Margaret (Hicklin) Sargent (abt. 1801 - abt. 1863)

Born about 28 Feb 1801 in Kentucky, United States

Wife of Francis L. Mead — married 1838 in Louisiana

Descendants

Died about 12 May 1863 at about age 62 in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

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Biography

Margaret was born in 1801. She first married Philippe M Sargeant with whom she had at least one child, Ellen Rebecca Sargeant. There is a record of a marriage between Phillip M. Sargent and Margaret Hicklin in Ralls Missouri, Jan. 13, 1822. Philippe died in 1836 and she then married Francis L. Mead of New Haven, Connecticut prior to 1845. According to the book HARD SCRABBLE TO HALLELUJAH: Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, "[Francis L.] Mead's first wife, Margaret Hicklin, had been married to Mead's employer Philippe M. Sargeant (died 1836)". Margaret is buried at Halfway Cemetery, Gray, Terrebonne Parish, LA. Findagrave.com has Margaret Hicklin, wife of Francis L. Mead, buried Halfway Cemetery, Gray, Terrebonne Parish, LA.

Margaret may have been the daughter of Captain Thomas Hicklin, b 1753, Augusta County, VA, D. November, 1804 in Franklin County, VA.; and Rebecca Graham, b. 1762, Bullpasture, Augusta VA, d. 1814, Franklin, KY. '

Sources

• According to Rootsweb.Ancestry.com, "South LA Records by Hebert vol. 4, p 334, Margaret's child Ellen R. Sargent married Charles Armitage;
• Petition for Probate of Will dated June 19, 1863., Houma (Terrebonne Parish) court House, Succ # 456."
• Family History Notes of Kathleen VanHoose Snow, great great granddaughter of Margaret Hicklin Sargent.
• book "HARD SCRABBLE TO HALLELUJAH: Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Volume 1, Bayou Terrebonne", by Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S., Copyright 2016 by JPC, LLC.
• www.files.usgwarchives.net/la/terrebonne
• Find A Grave: Memorial #19734640
• "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920," index, FamilySearch.

Footnotes

Research Notes

I have a DNA match with a distant cousin who has Hicklin in her names. One, Thomas Hicklin, born 1769?, died, 1829, Ralls, MO. This could be Margaret's father.

Acknowledgments

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