Inc. 1967
No sadder death ever occurred in or around the little village of Speers than that of Tom Nichols,as he was familiarily known. He was 44 years of age,living with his mother,Mrs.Margaret Nichols;a strong,robust man of the best of habits,with a reputation and character above reproach;a friend to everybody,more especially the little boys and girls of whom he was very fond,with always a pleasant word for them. Going to the country mine at Twilight,where he was employed by the Fox Brothers,on Tuesday morning,with every prospect of a long life before him,he met a fatal injury at 11 o'clock from a fall of slate. He was rushed to his home and medical aid and tender care of his mother,sister and friends did all possible for him,but in a few minutes he passed to the great beyond. He was considered one of the very best miners in the valley,a hard,steady worker,a man of wide acquaintance,with many friends,as was seen by the unusually large funeral,the long line of automobiles as his body was borne to its final resting place in the Belle Vernon Cemetery,where it was laid under heaping banks of flowers that came from friends. Services were conducted at his late home in Speers at 2:30 o'clock Thursday,by the Rev.Wm.Hogg,a former pastor of the Speers M.E.Church,and a personal friend of the deceased. The singing was in charge of the Ladies quartet of the Belle Vernon M.E.Church. Tom was gone,his voice is still,but his memory will ever be cherished not only by his family and neighbors and the boys and girls of the community,but by a host of friends up and down the valley. He leaves to mourn his loss,his widowed mother,two sisters,Mrs.Margaret Dunkerly at Speers and Miss Mary at home;and three brothers,William of Wheeling and George and John in the West.
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