This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks, Henry Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8434 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 03 April 1899, p.7 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Hicks Will Recover Waco, Tex., 2 April – Hon. R. L. Henry, representative of the seventh congressional district, is advised from the war department that Mr. Hicks, a gallant young soldier of Milam county, who was wounded on one of the recent battles on the island of Luzon, will recover. Mr. Hicks is a brother of Mr. R. H. Hicks, a prominent citizen of Rockdale. He is one of many young Texans who have shed their blood for the honor of the flag of their country in the war to suppress the operations of Aguinaldo and his Tagals. = = = = NOTE: This would be the Spanish American War