When Joel Ray Hicks was born on 2 February 1863, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, Reverend Joel William Hicks, was 30 and his mother, Charity Jaynes, was 31. He married Mary Adline Letsinger on 29 July 1881, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Tunstall District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States in 1920 and Leaksville, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1930. He died on 9 July 1941, in Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hampshire, Maury, Tennessee, United States.
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Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
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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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