Brief Life History of Solomon
When Solomon Hicks was born in March 1851, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Smith Hicks, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Ann Martin, was 25. He married Susan Prince on 29 December 1870, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Magisterial District 1 Catlettsburg, Boyd, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 5 June 1918, in Scioto, Ohio, United States, at the age of 67.
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- Solomon Hicks, "United States Census, 1900"
- Solomon Hicks, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Solomon Hicks, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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