Individual Details

Birth

His tombstone photograph on his Find A Grave memorial shows he died on 7-7-1874, at age of 72 years and 19 days.
The memorial gives his birth date as 5-17-1803 in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Marriage

James Hicks' Find A Grave memorial gives the marriage date of 8-1-1822, for James and Martha Addington Hicks.
Their memorials are linked as spouses.

Estella Morrison's Hicks Family History shows they were married 8-1-1822, in Buncombe County, NC.

Miscellaneous

James and Martha Hicks sold land in Copiah Co., MS in 1841:
James Hicks and Martha sold to B. Swinney 45 ac description: NE NE Section 35, T1N, R2W. Bk K pp702, 703.

No source.

Miscellaneous

James Hicks claimed land in Bell, Co., TX:
James Hicks entered land on Rainey Creek by Sep 1853.
From General Land Office, Austin TX. LDS File Milam 3-1229- Estella Morrison.

Miscellaneous

James Hicks was one of the first Coryell County, TX, county commissioners selected in 1854 and served through 1856.

Miscellaneous

James Hicks served as a member of the committee to build the first Coryell County jail in May 1855.

Miscellaneous

James Hicks Patented land on Rainey Creek in Coryell Co., TX:
James Hicks recorded 320 ac land on Rainey’s Creek
dated 11 Oct 1856.
Preemption Cert # 3.
Index to Grantee Deeds, Vol D p 27, Coryell County, Texas

Miscellaneous

The James and Martha Hicks family records are recorded in a family Bible:
The following Bible record has been furnished for publication by Ms. Gladys Gibson, Box 51354, OCS, Lafayette, LA 70505 from the volume owned by a member of her family. The Bible was published in 1857 by the American Bible Society. Entries are all in the same handwriting and were made long after the event occurred. The Bible also has entries, in an entirely different handwriting, for the family of Benjamin Farbe (b. ca. 1839 in Canada, d. 7-16-1887 in San Antonio,TX) and his wife Eudora Elmira Temple (b. ca 1847 in Mississippi, d. 9-16-1882 in San Antonio, Texas), who were Ms. Gibson’s great grandparents. She has been unable to explain a connection between the Hicks family and the Fabres.
Entries:
James Hicks, son of Jonathan and Nancy Hicks was born June the 17th, 1803 in Buncomb County N.C.
Martha Addington, s/o [sic d/o?] William and Delilah Addington, was born March 30th, 1802 in Newberry District, SC.
James and Martha Hicks married August 1, 1822 in Buncomb County, N.C.
Mary A.D. Hicks,daughter of James and Martha Hicks was born July 9, 1823 in Buncomb County N.C.
Naomi Hicks, daughter of James and Martha Hicks was born March 28, 1825 in Macon County N.C.
William M. Hicks, son of James and Martha Hicks was born March 29, 1827 in Habersham County, Georgia
Elizabeth Jane Hicks,daughter of James and Martha Hicks, was born February 11, 1829 in Macon County N.C.
John D. Hicks, son of James and Martha Hicks, was born November the 12th, 1830 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Harvy K. Hicks, son of James and Martha Hicks, was born August the 5th, 1832 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
James T. Hicks, son of James and Martha Hicks was born January 16, 1835 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Hardy D. Hicks, son of James and Martha Hiks, was born May 23rd, 1837 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Martha E. Hicks, daughter of James and Martha Hicks, was born July 27, 1839 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Source: Published in the genealogy magazine “FAMILY PUZZLERS”, September 27, 1977 NO. 518, p. 19.

Note: James and Martha Hicks' daughter Mary A. D. Hicks married John Temple.
Source: Doralyn Hicks Short. A Story of Hicks. 2017

Miscellaneous

On 9-24-1858, James Hicks attended the Leon River Baptist Asociation meeting on Nolan Creek in Bell County, Tx, as a representative of the Coryell Baptist Church.

Miscellaneous

In 1859, James and Martha Hicks sold their Rainey Creek property and moved to McLennan County, TX. In August 1859, they became members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church near Speegleville in west McLennan County.
By 1865, James and Martha Hicks owned land about 10 miles south of Waco, TX, and on 9-11-1866 they became charter members of Bethel Baptist Church in Robinsonville (now known as Robinson),in McLennan County, TX.

Miscellaneous

Letter from James Hicks to Mr. Henry Addington (Martha's brother) reads:
8 April 1860, McLennon Co.,TX. "Mr Henry Addington Esq If it will be interesting to you to no by consulting these lines you can find out that we are yet alive and injoying good health that we have raised seven children to be grown three sons and fore daughters and we have buryed fore.
Six of our children have married and is doing well, one son living with us yet.
I am giting along fine I have got a cavayard of horses of my oan of seventy five head of some verry fine ones. Several mares that wood bring one hundred and fifty dollars apeace two fine stalions and one jack my mares have just begun to bring colts this spring if you or any of the connection wishes to hear any more from us by writing to Waco McLennon County Texas I will take pleasure of giving any information that I can and if any of you should visit Texas and comes to Waco on the Brazos river there inquire for old Squire Hicks and they will direct you fifteen miles west on the middle bosque.
I will just give one instance of the profit that I made hear araising stock. I have a neighbor that settled hear seven years ago and he told me a few weeks ago that when he came hear that him and his brother paid two thousand dollars for Spanish mares and at the end of five years they had sold foreteen thousand dollars worth of horses out of that cavaryyard and that they have fore or five thousand dollars worth now they said with out any feeding he is a man of undouted varaity nothing more til I hear from you but remain yours til death
James"
Source: Hoffman Family Tree by Hoffman 4VB143: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/28149898/person/12744062103/mediax/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum

Miscellaneous

James Hicks purchased land in McLennan Co., TX in 1865:
James Hicks purchased from John H. Stith of McLennan Co for the sum of $1,000, 321 ac, part of the Ignacio Galindo grant situated West side of Brazos River, c 10 miles South of Waco.
Source: Book K, p. 506, Deed Records McLennan County, Texas

Miscellaneous

James Hicks bought land in Bexar Co., TX in 1872:
James Hicks purchased for sum of $500, 640 ac from W. H.Everett [son-in-law and husband of Loretta] on east bank of Nueces River, Sec 10, NW of survey 162, about 93 miles west of San Antonio.
Dated 10 Jun 1872.
From McLennan Deed Book S, p. 42.

Death

His Find A Grave Memorial shows his death date as 7-7-1874 in Oglesby, Texas.

Miscellaneous

His Find A Grave Memorial is #49145838.
The memorial has a photograph of his tombstone showing that he died on 7-7-1874, at the age of 72 years and 19 days.
The memorial is linked to his spouse and two of his children.
The memorial shows his parents as Jonathan Hicks and Nancy Horne Hicks.