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- Calvin Albert Nicholson - May 3, 1891 - September 15, 1924. Military Service World War I: Inducted May 11, 1918 at Pulaski, New York as a Private in the Infantry of the United States Army; August 7, 1918 transferred to Company F, 115th Engineers Regiment, 40th Division; August 8, 1918 embarked from Hoboken, New Jersey on U.S.S. Balmoral Castle, arriving at Liverpool, England on September 20, 1918; October 5, 1918 was in action at Meuse-Argonne; June 29, 1919 arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on U.S.S. Minnesota; Honorably discharged July 1, 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts with rank of Private. Son of Edgar H. and Mary Sheeley Nicholson. Husband of Marjorie Martineau Nicholson.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, September 18, 1924 Sandy Creek News - Sandy Creek, New York - World War Veteran of Richland, Dead - Callie A. Nicholson, 33, World War veteran and a member of Robert R. Edwards Post, Pulaski, died Monday afternoon at the residence of his brother, Martin Nicholson, Richland. He had been ill some time following his return from France, where he was gassed while in service. He was born May 3, 1891, at Sandy Creek, and moved to Richland with his parents and had passed practically all his life there. Besides being a member of Robert R. Edwards Post of this village he was affiliated with the Disabled War Veterans' Association, Syracuse. Surviving besides his widow are two sons, Kenneth Nicholson and Robert Nicholson of Richland; his father, Edgar Nicholson, and his brother. Mr. Nicholson will be given a military funeral, conducted by Robert Edwards Post in Methodist Episcopal church, Richland at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, with burial in Richland cemetery.
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