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His wife and his daughter Alice, were identified as recusants several times, and the family appears to have been Catholic.Gentleman of Rushton Spencer, Staffordshire & Knowsley (in Huyton), Lacashire, deputy steward of Prescot Manor.
He was in possession of Eltonhead Manor in 1530.
Richard was the heir. He married Jane Bradshaw, daughter of Thomas Bradshaw of Haigh, but died without issue.
Thomas succeeded his brothers Richard & William at Eltonhead but also died shortly after doing so.
Notes by Ora Mae Crane:
Brother of William H. Hickman who married Elizabeth "Betsy" Ann Christian. Son of Edwin Hickman of Stokes Co., N.C.Birth: Family records; Eunie Christian Stacy, Eunie Christian, CHRISTIAN OF CHARLES CITY, (Fort Worth: Miran Publishers, l982) p. 57. Copy of the book in possession of Ora Mae Wallace Crane in Modesto, Ca.
Marriage: Virginia Anderton Dodd, HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, MARRIAGE BONDS, l778-l849, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., l976), pg. 25.
Census: l840 U.S. Census, Willow Fork Twp., Morgan Co., Mo.; Federal Archives, M704-Roll 227, p. l76. He was living next door to John F. Christian at that time. Elizabeth Hickman and the Robert Allison family were also living in close proximity. One male of 30-40 was listed, as well as one 5-l0 and one l0-l5.
Census: l850 U.S. Census Cooper Co., Mo.; Federal Archives, M42-397, p. 95. He was listed as a teacher, born in N.C. & was 48 years of age.
Death: No documents have been discovered after the l850 census, so his death date and place are not known at this time (l994).
Edna Mae Russell stated that Benjamin Hickman was reported to have 2 sons, of which she had some doubts. The l840 census showed Benjamin Hickman, living with 2 sons, & no wife.
l840 Morgan County, Mo. Federal Census
Willow Fork Twp.
B.F. Hickman
l male 5-l0
l male l0-l5
l male 30-40Son of Edwin Hickman of Stokes Co., NC.
MISC: ALSO HAVE MIDDLE INITIAL AS F.
BIRTH: Family records estimate 1800 as an approximate birthdate.
MARRIAGE: Virginia Anderton Dodd, Compiler, HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, MARRIAGE BONDS, 1778-1849(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co), 1976, p. 25.
DEATH: She was not alive at the time of the 1840 census, Morgan Co., MO. Her husband Benjamin was listed with two males younger than 15 years. Family records report that she was buried on the banks of the Moreau Creek in what was later to become Moniteau Co., MO. (Moniteau County was established in 1845, from Morgan and Cole Counties).
Source:
Ora Mae Crane
EDWIN AND ALENDER WEBBER CHILES HICKMAN, by Hope A. Hilton, l967 pg. 53
"Elliott Hickman's l8l2 War Record and the pension claim of his wife Nancy Isbell is here included with some comments taken from the record of Mrs. Lettie Hickman Wilkes.""Elliot Hickman's record of service in the War of l8l2 shows that he volunteered and entered service Oct. l, l8l4. His wife testified it was in Sept. l8l3. He volunteered at and in Spartanburg District, S.C. While he fought little, his pay was little ($8.00 per month). He never took a government pension because he feared people would think he needed it. He should have taken it rather than have his sons pay his security debts. Many years later after his death his wife, Nancy, applied for a land grant and received 2, for forty acres each. One she sold to buy her son, Columbus, a horse. The other she 'took up' a forty northwest of Mt. Vernon, Mo."
"Elliott was married 8 Dec. l805 to Nancy Isbell, who was born 23 April l787; and died 6 Jan. l870. Her family was well to do and objected to her marriage to Elliot. When her parents died he was too stubborn to claim her part of the estate. Perhaps this is the reason he took his family from Stokes County to Spartanburg, S.C. In after years Nancy met an old colored woman who said, 'Miss Nancy, there are l7 of us who ought to belong to you.' She was a woman of refinement and reported to be educated, but we note at the age of 68 in making application for the land grants that she made her mark instead of signing her name. As to refinement she had a bag in which she carried a china cup and saucer from which she drank tea or coffee."
Copy of Nancy Isbell Hickman's application for a land grant as taken from the Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C. by Lettie Hickman Wilkes. "Bounty Land Claims State of Missouri County of Lawrence On this fourth day of June A.D. l855 personally appeared before me Wm. W. Gay, Clerk of County Court within and for said county and state aforesaid Nancy Hickman aged 68 yrs. a resident of Lawrence County in the State of Mo. who being sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Elliot Hickman deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Gaffney in the regiment of volunteers commanded by Col. Youngblood in the war with Great Britain, that her said husand volunteered at and in Spartanburg District on or about 6 months and continued in active service in said war for the term of 5 months & upwards & was honorably discharged at Charleston on the ___ day of Feb. A.D. l8l4.
"She further states that she was married to said Elliot Hickman in Stokes Co., N.C. on the 8th day of Dec. A.D., l805 by one Johnson Clemens a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her marriage was Nancy Isbell, and tha her said husband died in Ky. on l7th day of Feb. A.D. l85l, and she is a widow at the date of executing this her declaration and having obtained a bounty land warrant under act of Feb. llth A.D. l847 for 80 acres. Number not recollected which she has legally transferred and disposed of and not within her power to return. She refers to said declaration for evidence of her husband's services and her marriage et.
"She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitlted under act approved March 3, l855. She also declares that she has never received nor applied for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress except as above stated.
Nancy Hickman
X 'Her Mark'"Most of the pedigree for Elliott Hickman's family came from Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hickman Barger of Harrisonville, Mo., daughter of Hugh Temple Hickman.
EDWIN AND ELENDER WEBBER CHILES HICKMAN, by Hope A. Hilton, l967, pg. 8l
"After Elliott's death in l849 in Warren Co., Ky., his wife Nancy Isbell moved to Lawrence Co., Mo., to live with her widowed daughter, Nancy Parker, whose husband, John Parker had just died."