was born on April 12, 1839. She died on March 05, 1882.

            iv. THEODORE WILEY NICHOLAS was born about Abt. 1823 in Tennessee. He died about Abt. 1880. He married RHODA A. "RODIE" SMITH. She was born about  Abt. 1824 in Tennessee. She died about Abt. 1900 in Rusk Co., Texas.

            v.  JOHN T. NICHOLAS was born about Abt. 1824. He married SARAH JOB on December 08, 1853 in Rusk County, Texas.