Thomas B. Ficklin

"On May 28 and 29, 1785, in an upper room of a house not far from the subsequent meetinghouse site, the home apparently of the Robert Johnsons, sixteen Great Crossings Baptists met to constitute a church. Adopting the Philadelphia Confession of Faith were charter members: William Cave, James Suggett, Sr., Robert Johnson, Thomas Ficklin, John Suggett, Julius Gibbs, Robert Bradley, Bartlett Collins, Jemima Johnson, Susanna Cave, Sarah Shipp, Caty Herndon (or Bohannon), Jane Herndon, Hannah Bradley, Betsey Leeman (or Lemon), and Betsey Collins. Clergy assisting were Lewis Craig, John Taylor, Richard Young, and Samuel Deadmon."

• (Great Crossing Baptist Church).
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 5 2017, 4:39:01 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 5 2017, 18:38:43 UTC

  ---

Thomas Ficklin son of William II was born about 1750 He married Mary Herndon and resided in Spottsylvania county where probably nearly all his children were born till about 1780 when he emigrated to Kentucky He and his wife and at least two of his children Joseph and Philadelphia were in the stockade at Bryant's Station near Lexington during the memorable siege of that place by a horde of more than five hundred savages led by the renegade Simon Girty August 15, 16 and 17 1782. There were about ninety people in the stockade counting all Mary Herndon Ficklin and her little daughter Philadelphia were among the score of unarmed women and girls who ventured out of the stockade on the perilous mission of procuring water from a spring nearby a deed of heroism rarely equaled in the annals of history The writer of this volume when a child in school listened to an account of this siege but little dreamed that some of his people were participants But for this water the stockade which was built of logs and dry as tinder at the time would have been destroyed by the burning arrows and the occupants massacred While the men fought off the assailants the women and children were busily occupied putting out fires For a detailed account of this siege and the massacre at Blue Licks two days later where many who defended the stockade were slain the reader is referred to volume twelve of the publications of The Filson Club of Louisville The Lexington Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution recently erected a monument at the spring in commemoration of the heroism of the women and girls during the siege.

The census of 1810 shows that Thomas Ficklin was living in Scott county at that time The old records of that county have been destroyed and much that they would doubtless have revealed concerning him and his children has been lost The date of his death is not known though his estate was administered in that county His children were see Slaughter MS Deed Spottswood to Ficklin Spottsylvania Co Va 15 Sept 1772 and Filson Club publications vol 12.

35 John Herndon

36 Joseph

37 William Augustus 

38 Philadelphia who was one of the children at Bryant's Station Nothing further known of her 

39 Margaret who married a Piper and had daughter Philadelphia who married a Mitchell and lived near Scottsville Ky