Your Granny Nicie was a sister or half-sister to my grandmother Cannie Andes Norris. My grandmother lived in the Beech Mountain area of North Carolina and talked of your Granny frequently. My Grandma Cannie died in the 1980s. I was born in 1949 and remember when your granny's mother died-- 1956, I think. Your Granny Nicie's mother was Jane Andes Trivitte. She was born around 1868. She was a practicing mid-wife in the East Tenn./Western NC area for many years. I talked to a woman recently who said that Grandma Jane Andes delivered one of her children in the mid 1940's Jane (Nicies's mother) was very independent. She rode a horse over the mountain's and I think she was afraid of nothing. There are pictures of Jane and her husban Charlie. I saw a newpaper account that they were buried in the Cherokee Community Cemetery.