LAURA LAMBERT genealogy
Will Poe (who had brother named John Poe and Tom Poe)
married
Laura Louise Hicks of Shaw Township, Saline
County, Arkansas,
born 9 April 1879 and died in Oklahoma City 4 January 1948 and is buried in Tulsa Oklahoma
She
later married Buck Grimmett who married again and is
buried near Mineola,
Texas
1880 Census
Arkansas Saline
County, Shaw Township
Evidenced by the 1880 census and
family information, Laura Louise Hicks was the daughter of Thomas J. Hicks and Lucy Jane Burton, son of Gilbert and Elizabeth Hicks. Hicks family members are buried
in Jones-Palestine
Cemetery, Grant County,
Arkansas. Gilbert may have given the land on which Jones-Palestine Cemetery
resides.
Pearl Poe, born 8/7/1899 probably in Saline Co, AR and died 3/26/1983 in Ada, Oklahoma.
She is the daughter of Will Poe and Laura Louise Hicks
Pearl Poe married Furman Nelson when she was around 14 years old, so about 1915.
Pearl's half siblings include:
Idell Grimmett born 8/3/1914 in Johnston
County, Oklahoma
Melvin Grimmett born in Little
Rock in 11/15/1910 and soon after lived in Johnston County, Oklahoma
Laura L. Hicks
Born: April 09, 1879, daughter of Thomas
Jefferson Porter Hicks and Lucy Jane Burton.
Thomas Jefferson
Porter Hicks served in Company D, Cocke's Regiment, Arkansas
Infantry (Confederate Army). He enlisted at Benton, Arkansas
on 17 June 1862 and served until October 1863. He
also served in Company D., Hawthorne Regiment, Arkansas Infantry. After his death on 17 day of December 1919, his
widow Lucy Jane Burton Hicks received a widows pension until her death in 1922. They are both buried
in Belfast,
Grant County, Ark.
Your Laura was
sister to my grandmother Minerva E. Hicks who married James M. Laster. There was:
James A. Hicks
Laura L. Hicks
George W. Hicks
Rosa L. Hicks
Parthenia
A. Hicks
Sarah C. Hicks
Martha E. Hicks
Minerva E. Hicks
and
Niles Thomas Hicks
The only info I
have on John Poe is that he was married to Mary Elizabeth(Betty)
Burton,
born 1851 in Tippah co. Ms. She was daughter of William And Mary Franklin
Burton.
Their children were: Ella, Robert and James.
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Data on Laura Hicks' uncle,
brother of her father Thomas Hicks
James M. Hicks lives on Section
8, Township 3, Range 14 west, and is well known
to the residents of the county, having lived in this
and adjacent localities since his sixth
year. He is a native of Tennessee, and was
born in Hickman County,
October 6, 1838, being the sixth in a family of twelve children born to Gilbert
and Elizabeth (Allen) Hicks, natives of North Carolina
and Virginia.
Gilbert Hicks went to Tennessee
with his parents when a child, and grew to manhood, and afterward married
there. He was a farmer and wagon maker, and in November, 1844, moved to Saline County, Ark.,
purchasing land
in what is now Grant County.
At the time of his death, which occurred in October,
1881, he was the owner of 1,000 acres, and during his lifetime cleared over 400
acres.
In politics
he is a Democrat, but not an enthusiast on the subject. The later years of his
life were spent in raising and trading stock, in which
he was very successful. He was regarded as a leading, influential citizen, and his death was mourned by the entire community. Mrs. Hicks
was a niece of Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. She was a true and loving
wife of fifty-two years, only surviving her husband a few months. James M.
Hicks received his education in the common schools of Arkansas,
and when nineteen years of age spent five months in the Hill
Creek Academy,
in Conway County, Ark., but, owing to
sickness, was obliged to discontinue his educational pursuits and returned to farm
life. It had been his intention to adopt teaching as a profession, but in this he was disappointed, although he did teach several
terms. No doubt the world was deprived of a brilliant
scholar when he gave up such an idea of teaching, for his fitness was destined
to make him a "shining light" in educational matters. In September, 1860, Mr. Hicks was married to Miss Martha R.
Burnett, a native of East Tennessee, and a daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (York) Burnett, natives of Virginia
and Tennessee,
respectively. Mr. Burnett came to Arkansas
in 1857, and was one of the successful farmers of the State. At the age of
eighteen he enlisted in the War of 1812, and was n the battle of New Orleans.
Mrs. Burnett still survives him,
at the age of eighty-four. After his marriage Mr. Hicks bought land and settled
in Saline County,
but in 1868 sold this farm and came to Shaw Township,
purchasing 160 acres, sixty of which he has since cleared. The improvements
made are too numerous to mention, but among them he has built good barns, etc.
He now owns eighty acres in Shaw Township, 130 cultivated, and 200 in Grant County.
Mr. Hicks raises his own stock, such as horses, cattle and hogs, the principal
crops grown being corn and cotton, and he was for sixteen years the principal
potato grower of Saline
County. He take the lead
in fruit raising, having 110 varieties, including fifteen kinds of grapes and
thirty-nine kinds of apples, with about the same of
peaches, and nine varieties of plums. All the different kinds of berries that
thrive in Arkansas
are seen on his farm, and it is really a pleasure to observe such an excellent
and highly cultivated farm as he owns. It would be a
difficult matter to find its equal, and certainly not
possible to obtain its superior. For several years Mr. Hicks has been the
leading man in experimental fruit-raising and vegetable trial crops. In 1874 he began by budding peaches, and proved the same to be
a success. His method of setting the trees is very peculiar, as he digs a pit 3
½ x 4 feet and twenty five inches in depth, then fills the first fourteen
inches with alternate layers of coarse manure and earth, the last twelve inches
being of solid earth well packed. In politics he is a
Democrat, though conservative and independent. He has never been an office
seeker, but has been elected to a county office, and
once to township office, in both cases, however, declining to serve. For a
number of years he has been director of the school district. He served three
years in the Confederate service under Col. Johnson, in the Sixth Arkansas
Infantry, but was never in any active engagement. He was in the hospital
service, and filled the different positions of nurse, wardmaster,
clerk and steward. Being a cripple he was exempt from field
duty, and in order to serve the cause he believed to be right, applied to the
hospital department and served there as stated above. Mr. And Mrs. Hicks
are the parents of the following family: Marian W., J.G., Robert L., Emily Lee,
Jeremiah T., Ida Florence, Monroe H., Obed B. Elijah
F., James A. Garfield and Benjamin F. Himself and family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and for thirteen years he has been superintendent
of the Sunday school.