Person:William Hicks (9)

All information from Norman Zezula

M. Harriet Baxter. Will probated 3 Apr 1852.

!BIRTH: Surmised from 1820-1840 census records (Clermont Co.) and comparison with the other children in the family.

!MARRIAGE: Orville Jones Notes; will; 1880 census (Ohio twp., Cler., Ohio

   [Tate No. 220])  He may have previously married Joanna West. (Mrs. Joanna Hicks, 42 + John Swick, 62 on 14 Apr 1872--Cler. Co., Ohio mar rec. (v 11, p 426). If this is the same Joanna West, she obviously survived William Hicks; thus was not married to our William Hicks, whose wife at death was Harriet.)

!DEATH: Will probate date (Campbell Co., Ky.)

WILL: Will probated first in Campbell Co., Ky., and then a certified copy

     probated in Clermont Co., Ohio. (Book G, P 31; 1852, Cler. Co.) Will
     was probated in Ohio on 3 Apr 1852.  The will states:
         I, William Hicks, do hereby convey the right, title, and free use
         of all my property to my wife Harriet Hicks to have and to hold and
         to make use of the same so long as she remains my widow.  In case
         she marries, it is my will that she shall retain one-third part
         after my just debts are paid; the two-thirds shall be devoted to
         the use of my children.  It is my will that the business existing
         under the firm of Hicks & McRay and Co. shall continue so long as
         the said company shall deem it safe and profitable.  Made this
         3 Sep 1850.

XCENSUS--1850:

CENSUS--1860: Batavia, Clermont, Ohio (0 657)

                  Harriet     HICKS  38  F        1500  2160  b. OH
                  James Walter       15  M                       OH
                  William A.         14  M                       OH
                  Lewis              11  M                       OH

XCENSUS--1870:

CENSUS--1880: shows William, an attorney, living with his mother, Harriet

            Hicks.  (He was age 34, father born in N.C.).  The 1850 census
            shows William  and Lewis living with Harriet Hicks In Batavia,
            Cler., Ohio (p. 14; ages different -- William, 28, Lewis, 20)
            Orville Jones Notes give the children as: William, Louis, Ruth,
            and Alfred.  (The firm mentioned in the will may be a law firm.)

XCENSUS--1900:

NOTE: This may be the wrong William HICKS. Orville Jones (1984) now thinks

    that the correct William went to Dublin Indiana, (near Richmond).
    Orville thinks that the above ("wrong"?) William is one of the Brown Co.
    Hicks'.  In that case, the "correct William may have been the one who
    married Joanna WEST. (md. 3 Mar 1846--Cler. Co., Mar. rec.)(v_____p__)
    also a poss. mar. to Elizabeth Judd, 1 Sep 1854; he a wid., 39, she 18)
    Cler. Co. mar. rec. (v 6, p 175)