Milo W. Nickerson was born Dec. 1, 1831, on what in later years was known as the Wm. Austin farm, two miles south of Montville Center. He learned the mechanic’s trade while in his teens, and built Government wagons at Chattanooga, Tenn., for a time during the Civil War. In 1852 he married Mary Louisa Drake, and 10 children, five sons and five daughters were born to them. He is survived by four sons, four daughters, 27 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. For many years he was engaged in the building of wagons and cutters, a part of the time working with Frank Rubbles. His home being destroyed by fire in 1873, he converted a part of the shop he had worked in so many years into a dwelling, and began selling woolen goods for the Lake County Woolen Mills. He later was employed as foreman at the Stewart quarries in Windsor. In the autumn of 1885 he left Geauga County, where he had spent over a half century, and removed with his family to Frontier county, Neb., and engaged in farming and stock raising. His wife died in 1904, and his home being broken up, he spent a year in California, and then came to Painesville, and made his home with Mrs. Austin, his oldest daughter. Three years ago he married Mrs. Annette Pitcher, of Alton, N.Y., and was living there at the time of his death, of rheumatism and heart disease, on Sept. 15. He referred to old neighbors and men that were boys with him, during his last illness, and asked that his remains be taken back to the town where he had spent so many years, and placed in the family lot. The wish was complied with.

The Geauga Republican 63(40):1 Wednesday, October 4, 1911