From the Clarke County Historical Quarterly, Vol

From The Clarke County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 3 – Winter, 1978 (Page 1 of 2 pages)

I. The Willis Bishop Hicks Family

As stated in the Summer, 1977 Issue of Clarke County Historical Society Quarterly, Willis Bishop Hicks removed from Wake County, North Carolina to DeKalb Co., GA; later removed from DeKalb Co., GA to Clarke Co., Alabama in 1836.

The information stated below about Willis Bishop Hicks family was obtained from four sources as follows: (1) Wake County, North Carolina records, (2) Clarke County, Alabama records, (3) Clarke County, AL census records and (4) Willis Bishop Hicks family Bible records. Mrs. Annie Lee Sellers McHaney, granddaughter of Willis Bishop Hicks and wife of Grady J. McHaney, Dickenson, AL is the present owner of the Willis Bishop Hicks Bible; the Bible was given to Mrs. McHaney by here mother, Emma Delia (nee Hicks) Sellers, youngest daughter of Willis Bishop Hicks and his second wife.

Willis Bishop Hicks, son of Bishop and Catherine (nee Jeter) Hicks, was born on January 22, 1798, near Horse Creek, Newlight District, Wake Co., North Carolina. According to Wake County, N.C. records, on Nov. 26, 1821, Willis Bishop Hicks and Dorathy B. Nance acquired a marriage bond, they were married on Nov. 29, 1821, Wake Co., N.C.; Dorathy B. Nance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Nance, Sr., was born on Dec. 7, 1797, Amelia Co., Virginia.

The children of Willis Bishop Hicks and his first wife, Dorathy B. (nee Nance) Hicks are listed as follows:

1. Martha Ann Catherine Hicks was born on Sept. 17. 1822; she married Neal Kennedy on June 26, 1841. 2. Angeline Jeter Hicks was born on June 9, 1824; she married Thomas R. Kennedy on June 25, 1841. 3. William Wesley Hicks was born on Aug. 19, 1825. 4. Robert Nance Hicks was born on Aug. 23, 1826. 5. Benjamin Franklin Hicks was born on Nov. 8, 1827; he married his first cousin, Julia Ann Allen on Dec. 25, 1849. 6. Mary Calviss Hicks was born on May 27, 1829; she married Jonas “James” A. Benson on Dec. 25, 1855. 7. Nancy Talbert Hicks was born on July 30, 1831; she married George Vickers on Oct. 5, 1848. 8. James Bishop Hicks was born Feb. 27, 1833; he married Sarah E. Pressnall on Jan. 16, 1854. 9. Fabius Haywood Hicks was born Sept. 5, 1835. 10. Josiah Rux Hicks was born on Dec. 14, 1837; he married Lucinda A. Benson on Sept. 7, 1857. 11. Julia Ann Hicks was born on Oct. 2, 1840; she married James J. Haskew on April 19, 1865.