William HICKS, REV.

Birth:
27 Nov 1811
Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
29 May 1882
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Burial:
1882
Boy Cemetery, Sullivan, Tennessee
Marriage:
24 Oct 1844
Wythe, Virginia
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                   BIRTH/PLACE FROM PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR WHO CALLS HIM "REV." AND STATES THAT HE DIED AT BLUFF CITY, AND PRESENTS HIS MARRIAGE INFORMATION.  HIS NAME AND MARRIAGE ARE STATED IN THE "HICKS FAMILY
RECORDS"  KAREN SHERMAN'S BOOK ON SULLIVAN CEMETERIES LISTS HIS BIRTH AS 20 MAY FROM HIS TOMBSTONE.
FROM P.G. HICKS " ALL THREE OF THE WILLIAM HICKSES...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."

FROM THE PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR -
WILLIAM, BROTHER OF BETSY, WAS AN ORDAINED METHODIST MINISTER.
      R.N. PRINCE, HOLSTON METHODISM, VOL. V, METH. PUB. HOUSE 265 FF 1913
      DIED AT HIS HOME IN BLUFF CITY, TN.  IN 1882.
      "BORN AGAIN" AT ROCKHOLD'S CAMPGROUND AND APPOINTED A CLASS LEADER BY ROBERTSON GANNAWAY.  HE WAS ADMITTED TO HOLSTON CONFERENCE IN 1833.  HE DID CIRCUIT WORK UNTIL 1844.  HE WAS THE PRESIDING ELDER OF THE WYTHEVILLE DISTRICT, AND ALSO OF THE ASHEVILLE AND ROGERSVILLE DISTRICTS.  IN 1853 HE EDITED THE "HERALD OF TRUTH," A RELIGIOUS PAPER, IN ANDERSONVILLE, N.C. 1855-56, ASHEVILLE DISTRICT
1857-60, PRESIDENT, RICHLAND INSTITUTE, HAYWOOD CO., N.C.
1861-62, CHAPLAIN, CONFEDERATE ARMY
1862-63, LOCAL
1863-67, MISSION AND CIRCUIT WORK
1868-71, JONESBORO DISTRICT, RESIGNED AFTER 6 MONTHS BECAUSE OF ILLNESS HE ESTABLISHED A RELIGIOUS PAPER AT SEDDON, BLAND COUNTY, VA "HOLSTON ADVOCATE" SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, BLAND CO.
AFTER A FEW YEARS THE ADVOCATE MERGED WITH HOLSTON PUBLISHING CO. AND HE BECAME ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF "HOLSTON METHODIST."
HE ALSO EDITED THE BLAND COUNTY "GAZETTE"
1879, HE SERVED THE UNION CIRCUIT WHICH EMBRACED THE HOME OF HIS CHILDHOOD. 1880-81 SUPERANNUATE
HE WAS ELECTED TO THE N.C. STATE CONVENTION AT TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR HIS SON, WILLIAM WARD HICKS, B. 11 MAY 1849 IN WASHINGTON CO., VA. NEAR EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE D. OCT OR NOV 1922, BURIED WALNUT GROVE CEM., BLUEFIELD,VIRGINIA.

THE EARLY HISTORY OF HAYWOOD CO. W. CLARK MEDFORD 1961 -
       REV. WILLIAM HICKS, METHODIST MINISTER AND TEACHER AT TUSCOLA INSTITUTE, HAD BEEN A STRONG UNION MAN, BUT HE NOW BECAME EQUALLY STRONG FOR SECESSION.
HE WAS HAYWOOD'S ABLE DELEGATE TO THE SECESSIONIST CONVENTION, AND AS SUCH HE NOT ONLY, 'RAISED HIS ELEQUENT VOICE ON BEHALF OF SECESSION,' BUT VOTED FOR IT AS WELL.
FROM HOLSTON PASTFINDER -SULLIVAN CO. TN WILL BOOK 1 BY SHELBY I. EDWARDS P. 376 WILL OF WILLIAM HICKS  12 DEC. 1881.  PRVN 3 JULY 1882
       WIFE, ELIZABETH MARGARET, & CHILDREN, MY 3 SONS...ALL ESTATE REAL & PERSONAL...SINGLE DAU: LIZZIE LEONA.  SINGLE SON: GEORGE P. TO DAU: MARGARET J. MILLS, WIFE OF ED A. MILLS (BECAUSE SHE IS MOST NEEDY) 25 A. OF FARM PURCHASED OF JOS. A. WORLEY ON UPPER EAST END THEREOF ADJ. THE WASSUM & MORRELL FARMS TO WHICH GIFTS 4 A. 1 ROOD & SOME FEW POLES ARE ADDED PURCHASED OF ME BY HER HUSBAND...THE LAND NOT TO EXCEED 29 A. 1 ROOD & 24 POLES...TO HAVE THE HOUSE IN WHICH SHE NOW LIVES TO BE MOVED ON HER LAND. AFTER DEDUCTING THE 29 A. 1 R. 24 P. & 5 A. 1 R. 1 P. SOLD TO JACOB GRIER & ADDING 1 R. & 1P. ON THE RIVER OBTAINED FROM SAID GRIER THERE REMAINS BY RECENT SURVERY 167 A. 2 R. 17 P.
3 SONS: REV. WILLIAM WARD, JAMES WILEY & GEORGE PIERCE...EQUALLY DIVIDED...DAUS: FRANCIS C. KESNER, WIFE OF JOHN S. KESNER, MARY A. CONLEY, WIFE OF W.D. CONLEY, EMMA V. KINZER WIFE OF J. KENZER & LIZZIE L. HICKS...MY STOCK IN HOLSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY...SHOULD GEORGE P. HICKS MARRY...OR SON JAMES W. HICKS DIE WITHOUT ISSUE...SONS, WM. W., JAMES W. & GEO. P. HICKS, EXC.
WIT: B.H. RICHARDS, F.M. ALMONY           WM. HICKS (SEAL) PRVN OPEN COURT 3 JULY 1882.  A.J. COX, CLERK
Elizabeth Margaret WARD
Birth:
22 Mar 1822
of Wythe, Virginia
Death:
17 Oct 1910
Graham, Virginia
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                   FROM THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS"
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                   FROM THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" - HE WAS AN ATTORNEY.  HIS MOTHER DIED AT HIS HOUSE IN GRAHAM, VA
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                   THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" LISTS HER SPOUSE AS "KEENER" PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR LISTS HER SPOUSE AS "KESNER"
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                   THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" LISTS HER SPOUSE AS JASPER KINSER
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                   THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" STATES THAT HE TAUGHT SCHOOL AT WALNUT GROVE
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William Ward HICKS, REV.
Birth:
11 May 1849
Washington, Tennessee
Death:
1922
Mary A. BANE 
Marr:
3 Oct 1872
Tazewell, Virginia 
Notes:
                   THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" STATE THAT HE WAS A REV.,  THE PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR DO NOT.
FROM THE HOLSTON PASTFINDER, MARCH 1988 "REV. WILLIAM WARD HICKS" PASTOR IN CHARGE OF THE M.E. CHURCH, SOUTH, IN THE EAST ABINGDON DISTRICT, WAS BORN IN WASHINGTON CO., MAY 11, 1849. HE MARRIED IN TAZEWELL CO., VA., OCTOBER 3, 1872, MARY A. BANE WHO WAS BORN IN THAT COUNTY, OCT. 10, 1850.  THE ISSUE OF THIS UNION IS SEVEN CHILDREN, BORN IN THE ORDER NAMED: CHARLES, N.E. MAY, MAUD, WILLIAM BANE, MARGUERITE A., SPILLER, ELLEN STUART.
      THE FATHER OF WILLIAM WARD HICKS IS REV. WILLIAM HICKS, SON OF WILLIAM HICKS FROM MARYLAND, WHOSE FATHER CAME FROM ENGLAND.  HIS MOTHER IS ELIZABETH M., DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM WARD OF WYTHE CO., VA, WHOSE FATHER CAME FROM IRELAND. WILLIAM WARD, OF WYTHE CO., MARRIED A MISS YOUNG OF TENNESSEE.
      REV. WILLIAM HICKS, PASTOR OF THE M.E. CHURCH,SOUTH, WAS A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE HOLSTON CONFERENCE AND SEVERAL TIMES A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. HE WAS THE HAYWARD COUNTY DELEGATE TO THE NORTH CAROLINE CONVENTION AT RALEIGH THAT PASSED THE ORDINANCE OF SECESSION, AND DURING THE WAR WAS CHAPLAIN OF THE 6TH NORTH CAROLINE INFANTRY.  BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS EDITOR OF THE HERALD OF TRUTH; SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED THE HOLSTON ADVOCATE, IN VIRGINIA; ALSO SERVED AS SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BLAND COUNTY, VA.
      THE WIFE OF REV. WILLIAM WARD HICKS IS A DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM R. BANE, ESQ. OF TAZEWELL COUNTY, WHOSE FATHER, HOWARD BANE, CAME FROM GILES COUNTY TO TAZEWELL COUNTRY, THE FAMILY OF SCOTCH EXTRACTION.  HER MOTHER WAS NANCY, DAUGHTER OF HOWARD HAVEN OF TAZEWELL COUNTY.
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                   THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" STATES HER NAME AND LISTS HER SPOUSE AS DR. EMMERT
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                   LISTED IN THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" - "DIED AT AGE OF 3 1/2 YEARS"
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William Hicks, Rev. - Elizabeth Margaret Ward

William Hicks, Rev. was born at Sullivan, Tennessee 27 Nov 1811. His parents were William Hicks, Rev. and Ann (Nancy) Millard.

He married Elizabeth Margaret Ward 24 Oct 1844 at Wythe, Virginia . Elizabeth Margaret Ward was born at of Wythe, Virginia 22 Mar 1822 .

They were the parents of 9 children:
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William Ward Hicks, Rev. born 11 May 1849.
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William Hicks, Rev. died 29 May 1882 at Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee .

Elizabeth Margaret Ward died 17 Oct 1910 at Graham, Virginia .