Adry Hicks

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14258594/adry-hicks

"The mystery is that we have an Indian Joe, supposedly of Cherokee Heritage, that married a girl named Hicks and took her name to prevent re-capture by the US Government. He lived and bought land in Morgan County near the Fentress County line around Rock Creek. He later moved the family to the Solomon Hollow area of Morgan County where he acquired additional land. He ended up living next door to another Hicks family named Ardy, no relation (?). Turns out this Ardy has connections with the Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma where he takes a trip and later dies. Many of his children once married, move to the Chickasaw Nation to live. His wife Nancy lives most of her life in Morgan and Roane Counties in Tennessee but is buried in Oklahoma next to her husband."

"For some reason, Adry traveled to the Chickasaw Indian Reservation in Oklahoma sometime in 1855/56 about the time his youngest daughter Martha Josephine was born.
While in Oklahoma he died and was buried there in the Simon Cemetery in Love County.
Adry had traveled to the Chickasaw Indian Reservation in Oklahoma sometime in 1855/56 about the time his youngest daughter Martha Josephine was born.
While in Oklahoma he died and was buried there in the Simon Cemetery in Love County."
per Quarterly Newsletter "Generations"
https://www.cghs.club/ ~ CHCurtis 5 Dec 2022

Disputed Origins:
FS has the same as many public Ancestry trees-- a toss up- between John Joseph Hicks and Chrissie Mills or Joseph Calvin Hicks and Nancy Downs.
Hopefully DNA will help to find his parents since the records appear to be missing.
Personally I believe the Pope County Bio for son William, which says ALLEN HICKS. (See below)
Also, looking for the relationship between this Adry Hicks and the Adry Hicks Adrey Hicks of the 1790 census and mentioned here http://revwarapps.org/s1612.pdf

He was a farmer by occupation, and by his three wives had thirty-seven children, of whom Adrey was one of eleven children by his mother.

He married Nancy W. Jenkins, of North Carolina, daughter of William Jenkins, and they had twelve children, six sons and six daughters.

Adrey died in Tennessee in the year 1855, aged thirty-three, and Nancy was "still living in the Chickasaw Nation at seventy-six years of age, and is bright and sprightly for her age".

They (this Hicks line) are all farmers, and mostly settled in the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations.

"The Biographical Review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin Counties" pg 486 The Chicago Publishing Company June 1893

• https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/435521...
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/43552172/person/13...

Morgan county and Fentress county, Hicks families are cousin lines.

Noted by CHCurtis 29 Sep 2021

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/741623:8058?_phsr...

1840
Name: Adre Heix [Adri Hix]
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Wayne, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 6

Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 6

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1301189:8057?ssrc...

1850 Subdivision 19, Morgan, Tennessee, USA
Name Ady Hicks Age 36
Name Nancy M Hicks Age 36
Name Elvira S Hicks Age 16
Name Wm J Hicks Age 14
Name James E Hicks Age 12
Name Alvis D Hicks Age 10
Name Mary Hicks Age 8
Name Lucinda E Hicks Age 6
Name Addison L Hicks Age 4
Name Frances Hicks Age 3
Name Margaret A Hicks Age0
Name Mary E Sperna Age 56

Adry Hicks (b.1814), married Nancy Melinda Jenkins (b.1813). For some reason, Adry had traveled to the Chickasaw Indian Reservation in Oklahoma sometime in 1855/56 about the time his youngest daughter Martha Josephine was born. While in Oklahoma he died and was buried there in the Simon Cemetery in Love County.

Nancy Hicks had later moved the family from Morgan County to the Erie Community in Roane County. Again, in the 1870 census the family is living near the same area but the post office had changed to Tabor in Roane County.

Ardy [Adry] and Nancy Hicks children:

Elvira Narcissa (b.1834), joined the local Baptist church at age 14, married John Spurlin in 1850. John was killed in the Civil War. She married William Hamilton Frank in 1867. She died in 1926 at age 92 at the home of her son J. H. Spurling and is buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Rockwood, Roane County, Tennessee.

William Jackson. (b.1836) married Sarah Ann Roberts (b.1842) in Roane County in 1859. By 1861, the family had moved to Pope County Illinois when at age 25, William traveled back to Kingston and joined the Union Army where he mustered in to Company A, 2nd Tn. Reg. in 1861. He was captured at Rogersville, TN, in 1863 and sent to Richmond and later to Andersonville Prison until the end of the war. William and Sarah had 12 children most of whom raised their families in the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. William died in 1899, and is buried in Randolph County Arkansas.

Alvis Duncan (b. 1840 in KY) married Margaret Richardson in Pulaski Co., KY. They had 6 children. Alvis was a Civil War veteran as a private in the 2nd TN Volunteers. He was captured, later wounded while trying to escape from prison. After the war he married Marie McGehee Willoughby in Tidmore OK. He died in 1926 at age 86 and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Seminole County, OK.

Mary E. (1842-1906) married John Roe Bowers, lived in Alvord, Wise County, Texas. Mary and John are buried in the Alvord Cemetery.

Frances Allen “Frank” (b1844 in Morgan County) married in 1870 in Roane County to Mary Jane Roberts where they lived in the 2nd district of Roane County, TN. Frank was a veteran of the civil war. Lived in the Denton, TX by 1930 where she died in 1934.

Lucinda E. (b.1844 in Morgan County), married in 1860 to Drury D. Green in Roane County. They lived in the Erie Community in Roane County.

Margaret Matilda (b.1850) married Massena Manley Reeves in 1870 in Roane County and lived in the Tabar Community, then in Rockwood and in her later years she lived in Eagle Colorado when she died at age 68. Interesting are the words on her gravestone “Daughter of the Cherokee Nation” She and her husband Massena Martin Reeves are buried in Eagle County, Colorado

Charlette (b.1852) Lottie married Thomas Jefferson Phillips in 1871 in Roane County, TN, where they lived in the 2nd district until they moved to North Texas around 1883/84. At age 33 she died soon after her son Charles Walton was born in 1885.

Martha (b.1856) Josephine married James Lyon and lived in Indian Territory in the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. They had a daughter who married William Chambless. They had a son Carl E. Lyon.

For some reason, Adry traveled to the Chickasaw Indian Reservation in Oklahoma sometime in 1855/56 about the time his youngest daughter Martha Josephine was born. While in Oklahoma he died and was buried there in the Simon Cemetery in Love County. Adry had traveled to the Chickasaw Indian Reservation in Oklahoma sometime in 1855/56 about the time his youngest daughter Martha Josephine was born. While in Oklahoma he died and was buried there in the Simon Cemetery in Love County.

Chronology of Early Land Transactions of Hicks Family in Morgan County

While researching land deeds in the Morgan County Courthouse, the following excerpts are included for consideration:

Survey Book B Entry # 748 at one cent per acre dated November 9th 1827 for 50 acres to Joseph Hicks on the waters of the Little Emory River around a 10acre survey where he now lives, beginning on the spur of a mountain including various points, surveyed 2nd May 1828 by Thomas Staples.

Entry # 1687 from the State of Tennessee to John W. Hicks, Joseph Hicks, and Wilson Edwards for 900 acres on the waters of Rock Creek and the Clearfork River September 23rd 1834 and surveyed by Thomas Staples January 9th 1839

Entry # 1730 from the state of Tennessee to Polly Hicks, assignee, of Joseph Hicks a certain tract of land containing 40 acres on the waters of the Little Emory River. This parcel includes a stone coal bank. June 23rd 1835.

Entry # 2849 from the State of Tennessee to Adry Hicks for 300 acres October 7th 1848, lying on the waters of the Little Emory River and joining the land of Joseph Hicks.

Entry # 2851 from the State of Tennessee to John Hicks for 300 acres on the waters of Little Emory beginning at a beech near the Joseph Hicks line and the Hutson’s line this 16th day of October 1848

Morgan County Deed book H p576: John W. Hicks sells 125 acres on the Little Emory River to George G. Craig March 17th, 1851. This land joins the corner of my three-hundred-acre tract.

Morgan County Deed Book N p261: Joseph Hicks leases to the Knoxville Oil and Mining Company 100 acres lying on the Little Emory River in the 1st civil district on July 3rd, 1865 for 99 years. This land being the homeplace of Joseph Hicks joins the lands of J. W. Hicks, Wm Jackson and others. The agreement was that the company would give the said Joseph Hicks 1/10th of all products mined, bored, or otherwise found on the property.

Morgan County Deed Book N p264: John W. Hicks leases to the Knoxville Oil and Mining Company 100 acres lying on the Little Emory River in the 1st civil district on July 3rd, 1865 for 99 years. This land being the homeplace of John W. Hicks. The agreement was that the company would give the said John W. Hicks 1/10th of all products mined, bored, or otherwise found on the property.

Morgan County Deed Book O p105: John Hix and wife Rachel Hix sell 47 acres in two tracts to Charles Wilson April 27th, 1868. Located on the waters of Crooked Fork in the 1st Civil District, joining the lands of Wiley Duncan, D. M. Kelley, David Stonecipher, Joseph Stonecipher, and Daniel Stonecipher.