County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 376-377. LAWSON B. HICKMAN, M. D., was born near Athens, in Fayette County, Ky., June 1, 1818, and there grew to man's estate, meantime receiving the advantages of a liberal education, chiefly obtained in the Morrison College in Lexington. Having decided to pursue the studia of "materia medica," he entered the Medical Department of Transylvania College, from which he graduated in 1837, going the same year near Vicksburg, Miss., where he opened a general practice, remaining about four years. He then located in Todd County, Ky., where for about thirty years he pursued an extensive and successful practice. His practice in Hopkinsville dates from 1870, making altogether an unbroken practice of over forty-seven years, and he is still actively engaged. He was married in Todd County, in 1843, to George Ann Baylor, daughter of Tucker and Barbara Baylor, of Todd County, members of one of the oldest families in Kentucky. Their family consists of Ellen, widow of Dr. Bass, of Todd County; Jammie, wife of J. P. Thompson, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Lucy B., wife of M. L. Flack, of Hopkinsville; William L., of St. Louis; Mary G., wife of William P. Gray, of St. Louis; Mattie Hickman and Baylor Hickman. Dr. Hickman is a member of the Masonic order and I. O. O. F. Hickman Baylor Bass Thompson Flack Gray = Athens-Fayette-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY MS Todd-KY OH St._Lewis- St._Lewis-MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/christian/hickman.lb.txt