James Caswell Hicks - Hicks

Started by Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 on Monday, November 21, 2022
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17696080/charles-renatus-hicks: accessed 04 April 2023), memorial page for Chief Charles Renatus Hicks (23 Dec 1767–20 Jan 1827), Find a Grave Memorial ID 17696080, citing Moravian Mission Cemetery, Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Evening Blues (contributor 46587085).
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I have been seeing two men named James Hicks conflated or misplaced and it will take more than just me to figure it out so I am asking here.

James Caswell Hicks is very often confused for James T Hicks and I looking for the relationship to William C. Hicks
Henry Clay Hicks is apparently a popular name in the time period and they are not yet sorted.

I am looking for proof of their parents and if there is any relationship to Chief Charles Renatus Hicks or his brother Chief William Abraham Hicks

Forgot to tag Henry Clay Hicks

Many people use THIS photo for their Thomas: https://media.geni.com/p13/a7/fd/6c/8e/5344484c0fb1c7ed/james_hicks...

Born 1808 in Virginia. At that time both Charles Renatus and William Abraham Hicks had long lived in Georgia. All of their children were born in Georgia.
Since 1808 predates the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia it is most likely he might be related to other Hicks who not Cherokee or related to Charles/William Hicks line before the marrying into the Cherokee tribe.

My DNA match has James Caswell Hicks 's father as Nathan Wolf Hicks and mother as Elsey Hicks

I did some merging a while back and ended up with Son of John Baptist Hicks and Comfort Hicks (Malone)

Do we have a list of known children?
Any proof of parents for this James?

I don’t know who the are but a quick look on Geni, there are a lot of missing siblings and children, the first thing I would do is straighten out the families buy adding all siblings and children of John Baptist Hicks.

John Baptist Hicks, spouse of Comfort Hicks (Malone) according to Family Search had 12 siblings and 11 children. John himself has 15 sources to check, I’ve not reviewed the siblings or children for their sources. I use FamilySearch as a tertiary source for leads, the documents provide the sourcing but you will find a list of known children and possibly documentation on parents including a will of the father of John B Hicks that might list all siblings.

Given the date range in the Geni profiles they may very well have documentation in the National Archives @ https://catalog.archives.gov/, you do not need to join or log in to use it.

Bluegrass messengers is not reliable

Sources are nice but is similar to FS, etc…. They have conflated many similar named folks. Thankfully Erica Howton has helped sort here and Wikitree arborists have helped disambiguate at Wikitree based on her work on them here.
I really do appreciate all the efforts but wish to point out the website is not new and has not been connected….

The comment I was referring to is no longer here

That's fine, the author was quoting marriage records. But if the info is of no use to you I won't clutter your discussion with it.

*corrected not connected

Private User thank you for your help. As a Hicks who has done online research since the 1990's when it became an option, I have been aware of that site since probably the beginning of it? I have poured over that site and been so frustrated at all the errors. I just cringe every time I see the name/URL lol
Same way that I am grateful for the records at FamilySearch, I dislike so much more about it because of the errors and unreliability of the relationships there

I DO keep thinking of revisiting it for the more recent trees and stop where they get it wrong...

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