Article titled "Mrs. Nichols dies, was city's oldest resident, aged 106 and published by a Springfield Massachusetts newspaper on April 8, 1959. It describes the life of the sister of James A. Naismith first wife. Mrs. Adelaide Marie Nichols, 106, the city's oldest resident in 1959, and a sister-in-law of the late Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball died on April 7,1959.
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