William Jackson Hicks (1827 - 1911)

Born 18 Feb 1827 in Spotsylvania, Virginia

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Died 14 Jan 1911 at age 83 in Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, United States

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Often known as 'Colonel'. Father of John Martin Wilton Hicks; William Bowes Hicks; Mary L Hicks; Elizabeth W Wyatt; Charles Howard Hicks; James Hicks; Bertha M Hicks; Julia F. Buffaloe and Fanny R Hicks

Brother of Elizabeth Jane Davis; Francis Hicks; Madison L Hicks; Manassa Manasseth Nass Hicks; Alfred Carl Hicks; James Hicks; John Hicks; Fulton Hicks; Robert Hicks; Sarah Ann Briant and Mary Ann Lawson

"After the war Hicks entered the resin business and then returned to carpentry. In 1869 the state appointed him assistant architect and superintendent of construction of the new penitentiary near Raleigh, and in 1877 he was named architect and warden, a position he held for twenty-five years. Other buildings built by Hicks were the governor's mansion and the old Supreme Court and State Library buildings. After the penitentiary was completed, he eventually resigned his post there and entered into partnership with a Mr. Ellington of Raleigh. In 1898 he moved to Oxford to become superintendent of the Oxford Orphanage Asylum. However, he continued his ties with Raleigh, helping to establish the Raleigh Savings Bank of which he was a director for some years. He also was a member of the Agricultural Society and president of the North Carolina Building and Supply Company at Oxford." Source: http://ncpedia.org/biography/hicks-william-jackson

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• 1870 Census: "1870 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1870; Census Place: Raleigh Middle Ward, Wake, North Carolina; Roll: M593_1162; Page: 258A
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 7163 #23007130 (accessed 26 September 2022)
  William Hicks (42), Carpenter, in Raleigh Middle Ward, Wake, North Carolina. Born in Virginia.