Individual Details
Hickman Slayton
(From 1800 to 1810 - )
Events
| Birth | From 1800 to 1810 | Pittsylvania County, Virginia |  |  | |
| Miscellaneous | From 1830 to 1840 | Residence - Madison County, Tennessee | | | |
| Census | 1830 | Guilford County, North Carolina | | | |
| Miscellaneous | CA, 1838 | Residence - Louisiana | | | |
| Miscellaneous | From 1840 to 1850 | Family History - Texas | | | |
| Miscellaneous | CA, 1840 | Business - Jefferson, Marion County, Texas | | | |
| Census | 1840 | St. Landry Parish, Louisiana | | | |
| Marriage | Caroline Clark | |
Families
| Spouse | Caroline Clark ( - ) |
| Child | Molly Slayton ( - ) |
| Child | Thomas Augusta Slayton (1833 - 1842) |
| Child | Charles Edward "Charley" Slayton (1836 - 1883) |
| Child | Eliza Jane Slayton (1839 - 1855) |
| Child | Henry Slayton (1840 - ) |
| Child | Robert L. Slayton (1843 - ) |
| Child | Thaddeus Slayton (1849 - ) |
| Father | Arthur Slayton ( - 1808) |
| Mother | Lucy Shelton (1766 - 1861) |
| Sibling | Sanford Gustavous Slayton (1802 - 1868) |
| Sibling | Sarah Slayton ( - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Slayton (1796 - ) |
Notes
Birth
The 1840 St. Landry's Parish, Louisiana, US Federal Census shows Hickmans Slayton, age 30-40.Miscellaneous
Hickmond Slayton left Virginia to reside in Tennessee with his brother, Sanford Gustavous Slayton. Lucy Slayton their mother joined them in the late 1820s, and they all remained in Madison County, Tennessee until the late 1830s..
Census
The only 1830 census listing for a Hickman Slayton is the 1830 Guilford County, North Carolina, US Federal Census showing:1 White Male 15-19
2 White Males 20-29
Hickman could be one of the 20-29 males.
Listed with his brother Sanford G. Slayton in Madison County, Tennessee, are a <5 year-old female and a 20-30-year-old female who could be Hickman's wife and daughter.
Miscellaneous
Hickmond and his wife Caroline left Tennessee a few years before his brother Sanford and mother Lucy moved to Texas in 1839. He and Caroline moved to Louisiana before joining his brother and mother in Texas about two years after they arrived in 1839.Miscellaneous
Jimmie F. Chatham, a family descendant, relates what happened to Hickmond and Caroline Slayton's children.Hickmond and Caroline both died when their children were still young. Hickmond's brother Sanford G. Slayton became the children's guardian and their grandmother Lucy Slayton helped raise them.
After the deaths of Sanford and Lucy, their aunt Augusta and her husband William J. Ferguson took care of Hickmond's children, but Augusta soon died and four years later her husband also died.
The children were then taken by their aunt and uncle Sarah and John Dorgan. It was too much for the Dorgans to raise the three youngest children so they were placed in the Buckner's Children's Home in Dallas.
"There weren't many social nets to catch children on the American frontier ... Most orphans lived with relatives, or neighbors took them in to have an extra hand around the place."
Two of the older children remained in the community. One daughter ran away from home when her father Hickmond died, and a son died soon after his father. Another daughter, Molly, married the day her father died.
Miscellaneous
Hickmond Slayton and his wife purchased a brick plant in Jefferson in the late 1847s.Census
The 1840 St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, US Federal Census shows the Hickmans Sladen household as:2 males <5
1 male 30-40
1 female <5
1 female 30-40
Hickmond and his wife Caroline moved to Texas from Louisiana about 1840.
Endnotes
1. 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Record Type: Microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..
2. Jimmie F. Chatham, "Marion County, Texas, Biographies (More Interesting Pages)," Family History, USGenWeb, UsGenWebsites (www.usgenwebsites.org : Accessed 18 August 2019), Hickmond Slayton; Jimmie F. Chatham-Texaslegacy.org
3. 1830 U.S. Federal Census, Record Type: Microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..
4. Jimmie F. Chatham, "Marion County, Texas, Biographies (More Interesting Pages)," Family History, USGenWeb, UsGenWebsites (www.usgenwebsites.org : Accessed 18 August 2019), Hickmond Slayton; Jimmie F. Chatham-Texaslegacy.org
5. Jimmie F. Chatham, "Marion County, Texas, Biographies (More Interesting Pages)," Family History, USGenWeb, UsGenWebsites (www.usgenwebsites.org : Accessed 18 August 2019), Slayton, Augusta Catherine ; Jimmie F. Chatham-Texaslegacy.org
6. Jimmie F. Chatham, "Marion County, Texas, Biographies (More Interesting Pages)," Family History, USGenWeb, UsGenWebsites (www.usgenwebsites.org : Accessed 18 August 2019), Hickmond Slayton; Jimmie F. Chatham-Texaslegacy.org
7. 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Record Type: Microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..
8. Jimmie F. Chatham, "Marion County, Texas, Biographies (More Interesting Pages)," Family History, USGenWeb, UsGenWebsites (www.usgenwebsites.org : Accessed 11 August 2019); Jimmie F. Chatham-Texaslegacy.org