John Crawford HicksAge: 79 years1849–1928
- Name
- John Crawford Hicks
- Given names
- John Crawford
- Surname
- Hicks
 Birth | April 29, 1849 |
 Marriage | Mary Frances Patton — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 7 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 11 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 17 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 17 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 19 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 28 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Vesta Isabel Hicks May 21, 1882 (Age 33 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 48 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Marriage of a child | Lemuel Franklin Young — Vesta Isabel Hicks — View this family October 21, 1903 (Age 54 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | David Crawford Young July 15, 1905 (Age 56 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Mary Frances Young September 15, 1907 (Age 58 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 66 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 67 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 68 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
 Death | May 16, 1928 (Age 79 years) |
| Family with Mary Frances Patton |
| himself |
John Crawford Hicks Birth: April 29, 1849 — Madisonville, Monroe, Tennessee, United States Death: May 16, 1928 — Sweetwater, Monroe, Tennessee, United States |
| wife |
Mary Frances Patton Birth: August 25, 1862 — Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States Death: February 9, 1945 — Sweetwater, Monroe, Tennessee, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| daughter |
Vesta Isabel Hicks Birth: May 21, 1882 33 19 — Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States Death: March 29, 1951 — Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States |