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==Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. V, pg. 202-203==
{{has person |name=David Hickox}}, the progenitor of the large Hickox connection in this part of Southeast {{has state|Georgia}}, was born in {{has state|Connecticut}}, {{has date|Jan. 13, 1798}}. He came to Georgia a young unmarried man, where he met and married {{has person |name=Sarah Altman}}, born {{has date|1812}} in {{has county|Wayne County}}, daughter of {{has person |name=Thomas Altman}}. They were married in {{has date|1828}}. To them were born twenty-one children, of whom apparently six died at birth or in infancy; the other fifteen being as follows:

# {{has person |name=Elizabeth Hickox |alt=Elizabeth}} b. 1829, m. {{has person |name=John Matthews}} of Duval Co. Fla., Jan. 30, 1847.
# {{has person |name=Thomas Hickox |alt=Thomas}} b. 1831, m. (unknown)
# {{has person |name=Drusilla Hickox |alt=Drusilla}} b. 1832, m. {{has person |name=John L. Warren}}, Aug. 18, 1876; no issue.
# {{has person |name=James Hickox |alt=James}} b. 1833, m. {{has person |name=Nancy McClellan}}, July 25, 1856, dau. of Andrew of Camden County.
# {{has person |name=Nancy Hickox|alt=Nancy}} b. 1835, m. {{has person |name=Simon Smith}}, Sept. 1, 1853.
# {{has person |name=Benjamin Hickox|alt=Benjamin}} b. 1837, m. {{has person |name=Elizabeth Crews}}, dau. of {{has person|Micajah Crews}} (Vol. I)
# {{has person |name=Jonathan David Hickox|alt=Jonathan David}} b. 1839, m. {{has person |name=Lucinda Green}}.
# {{has person |name=David Jonathan Hickox|alt=David Jonathan}} b. 1839, m. {{has person |name=Catherine Crawford}}, dau. of {{has person |name=William Crawford|alt=William}}.
# {{has person |name=Perry Hickox |alt=Perry}} b. 1841, m. {{has person |name=Arcadia Harris}}, Apr. 11, 1867.
# {{has person |name=Sarah Hickox|alt=Sarah}} b. 1843, m. {{has person |name=J.J. Dowling}}
# {{has person |name=Isaac Hickox|alt=Isaac}} b. 1844, died young, after 1860.
# {{has person |name=Keziah Hickox|alt=Keziah}} b. 1846, died in girlhood.
# {{has person |name=Harley Jacob Hickox|alt=Harley Jacob}} b. 1849, m. Mrs. {{has person |name=Nancy Griffin}}, dau. of David C. Dowling.
# {{has person |name=Lavicy Hickox|alt=Lavicy}} b. 1851, m. {{has person |name=Charles T. Lyens |surname=Lyons}} (Lyons).
# {{has person |name=Mary Hickox|alt=Mary M.}} b. 1851, m. {{has person |name=Samuel dl. Lyens |surname=Lyons}} (Lyons).

The Hickox home and farm was located between the present town of Hoboken and the village of Hickox. He served as Justice of Peace of the 590th district, Ware County, 1833-1841. This section of Ware where he lived was cut into Pierce County in its formation partly out of Ware in 1858, and into Brantley County in 1920.

Mr. and Mrs. Hickox were faithful members of the Primitive Baptist Church. They were originally members of High Bluff Church into which they were received and baptized March 10, 1841. Four years later when the church "on the buffalo" was organized nearer their home, they were dismissed by letter Jan. 11, 1845, to enter into its organization. They continued members there until their deaths. This church is located in the edge of the little village known as Hickox, and is named [[New Hope Primitive Baptist Church|New Hope Church]]. Mrs. Hickox died Feb. 2, 1884, and he died Feb. 24, 1887. They were buried in the cemetery at the church.

David Hickox was a private in the Indian War, serving in Capt. James Jones' company, Ware County militia, Aug. 26th to Sept. 15, 1840.

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*David's biography has no mention of his first marriage to  [[Elizabeth Knowles]].

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