William HICKS

                   INFORMATION ON THIS FAMILY IS FROM GEORGE E. GEISLER OF BOISE, ID BIRTH/DEATH FROM PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR.
FROM OTTALLE WINEGAR PAPERS - "HE MOVED FROM CUMBERLAND CO., MARYLAND TO VIRGINIA AND SERVED IN THE REVOLUTION FROM 1777-1778.  ... I THINK THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT SHADRACK, MESHAC, AND ABEDUEGO WERE BROTHERS TO WILLIAM" FROM P.G. HICKS " ...THE WILLIAM HICKS BORN IN 1741 CAME TO TENNESSEE FROM MARYLAND IN 1749 AS A MEMBER OF THE GROUP THAT FOUNDED THE SCHOOL AND MISSION. HE WAS EDUCATED IN THE SCHOOL AND MARRIED A CLASSMATE, SARA HEGE, THE VILLAGE CHIEFTAN'S DAUGHTER."  AND "...RESIDED AT THE HICKS SCHOOL AND MISSION IN A CHOATIAN VILLAGE NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF DRY BRANCH AND HOLSTON RIVER WHEN THE 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS WAS TAKEN."  AND "ALL THREE (WILLIAM HICKSES) HAD GRAVE MARKERS PRIOR TO 1976 WHEN THE TWO ELDER WILLIAM'S MARKERS WERE REMOVED DURING A CEMETERY RENOVATION PROJECT FOR THE NATIONAL BICENTENNIAL CLELBRATION."