HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H.
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern 
Historical press, Easley, SC, 1979. Page 764.  

A. C. HICKS, farmer, is a native of Kentucky, born in Fayette
County, the year 1827.

He traces his descent back through two generations of Virginians, his 
grandfather Thomas, and his father, Beverly Hicks, having both been born
in the "Old Dominion."

Beverly Hicks, while yet a mere lad, served under Gen. Scott in the Virginia 
campaign of the war with Great Britain in the early part of the present 
century.

At the age of twenty-one years, he came to Kentucky, and located in Fayette 
County, where he taught school for forty-two years, and, after a life of 
useful service in his day and generation, died in the year 1877.

His son received the advantages of a liberal education and intelligent 
training in youth, such as have enabled him to make his own way in life.

He is now the owner of forty acres of fine blue grass land within six miles 
of Lexington and having ready communication with the city by the Bryant road.

For fifteen years he served as Deputy Assessor for Fayette, and received 
the public commendation of the Tax Supervisors for having been the best 
assessment officer the county ever had.

He is a Democrat, member of the Christian Church and a Mason.

He has four children - Lee, seventeen; Kate, thirteen; Eveline, eleven, 
and Minnie, seven years of age.

Their mother is Martha, daughter of James and Louisa (White) Ewing, of 
Fayette County, who became Mrs. Hicks in 1854.

She and a twin sister, Mary, were the only children of their parents.

Her father came from Virginia with his parents, when only seven years of 
age, so was brought up on a  Kentucky farm, and educated in Kentucky schools.

He was among the first to volunteer his services to his country in 1812; 
endured the hardships and disappointments, and shared the successes and 
glories of the Northwestern campaign; returned to Lexington to start out 
at once with the force under Gen. Thomas, for New Orleans, where he 
arrived in time to take part in that battle, January 8, 1815, which broke 
the power of Britain on the Gulf, and made the names of Gen. Andrew Jackson 
and his unflinching followers glow with undying luster on the pages of 
American history.

Mr. Ewing suffered with his companions on the homeward march in the spring, 
and, like all his compatriots, rejoiced that the war was over.

He was, besides a soldier, a pioneer boatman on the Ohio and Mississippi 
Rivers, and is known to have made twenty-one trips between Clay's Ferry 
and New Orleans with a laden boat, returning the whole distance on foot 
each time.

Of such brave blood are sprung many of the present race of Kentuckians.

Scott White Ewing Jackson
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VA New_Orleans-LA

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