On these pages, I've included census information, obituaries, land, and cemetery information for my Hicks family and the related families of Wright, Hinton, Thompson, Linthicum, Hensley, Jarrett and Skaggs.

Information on these pages also includes other non-related Hicks folks, as well as non-Hicks surnames who were in the same place at the same time as my family. For further non-Hicks Jasper County, Illinois and Coles County, Illinois research, visit my Illinois Trails websites. To review my ggg-gf Ellis Hicks' family available information, click here.

Much of the information you find here was used in my own personal research and these are excerpts and abstracts.  

Property Tax Lists

• Virginia & West VA Hickses in 1787

• VA/West VA Hicks Tax Records/Court Records, Wills/Inventories, etc

• 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 Greenbrier County, WV Tax Lists for Hicks & miscellaneous surrounding surnames

• Kanawha Co., WV Tax Lists for Hicks surname and surrounding surnames beginning with "H" (a few G's and J's are included):

  1796	1801	1802	1806	1807	1809
  1810	1811	1812	1813	1814	1815
  1816	1817	1818	1819	1820	1821

• Georgia Hickses - Various records (tax lists, wills, guardianships)

Virginia/West VA Hicks Land Grants

Bracken County, KY Land Grants - No Hicks Kentucky Northern Neck Grants & Surveys

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales for Hix Surname War of 1812 Bounty Land Grants in the Illinois Military Tract

Jasper County, Illinois - Grove Township (My Hicks family and surrounding neighbors)




Biographical Info. on some VA/West VA Hicks Folks	Hicks in early Augusta County, VA Hicks in early Botetourt County, VA
Indian Attacks in the New River Settlement in which Hicks were involved	Early Illinois Settlers (Hicks and many other surnames)
"List of Patrons" of the Bracken County, KY 1884 Atlas (No Hickses). Lists names, acreage owned, town, occupation, place of birth and date settled in Bracken county.
Miscellaneous records for Hicks/Hix Folks in Coles or Jasper County, IL	Early Forts (includes Kentucky Hickses)



Hicks Men in the Virginia Colonial Militia (1651-1776)
Revolutionary War Information Virginia: Hicks men who served in VA Regiments Hicks men filing Public Service Claims for Revolutionary War Services Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Mordecai Hicks Information (my line) Hicks Soldiers Fighting in Dunsmore's War Hicks Casualities of the Revolutionary War	War of 1812 Data Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls for the Hicks Surname Index to War of 1812 Service Record for Hicks Volunteer Soldiers from Georgia Preston County, W. V. - War of 1812 Soldiers (2 Hickses & other surnames) HICKS/HIX War of 1812 Pensioners War of 1812 Bounty Land Grants in the Illinois Military Tract
Pension Lists - Hickses Listed in government publications and other books as receiving pensions
Civil War Data Hicks Folks on the Virginia Confederate Pension Rolls & some Hicks Confederate Veterans mentioned in the "Confederate Veterans Magazine" Hicks Union Soldiers from West Virginia Hicks Soldiers in the Civil War - Various States Summers County, WV - Soldiers from Civil War (Confed & Union) & Spanish-American. List of miscellaneous surnames, including Hicks	Spanish-American War Data Illinois Hicks Veterans

Ellis Hicks' Family Information Background on my ggg-gf Ellis Hicks: Ellis, for some unknown reason, thought that he was born in Georgia around 1794.  All indications are that he was born in West Virginia.  However, I've found too many documents that say Georgia on them to ignore the possibility. He definitely died in Jasper County, Illinois in 1866 and is buried in Kern's Cemetery, next to his wife Mary Ann Story. I WAS pretty sure that Ellis Hicks was the son of William and Hannah (Garrad/Jarrett) Hicks who were married in Greenbrier County, West Virginia in 1783.  I have absolutely no written proof of that (the birth part - not the marriage part). I am now leaning toward the possibility that William and Hannah were NOT Ellis' parents because of the Georgia birthplace problem and the fact that William and Hannah seemed pretty much planted in Greenbrier/Kanawha, West Virginia. The travellings of Richard Hicks and his wife Jane Skaggs would seem to make them much more likely to be Ellis' father. Richard is known to have been to at least Kentucky in the early 1800's before making his way back to West Virginia. The fact that Ellis did not name any of his children Richard or Jane, but did name 2 of his children after William and Hannah Hicks says something - I'm just not sure what! Did they have infants who perhaps died early on that they named Richard and/or Jane? Just another mystery to add to the collection. Background & Family of Ellis Hicks Descendants of Ellis Hicks Brickwalls and Unanswered Questions about Ellis' Kids Family Photos Obituaries for my Hicks Family.... Jasper County Land Deed Entry Book for Ellis Jasper County Property Tax Lists for Ellis Hicks and neighbors: 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 Sisters for Ellis? Correspondence from my Jasper County Hicks Relatives Related Families Data: Strole Family Pictures Elston Wright's Pension Papers (Lucinda Hicks' husband) Greenbrier County, WV Land Deed for Richard Hicks

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