William HICKS, REV.

                   FROM GEORGE E. GEISLER - " THIS GEORGE HICKS IS MENTIONED AS HAVING BEEN ACTIVE IN OPPOSING THE CHEROKEE REMOVAL (TRAIL OF TEARS) ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER ELIJAH." - SEE ELIJAH RIN #2230.
FROM THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" - "...SETTLED THREE MILES SOUTHEAST OF UNION, NOW BLUFF CITY, TENN., WHEN THAT ENTIRE SECTION WAS DENSE FOREST. ...MUCH GAME AT THAT TIME AND UNCLE HENRY GEISLER TOLD ME GREAT GRANDFATHER GEORGE WAS A FINE 'SHOT' "
                  

                   FROM GEORGE E. GEISLER - "RECORDS OF THE PROCEEDINGS THAT LED TO THE CHEROKEE REMOVAL HAS AN ELIJAH HICKS PLAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ATTEMPTING TO PREVENT THE US GOVT. FROM GOING AHEAD.  ELIJAH'S PART SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN IN THWARTING THE CHEROKEES WHO WERE FAVORABLE TO THE PROPOSAL. (JOURNAL OF CHEROKEE STUDIES). ... THIS ELIJAH HICKS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ELIJAH THAT WAS ACTIVE IN OPPOSING ANDREW JACKSON AND THE CHEROKEES WHO WERE CARRYING OUT THE CHEROKEE REMOVAL IN 1834-6.  PAUL G. HICKS OF KNOXVILLE SAYS THAT HE HAS ESTABLISHED THIS TO BE A FACT.  THIS WOULD MAKE THIS HICKS FAMILY PART CHEROKEE."

FROM THE "HICKS FAMILLY RECORDS" - "ELIGA WAS A VERY STRONG MAN, PHYSICALLY SPEAKING."
                  

                   BIRTH/DEATH/MARRIAGE FROM NEWSPAPER OBITUARY (NEWSPAPER UNKNOWN) WHICH ALSO LISTS HER HUSBAND'S NAME AS JETER FRANSLER.
                  

                   BIRTH/PLACE FROM PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR WHO CALLS HIM "REV." AND STATES THAT HE DIED AT BLUFF CITY, AND PRESENTS HIS MARRIAGE INFORMATION.  HIS NAME AND MARRIAGE ARE STATED IN THE "HICKS FAMILY
RECORDS"  KAREN SHERMAN'S BOOK ON SULLIVAN CEMETERIES LISTS HIS BIRTH AS 20 MAY FROM HIS TOMBSTONE.
FROM P.G. HICKS " ALL THREE OF THE WILLIAM HICKSES...RESIDED AT THE HICKS SCHOOL AND MISSION IN A CHOATIAN VILLAGE NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF DRY BRANCH AND HOLSTON RIVER WHEN THE 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS WAS TAKEN."

FROM THE PAPERS OF OTTALEE WINEGAR -
WILLIAM, BROTHER OF BETSY, WAS AN ORDAINED METHODIST MINISTER.
      R.N. PRINCE, HOLSTON METHODISM, VOL. V, METH. PUB. HOUSE 265 FF 1913
      DIED AT HIS HOME IN BLUFF CITY, TN.  IN 1882.
      "BORN AGAIN" AT ROCKHOLD'S CAMPGROUND AND APPOINTED A CLASS LEADER BY ROBERTSON GANNAWAY.  HE WAS ADMITTED TO HOLSTON CONFERENCE IN 1833.  HE DID CIRCUIT WORK UNTIL 1844.  HE WAS THE PRESIDING ELDER OF THE WYTHEVILLE DISTRICT, AND ALSO OF THE ASHEVILLE AND ROGERSVILLE DISTRICTS.  IN 1853 HE EDITED THE "HERALD OF TRUTH," A RELIGIOUS PAPER, IN ANDERSONVILLE, N.C. 1855-56, ASHEVILLE DISTRICT
1857-60, PRESIDENT, RICHLAND INSTITUTE, HAYWOOD CO., N.C.
1861-62, CHAPLAIN, CONFEDERATE ARMY
1862-63, LOCAL
1863-67, MISSION AND CIRCUIT WORK
1868-71, JONESBORO DISTRICT, RESIGNED AFTER 6 MONTHS BECAUSE OF ILLNESS HE ESTABLISHED A RELIGIOUS PAPER AT SEDDON, BLAND COUNTY, VA "HOLSTON ADVOCATE" SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, BLAND CO.
AFTER A FEW YEARS THE ADVOCATE MERGED WITH HOLSTON PUBLISHING CO. AND HE BECAME ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF "HOLSTON METHODIST."
HE ALSO EDITED THE BLAND COUNTY "GAZETTE"
1879, HE SERVED THE UNION CIRCUIT WHICH EMBRACED THE HOME OF HIS CHILDHOOD. 1880-81 SUPERANNUATE
HE WAS ELECTED TO THE N.C. STATE CONVENTION AT TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR HIS SON, WILLIAM WARD HICKS, B. 11 MAY 1849 IN WASHINGTON CO., VA. NEAR EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE D. OCT OR NOV 1922, BURIED WALNUT GROVE CEM., BLUEFIELD,VIRGINIA.

THE EARLY HISTORY OF HAYWOOD CO. W. CLARK MEDFORD 1961 -
       REV. WILLIAM HICKS, METHODIST MINISTER AND TEACHER AT TUSCOLA INSTITUTE, HAD BEEN A STRONG UNION MAN, BUT HE NOW BECAME EQUALLY STRONG FOR SECESSION.
HE WAS HAYWOOD'S ABLE DELEGATE TO THE SECESSIONIST CONVENTION, AND AS SUCH HE NOT ONLY, 'RAISED HIS ELEQUENT VOICE ON BEHALF OF SECESSION,' BUT VOTED FOR IT AS WELL.
FROM HOLSTON PASTFINDER -SULLIVAN CO. TN WILL BOOK 1 BY SHELBY I. EDWARDS P. 376 WILL OF WILLIAM HICKS  12 DEC. 1881.  PRVN 3 JULY 1882
       WIFE, ELIZABETH MARGARET, & CHILDREN, MY 3 SONS...ALL ESTATE REAL & PERSONAL...SINGLE DAU: LIZZIE LEONA.  SINGLE SON: GEORGE P. TO DAU: MARGARET J. MILLS, WIFE OF ED A. MILLS (BECAUSE SHE IS MOST NEEDY) 25 A. OF FARM PURCHASED OF JOS. A. WORLEY ON UPPER EAST END THEREOF ADJ. THE WASSUM & MORRELL FARMS TO WHICH GIFTS 4 A. 1 ROOD & SOME FEW POLES ARE ADDED PURCHASED OF ME BY HER HUSBAND...THE LAND NOT TO EXCEED 29 A. 1 ROOD & 24 POLES...TO HAVE THE HOUSE IN WHICH SHE NOW LIVES TO BE MOVED ON HER LAND. AFTER DEDUCTING THE 29 A. 1 R. 24 P. & 5 A. 1 R. 1 P. SOLD TO JACOB GRIER & ADDING 1 R. & 1P. ON THE RIVER OBTAINED FROM SAID GRIER THERE REMAINS BY RECENT SURVERY 167 A. 2 R. 17 P.
3 SONS: REV. WILLIAM WARD, JAMES WILEY & GEORGE PIERCE...EQUALLY DIVIDED...DAUS: FRANCIS C. KESNER, WIFE OF JOHN S. KESNER, MARY A. CONLEY, WIFE OF W.D. CONLEY, EMMA V. KINZER WIFE OF J. KENZER & LIZZIE L. HICKS...MY STOCK IN HOLSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY...SHOULD GEORGE P. HICKS MARRY...OR SON JAMES W. HICKS DIE WITHOUT ISSUE...SONS, WM. W., JAMES W. & GEO. P. HICKS, EXC.
WIT: B.H. RICHARDS, F.M. ALMONY           WM. HICKS (SEAL) PRVN OPEN COURT 3 JULY 1882.  A.J. COX, CLERK
                  

                   POB LISTED IN FAMILY PAPERS - SOURCE UNKNOWN.  HER NAME AND MARRIAGE ARE LISTED IN THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS"
                  

                   FROM GEORGE E. GEISLER - "OCCUPATION: FARMER.  NATHANIEL HICKS DIED IN KNOXVILLE OF TYPHOID DURING THE CIVIL WAR.  HE WAS ALSO SHERIFF OF SULLIVAN COUNTY AT ONE TIME."
FROM THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" - "NATHANIEL WAS A SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT NEAR BLUFF CITY, AND IN LATER YEARS IN THE TWON HE GATHERED A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS AND WAS THEIR CAPTAIN IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE.  HE DIED OF FEVER AT KNOXVILLE, TN IN 1863. ...HE WAS A SHERIF OF SULLIVAN COUNTY."  ALSO "THEY (THE FAMILY) MOVED BACK TO SCOTT CO., VA. AFTER THE WAR."
                  

                   FROM GEORGE E. GEISLER - "SHE IS REMEMBERED BY DR. MILLARD OF BLUFF CITY IN HIS GENEALOGY OF THE MILLARD FAMILY AS BEING A 'SHOUTING METHODIST, THE KIND THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD'"  "SEE THE OBITUARY NOTICE FOR FANNIE EMALINE HICKS HARKLEROAD, IN WHICH 'AUNT CLEMMA' PRAYED FOR THE DYING WOMAN, AND PRODUCED A VISITATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT."
DATE OF MARRIAGE FROM FAMILY PAPERS - SOURCE UNKNOWN
                  

                   BIRTH/PLACE FROM A FAMILY FILE - SOURCE UNKNOWN - WHICH ALSO LISTS HIS MARRIAGE TO SARAH.  THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" STATES - "HENRY WENT WEST IN 1846 AND SETTLED IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS."
                  

                   THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" LISTS HER MARRIAGE TO "THOMAS OR JOHN FORD"
                  

                   FROM THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS" - "RUSSELL WAS SUFFOCATED WHILE CLEANING THE FLUE OF AN IRON FURNACE."
                  

                   CALLED POLLIE
                  

                   CALLED SALLIE.  MARRIAGE FROM THE "HICKS FAMILY RECORDS."