Jacob Lawrence Nickum
July 18, 1836 - April 1, 1900


Served with: Company E, 2nd Colorado Cavalry
Company G, 2nd Colorado Infantry
Wounded twice by shell fire and member of Sherman's March to the Sea

McPherson Post - joined 1886

Wife - Lucinda E. Nickum 1849 - 1914
Other Nickums listed - Cecelia E., Lawrence "Si" & Daisy Mae (Nickum) Kortum
Children: Nora A. Nickum, Isaac Joseph Nickum, Wilson A. Nickum, Daisy Mae Nickum, Thomas Henry Nickum, Lawrence Jacob Nickum, F.E. Way Nickum

1st Letter of response by Lawrence Jacob Nickum for information requested about Jacob's sevice during the Civil War.
June 9, 1949

Miss Amy Noll,
Dear madam, the information you wanted is following.
Jacob L. Nickum was born in the old city of Philadelphia, July 10, 1836. Died at Manning, Iowa, April 1st, 1900.
Served in Civil War4 years with 2nd Colorado Calvary, Company E.
Was wounded by shell fire twice & was on Sherman's March to the Sea.
My father's service and discharge papers were accidentally burnt years ago in a fire and were never replaced.
If I can be of any further assistance in this place, please let me know.
Sincerely, J.L. Nickum

2nd Letter of response by Lawrence Jacob Nickum for information requested about Jacob's sevice during the Civil War.
June 23, 1949

Dear Miss Noll,
I have filled out the blanks as much as I could from what records we have.
We do not have father's war or service records as they were lost in a fire.
Of course I've heard some of the stories that were told and handed down. Father was wounded 2 times and years ago I remember seeing a couple of medals that he received for something.
These were burnt black and couldn't hardly be read.
He was a spy and after the war worked for the government in this capacity for sometime.
I know he rode with the Quantrill gang in Missouri and Kansas, until this bunch of men was broken up.
He then worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency for sometime.
My folks were Pioneers here in Manning, Iowa, coming here in 1881.
Lawrence J. "Si" Nickum


Jacob Nickum
April 6, 1900
Manning Monitor

DEATH OF A SOLDIER.
Mr. Jacob L. Nickum passed away at his home in this city on Sunday, the first day of April 1900, after a lingering illness.

And another member of the Grand Army of the Republic has been called from the scenes of earth to the eternal camping ground. One by one they go and before the passing of another score of years nearly if not all the Veterans of the Civil War will have answered the last roll call here upon earth. Mr. Nickum was a member of McPherson Post, G.A.R., and the members of that organization, with whom he had so many times marched, in battle and in peace, followed his remains to the brink of the grave.

The funeral was held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock from the Grand Army Hall, and many were the friends who were there to pay their last tribute of respect to the dead soldier. Rev. Weaver spoke the funeral eulogy and Rev. McLeod offered prayer. Upon the foot of the casket was bunched the beautiful silk flag of the post. Following the services the remains were borne to their last resting place in the Manning Cemetery.

J.L. Nickum was born in the old city of Philadelphia, July 10, 1836, and died April 1, 1900, being in his 64th year at the time of his taking away. He was united in marriage to Lucinda Ellen Hays at Chapel Hill, Missouri, October 26, 1872, and unto this union seven children were born: five sons and two daughters. Mr. Nickum served with the Second Colorado, Company E., in the war of 1861-65. Mr. Nickum came with his family to Manning 19 years ago, having resided here ever since. He was a carpenter by trade, which he has followed continually since convening to this city.

The Monitor, on behalf of Manning people, extends sympathy to the widowed mother and her seven children in the loss of husband and father.


NICKUM
At Manning, Iowa, April 1, of disease contracted in the service, Jacob L Nickum, Company E, 2nd Colorado Calvary. The comrade was a member of McPherson Post, 33, and was buried by the Post, services being held in the G.A.R. Hall leaves a widow and six children, two of them minors.
The National Tribune Washington, District of Columbia May 3, 1900


Jacob & other Nickums listed above are buried in the Manning Cemetery.
Section A Row #13 north - south.