Simon Burdette Nicholls (1882-1911)
I just wanted to mention this man because he descends from old Simon Nicholls who lived next to David Trail Sr. at New Scotland Hundred way back as early as 1705. Simon Burdette Nicholls was born in Germantown,Maryland in 1882.Germantown is the locale in Montgomery County exactly where David Trail Sr. patented "Goodwill" in 1731 and where all the sons settled and the Trails carried on for generations. Simon Burdette Nicholls went on to become a professional baseball player and played for the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 1900's before Typhoid Fever took his life as a young man. He played short stop and was fleet of foot.