Hicks Ancestors - Generation 3 - Ishmael, Timothy, and John Ransom Hicks

John Henry and Malisa Burns Hicks had 9 children -- Ishmael, Timothy, David, Pinkney ("Uncle Pink" is the only thing I ever heard him called), Nancy ("Nannie"), Ransom, Charlotte ("Tot"), Felix, and Ulysses ("Ulys").

Three of the children died in childhood -- Ishmael, Timothy, and John Ransom. I don't know anything more about them. John Ransom is mentioned in the 1880 census, age 4, and that is the only documentation I have been able to find for any of these three children.

So I think right here is a good place to post the rest of what my great-grandmother wrote about this family (some of it was posted yesterday, so I'll just post the rest of it today) --

Nannie’s husband (George) lost his mind and had to go to an institution and died there (1952).  He had practically lost his mind from old age when he left Nannie and went to live with his sister and family.  In a year or so they sent him to the institution.  He lived a year or so and died in the institution in Tennessee.  Nannie and her youngest daughter lives together.  Nannie is 83 and in a wheel chair.  She fell three or four years ago and broke her hip.  That was about 1954.  Nannie went to a T.B. sanitorium in about the year 1919.  She stayed a few months and got it arrested, but she never worked any more.  That is why she has lived to be 83 years old.  

Ulys' Grandmother's maiden name was Black (on his Father’s side).  Ulys’ Grandmother on his mother’s side separated from her husband in their old age.  That apparently was a custom. The most of Charlotte’s (Tot - Ulys’ sister) children died in babyhood, but two of them lived to be grown.  But one (Tom) died at the age of about 30 years.  He lost his mind, I suppose from a lick on the head.  He fell from upstairs straight down and hit the floor with his head in babyhood.  Then after he was 25 years old someone hit him on the head and left him for dead and someone else found him in a corn field, unconscious.  So all that, I guess, injured his mind and caused a blood clot on his brain or something, maybe a tumor.  Anyway, he died in the asylum in Little Rock, Arkansas in about the year 1947.  His older brother (Earl) is still living now, 1957, in Ohio.   

-- Annie Arnold Hicks, 1957

PHOTO: Ulysses and Annie Hicks

Here are pictures of the people she mentioned --

PHOTO: George and Nannie Hicks Sandefur with some of their grandchildren

PHOTO: Charlotte Hicks ("Aunt Tot")

PHOTO: Tom Williams (Aunt Tot's son)