This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cei.2ACEB/3513.1 Message Board Post: The Ruben (Reuben) Hicks you found in the 1880 census of IA is one of 12 known ch. of George Amos Hicks and Elizabeth Randall. Reuben married Eady/Edy Beaman 18 May 1836 in Owen Co. IN, and had at least 3 ch. Anna, Martha, and Sarah. Much later (1888) Reuben married Mary C. Larsen. This branch of the Hicks family, along with members of the Beaman, Randall, Stevens, Haltom, and Humble families, to name a few, moved from the area of Montgomery Co. NC to Owen Co. IN in the 1820's. Other members of this Hicks line had already moved from NC to Hickman Co. TN, from where the majority of them moved on to Fayette Co. IL, except for a few who went to Carroll Co. TN.