Son of Ezra Nuckolls &

Lucinda Hale

One of thirteen children;

5 sisters & 7 brothers

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1824 Pauline Dickenson "Polly" (Schooler)***see below

1825 Stephen Friel

1827 Frances H. (Bourne)***see below

1829 Rosamond (Borchers)***see below

1830 Heath***see below

1833 Columbus***see below

1835 Lafayette***see below

1838 Houston***see below

1840 Asa***see below

1842 Sena (Martin)***see below

1846 Elizabeth (Metcalf)***see below

1850 Fielden Hale***see below

Married Mellissa Amarnth Bennett

11 Nov 1866 MO

Father of four children;

4 sons

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1868 George Harvey***see below

1870 James Marshal "Marsh"***see below

1872 Ezra Isaiah***see below

1874 Isaac d. bef 1880

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Mellissa died prior to 1880, she was the first white child born in Nebraska.

Married Emma Lilla Toole

12 Apr 1898 Pueblo Co, CO

No known children were born of this union

Shared by F*A*G member Carole Conrad # 46532185

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Operated a freight business serving the gold mines near Virginia City, Montana.

In 1865 he returned to Nebraska City with 52 thousand dollars in gold. He then got in the cattle business. This led to a meat packing business in Pueblo, Colo. He also operated a store in Leadville, Colo.

He died in 1910 the result of an accident at the Nuckolls Packing Co.

Obituary The Pueblo Sun, October 13, 1910

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Emmett Nuckolls, pioneer cattleman and packer, died last night at St. Mary's hospital. His death resulted from injuries Sept. 1, at the stockyards, when Mr. Nuckolls fell and fractured his hip while he was aiding one of his sons to separate cattle in a pen. Complications resulted from this injury, from which he did not rally. For 48 hours before his death Mr. Nuckolls was in a comatose condition.

Mr. Nuckolls was a native of Virginia. He was born at Grayson, June 16, 1844. During his childhood his parents died, and he was left on his own resources. He came west to the Missouri river, drove cattle across the plains, and decided to enter the cattle business in Colorado. The Nuckoll's homestead, still owned by the family, is between Petersburg and Overland, near Denver.

Mr. Nuckolls was married to Melissa Amarnth Bennet, sister of Mrs. J. M. Carlile, Nov. 11, 1866. She died in 1873. Mrs. Nuckolls was the first white child born in Nebraska.

From Denver Mr. Nuckolls moved to Leadville and the Nuckolls-Reef partnership was formed to conduct a cattle business. The packing business, which led to the founding of one of the largest independent packing concerns in the west, was the outgrowth.

J. N. Carlile, his wife's brother-in law, has been associated with Mr. Nuckolls in his business enterprises.

The funeral will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the home of G. H. (George Harvey) Nuckolls, in Carlile Place.