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==Biographical Sketch==
 
==Biographical Sketch==
David Hickox is the progenitor of the large [http://crewsgenealogy.com/tng/register.php?personID=I700117802198&tree=Jason-Shannon&generations=4 Hickox connection] in Southeast Georgia. [http://crewsgenealogy.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I700117802198&tree=Jason-Shannon David] was born '''13 January 1798'''<ref group="headstones" name="davidhickox" /><ref group="books" name="Wiregrass Pioneers" /> in Connecticut<ref group="census" name="fed1850" /><ref group="census" name="fed1860" /><ref group="census" name="fed1870" /><ref group="census" name="fed1880" /><ref group="books" name="Wiregrass Pioneers" /><ref group="books" name="dowling" /><ref group="note" name="fed1880" /><ref group="note" name="Birth Place" />
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David Hickox is the progenitor of the large [http://crewsgenealogy.com/tng/register.php?personID=I700117802198&tree=Jason-Shannon&generations=4 Hickox connection] in Southeast Georgia. [http://crewsgenealogy.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I700117802198&tree=Jason-Shannon David] was born '''13 January 1798'''<ref group="headstones" name="davidhickox" /><ref group="books" name="Wiregrass Pioneers" /> in Connecticut<ref group="census" name="fed1850" /><ref group="census" name="fed1860" /><ref group="census" name="fed1870" /><ref group="census" name="fed1880" /><ref group="books" name="Wiregrass Pioneers" /><ref group="books" name="brantly cemeteries" /> <ref group="note" name="fed1880" /><ref group="note" name="Birth Place" />
    
Not much is known about David's life prior to coming to Georgia.  According to family histories, David and his brother traveled to Georgia from Connecticut to purchase lumber to sell back in Connecticut. During his visit David became quite ill with a fever, while his brother returned to Connecticut with the lumber. David stayed with a local family while he was nursed back to health.<ref group="histories" name="davidhickox" /><ref group="note" name="david hickox family history" />
 
Not much is known about David's life prior to coming to Georgia.  According to family histories, David and his brother traveled to Georgia from Connecticut to purchase lumber to sell back in Connecticut. During his visit David became quite ill with a fever, while his brother returned to Connecticut with the lumber. David stayed with a local family while he was nursed back to health.<ref group="histories" name="davidhickox" /><ref group="note" name="david hickox family history" />
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To them were born 21 children, of whom apparently six died at birth or in infancy.
 
To them were born 21 children, of whom apparently six died at birth or in infancy.
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David died 24 Feb 1887 in Brantly County, Georgia, United States,and he is burred at [[New Hope Cemetery]]. <ref group="books" name="dowling" />  
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David died 24 Feb 1887 in Brantly County, Georgia, United States,and he is burred at [[New Hope Cemetery]].<ref group="headstones" name="davidhickox" /> <ref group="books" name="brantly cemeteries" />  
    
===Children===
 
===Children===
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<ref group="books" name="wiregrass primitive baptist">Crowley, John G. 1998. ''[[Primitive Baptists of the wiregrass south 1815 to the present.]]'' Gainesville: University Press of Florida. </ref>  
 
<ref group="books" name="wiregrass primitive baptist">Crowley, John G. 1998. ''[[Primitive Baptists of the wiregrass south 1815 to the present.]]'' Gainesville: University Press of Florida. </ref>  
 
<ref group="books" name="dowling">Dowling, R. A. 1959.''[[A Dowling family of the South]]''.</ref>
 
<ref group="books" name="dowling">Dowling, R. A. 1959.''[[A Dowling family of the South]]''.</ref>
<ref group="brantly cemeteries">[[Cemeteries & More: Genealogy Reference, Brantley County, Georgia]]. Nahunta, Georgia, United States: The Brantley County Historical and Preservation Society, Inc., 2002.</ref>
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<ref group="books" name="brantly cemeteries">[[Cemeteries & More: Genealogy Reference, Brantley County, Georgia]]. Nahunta, Georgia, United States: The Brantley County Historical and Preservation Society, Inc., 2002.</ref>
 
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