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You have an easy solution (initially!)--go to the library and check for an online census database like Heritage Quest? or Ancestry.Com. They should be free at the library, or by using your card at home. You will find your Nicholsons in Polk Co Tenn. in the 1900-1920 censi:
1920 (enumerated 2 Jan) shows Ernest 25 Ga. and wife Dora 24 TN. with a son Floyd 9 TN. Page 230
1910 shows Ernest 18 Ga. in his parents house with 6 siblings. Parents John 40 Ga and Dora 37 Ga. Birthplaces of children indicate a move from Ga. 1903-1906.
1900 shows John 31 GA. Ga. Ga. and Dora 24 same with son Ernest born Feb 1892 and 5 siblings. Birthplaces of children indicate a move from Ga. after the youngest child's birth in 1898.
Three things led me to suspect your Nicholsons were from the Isaac (died 1856) and Rebecca Penry Nicholson line:
1) The location in Polk Co. Tenn.
2) The marriage to a Kimsey
3) The repeated moves to Polk from Ga. indicating a site in North Ga.
Since the 1890 census is virtually non existant, you have to go back to the 1880 census in Ga. for John, who we'd expect to be about 10 or 11 and living in his father's house. I could find no John Nicholson in Ga. in 1880 that was that old.
The closest was a John H. Nicholson age 16 living in the Towns County house of Jonathan and Elizabeth Eller Nicholson. Jonathan Nicholson was the son of Isaac (died 1856) and Rebecca Penry Nicholson. He was also the brother of several Nicholsons who migrated from Union (Towns) Co. Ga. to Polk Co. Tenn. circa 1850's.
The 1870 Towns Co. Ga. also shows Jonathan and Elizabeth Eller Nicholson, but they don't have a son named John H. in their household. They do have a son Harvey age 6, who is probably the same John H. age 16 listed a decade later.
Is your John Nicholson shown born circa 1870 in the Polk Tn censi the same John H. Nicholson shown in Jonathan Nicholson's earlier censi? That's for you to prove.
When you get more information, please post it, so you can help others, as I have just helped you.
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