Macon Daily Telegraph
21 January 1913
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
MRS. M. E. NICKERSON
ATHENS, Jan. 21 -- Mrs. Maria E. Nickerson, aged 84 years, died this morning at an early hour at her home here.
She was born in Fonda, N.Y., and married Capt. Reuben Nickerson, of Maine, in 1855. She has lived in Athens for more than half a century and was widely known for her great benefactions and extensive charities. Her husband died just three years and one day before her death and at almost
the identical moment of the morning.
The funeral will be held Wednesday.
