Birth January 7, 1880 Iowa - he would have lived in Manning with his parents who moved to Manning in 1885
Death January 21, 1919 Wyoming
Burial Greenhill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyoming

MAN FOUND DEAD IN CAR ON U.P. AT ROCK RIVER
Laramie, Wyoming, January 25
A man named Bill Nickum, who is believed to have a brother (Isaac Joseph Nickum) at Sidney, Nebraska, was found dead in the Pacific Fruit Express car at Rock River, having evidently been asphyxiated with fumes of the charcoal fire maintained in the car to preserve the contents from the cold. It is believed Nickum crawled into the care to steal a ride, not realizing the danger from the fumes from the portable stove. The body was brought to this city and turned over to Coroner Johnson, who made and official investigation of the circumstances surrounding the finding of the body. An effort was made to communicate with the brother at Sidney.
Casper Star Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, January 25, 1919