Biographical Sketch of James Hickman, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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James Hickman, of Salem, Mo., was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1828,
being the eighth of eleven children.  He remained at home, working on
the farm and attending school, until he attained his majority, and in
1851 was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Kinney, who was born in
Ohio in 1833.  Her parents, Timothy and Rachel Kinney, moved from Ohio
to Carroll county, Mo., in 1865, and in 1870 moved to Dent.  The father
is still living.  Mr. and Mrs. Hickman became the parents of seven
children, five of whom are living.  One son, Siles P., resides at home, 
two sons and one daughter reside in Dent county, and the oldest 
daughter in Howell county.  One of their daughters died in Ohio, in 
1865, and one son in Missouri.  On the 31st of December, 1861, Mr.
Hickman enlisted in Company G, Seventy-seventh Regiment of Ohio Regi-
ment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of
Shiloh and Corinth.  April 25, 1864, while in the State of Arkansas, he
was taken prisoner and kept at Camp Fort Tex., until February 25, 1865,
when he was exchanged, and returned home on a furlough of sixty days,
and on account of poor health was allowed to remain.  He received his
discharge March 8, 1866.  His eyesight was badly injured during the war
and with the exception of a short period he has been totally blind ever
since.  Until 1872 he resided in Monroe county, Ohio, since which time
he has been a citizen of Dent county, Mo.  He owns a good farm of 280
acres, with 100 under cultivation, on which are a commodious two story
frame residence, large barn and other necessary outbuildings, and has
five acres in orchard, consisting of young and bearing trees.  He has
320 acres of timber land, located a short distance from the home place,
and his wife has 160 acres of land on Current River, in Dent county.
This river runs through the farm, and furnishes good water power, on
which she has caused a grist-mill to be built, and has placed it in
charge, of her oldest son, Timothy, who is a millwright and miller.  
Mr. and Mrs. Hickman were members of the Protestant Methodist Church
when in Ohio, but have never united with any church in Missouri.  Mr.
Hickman is a Republican in politics, and is a son of William and Mary
(Green) Hickman, the former being a native of Pennsylvania.  He died in
Monroe county, Ohio, in 1858, at the age of sixty-eight years, whither 
he had moved at an early day.  His wife was of English lineage, and 
died in Ohio, in 1856, at the age of sixty years.

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