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David Hicks Jr (1756 - 1834)

Sgt David Hicks Jr
Born in Caswell County, North Carolinamap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , and
Husband of — married 1787 in Henrico, Virginia, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Father of and
Died at about age 78 in White Hall, Greene County, Illinois, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Sergeant David Hicks Jr served with Clark's Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Troops during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
David Hicks Jr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A055001.

David Hicks was born around 1756 in North Carolina.[1] He was a son of David Aaron Hicks Sr. and Sarah Elizabeth (Dennis) Hicks[2]

During the American Revolution, he enlisted on 25 Feb 1779 and served as a Sergeant under Captain Robert Todd, in Colonel George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment.[1][3] He is recognized on the Illinois Roll of Honor as a solder who served with Crockett's Regiment during the Revolutionary War and was buried at Greene, Illinois.[4]

Around 1787, he married Nancy Thomas, at Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico County, Virginia.[1][2] Here are some of the children of David and Nandy Hicks:[1]

  • Vines, m. Betsey Tunnell
  • Barbara Ann, m. Joel Gilmore Jennings

David Hicks passed away around 1840 at White Hall, Green County, Illinois.[1][5] A second memorial displays the original gravestone before placement of a modern gravestone.[6][7]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 5 Nov 2023), "Record of David Hicks", Ancestor # A055001.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 FamilySearch LHF4-BT1
  3. ↑ Service Record of David Hicks
  4. ↑ Ancestry Record 9759 #29452 David Hicks in the Web: Illinois, U.S., Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995
  5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #44903827 Sgt David Hicks Jr.
  6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #20900471 David Aaron Hicks Jr.
  7. ↑ "Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-MMWL : 10 September 2019), David Hicks, ; citing Burial, White Hall, Greene, Illinois, United States, Hicks Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,191.

Acknowledgements

  • Hicks-8851 was created by Dona Hutchinson through the import of DES GedCom.ged on Apr 28, 2017.




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