Will Nichol was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1783. He married Jane Stuart of Wheeling, West Virginia. They moved to the Knoxville, Tennessee area by 1840. The family lived in Anderson, Roane, and Knox counties until the beginning of the Civil War. Three boys fought for the Union in Co K of the 1st Tennessee Infantry. A fourth joined the 154th Illinois Infantry Co. F. To escape the war, Will took the rest of his family along the Buffalo Trace to Randolph County, Illinois and settled in Southern Illinois. When the war ended, some siblings raised their family in Williamson County, Illinois and some in Roane, Anderson, Morgan and Bradley counties in Tennessee.
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