The Ancestry and Family of

Edwin Temple Hickman and wife Elizabeth Adams

With an examination of existing genealogical proofs and family traditions. Dedicated to the estimated ten thousand decedents of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN wherever they may be.

by

Hope Avarell Hilton

430 Wall Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

Great-great-granddaughter

March, 1963

Our illustrious ancestor Edwin Temple Hickman was a remarkable man in many ways. We can picture him as a rugged frontiersman and pioneer of Western America. We have a letter written by him to his oldest son William (Bill) Adams Hickman on May 6, 1849, which shows beautiful and even penmanship. The letter discloses a real and imaginative sense of humor. He states in the letter among other things, that he has heard reports of their being a great deal of "gold found at the Salt Lake." Continuing, he writes, "I would like to know if gold was plenty at the lake. I have had no notion of being a Mormon, but if I could see a good prospect for gold it would be a great inducement at least for a while." This shows our ancestor to have been bitten by the "gold fever" that swept the whole country at this time.

For years his identity has been confused with that of an Edwin A. Hickman, born six years later than he was. After many exciting hours of inquiry and research we have been able to unscramble the true facts which are here written.

THE ANCESTRY AND FAMILY OF HICKMAN

Sufficient proof was presented to the Archives Adjustment Bureau of the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in 1960, to cause them to officially change the heretofore accepted lineage of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, father of WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN and GEORGE WASHINGTON HICKMAN, whose decedents are so numerous in the L.D.S. Church today.

This proof was obtained through extensive research we have conducted between the years 1959-1963 at the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, by a trip to Missouri and Kentucky, home of the HICKMAN family from 1810 to 1916, and much family correspondence. The research was begun at the suggestion of Mrs. Leona Hickman Peck, now of 1008 East 7th, Dumas, Texas, who believed back in 1954 that we were definitely not related to the lineage shown on the record sheets in the L.D.S. Church Temple Archives.

Previous to 1960 the lineage of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN was shown on the records to be the same as that of the Rev. WILLIAM HICKMAN, first Baptist Minister of Kentucky. Some other records listed him as a grandson of this same man through his son the Rev. William ZOBELL HICKMAN. These two Reverends were famous in their generations and affected the history of the new State of Kentucky considerably. Their lives and activities are mentioned in numerous historical accounts of early Kentucky. They were both outstanding men. The Rev. WILLIAM HICKMAN had 18 children by two wives, Elizabeth Shackleford and Elizabeth Abbott. The 14th child of this man was named EDWIN A. HICKMAN and he was born in 1798 in Franklin Co., Kentucky. About thirty years ago a Mr. Dee Walters of Tucson, Arizona, grandson of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, erroneously guessed that this Edwin A. was identical to our EDWIN T. HICKMAN, born in 1792 in South Carolina. Both lived as contemporaries in Kentucky for about 8 years (1810-1818) although separated by a distance of at least 100 miles or 6 counties. Our ancestor EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN in 1818 moved west to Missouri with his wife ELIZABETH ADAMS, and young family of four children along with his parents, WILLIAM HICKMAN AND LETTICE ISBELL HICKMAN. This was one year before Missouri gained Statehood. From then on the fortunes of our HICKMAN family were cast with the history and development of various counties in Missouri while the Rev. Hickman and his numerous posterity remained in Kentucky. The Rev. William died in 1834 while our William died in Missouri in 1851. On arriving in Missouri they settled in New Franklin, Howard Co., then in Huntsville, Randolph Co., and finally settled Southwest of Kirksville, Missouri in Adair Co., on a rural farm in 1849 where EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, his wife ELIZABETH ADAMS HICKMAN and Edwin's father WILLIAM HICKMAN homesteaded a 160 acre farm. As was customary in that time all are buried on this farm, in addition that are also numerous other Hickman relatives buried on this same farm.

The children of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN and ELIZABETH HICKMAN scattered to many different States even before the death of their last parent in 1888, only EASOM HICKMAN and family and JANE W. HICKMAN, wife of JOSIAH HICKMAN, stayed in the Kirksville area. Today there are no decedents of this family as far as we could determine living in the area. In 1959 we visited with an elderly spinster woman named Lillian Hickman, who lived 10 miles north of our ancestors' farm in Adair Co. She showed me her genealogical record which proved her to be no relation to our family. She stated she remembered the EDWIN T. HICKMAN family as a child but knew they were not related to her family. Miss Lillian Hickman died in January, 1963, at the age of 83.

As stated, the Rev. William Hickman and his numerous progeny remained in the State of Kentucky and most of them lived out their lives in and around Franklin Co., Kentucky. Both Reverends are buried at or near the Forks of Elkhorn Baptist Churchyard in Franklin Co., Kentucky and their graves can be seen today. The graves of our ancestors are 250 miles west in Adair Co., Missouri, thereby forever confirming that the two families were separate, unrelated, and probably never knew each other in mortal life.

Although it would be nice to claim decent from a well-known family of landowners and preachers none of us wishes to sacrifice his knowledge of our true ancestors for false ones. From the research conducted to date, which shows four major migrations and several smaller moves of our Hickman family, they were poor farm folk moving from State to State and County to County, without doubt always seeking the elusive "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow which never materialized. Apparently EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN'S, father, WILLIAM HICKMAN died in 1851 landless, leaving not so much even as a will, likely because his earthly possessions were so small. He is last recorded as living in a separate house from his son EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN in the 1830 U.S. census of Randolph Co., Missouri. He was between 60-70 at this time, his wife was in the same age category and their youngest child Rhoda was between 15-20. They are listed in the adjacent home to EDWIN T. After Rhoda's marriage in May 1, 1831 to James Rowland, recorded in Randolph Co., marriages, no more is known of WILLIAM and his wife LETTICE until the 1840 census of Randolph Co., when they are listed as living in the same house with their son EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN.

In the 1850 census (mistakenly listed in Macon Co., Missouri) WILLIAM HICKMAN is listed as being 80 years of age and still living in the home of son EDINW TEMPLE HICKMAN. Apparently WILLIAM'S wife LETTICE ISBELL died between 1840 and 1850, because she is not listed in the latter census. Likely she died about 1848 because of a letter written in 1850 in possession of Mrs. Lisle Graham of Salt Lake City, which states she died a few years before. Her grave location is unknown but is probably on the Hickman farm in Randolph Co., as most burials were in family graveyards during this period. She is definitely not buried in the Huntsville City Cemetery. The sexton's complete records through this period were checked, and she is not listed there.

The numerous moves and wanderings of our family we can fortunately follow rather easily. WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN in his "Brigham's Destroying Angel" states that he was "the 6th generation in America", and claimed to have "21 blood relatives in the Revolutionary War, none of them Tories." He continues that, "his parents were early settlers of Virginia." This last item of information is rather doubtful as his father, EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN was born in South Caroline in 1792, county unknown, although Spartenburg Co., seems the most likely, as a relative of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, ELLIOTT HICKMAN was living there in 1810 (1810 South Carolina census).

Our WILLIAM HICKMAN, father of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, lists his birthplace in the 1850 Macon Co., census as Virginia and birthdate as 1770. Therefore we can already trace the family from Virginia to South Carolina. The available records of every county in Virginia have been searched, and we have been unable to locate any records which would point to a relationship to our WILLIAM HICKMAN. We have definite proof by way of a lawsuit brought against our WILLIAM HICKMAN that he was living in Warren Co., Kentucky, in November 1813. What the charges against him were at this time is unknown, only the parties involved and witnesses called to testify are listed. WILLIAM HICKMAN the defendant was dismissed from charges on payment of court fees. His son EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN is listed as ont of the witnesses in this action and was paid $1.25 each for two days in court. It can sagely be assumed that the family had probably been in Kentucky for several years previous to this lawsuit. It probably involved some property dispute. EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN is said by tradition to have found and married his wife Elizabeth Adams, a red-head, in Warren Co., Kentucky in February 1813, however no official record of this marriage can be located, Elizabeth was supposed to be living in the home of a relative who had been hired as one of the land surveyors for the U.S. Government in the new State of Kentucky. This traces the moves of the family to four States, Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Missouri they did not "stay put" but lived in three different counties. Therefore in the short period of 30 years 1790-1820 our HICKMAN family settled in four States, but since they left wills in none, we can assume they were poor, common folk without claim to fame or fortune. They were used to rugged frontier life and can be classed as members of that hearty group of pioneers who pushed the U.S. boundaries ever Westward.

Family tradition handed down mainly by Easom Hickman's family, (Easom having outlived all other members of his family by at least nine years, dying in 1916), states that three HICKMAN brothers followed the Daniel Boone Trail West when they settled in Kentucky. These three brothers were supposedly named NATHANIEL TEMPLE, WILLIAM AND THOMAS HICKMAN. To date no trace has been found of NATHANIEL TEMPLE HICKMAN in Kentucky, if he were there he settled in a county other than Warren Co., In the census of 1820 for Warren Co., which is the first census available for Kentucky the other brother THOMAS HICKMAN is listed. By 1820 WILLIAM HICKMAN our ancestor was in Missouri and apparently missed being listed in any State census. The family of THOMAS HICKMAN, brother of WILLIAM, stayed in Warren Co., through the 1830 and 1840 census. By 1850 this family had left without a trace. We can be grateful to this THOMAS HICKMAN family in our genealogy research because they carried on two unusual family names. THOMAS'S only known daughter was named ELIZABETH TEMPLE HICKMAN, and a grandson through his son ELLIOTT, was named TEMPLE E. HICKMAN, while Thomas's oldest son was named EASOM HICKMAN. EASOM HICKMAN, 9th child of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN was therefore named after his father's first cousin of his own 1st cousin once removed.

There has been some dispute among family members as to the middle name of EDWIN T. HICKMAN, usually listed in this manner. The fact that he had a cousin and a 1st cousin once removed with the name of TEMPLE plus the positive fact that in 1854 in Salt Lake City, when his son WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN obtained his patriartical blessing, he listed his father's name as EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, these facts should stop all false notions that the "T." stood for THORN, THOMAS or some other name. Obviously the repetition of this name TEMPLE in three family members probably indicated that one common ancestor was named TEMPLE. The TEMPLE line is one of the most complete and long genealogies in the English world, going back for generations in England, but to date which female ancestor bore this name is unknown and whether a definite connection can ever be established is doubtful due to the scarcity of Southern States records. WILLIAM HICKMAN's father, by Easom Hickman and Rhoda Hickman's families tradition carried on independent of each other, is said to have been named NATHANIEL HICKMAN, he may have married a girl named either CAROLINE or RHODA TEMPLE which also are prominent first names for females in this family repeating themselves in at least four successive generations.

This of course is only speculation, and none could assume there is any real proof for this statement. If these conjectures could be proved true, the HICKMAN line would go as follows:

NATHANIEL HICKMAN --Md.-- RHODA or CAROLINE TEMPLE

(tradition) (speculation)

b. about 1745 Va.

#1 #2 #3

NATHANIEL TEMPLE WILLIAM md. LETTICE THOMAS

(tradition) (proved) ISBELL (proved)

b. 1770 Va. b. about 1775 Va.

d. 1851 Adair Co. d.1848 Mo.

Mo.

#1 #2

EDWIN TEMPLE-md.-ELIZABETH ADAMS RHODA md. J. Rowland

b.10 FEB. 1792 S.C. b.15 OCT. 1793 Va. b.abt. 1811 Ky.

d.20 AUG. 1888 Mo. d.5 DEC. 1872 Mo. (proved)

(proved) (proved)

#1 13 children all together #7

WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN GEORGE WASHINGTON

b.16 APRIL, 1815 /HICKMAN

d.21 AUG. 1883 b.12 MAR. 1825

10 wives numerous decedents d.24 NOV. 1893

(proved) 1 wife, many

decedents, 13 children (proved)

The other children of EDWIN T. & ELIZABETH HICKMAN are:

#2 James Barton b. 28 Aug. 1816 md. Salina Robinson

#3 Josiah Harvey b. 28 Feb. 1818 md. Jane W. d.7 April 1867

#4 Lettice b. 18 May, 1819 d. 21 Sept. 1888 md. Dr. Thomas Matthews

#5 Orson b. 7 Dec. 1821 d. Jan. 1822

#6 Martin D. b. 22 Aug. 1823 d. 1859 md. Sarah Reid

#8 Caroline b. 5 Sept. 1826 md. Morgan Williams

#9 Easom S. b. 25 Sept. 1828 d. 8 Feb. 1916 md. Miriam O. Reid

#10 Rhoda Ann b.28 Feb. 1830 d. 23 Aug. 1873 md. John Wm. Walters

#11 Thomas Jefferson b.26 May, 1832 md. Margaret Allen

#12 Sally b.11 Jan. 1835

#13 Warren D. b.11 Mar. 1837 d.1907

EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN as stated moved to Adair Co., about 1849-1850. When the census of 1850 was taken on August 13th the value of his real estate was listed at $1000.00, the farm consisted of 160 acres. At that time the family lived in a two story log cabin and kept about six slaves. These slaves were freed during the Civil War, but many of them stayed on to work for the family. GEORGE WASHINGTON HICKMAN and his younger brother THOMAS JEFFERSON HICKMAN both served with the 2nd Mo. Cavalry during the Civil War (see History of Mo. Adair Co., pg. 313).

The following is the exact copy of the information contained in the Macon Co., Missouri 1850 U.S. census: \

Value of

Head of family Age Place of birth Occupation Real Estate

EDWIN T. HICKMAN 58 S.C. farmer $1000.00

ELIZABETH HICKMAN 56 Va.

GEORGE W. " 25 Mo. school teacher

CAROLINE " 23 Mo.

EASOM S. " 21 Mo. school teacher

THOMAS J. " 18 Mo.

WARREN " 13 Mo.

WILLIAM " 80 Va.

JOSIAH H. " 32 Ky. physician

JANE W. " 22 Pa.

next house

MARTIN B. HICKMAN 27 Mo. physician & merchant

SARAH "(wife)24 Ky.

NATHANIEL " 5 Mo.

CAROLINE B." 3 Mo.

In the 1860 census of Adair Co., Pettis district, the family appears again. This time the value of the Real Estate has jumped to $1500.00 and personal property to $3700.00. Martin and family have left by this time for St. Louis and later gold digging in Colorado where he was killed by a claim jumper in 1859. The story goes that the next day the younger brothers Thomas Jefferson and Warren succeeded in finding their brother's murderer and did him in the same. Still living in Adair Co., in 1860 are EDWIN and ELIZABETH, and two unidentified children named A. L. Hickman (f), and John R. Hickman (m), ages 8 and 6, and JOSIAH and JANE W. HICKMAN, who lived on the 40 acre farm across the road with their 4 children. Later this adjacent farm was taken over by EASOM HICKMAN and his family. An interesting item to note is that in Adair Co., in the 1860 census there are 4 other families by the name of HICKMAN listed. These other families were from the States of Tenn., Ohio and Missouri and are no relation to our people.

The conversion of WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN to the Mormon Church in 1838 while living in Randolph Co., Missouri is related in his book, "Brigham's Destroying Angel". He states that large groups of Mormons passed his 320 acre farm as they traveled from Kirtland, Ohio, to Western Missouri (Jackson Co.) He stopped many to talk to them, fed many at his table and soon was a believer in the new religion. He sold his farm, he days at a loss, and cast his lot with the Mormons going with them to Illinois in 1838 when all Mormons were driven from the State of Missouri by order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs. Years later a younger brother GEORGE WASHINGTON HICKMAN traveled to Utah to visit his older brother and also became a convert of Mormonism. GEORGE married LUCY ANN HAWES and settled in Salem and later Benjamin, Utah (just West of Spanish Fork), where they raised 13 children. GEORGE had practiced medicine along with school teaching in Missouri, but after coming to Utah, Bringham Young assigned him to be a farmer and that he did all the rest of his life.

In 1861 GEORGE WASHINGTON HICKMAN was called and set apart by the Church Authorities for a special mission. The purpose of this mission was that he might return to the home of his elderly parents in Kirksville, Missouri, and preach the Restored Gospel to them in the hopes they would accept his message and be baptized. The purpose of this Mission was unsuccessful as none of the Hickmans GEORGE preached to remaining in Missouri, accepted the Gospel.

EDWIN TEMPLE and ELIZABETH however did "get religion" in the year 1866, proof of which is contained in a letter owned by Mrs. Lisle F. Graham of Salt Lake City, granddaughter of GEORGE W. The letter dated 2 May 1867 was written to GEORGE WASHINGTON in Utah announcing that the precious August (1866) they both had joined some Church along with 39 others which was holding "protracted meetings in the neighborhood", (probably Methodist). In the letter written by ELIZABETH she laments the fact that, "we are all alone now have no child in the State and our time cannot be long in this world we are getting old your Father is 75 I am 73 wright soon"---.

GEORGE W. died in 1892 of a broken leg after complications set in. He died true to the faith of his adopted religion, GEORGE and LUCY have many decedents today.

In 1959, one hundred and twenty-one years after WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN sold his farm and became a Mormon. We found an old farmer in Kirksville, Missouri, still repeating this "unsavory" bit of news i.e. "That two of EDDIE T. HICKMAN'S sons had run away and joined the Mormons".

WILLIAM (BILL) ADAMS HICKMAN'S life after he became a Mormon and bodyguard of the Prophet Joseph Smith is fairly well documented. He came west in 1840. We have in our possession two letters written to him by his father and brother James in this year and received by him at Kanesville, Iowa, and he was preparing to cross the plains. WILLIAM (BILL) HICKMAN married first at the age of 16 his school teacher Bernetta Burkhardt on 12 April, 1832, she being age 18. This was the first of 10 wives he was to marry between then and 1859. He had as far as is known 32-35 children by the following wives:

1. Bernetta Burkhardt 7

2. Sarah Luce 1

3. Minerva Wade 8

4. Sarah Meechan 4

5. Mary Lucretia Horr

6. Hannah Diantha Horr 2

7. Sarah F. Johnson 6

8. Martha Diana Case 4

9. Jane Hetherington 2

10. Margaret Indian

The decedents of "BILL" HICKMAN are now estimated to be about 6000.

WILLIAM ADAMS (BILL) HICKMAN was one of the 52 men who started commercial mining in Utah. The company was organized Sept. 17, 1863, under the name of Jordan Silver Mining Company. (see Salt Lake Tribune article "Up and Down the Street Utah Mining, January 1963).

In the March 17, 1963, issue of the Salt Lake City Tribune, there was mention made of "Hickman Canyon" located between Grantsville and St. John, Utah. This canyon was named after WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN as he had property interests here in the early years of Utah.

In Salt Lake County William Hickman lived with his ten wives in what is known as HICKMAN'S Fort. This was located by the Jordan River near 59th South and one mile East of Redwood Road. The Fort was built on a slope facing East. In the Fort each wife had a front and a back room with a door in front. They were built together making one long house. The house had a dirt floor and a dirt roof, with a high wall around the house with holes with lookouts around the top. The Fort was later used for a blacksmith shop.

His later life is somewhat obscured in confusing stories as to the reason for his disfellowship and ex-communication from the L.D.S. Church. No record of his official ex-communication can be located in the Church Archives, other than the local ward record of the West Jordan Ward under direction of Bishop Archibald Gardner. It is certain that he left all but his first wife in Utah when he returned to Missouri where it is reported by some that he became a member of the Reorganized L.D.S. Church. On May 5, 1934, an attempt was made to have WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMAN re-instated in the Church with all former blessings restored. No official record was made of this action and in March, 1963, a second attempt on the part of Mrs. Golda Busk and her family of Elsinore. Utah, to have this action completed has resulted in his being reinstated with all rights and blessings, and former wives resealed to him.

The years he spent in Missouri are unknown, he came West again to Lander City, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, where he lived with a daughter until his death from an old bullet wound on 21 August, 1883. His actual grave is unknown even though several attempts to locate it have been made. WILLIAM (BILL) ADAMS HICKMAN died exactly five years plus one day before his own father "Grandpa EDDIE TEMPLE HICKMAN" who was still living on the family farm near Kirksville, Missouri.

In 1959 in the very rural country side of Adair County, Missouri, about twelve miles Southwest of Kirfsville on local Missouri Highway HH. We discovered the old EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN farm and the family burial plot which area is now a rolling knoll fenced for pigs. Only two broken, scattered grave markers remained, although there were several other broken stones that bore illegible names. To preserve the legible stones, we brought them home. One stone was marked just "E.H." The other was the complete grave stone of ELIZABETH ADAMS HICKMAN who died 5 October 1877. We also found an elderly man named Freddy Musick, who had lived neighbors to the Hickmans as a child and stated that he remembered "Grandpa EDDIE well". Mr. Musick died in Kirksville, Missouri, December 1962, 3 1/2 years after we talked to him.

Many attempts have been made to connect our HICKMAN line up with one or more of the prominent HICKMAN families of America. Besides the four or five rather prominent HICKMAN lines in America there were probably fifty or more less prominent families with the name of HICKMAN at this time. There is no proved definite connections with either the prominent or less famous families. It might be well to remember that in the 1790 U.S. census there were 88 separate HICKMAN FAMILIES listed. Ours was one of them, but which one is uncertain.

We have the completed genealogies of several HICKMAN families but in each one there is no possibility of a connection with our NATHANIEL, WILLIAM, EDWIN TEMPLE line. We have collected a notebook full of HICKMAN MARRIAGE, WILLS, DEEDS, etc., BUT FIND NONE THAT FITS THE NAMES OR YEARS of our particular line. This if course is a disappointment to those who had hoped to trace the HICKMAN line to early England. The possibility of this seems very remote due to the scarcity of records in Virginia, and South Carolina at the period of time our family was there.

Some have claimed that we descend through WILLIAM HICKMAN and MARGARET THORN who were married in Woodford County, Kentucky, 14 August, 1792, (see Woodford Co., Marr. records on file State Capitol Frankfort, Ky.) If so this would mean that our ancestor EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN was an illegitimate child as he was born 10 February, 1792. This William and Margaret never went to Missouri, but stayed in Kentucky. We can not possibly descend from the family of Col. John Hickman either. Our WILLIAM HICKMAN family went from Virginia to South Carolina, thence to Kentucky and Missouri, this had been proved. Col. John Hickman lived and died in King William County, Virginia, Parish of St. David, had one son named William. This william was deceased about November 1794, and left a widow Martha (who died by October 1799), and three sons, Thomas, John and Robert, and a daughter Mary Pennington Taliaferro. In October 1799, after both parents were deceased, the three sons sued for possession of their fathers land in King William County, Virginia. There was no son Edwin T. in this family, and to attempt to make one exist is ridiculous. (see deeds and wills King William County, pg. 56-57 and pg. 122).

Let me say that we have catalogued every Hickman family having any property in the State of Virginia by counties for the years 1770-1820. We would welcome any inquiries about certain families and the possibility of connecting to them. To date we can find none that seems to tie to the known facts of our HICKMAN line.

HISTORICAL NOTES: True and False Traditions Examined.

#1. The family Bible of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN is owned by Mrs. Leona Hickman Peck of Dumas, Texas. We have visited her, and have pictures of the Bible which is very large and old. Mrs. Peck is the granddaughter of EASOM HICKMAN, son of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN. She also has several original letters which give much genealogical information. We are indebted to Mrs. Peck for the photograph of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, she has the original in her possession. Mrs. Peck is a High School science teacher in Dumas, Texas, and an active member of the Methodist Church.

#2. The grave marker of ELIZABETH ADAMS HICKMAN wife of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN and daughter of JOSIAH ADAMS and ELIZABETH CRUMP of Virginia, in now stored at 430 Wall Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. We also have a stone marked "E.H." which we were told was the marker placed over EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN when he died, others believe it to be the footstone of ELIZABETH'S grave. These stones were obtained August 7, 1959, near Kirksville, Missouri, on a remote farm originally homesteaded by our ancestor. Since these stones were broken and scattered, they would have been lost if left in Kirksville.

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#3. Mrs. Leona Hickman Peck also has a letter left to the decedents of EDWIN TEMPLE HICKMAN, written in 1915, by Easom's wife Miriam, (prior to EASOM'S death) which lists the parentage of ELIZABETH ADAMS, (wife of EDWIN T.). This lineage has since been discovered in Fauquier County, Virginia. ELIZABETH had been rumored by tradition to be a cousin of "John Quincy Adams." She was actually a granddaughter of a John Adams (landowner) of Maryland and Fauquier County, Virginia. The name of her grand-father must have started the false tradition that she was related to the Presidential Adams family.

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#4. Another family tradition says that WILLIAM HICKMAN and wife LETTICE had many children, but only the oldest EDWIN TEMPLE, and the youngest RHODA survived infancy. It is impossible to obtain proof of this one way or the other. There is twenty years difference between EDWIN'S birth in South Caroline in 1792, and RHODA'S birth in Warren County, Kentucky in 1811, or 1812.

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#5. A second family tradition that is erroneous is that our ancestors came with Daniel Boone to Kentucky. The examination of any encyclopedia on Daniel Boone discloses that he arrived in Kentucky in 1775, thirty-five years before our family came. Boone then went to Missouri to settle in 1795, this was twenty-five years before our family went to Missouri. They probably followed Boone's roads when they moved, but never traveled with him.

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