George and Cecelia Nichols

One of the reasons it's so hard to disentangle all the Nichols family relationships is that George and Cecelia had so many children. Large families were the rule in those days. These children were the generation of my grandmother and her brothers and sisters. I remember some of them but not others. I think all of them were born in South Dakota. Perhaps the photo of this sod house was taken there, maybe about the same time as when some of their children received this Christmas card from their teacher. My grandmother's name is on it and she would have been seven years old in 1902. If she is one of the two younger girls standing to Cecelia's right then both the card and the photo are from about the same time.

The next group photo was taken ten years later and they are all in Canada. I think all of the Nichols clan appears here, including May and her mother. They must have all come up together. Now that I know something about the Williams, if someone could tell me who the Moores and the Hyatts might be I would be very grateful.