Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....SIKES, F. FRANK 1853 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
F. FRANK SIKES, farmer, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Darling and
Sarah (Cochran) Sikes, was born in Baker county, Ga., in 1853. His parents 
were born in North Carolina, and migrated by wagon and on horseback to Georgia 
and settled in the woods in Baker county in 1851. There he had cleared a farm 
and had just got well settled when the "unpleasantness" was precipitated.
	In 1861 he enlisted in Capt. Kendricks’ company, Fifty-first Georgia 
regiment, and was in the service nearly four years, and most of the time 
was "one of Stonewall Jackson's men," and was in the battle and under the 
command of that distinguished officer when he was killed. Mr. Sikes was a 
sharpshooter, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness; He was always a 
farmer, and was a consistent member of the Baptist church. His mother was a 
daughter of Eli and Mary (Griffin) Cochran, also Carolinians, who came to 
Georgia and settled in Baker county about the time Mr. Sikes' family came. 
They, also, were member of the Baptist church. Mr. Sikes was reared in Baker 
county, received but little education, came to Carroll county when only 
sixteen years of age, and settled where he now lives. He had nothing but good 
health, pluck and self-reliance to start with, but was a live, wide-awake 
farmer, worked hard, and lived and managed closely, and now has a large enough 
farm, well improved, a two-story dwelling, and a good substantial barn and out-
buildings. Mr. Sikes was married in 1875 to Miss Virginia Green-born and 
reared in Carroll county-daughter of Alexander and Eliza (Chappel) Green, by 
whom he has had three children: Walter c., Anna B., and Lois G. Mr. and Mrs. 
Sikes are members of the Missionary Baptist church, and enjoy in the highest 
degree the respect and esteem of their friends and neighbors.


Additional Comments:
From the book "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches,
published in 1896

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