Biographical Sketch of Young Hicklin, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Young Hicklin.  The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a native of
this county and was born on the old James Hicklin homestead, two and one-
half miles east of Lexington.  He is a son of James and Agnes Hicklin, 
and was born July 29, 1842.  His mother was a daughter of William Cross,
of Howard county, Missouri.  His father was from Tennessee, and died in
June, 1875.  Young Hicklin was raised and educated in this county, and
has lived here all his life, and since the war on the old homestead farm,
where he was born.  When about fifteen years old he left home and went to
Texas, and after being there a few months joined the Texas rangers on the
frontier, and was with them under Gen. Ben McCullough when the civil war
broke out, and entered the confedereate service under McCullough in 1861,
but remained only a short time and then returned home.  But the militia
soon got after him, and he then went to Jackson county and joined the re-
cruits under Capt. Hays and went south.  His father sent for him to 
return and assist in getting his slaves to the south, which he did, being
released for that purpose; but he was forced to take to the brush to save
himself as soon as he got to this county.  He then went into the regular
service under Gen. Raine, and was in a battery, commanded by Captain
Roberts, at Pea Ridge, and was with this battery until after the battle 
of Jenkins' Ferry, where a section of the battery was captured, and most
of the men and horses killed.  The battery was charged by two negro regi-
ments, who murdered the men promiscuously after the capture.  Hicklin
escaped by jumping into a lake, was afraid to surrender to the negroes. 
He then made his way to Shelby, and soon went into the recruiting service
under Cols. Coffey and Crisp, with a captain's commission.  He was in
Price's last raid, but left the army on leave after it returned south.
Went to Ellis county, Texas, where he remained until the surrender.  He
was in the battles of Lexington, Jenkins' Ferry, Prairie Grove, and num-
erous minor engagements, and in the battles of Price's raid.  He was
captured once, at Little Rock, but was exchanged in a short time.  After
he returned home in 1865 he still had trouble with the militia element, 
but held his own, until the times got quiet.  While with a friend, Arch
Clemments, in Lexington, they were attacked.  Clemments was shot down, 
but Hicklin escaped by running and going for a time to Saline county.  He
was married June 6, 1869 to Miss Eliza Plummer, of Saline county.  They
have three children, one son and two daughters.  He was engaged five 
years in the cattle business in Colorado, where he made money, and in
1875 returned and bought the old homestead and handsomely improved the
same.  Both he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church,
south.

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