Reverend Berryman Theodore Hicks

Male 1778 - 1839  (60 years)


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  • Name Berryman Theodore Hicks 
    Title Reverend 
    Birth 1 Jul 1778  Spartanburg County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 11 Jun 1839  Little Buck Creek, Spartanburg County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Burial New Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Cherokee County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I4296  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 9 Feb 2015 

    Father William Hicks 
    Mother Edith LNU,   b. (North Carolina) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage (North Carolina) Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Family ID F1667  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Durham,   b. 30 Jan 1779, Orange County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1846, Spartanburg County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage 10 Oct 1799  (Spartanburg County, South Carolina) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Durham Hicks,   b. 1801, Spartanburg County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Artimincy Hicks,   b. 6 Jan 1813, (Spartanburg County, South Carolina) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1854 (Age 40 years)
     3. Joseph Martin Hicks,   b. 18 Feb 1822, Spartanburg County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Dec 1892, Burke County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    Family ID F1666  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Jul 1778 - Spartanburg County, South Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 10 Oct 1799 - (Spartanburg County, South Carolina) Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Jun 1839 - Little Buck Creek, Spartanburg County, South Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - New Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Cherokee County, South Carolina Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Husband of Elizabeth Durham Hicks. Son of William and Edith Hicks.

      They had a least 11 Children born to this Union: *date born
      1. 1st Dau: Anna, *April 28, 1801- March 1, 1848 at 46 she married circa 1822, William Cleary
      2. 1st Son: Durham, *Feb 28, 1803, married Margaret Young.
      3. 2nd Son: Hazzael, *1805, married Elizabeth Martin
      4. 3rd Son: John Martin, *1806, married Elizabeth Dobbins.
      5. 4th Son: Drury D. *April 13, 1809, married Elizabeth Hines.
      6. 5th Son: Berry Allison, *April 13, 1809, twin of Drury D.
      7. 6th Son: Charles A. "Green" *May 13, 1811 - April 5,
      1879
      8. 2nd Dau: Artimency, *Jan 6, 1813, married Abraham Lovelace.
      9. 7th Son: Richard Henry, *Oct. 27, 1815 - Jan. 29, 1863, married Myra Lewis Simmons.
      10 3rd Dau: Didamie Emiline, *Jan. 31, 1819, married George Adam Fike.
      11 8th Son: Joseph Martin, *Fev. 2, 1822 - Dec. 24, 1892 died at 70 years old

      ... Elder Berryman Hicks was born in Spartanburg County (now Cherokee County) July 1, 1778. He "intermarried" with Elizabeth Durham in 1799 and "reared a large and interesting family." He joined the State Line Church in 1800 and was soon licensed to preach. "He was a great revivalist and went far and near with his great co-worker, Elder Drury Dobbins....
      Hicks possessed poetical talent and composed numerous hymns and spiritual songs -- adapted to revival occasions, which found wide use at that period...
      George Pullen Jackson, White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, New York, NY, 1965, p. 204.
      Quotes from John R. Logan, Sketches of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations, Shelby, NC, 1887, pp. 400 ff.

      According to Jackson, the lyrics first appeared on page 19 of William Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835, with the note,
      The song [poem] was composed by the Rev. B. Hicks, a Baptist minister of South Carolina, and sent to his wife while he was confined in Tennessee by a fever of which he afterwards recovered.1
      ibid., p. 203.

      According to George Pullen Jackson (p. 205), Hicks died at Little Buck Creek, Spartanburg County, SC, on Jun 11, 1839. [3]
    • Re: Berryman Hicks
      Posted by: Margaret McPherson Date: May 05, 1999 at 21:20:00
      In Reply to: Berryman Hicks by Charles Proctor of 9689


      Hello, Charles. My notes say that the Rev. Berryman Hicks was the son of William Hicks and his wife Edith (last name not known). William Hicks was the son of Richard Hicks (1736-1812) and his wife Mary (last name not known). My notes are based on material written by Myra Helen Hicks Ezell and conversations with Bruce Ezell. There is a lot of material still unscanned and I will probably be able later to add more names and dates. I'm interested in documenting all the written material I have here.
      [5]

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