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/RgB.2ACE/633 Message Board Post: Hicks/Hale Family of Monroe & Marion County, TN Certificate of Death # 5904 (hand written), # 7165(stamped) (There are two numbers on this certificate -shown above) State of Tennessee Name: ROBERT WALKER HICKS Date of Death: March 21 1940 Place of Death: Marion County Whiteside, Tennessee 3rd Civil District Race: White; Sex: Male; Married Age: 73 years 11 months 6days Date of Birth: April 15, 1866 Place of Birth : MONROE , TENNESSEE Wife: Lou Hicks (maiden name Hilliard) Father: Unknown Mother: MARGARETT HICKS Birthplace of Mother : MONROE, TENNESSEE Physician: Dr. Morgan J.Avery Bryan Funeral Home , Chattanooga, TN in charge of services Burial in Ladd's Cemetery, Marion County, Tennessee Obituary* ADAM HICKS Age 81 at Vonore, died at 1:25 AM Tuesday in the Sweetwater Hospital. Survivors: 3 sons : Lawrence E. Hicks, Rossville, Georgia Adam Hicks, Jr., Maryland Houston Hicks , Maryland 3 daughter: Mary Ruth Baker, Maryland Velma Bozeman, Maryland Lorene 2 sisters: Mrs. Mary Ruth Mills , Whiteside, Tennessee Mrs. Ollie Hall, Bear Creek, Alabama 2 brothers John Hicks , Clinton, Tennessee The body is at Kyker funeral Home, Madisonville, (Tennessee). Funeral Services 2 P.M. Thursday at Kyker Chapel, Rev. Ralph Milsaps officiating. Interment Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Lee Hicks, Oxnard, California 2-2-78 ******************* Adam J. Hicks* Born: 06-03-1896 Monroe, Tennessee Died: 01-31-1978 Father: Robert Hicks Mother: Lou Hilliard Spouse: Effie Eliza Willard *Source of above information on Adam Hicks received from: Dede Harrell, Monroe County, Tennessee Obituary Index 1946-2004 Hicks, Adam V-164 http://www.tngennet.org/monroe/monobit2/f-k.txt ********************** ROBERT WALKER HICKS was married 3 October 1886 (1) AMANDA HALE in Marion County, TN they had a son, Daniel Hale Hicks who is my husbands Grandfather.Amanda died and he married (2)Louverna (Lou) Hilliard. Adam Hicks whose obit is shown above is the son of Robert Walker Hicks and Lou Hilliard. I am seeking any information on any/all of the above Hicks/Hale Family members. I would especially like to find the parents of Amanda Hale and Robert Walker Hicks, including maiden names of mothers . Robert Walker Hicks was called Walker Bear Hicks. I will be glad to share information with anyone researching these families. Thanks, Louise Carver Howard