Maj. James Lawson Hicks, Sr.

Not James Lawson Hicks

GEDCOM Note

Born March 20, 1799 in Georgia, son of Nathaniel and Mary Mason Hicks died March 4, 1888, buried in Major Hicks Cemetery
Major in the army during the War of 1812
1820 Land Lottery Winner 56th G.M.D.
1832 Land Lottery Winner, (56th Dist.), surveyed and set out Johnson County in 1858
one of the first Johnson County Commissioners
1858, gave the land for the Johnson County Academy
married Mary Pullen, born 1807/8 in Georgia, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Lydia Bowers (Thomers), Pullen, she died in 1835
married second Mary Elizabeth Hightower Ellington, daughter of Joshua Hightower, in 1837;

Children by 1st wife:
William P. (m. Jane Outler) (School teacher),
Dr. Henry (Mary Frances Wright, Nancy Wright),
Elizabeth (m. Robert J. Hightower),

Children by 2nd wife:
Jane (m. William Snell),
Martha (Mattie?),
Sarah Joyce (m. John Peacock),
James (m. Mary ____),
Nancy Ellen (m. Rev. Charles Moore),
Reuben,
Richard Lowery (m. Sara Daniels),
Joshua,
Eugene, and
Dr. Charles (m. Alice McRae).

1830 Emanuel 56th, p. 168,
1840 Emanuel 56/12,
1850 Emanuel # 371,
1860 Johnson # 25,
1870 Johnson # 249, 250,
Cemetery, p. 129, 1820
Lottery, p. 149,
Laurens County History I, pp. 401-403,
Johnson Centennial, pp. 6,16,
1832 Lottery, p. 225,
Headlight Centennial, p. B-5.

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