This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Cei.2ACEB/3629 Message Board Post: George W. Hicks, farmer, section 16, Buel Township, was born March 3, 1898, in Brownville, Jefferson Co., N. Y. His father, Daniel Hicks, was bon May 18, 1794, in Saratoga Co., N. Y., and was of mixed English and Scotch decent. He died in 1879, in Charlevoix Co., Mich., where the mother, Elizabeth Ann (Reynolds) Hicks, is still living. She is of Holland Dutch and Danish descent. Mr. Hicks was bred to the occupation of a farmer, and was under the direction of his father during his minority. On becoming "his own man" he bought a farm of 260 acres, in company with his brother, in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Two years later the association was dissolved, and he came to Calhoun Co., Mich., where he passed two years working a farm on shares. In 1869 he went to Woodland, Barry Co., Mich., and rented a farm on which he lived two years. He went thence to Nashville, where he remained two years, engaged in blacksmithing. The following year he went upon a farm in Olivet. His next remove was to Sanilac County, and he settled in Buel Township, March 28, 1874, where be bought 40 acres of land. He has since purchased 40 acres more, and has cleared 25 acres. He enlisted Aug. 28, 1861, in Co. D, 16th N. Y. Inf., and his regiment was assigned to Brooks' Division of Bartlett's Brigade, Sixth Army Corps, under Gen. Sedgwick. Among other engagements, he participa! ted in the fight of Gaines' Mill, the Seven Days' Fight before Richmond, at Antietam, Fredericksburg (first and second), under Burnside, and at Chancellorsville under Gen. Hooker. His regiment was mustered out just after the last named battle, in 1864. He re-enlisted in the First N. Y. Light Artillery, Battery C, and served until the close of the war. He was mustered out the second time June 22, 1865. The first marriage of Mr. Hicks occurred Aug. 24, 1860, when Amanda M. Downing became his wife. She was born April 25, 1840, and died Jan. 5, 1866, leaving two children, --- George A., born March 13, 1862, in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and Alfonso Lamartine, born March 1, 1864, in the same place. Mr. Hicks was a second time married, Dec. 28, 1867, to Julia A., daughter of William and Laura (Ellis) Kinne. The father was born Jan. 26, 1801, and died March 25, 1875, in St. Lawrence County. The mother was born Sept. 25, 1805, and died Dec. 17, 1871. One child, Charles Augustus, was born of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, Aug. 31, 1873, in Woodland, Barry Co., Mich. The parents are members of the Christian Church at Nashville. Mr. Hicks is a member of the National Greenback party, and has been School Inspector. He has served four years as Justice of the Peace. ---- Portrait and Biographical Album of Sanilac County, Chapman Brothers, 1884, Chicago, Pg 256