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Donated by:  Susan DAVIS

This is taken from a July 8, 1908 Augusta Chronicle Newspaper
121 district, Richmond County

White schools

According to the August 21, 1822 edition of  the Augusta Chronicle & Georgia
Gazette, “Miss F. D. Hicks” was to open a school on January 1, 1823 at Mt.
Airy on the Milledgeville Road, fourteen miles above Augusta.”  I suspect this
is probably "Francis D. Hicks" who in the March 22, 1822 edition of that
same newspaper is listed as one of the people who has a letter remaining at
the at the post office.

For a variety of reasons, I believe this Francis D. Hicks is related to my
g.g.g.grandfather, Thomas Hicks, but have not been able to find any information
re her ancestry. She is probably the same Francis D. Hicks who married
John M. Tatom:
 

DEATH AND OBITUARY NOTICES FROM THE SOUTHERN
CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1867-1878
Issue of July 17, 1868
Mr. John M. Tatom, son of Isaac and James  [sic; Mary Jane Stinson]
Tatom, was born in Lincoln Co., Ga., on 30th Nov 1804, removed to
Monroe co. and married Miss Francis D. Hicks in 1827, from thence
removed to Upson, then to Troup co., then to Union co., Arkansas, where
he died of typhoid pneumonia in peace on 4th May 1868. His wife still survives
him... Abel Tatom [Abel was the brother of John].

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