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/YMB.2ACI/59.1 Message Board Post: My GG Grand-father , William Hardin Hickman, came to Ceder County on Clear Creek just before the "War of Northern Aggression" from the Mount Pilot, North Carolina area. He had two sons who merchants in the Sheldon (Vernon) County Missouri area.