• Son of Ambrose Nichols and his wife Cynthia Martin.  Willard appears in the 1850 Utah census with his siblings (Olive Pernette Nichols and Jonathan Nichols.)  He is also listed in the Utah Territorial Militia records for 1858 at Fillmore.  He is Willard M. Nichols in the California Death Index, 1905-1939.

Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 10

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census, Salt Lake County.
• California Death Index, 1905-1939.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.