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John Niccum

Birth	:	18 Dec 1845
Death	:	31 May 1934
Burial	:	Pine Grove Cemetery, Topsfield, Essex County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.6498100, -70.9507500
Description	:	He married Mariah Malott September 21st, 1866. He was also the father of Ovid, Abbie Marie, and John Earl. ----------- From "History of Wabash County, Indiana" by Clarkson Weesner, pub. 1914, pp. 497-499) JOHN NICCUM. For more than six decades the Niccum family have been useful and influential citizens of Wabash county. Their chief centers of activity has been in Waltz township, though the name is not without popular significance all over the county. The best known member of the family is Mr. John Niccum, who recently retired from the office of sheriff of Wabash county and who for two years served the people... Read More	He married Mariah Malott September 21st, 1866. He was also the father of Ovid, Abbie Marie, and John Earl. ----------- From "History of Wabash County, Indiana" by Clarkson Weesner, pub. 1914, pp. 497-499) JOHN NICCUM. For more than six decades the Niccum family have been useful and influential citizens of Wabash county. Their chief centers of activity has been in Waltz township, though the name is not without popular significance all over the county. The best known member of the family is Mr. John Niccum, who recently retired from the office of sheriff of Wabash county and who for two years served the people with an efficiency and fidelity to duty which set a high standard in the administration of that important office. The founder of the family in this section was Charles Niccum who died in 1884, and was one of the early settlers. He located on section thirty-six in township twenty-six north, range five east (Waltz township) in March, 1852. He was born in Darke county, Ohio, in 1825, was reared on a farm, and in 1844, before reaching his majority, married Sarah Coble. Sarah Coble's father and other relatives settled in Wabash county about 1850, and the young man and his wife followed them and began housekeeping in Waltz township. The late Charles Niccum was rather under the average size physically, but what he lacked in physical stature was more than offset by his intense activity. He worked hard, and while he had but limited education, he had a large fund of practical sense, was quiet and unobstrusive and was reckoned as a first-class neighbor. Possessed of considerable determination, he took to studying long after he had become a man in order that he might the better measure up to the responsibilities and privileges of American citizenship. In politics he was a republican up to the time Horace Greeley became a candidate for the presidency, and after that was a democrat. He and his wife had ten children, six of whom are still living. John Niccum, the oldest of these children, was born December 18, 1845, in Darke county, Ohio, and was therefore seven years old when he became a resident of Wabash county. With the exception of three years' residence in Jasper county, Indiana, he has always made his home in Wabash county, and up to 1910, in Waltz township. He was reared to hard work on the old farm, and such limited education as he obtained was acquired by a few months attendance during the winter term at the neighboring district school. Mr. Niccum is one of the youngest men in Wabash county who had a military record as a Union soldier during the Civil war. In February, 1865, a few months before the surrender of the southern army, he enlisted in Company F of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and from that time until the close of the war was employed on garrison and guard duty, for the most part in Kentucky. After his honorable discharge at the close of the war he resumed farming, and in time found himself possessed of a good property, and has always managed in such a way as to return a surplus. His home place in Waltz township comprises ninety acres of the fine farming land in that section. It has come about almost as a matter of course that Mr. Niccum should be a republican in politics. He has voted and worked with that party since the first Grant campaign, but never held any office of consequence until 1910, when he was the successful candidate for sheriff of Wabash county. In 1912 his party again nominated him for the office, but owing to the general ascendancy of the democracy during that year he met defeat. But he was again nominated by the republicans as sheriff on April 15, 1914. Mr. Niccum was married September 21, 1866, to Miss Maria Malott. To their union, which has endured for upwards of half a century, has been born a large family of twelve children, whose names and brief mention of whose positions in life are as follows: Sarah, who died at the age of six months; Lovena, who died aged nineteen years; Cora, who died at the age of seventeen; Dillard, who married Nellie Bowman, had one son, Lewis Earl, Dillard died when only twenty-one years old; Ovid, who married Nora Long, has eight children, and is a prosperous farmer in Noble township of this county; Sarah, who died in infancy; Charles Samuel, who married Lodi Forrest, has five children, and is a farmer in Liberty township; Abbie, wife of Arthur Brewer, of Otsego, Michigan has one daughter; John Earl, who married Edith Clark, has two children and lives in Goshen, Indiana; Edith, unmarried; Lewis, who married Marie Garst, and lives in Wabash, is a member of the firm of Niccum & Dumbaugh, automobile dealers of Wabash; Guy, who died when about six months old. Mr. Niccum is affliated with the Masonic fraternities, and he and his wife worship with the Missionary Baptist church.

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John Niccum's memorial is located at: Pine Grove Cemetery, Topsfield, Essex County, USA.
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Latitude: 42.6498100
Longitude: -70.9507500

Family Members:

Parent

Charles Niccum

(1823 - 1882)

Sarah Coble Niccum

(1827 - 1909)

Spouse

Mariah Malott Niccum

(1845 - 1929)

Siblings

Lewis Niccum

(1847 - 1888)

Mary Jane Niccum Crumrine

(1851 - 1898)

Judith Ann Niccum Aukerman

(1854 - 1910)

Rebecca Emily Niccum Aukerman

(1856 - 1930)

Phebe A Niccum

(1860 - 1870)

Alice Niccum Bright

(1862 - 1937)

Cora Ellen Niccum

(1869 - 1945)

Children

(1867 - 1867)

(1868 - 1891)

(1869 - 1887)

(1871 - 1897)

(1875 - 1876)

Charles Samuel Niccum

(1877 - 1953)

Edith Pearl Niccum

(1883 - 1969)

Lewis Riley Niccum

(1885 - 1960)

Guy Niccum

(1886 - 1890)

Flowers:

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