Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885,
Webster Co.

JAMES J. HICKS was born in Person County, N.C., September 2, 1820, to
William and Elizabeth (Lumsford) Hicks, both natives of North Carolina and
of English descent.  William Hicks was educated and married in his native
State, where he owned a farm upon which he resided most of his life, but
was not himself engaged in farming.  At the age of twenty-five, he began
the study of medicine and afterward practiced that profession for many
years.  Later in life, he became quite a politician, and at one time was
sheriff of Person County.  His death occurred February 19, 1849, in his
eightieth year.  He and wife were life long and devoted members of the
Primitive Baptist Church.  While he was sheriff he lost all his property in
consequence of having levied on some negro property, without taking the
property in possession, or taking a delivery bond.  James J. Hicks, the
youngest of his father's family was employed on his father's farm until he
was twenty-two years old.  He was then employed at overseeing in North
Carolina for two years, after which, in 1846, he came to Kentucky, where
he was engaged in the same business for some four years.  He then bought
a partially improved farm in Henderson (now Webster County), upon which
he resided for twenty-three years.  In 1873, he sold this place and bought
another, two miles north of Providence, where he was extensively and
successfully engaged in farming and stock raising until the fall of 1884,
when he sold out and removed to Providence.  He was married, November 10,
1842, to Miss Anna Peed, a native of Person County, N.C.  Ten children
were the fruit of this union, of whom three sons and three daughters are
living.  Mrs. Hicks is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Mr. Hicks belongs to no church, and in politics, is a Democrat.

Hicks Lumsford Peed
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Person-NC Henderson

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