NICHOLS, REBECCA REED (MRS. WILLARD): 1819-1903.
Rebecca Reed , daughter of Dr. E. B. Reed, was born in New Jersey in 1819, resided in Philadelphia for a time and came west with her father when quite young, spending some time in Louisville before coming to Indiana. In 1838 she married Willard Nichols, a printer who was interested in literature.
For more than twenty-five years she was a resident of Indianapolis. She contributed verse to newspapers and periodicals, her most productive period being between 1840 and 1855.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Bernice: or, the Curse of Minna, and Other Poems.
Cincinnati, 1844.
- Songs of the Heart and the Hearthstone.
Philadelphia, 1851.
