This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Cei.2ACEB/3588 Message Board Post: PIONEER PASSES --------------- William I. Hicks, a veteran of the Civil war and a pioneer of this part of Michigan, died at his home in this city Wednesday afternoon, aged nearly 76 years. He has long been an invalid and for the past four years has been blind. The immediate cause of his death was due to kidney trouble. Mr. Hicks was born in New York state and at the opening of the war enlisted in the 16th N. Y. Inft. and served for two years, being wounded in the knee. He was married 55 years ago to Miss Matilda Collins, who with seven children survive him. They came to Michigan 44 years ago and for the past 32 years have lived in Buel and Croswell. The children, Mrs. Cora Smith of Deckerville, Myron Hicks of Buel, Edgar of Croswell, Mrs. Gundar Hulverson of Buel, Chauncy of Nashville, Mich., Miss Ada at home and William of Detroit. The funeral will be held from the Saints church this afternoon at 2 o'clock, burial in the Croswell cemetery. ----- Jeffersonian, November 16, 1917