Son of Robert Garland Nuckolls &
Margaret Swift Nuckolls
One of ten (known) children;
2 sisters & 7 brothers
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1806 Creed***see below
1807 Clarke Swift***see below
1810 James***see below
1811 George***see below
1812 Martha (Brown)***see below
1817 Thomas Hugh***see below
1818 Sena***see below
1822 Hugh***see below
1830 Andrew***see below

Married Sarah Ann Fine
20 Aug 1846 in Johnson Co, MO
Father of sixteen children;
6 daughters & 10 sons
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1847 Clark Munro***see below
1849 Nathaniel Holden***see below
1852 Margaret T.***see below
1854 Hiram Holt***see below
1855 Mary Virginia (Dunbar)***see below
1856 Frederick***see below
1858 William Swift***see below
1860 George Reuben***see below
1862 Jeffee (Archer)***see below
1863 Thomas S.***see below
1865 Martha Maria (Wallace)***see below
1866 Sena Catherine (Jordan)***see below
1868 Flora***see below
1870 Charles Creed***see below
1872 Hugh Victor***see below
1876 Jacob K.***see below

Biography...
Nathaniel's first trip to California was made in 1849 by sea around Cape Horn, South America, during the Gold Rush days in Calif.; he mined gold in Placer, Butte, Lassen, and other Counties along the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Returning to Mo. in 1851 via Isthmus of Panama, Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi River. He left Independence, Mo., Apr. 1852, with his family of wife and 2 sons, in ox-drawn covered wagons across the plains to Calif. Their long 6 months journey was ended Oct. 1852 in Sonoma Co., Calif.

Nathaniel was the 1st County Accessor Of Sonoma Co., he held this office for a number of years.

The move to Sonoma Co. was followed by a move to Marin Co., where 6 children were born. A 600 acre ranch in San Luis Obispo Co. on Old Creek was the next move of this large family, a distance Of 300 miles, taking 4 weeks time with many large wagons of belongings, horses, and cows, crossing the San Francisco Bay on flatboats, arriving Oct. 1869. So life began again on Old Creek, where a large house, big brick dairy barn, huge horse barn were soon built; they were kept busy making cheese and butter, and a lot of farming. The last 3 of the 16 children were born here, Creed, Hugh and Jake.

Finding the burden too great to operate the ranch, it was sold; Nathaniel and his remaining family moved to Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo Co., Calif., Aug.1, 1889. 'The doors of the Great Beyond were opened ' and on August 13, 1889, a very great man and father passed through.
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The following was taken from the book written by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls;

Nathaniel Nuckolls, son of Robert G. Nuckolls and wife, Margaret Swift, moved to Missouri in 1845, married Sarah Ann Finn (Fine); from there he crossed the plains, and was a miner in California; found gold, came back to Missouri and moved his family in wagons to California, and settled there. One of his sons, Clarke, was born on top of the Rocky Mountains, on the journey to California. There were sixteen children born to them, and all settled in California.

From my own extensive research I found the following;
** his statement about Clark being born in the Rockie Mountains is incorrect. Clark and his brother Nathaniel were the two sons that Nathaniel returned for and that he and his wife traveled to California with.
It was their third child, Margaret, who was born on that trip.

~~~22 Oct 2008 Marcia L. vonGunden~~~