When Richard "Nitch" Hicks was born in September 1846, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Calvin Hicks, was 29 and his mother, Nancy Downs, was 24. He married Mary Elizabeth McDonald on 11 December 1874, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Civil District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 4, Fentress, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died after 1920, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Hick , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is a widespread surname in England, and is also common in southwest and southern Wales.
German: patronymic from Hick . Compare Hix .
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