When William Pickens was born on 18 December 1817, in Belmont, Ohio, United States, his father, Thomas Pickens, was 25 and his mother, Agnes Nancy Reed, was 27. He married Elenor VanDyke on 16 March 1841, in Hancock, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Pleasant Township, Hancock, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. He died on 12 April 1899, in Boston Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Saranac, Boston Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States.
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Scottish and Irish: variant of Picken .
Possibly also an altered form of French Picon .
History: General Andrew Pickens (1739–1817) of the American Revolution was a great grandson of Robert (Andrew) Pickens alias Robert (André) Picon, reportedly a Huguenot who in 1685 left France to avoid religious persecution and settled briefly in Scotland and finally in Northern Ireland. The name of this ancestor is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors, where he is said to have been born in France to André Picon, while some other sources claim he was a Scotsman who, having married a French Huguenot woman, lived in France until 1685.
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