Nansemond-New Kent County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Hicks, Wm. Mount, 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ WILLIAM MOUNTREVILLE HICKS MOUNT HICKS Suffolk, Va., Aug. 19 - Mount Hicks, an aged citizen of Crittenden, died Tuesday afternoon, in the seventy-fifty year of his age. He is survived by a widow, fours sons, Andrew, Charles, Walter and Harry Hicks, and one daughter, Miss Bettie Hicks. The Burial services were conducted at the grave in Crittenden cemetery yesterday at 2 o'clock. The pall-bearers were George Wilkerson, Edward Carson, Victor Crittendon [sic; Crittenden], T.B. Billingston, Walter Lewis and C.E. Murteague. William Mountreville "Mount" HICKS, retired oysterman, Confederate veteran, b. 2 Apr 1840, New Kent Co., d. 17 Aug 1914, Crittenden, Nansemond Co., interred in Mount Zion Christian Church Cemetery*, Crittenden, 18 Aug 1914, "Virginian-Pilot and Norfolk Landmark," Vol. 47, No. 51, Thurs., Aug. 20, 1914, p. 7, text posted with Find a Grave Memorial #286477815 [no grave photo]; *Additional information: Unmarked? Added to the Mount Zion list (Z-3), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/mtzion.txt D.Cert. 19275 (Chuckatuck #7) He was the son of John R. & Susan A. (MARTIN) HICKS. He served in the James City Artillery - Co. H (1st), 32nd VA Infantry, as Orderly Sergeant. His wife's obit ("Virginian-Pilot and Norfolk Landmark," Jan. 22, 1916, p. 7) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h200b1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h200m4ob.txt