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To Bill……. Thank you for the kind words but without your assistance, example, and heart, we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing.
……… without the desire of the ancestors to be found, we would not have the phenomenal success that we have been blessed with.
btw….. a dragonfly was circling the van this afternoon as soon as we parked…… he acted impatient while we were getting coveralls and boots and stuff on…. then he made a beeline through the trees as we locked the van and turned our attention to him 😉
Hicks, Chesley Cemetery
Location: In woods 200 ft on north side of Winchester Dr (SR 1768)
Directions: From Roxboro, take 501S to left on Helena Moriah Rd (SR 1715) to right on Moores Mill Rd (SR 1737) to left on Winchester Dr
Access: In woods behind a house on private property
Survey: Aug 2005 by Ken Dalton and Becky Farlow
GPS: 36 14 58.5 N 078 54 13.7 W
Notes: This is a match for WPA # 98 Hicks.â€Mixed bloods†(See WPA index)
Graves:
J M HICKS / Born / July 23, 1847 / Married 1866 / Died / Oct 9, 1910 / Gone but not forgotten / (son of Chesley and Martha Hicks)
Base to tombstone (carved stone not yet found) with 2 footstones
Footstone #1 / SW / (known to be Samuel WINSTON) (WPA says Samuel Winston / Died Feb 15, 1883 / Age 45 Years)
Footstone #2 / AJW / (Known to be Amanda Jane Hicks WINSTON) (WPA says Amanda Winston / Born Mar 12, 1851 / Died Jun 28, 1919 / Wife of Samuel Winston)
About 20 fieldstones in 4 rows
2 prominent stones are probably:
Chesley HICKS, born ABT 1816 (age from census)
Mahala (Martha) Jane Collins HICKS, born ABT 1826 (age from census)
Possibly buried here:
James Collins, born ABT 1794 (age from census) (father of Martha Jane Collins Hicks)
Barbara Brinkley Collins, born ABT 1808 (age from census) (wife of James Collins, from Person co marriage bonds)
Standing at the grave sites of Samuel Winston and Amanda Hicks Winston (gg) and probably Chesley and Martha Hicks (ggg) and probably James and Barbara Collins (gggg) was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I never dreamed when I started this search that such would be possible. (Bill, I got a cell phone call while there saying that my husband was sick, which interrupted the time there and delayed this post. I give thanks that he is better now.) The incredible efforts of Ken and Becky are beyond words. We were in deep woods. Ken had taken a weed eater to cut a path and big cloppers of some sort to make it possible to get through. But on top of that, Ken had taken flowers for Amanda’s grave and a flag for Samuel’s. I still get teary remembering. Bill, wish you could have been there with us to witness what these two have done, and also because of your gift to this effort. I am not sure I would have picked up the Collins connection–and certainly would not have known the importance of that connection without you. I am deeply grateful for this gift. I can’t wait to go back. I know I have new cousins of my heart even if we never find the blood connection–and I have no doubt that is there!
I did pick up some more information on this trip which I will give you in a separate post later. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you. Roberta
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