Hicks Ancestors - Generation 4 - Ruby Dorcas Hicks

Ruby Dorcas Hicks was born 22 May 1912, in Judsonia, White County, Arkansas.

PHOTO: Ruby Hicks, 11 days old.

I guess this is where the unwritten family tradition started of taking pictures of babies when they were 11 days old. I don't know if it was on purpose or just coincidental in the beginning, but it was well established three generations later when my babies were being born. 

PHOTO: Ulys and Annie with Ruby

PHOTO: Ruby Hicks

PHOTO: Ruby (right) with cousin Tom Williams (next to Ruby) and friends Luther Sparcer and Violet Mobley. I believe this was Tom's car.

Ruby Hicks married Arvil Franklin ‘Jack’ Barnett 03 October 1926 in Judsonia, White County, Arkansas. Arvil was the son of William Calvin Barnett and Dora Quattlebaum. He was born 04 April 1906 in Romance, White County, Arkansas, and died 18 September 1992 in Searcy, White County, Arkansas.

PHOTO: Jack and Ruby

PHOTO: Jack and Ruby with Elvin Hicks (Ruby's brother)

In 1984 Jack and Ruby celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary at the annual Carter/Arnold family reunion in Floral, Arkansas

This is how I remember them. During my childhood they lived near us and worked at Friday Farms. 

Jack and Ruby had one child, a daughter, Oma Dell.

Oma Dell was born with a cleft palate. She had it surgically repaired when she was about 10 or 11 years old. 

Jack Barnett was a very tender-hearted man. One of the things I've heard in the family was this -- The reason they only had one child was because after seeing Ruby go through childbirth, he couldn't stand the thought of her having to experience that ordeal ever again. It's the same reason they waited so long before having Oma Dell's cleft palate fixed. Jack couldn't bear the idea of his little girl going through surgery.

Jack and Ruby were married 65 years. 

Ruby Dorcas Hicks Barnett died 01 January 2004, in Searcy, White County, Arkansas.

Arvil died 18 September 1992.

Jack and Ruby are buried in Quattlebaum Cemetery in White County, Arkansas