This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cei.2ACEB/3636.1 Message Board Post: Fran, my gr gr grandfather, WILLIAM HICKS, skipped out of the Trail of Tears as it crossed Missouri and worked "at the mill" in Morgan County, MO. He had sons: James, John and Joseph. George Hicks