1887 Obituary of Lee Hicks of Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 10/2006


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1887 Obituary of Lee Hicks of Union Parish Louisiana

Published in the Farmerville "Gazette", issue dated Wednesday, 23 February 1887, page 2
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Little Lee Hicks, youngest child of G. W. and Elizabeth Hicks, dec'd, aged two years, 
ten months and three days, died January 29, 1887, from a burn received by turning over 
a can of grease. Little Lee being left an orphan when a mere babe was taken by Mr. and 
Mrs. Jas. Hall to raise, became the darling of their bosom, and was loved by all who 
knew him. Although your love is great, dear parents, grieve not for your little boy, 
but rest with the happy thought that he is now where no pain can enter. 

The night was long and rainy, 
Poor baby's sufferings great, 
Until two o'clock on Saturday eve, 
It leaped for the heavenly gate. 

                                                                    J. G. Taylor. 

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NOTE: George Washington Hicks and his wife Elizabeth Lee Hicks both died in about
1885. Elizabeth was the daughter of Martin Batte Lee and Levincy Albritton. The 
Lees moved from Snow Hill, in Wilcox County Alabama to eastern Union Parish in 
1847. 

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