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 1820 - 1849 (~ 29 years)
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| Name |
Perry Green Hicks |
| Birth |
0___ 1820 |
(DeKalb County) Tennessee  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
 Military |
Mexican War Veteran - KIA [2] |
- Perry Green Hicks was a private in Roberts’ Company of the 1st Tennessee Mounted Militia in the Seminole [Florida] War.
He also served as a private in Ferris’ & Cherry’s companies of Lauderdale’s Battalion of Tennessee Mounted Infantry in the Cherokee war.
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| Death |
~ 1849 |
Arizona [2, 3] |
- Perry died circa 1849, in Arizona, fighting in the Mexican War.
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| Person ID |
I4816 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
1 Jul 2015 |
| Father |
William Hicks, b. ~ 1793, Commonwealth of Virginia d. 0___ 1859, Warren County, Tennessee (Age ~ 66 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah G. "Sally" Magness, b. 0Sep 1794, Rutherford County, North Carolina d. 1880-1890, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age ~ 95 years) |
| Marriage |
~1809 |
(DeKalb County, Tennessee) [2, 4, 5] |
| Residence (Family) |
1850 |
Warren County, Tennessee [6] |
| Divorce |
27 Oct 1854 |
DeKalb County, Tennessee [2, 7] |
- “Sarah Hicks vs. William Hicks: Complainant and defendant have been married more than 40 years. The defendant, some three years since, maliciously and without any reasonable cause, abandoned complainant and has refused to live with or provide for her. The bonds of matrimony are dissolved. 27 October 1854."
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| Family ID |
F1649 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Annie Asher, b. 10 Jun 1820, (DeKalb County) Tennessee d. 21 Jan 1887, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
(DeKalb County) Tennessee [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. America Victoria Hicks, b. 8 Jun 1839, (DeKalb County) Tennessee d. 2 Dec 1918, DeKalb County, Tennessee (Age 79 years) |
| | 2. Bernard Napoleon Hicks, Sr., b. 27 Nov 1840, (DeKalb County) Tennessee d. 2 Apr 1931, (DeKalb County) Tennessee (Age 90 years) |
| | 3. George Dallas "Dallas" Hicks, b. 0___ 1844, Georgia d. ~ 1894, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas (Age ~ 50 years) |
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| Family ID |
F9834 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Perry Green Hicks, having fought the Seminole and the Cherokees, was enlisted to fight as a private in the Mexican War Perry was appointed as postmaster for Hollandsworth on 27 April 1849, but he appears to have died in service. His widow, Anna, filed a claim for benefits on 7 August 1850. She got her pension, $3.50 monthly [paid semi-annually] from December 1852 through March 1855. We have not been able to locate a record of the pension beyond that.
The couple had three children:
America Victoria Hicks was born 2 December 1839. She married Harvey Patterson of DeKalb County, TN
Bernard Napoleon Hicks was born 27 November 1840, son of Perry Green and Anna Hicks. He grew up near Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee.
George Dallas Hicks, born about 1843. [2]
- PERRY GREEN HICKS I
Born about 1818 in DeKalb County, TN.
Married in DeKalb Co. TN, Annie Asher, who was born 10 Jun 1820, in Tennessee, and who died 21 Jan 1887, DeKalb Co., TN. Perry died circa 1849, in Arizona, fighting in the Mexican War.
Perry Green Hicks was a private in Roberts’ Company of the 1st Tennessee Mounted Militia in the Seminole [Florida] War.
He also served as a private in Ferris’ & Cherry’s companies of Lauderdale’s Battalion of Tennessee Mounted Infantry in the Cherokee war.
A recently published military history states: (In the wake of the Indian Removal Act of l83O, the United States Army engaged in a seven year struggle against the Seminole Indians in which it found itself unprepared to fight a guerrilla war.) Perry went anyway.
Perry also went on to fight the Cherokees. This war had its origins in the 18th Century and the discomfort and antagonism of their neighbors continued up until the fateful "Trail of Tears".
Hicks men were involved on both sides of this conflict.
Several of the Cherokees of this time period were of Hicks descent. Such as the descendants of Nathan Hicks, son of Robert Hicks and Great-great grandson of our immigrant Robert Hicks, who had married Na’Ye’He’ Wolf, and who fought beside Chief Bowles in the first Cherokee War.
The Cherokee government especially its principal chief, John Ross, took steps to protect its national territory. Ross joined Charles Hicks and Major Ridge in the "Cherokee Triumvirate" and received recognition for his efforts in negotiating the Treaty of 1819. He then continued his work by making legal moves for the Cherokees as president of the constitutional convention.
Perry Green Hicks, having fought the Seminole and the Cherokees, was enlisted to fight as a private in the Mexican War Perry was appointed as postmaster for Hollandsworth on 27 April 1849, but he appears to have died in service. His widow, Anna, filed a claim for benefits on 7 August 1850. She got her pension, $3.50 monthly [paid semi-annually] from December 1852 through March 1855. We have not been able to locate a record of the pension beyond that.
The couple had three children:
America Victoria Hicks was born 2 December 1839. She married Harvey Patterson of DeKalb County, TN
Bernard Napoleon Hicks was born 27 November 1840, son of Perry Green and Anna Hicks. He grew up near Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee.
George Dallas Hicks, born about 1843. [2]
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| Sources |
- [S806] Thomas G. Webb | DeKalb County, TN Historian | 835 South College Street, Smithville, TN 37166 | Abstracted from his boo.
- [S6996] "Hicks Family Chronicles and Connections", by Thom Montgomery, Ph. D., copyright February 28, 2009, http://thommont.com/.
- [S4751] "The Webb Families Of DeKalb County,Tennessee And 23 Related Families", by, p. 243.
- [S4751] "The Webb Families Of DeKalb County,Tennessee And 23 Related Families", by, p. 242.
- [S806] Thomas G. Webb | DeKalb County, TN Historian | 835 South College Street, Smithville, TN 37166 | Abstracted from his boo (Reliability: 3).
- [S509] "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC6S-SGT : accessed.
- [S36576] http://thommont.com/page2.html.
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