When Hannah Hicks was born on 27 July 1785, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Richard Hicks, was 35 and her mother, Diana Hall, was 16. She married Noah Thomas Kelly on 8 July 1806, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Montgomery, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 9 March 1875, in Irving, Montgomery, Illinois, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Bald Hill Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States.