SECTION B

CHAPTER VIII

JAMES BISHOP HICKS

 

James Bishop Hicks, eighth child of Willis Bishop Hicks and his first wife, Dorothy B. Nance, was born February 27, 1833 in Georgia.

James married first on January 19, 1854, Sarah E. Presnall, the daughter of John Presnall. The Clarke County Marriage Records show that James and Sarah were married with an affidavit of his father, W. B. Hicks, and with the consent of her father, John Presnall.

The 1860 Census of Clarke County listed the family as follows:

In the 1860 Census the James B. Hicks family was occupying Household No. 1116. on one side of them was George and Nancy Hicks Vickers in Household No. 1117 and on the other side was the Presnall family in Household No. 1115.

The 1870 Census listed the family the same way, with the addition of another child:

James B. Hicks was not born in Alabama, as stated in the 1860 Census - he was born in Georgia, as the 1870 Census stated, as well as the 1900 census, listed below.

The date of Sarah E. Presnall Hicks' death is not known, nor her place of burial. However, on March 27, 1887, J. B. Hicks married Mary Clarke. James and his second wife were listed in the 1900 Clarke County Census, Vol. 11, Sheet 2, Precinct 10, Grove Hill, as follows:

Judy Rutledge Larrimore, descendant of James Bishop Hicks, stated that James and his second wife had no children. She also said that Mary J. Clarke had another sister, Jane Clarke Rutledge, besides Julia P. Clarke listed in the 1900 Census.

 

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It is believed that James Bishop Hicks and his first wife had only two children.

In the 1900 Clarke County Census, Vol. 11, Sheet 18, Precinct 3, Jackson, John and Emma are listed with eight more children. Their oldest son, John W. Hicks, Jr., was 21 in 1900 and was out of the home.

 

 

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The estate settlement paper listed Robert Hicks as a child of J. W. and Emma Hicks, under 21 but over 14 years old, but he was not listed in the 1900 Census with his parents.

 

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    a. Mitt Gates; lives at Dickinson.

      b. Mamie Gates

    c. Annie Mae Gates

    d. Bobby Lee Gates

    e Leila Bell Gates
     

    f. Mertle Ed Gates
     

    g. Adele Gates
     

    h. Etta Gates
     

    i. Claude Gates

HICKS

Mr. Ambrose Bryant Hicks - A native of Clarke County, Ala., died at a local rest home Wednesday, Sept. 22. 1965, at2:30 a.m, He is survived by three sons, James, P. Hicks, Ambrose Travis Hicks, both of Satsuma, Ala., and Joshua Bryant Hicks of Houston, Tex.; six daughters, Mrs. Annie Bell Moore, Prichard, Ala., Mrs. Claudia Mae Woods, Houston, Tex., Mrs Gardine Trimble, Port Arthur, Tex.: Mrs. Irene Monerief, Port Arthur, Tex., Mrs. Bonnie Pearl Singleton, Panama City Fla.. and Mrs. Louise Bailey, Elizabeth, N.J.; eight sisters, Mrs. Eddie Vickers, Chickasaw, Al., Mrs. Linia Brooks,, Mrs. Leila Gates, Mrs. Maudie Thomas, Mrs. Lillie Gates, Mrs. Virginia Hepstaff, Mrs. Christina Rudledge, and Mrs. Mattie Stacey, all of Clarke County, Ala.; 43 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral services will be held from Northside Chapel Friday, Sept. 24, 1965, at 11 a.m. Interment will be in Allen Cemetery, Clarke County, Ala., at 3 p.m Northside Brown Service Mortuary will be in charge of arrangements.

 

 

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      j. Marie Rutledge, born February 20, 1930. Married Billy Strickland and had one son.

            (1) Jerry Harmon Strickland; married Jackie Burnett; no issue.

      k. Bettye Jean Rutledge, born August 17, 1936. Married Herman Ogden Heaton and has three children.

          (1) Herman Manuel Heaton

          (2) Wesley Rutledge Heaton

          (3) Kimberly Lee Heaton

  1. Delia Hicks, last child of Ambrose and Mary Eve Hicks was born December, 1894, according to the 1900 Clarke County Census. However, her tombstone in the Liberty Cemetery reads: Born November 11, 1889; Died December 17, 1962. Delia married Wm. Edgar Rutledge October 23 a brother of Mal Eugene Rutledge who married Delia’s sister Christiana Hicks. Edgar's tombstone, also in Liberty Cemetery, reads:

        Born June 20, 1880; Died November 27, 1956.

      There is also a tombstone in Liberty Cemetery for a Roy Rutledge, Born October 12, 1923, Died May 14,1956 which might be Edgar and Delia's son.

        a. Roy Rutledge, born October 12, 1923; died May 14, 1956.

        b. Eula Rutledge; married Woodie J. Bradford, son of Julius and Jenny Bradford. Woodie was born August 19, 1900 and died May 25, 1977; buried at Liberty Cemetery.

        c. Bessie Rutledge

        d. Gray Rutlede

        e. Amos Rutledge

        f. Walter Rutledge

        g. Emma Rutledge

       

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SOURCES FOR JAMES BISHOP HICKS

 

Clarke County, AL Marriage Records

Clarke County, AL Census Records

Records of Judy Rutledge Larrimore

Cemetery records and tombstones

Probate Records, Clarke County, AL Court House

Newspaper clippings

Willis Bishop Hicks Family Bible

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CHAPTER IX

FABIUS HAYWOOD HICKS

 

Fabius Haywood Hicks was the ninth child and fifth son of Willis Bishop Hicks and his first wife, Dorothy B. Nance. Fabius was born September 5, 1835, as recorded in the Willis Bishop Hicks Bible.

The Hicks Family Bible is in the possession of Mrs. Annie Lee Sellers McHaney, granddaughter of Willis Bishop Hicks, and wife of Grady J. McHaney, Dickinson, Alabama. This Bible was given to Mrs. McHaney by her mother, Emma Delia Hicks Sellers who was the youngest daughter of Willis Bishop Hicks.

According to Rev. T. H. Ball, in his book Clarke County Alabama and Its Surroundings, Willis Bishop Hicks moved his family to Alabama in 1836, when Fabius Haywood Hicks was just a baby.

At the time of the 1860 Census, Clarke County, Fabius was listed as head of his household:

Fabius Hicks age 22 born in Georgia

Julia A. Hicks age 18 born in Clarke County

Allie D. Hicks age 3 born in Clarke County

Samuel G. Hicks age 1 born in Clarke County

Odom has Fabius in the home of Bishop & Susan at time of 1860 Census. Julia A. Hicks, above, is a sister of Fabius and Samuel and Allie are their half-brother and half-sister. Why were they in the home with Fabius at the time of the 1860 Census?

Fabius must have moved to Georgia soon after 1860 as he enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a Private on June 11, 1861. He was listed on the Muster Roll of Co. D, 19th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee. He was promoted to lst Lt on February 10, 1863 and approximately a year later he was made Captain, on January 11, 1864. He was wounded in June of that same year while at Petersburg, VA. He received a gunshot wound in his left leg and also developed typhoid fever.

Fabius was on leave from his military service on December 24 1863, as he married Emma L. Carlton on that date, recorded in Book A, Page 155m Spalding Co. Ga Marriage Records.

The 1870 Census, First District of Coweta County, Georgia, Dwelling #37, lists the family as follows:

 

 

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At the time of the 1880 Census, District 534 of Pike County, GA Dwelling 103, Sheet 36, the family is listed as follows:

Sometime between 1880 and 1900, Fabius moved to Alabama. His wife Emma may have died in Georgia because the 1900 Census of Precinct #3, Hanceville, Blount Co. AL listed a wife with a different name - Surrance C. Hicks. She was Surrance Clementine Carlisle, whom he married on August 27, 1894. She was born October 15, 1843.

In nearby Cullman County for the same 1900 Census, was listed Fabius' son, Ethelbert, age 34. James C. Hicks, another son, was listed as age 28.

The 1910 Census, District 23, Sheet 16, Cullman County, AL listed only Fabius and his wife, Surrance C. Hicks. All the children were out of the home by that time. His age was 75 and hers 65.

On April 23, 1896, Fabius applied for a pension because of his service in the CSA. He stated that he was not engaged in any business and that his taxable property consisted of 40 acres of land and a clock. However, on the very next page he stated that he owned 10 acres of land in Cullman County, valued at $100.00, plus a three-room frame house.

on October 28, 1912, Fabius Hicks, Hanceville, Alabama, wrote a letter to Elder R. C. Hicks, Sulphur Springs, TX, in which he stated that his father, Willis B. Hicks, had settled in Clarke County, Alabama, and that he (W.B.) had four sons: Benjamin, James, Fabius and Josiah. On November 17, 1912, he wrote his cousin another letter in which he mentioned other family members (see attached copies of these letters).

Fabius Haywood Hicks died on February 28, 1918, and is buried in Hopewell Cemetry, Hanceville, Cullman County, Alabama.

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On April 12, 1918 his widow, S. C. Hicks, applied for a widow's pension. She lived five more years, dying on June 25, 1923, and is also buried in Hopewell Cemetery. She was Surrena Carlisle, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Carlisle.

The Carlisle family was listed in the 1850 Census of Randolph County, Alabama as follows:

Surrena's mother, sister and brother are also buried in Hopewell Cemetery:

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SOURCES FOR FABIUS HAYWOOD HICKS

Records of John Thomas Odom, Mena, Arkansas

Clarke County, AL Census Records

Coweta County, GA Census Records (Odom)

Spalding County, GA Marriage Records (Odom)

Pike County, GA Census Records (Odom)

Blount County, AL Census Records (Odom)

Cullman County, AL Census Records (Odom)

Civil War Pension Records (Odom)

Old family letters

Cemetery records and tombstones

Willis Bishop Hicks Family Bible

 

 

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CHAPTER X

JOSIAH RUX HICKS

Josiah Rux Hicks, tenth child and sixth son of Willie Bishop Hicks and Dorothy B. Nance, was born December 14, 1837. He married Lucinda A. Benson on September 9, 1857. Josiah died December 25, 1922 (see attached copy of Obituary). Lucinda was still alive at the time of her husband's death.

The 1860 Clarke County Census listed the family as follows:

The 1870 Census showed an addition of two children the family.

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Voncile Gates, granddaughter of Jesse Nathaniel Bradford, says that he and Nathaniel J. Bradford are one and the same. She also said that this third daughter of Josiah's was named Docia, and that Docia had two sisters: Dollie and Dannie. So now we know that Docie and Della are one and the same.

Sibyl Larrimore Bradford, widow of Dock Bradford, gave me a list of the children of Jesse Nathaniel Bradford and Docia Hicks. She also gave me a list of the children of Marion DeCalve (spelled DeCalb by another source) Bradford and Harriet Elizabeth Smith, copied from the Family Bible by Massey Bradford. on this list, the oldest child is Jesse Nathaniel. Marion DeCalb Bradford and Thomas E. Bradford, above, are brothers.

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SOURCES FOR JOSIAH RUX HICKS

Clarke County, AL Census Records

Clarke County, AL Marriage Records

Newspaper clippings

Records of Linda Ott Dozier

Records of Elwis Benson

Records of Voncile McKinley Gates

Willis Bishop Hicks Family Bible

 

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CHAPTER XI

JULIA ANN HICKS

 

Julia Ann Hicks, eleventh child and fifth daughter of Willis Bishop Hicks and his first wife, Dorothy B. Nance, was born in Clarke County, AL on October 2, 1840 and died November 18, 1903.

Julia Ann married James J. Haskew on April 19, 1865. The wedding took place at the home of her father, W. B. Hicks and the officiant was Z. L. Bettis, Judge of Probate.

The 1860 Census of Clarke County listed James J. Haskew in the home of his mother.

The 1870 Census of Clarke County listed J. J. Haskew family as follows:

According to this 1860 Census, James Haskew was born in 1838. There is a tombstone in Old Salem Cemetery which reads: J. Haskew, Born January 10, 1838, Died April 20, 1914. This is probably James J. Haskew but the death date is incorrect. one of their granddaughters, Pearl Haskew Rush, Mobile, says the year of his death was 1878. As you can see by the 1880 Census below, there was a child born to them in 1880, so he cannot have died in 1878.

Julia Ann is also buried in Old Salem Cemetery, but her tombstone gives her birthdate as October 22, 1840. The Family Bible of Willis Bishop Hicks has her birth recorded as October 2nd, 1840. I myself have not seen the tombstones of Julia Ann and James J. Haskew, but they were recorded thus in a cemetery book in the Grove Hill Public Library.

The 1880 Clarke County Census, Soundex Roll 27, Gates Beat, listed the family as follows:

 

 

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The Civil War Pension Records of Clarke County show that a J. A. Haskew, the widow of J. J.Haskew, Pvt. Co. K, 23rd Regiment, who died December 19, 1881, made application for a pension and gave her address as P. 0. Vashti. At first I thought this could not be our Julia Ann and James, but after talking with Pearl Haskew Rush in Mobile, and hearing from her that her grandfather died long before her father and mother were married, I have decided that James died either in or 1881. Julia was left at age 40, with six children to raise.

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SOURCES FOR JULIA ANN HICKS

Clarke County, AL Census Records

Clarke County, AL Marriage Records

Cemetery Records and Tombstones

Civil War Pension Records of Clarke County, AL

Records of Devereaux Riddlebarger

Family Group Sheets completed by family members

Willis Bishop Hicks Family Bible

 

 

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