James Blake Nickelson was born 4 October 1808 in Georgia. On 5 March 1833 in Richmond County, James married Anna Maria Willey.
For the November 1850 Greene County, Georgia Federal census, James was occupied as a merchant, and he and Anna had five children: Ann, Julia, Margaret, H. Clay, and James.
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Upon the death of James Blake Nickelson, two obituaries were published in the 31 March 1852 Augusta Chronicle (Georgia):
OBITUARY.
Died at Greensboro on the morning of the 22d inst., JAMES B. NICKELSON, Esq., aged about 44 years, after a protracted illness of several weeks. A man of the highest integrity and worth, constant and faithful in the discharge of every duty, a citizen without reproach, a brother kind and affectionate, a husband without fault, and a father whose energies were devoted to the interests and happiness of his children; the community of which he was a member will long feel his loss, and remember the valuable example of his life.
Neither time nor circumstances can heal the wounds that his death has caused to his family and connexions. Their only consolation is in the remembrance of his love, his kindness, and the multiplied virtues which adorned his character.
F. H. C.
OBITUARY II.
"The Church-yard bears an added stone,
The fireside shows a vacant chair."
Died, at his residence in Greensboro, Ga., March 22, 1852, Major JAMES B. NICKELSON, in the 45th year of his age.
His exit, though anticipated, was yet the sundering of ties among the strongest that bind us to earth. Husband, Father, relative and friend, are terms of precious import, always; and most worthily did he exemplify the character they severally indicate: and could he have chosen, happy would have been his privilege to cherish yet longer the loved ones for whom he lived, and to enjoy the consummation of pleasing hopes in reference to his children. But,
"The silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl is broken; the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel at the cistern; the dust has returned to the earth as it was, and the spirit unto him who gave it."
"How peaceful and how powerful is the grave!"
That very state of society most delightful, is the very one where bereavements are most severely felt: and hence, the Author and Giver of these tender relationships sometimes severs them in such a way as to check our tendencies to idolatrous attachment, thus to remind us of our dependence on Him, and of our duty and destiny as immortal beings.
May He who has smitten console the bereaved and desolate, and furnish spiritual blessings to surpass their loss. How merciful is God, to remind us of the frail tenure by which we hold all earthly blessings, and even life itself.
H. H.
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