Martha Jane Hicks

1839-1917 · Georgia

Born 1839, Nassau County, Florida

Died 1917

Father: Bryant Hicks

Mother: Ruth Hull

Children include Willoughby

Martha Jane Hicks was born on 16 May 1839 in Nassau County, Florida, the county on the St. Marys River at the Georgia line. Her father was Bryant Hicks and her mother Ruth Hull, born in Georgia. Her mother married again, to James F. Raulerson, and Robert Rowan Raulerson, born in 1845, was her half-brother.

On 6 October 1859, in Volusia County, she married Archibald Minshew, a young man born at Fort Gatlin, Florida. Their sons Bryant Breckinridge Minshew and Willoughby Minshew were born in 1860 and 1862, Willoughby at Pierson. The elder was named for her father.

She later married a Harper. Her Harper children were born between 1872 and 1883: Noah, Mary Jane, Andrew Oliver, called Ollie, Jacob A., called Jake, George Leamon and Harry Hudson Harper.

Martha Jane Harper died at Pierson on 25 April 1917, aged 78, of chronic nephritis, after five days under a doctor's care. She was still married. A Harper of Pierson gave the details for her certificate, and it was filed by the local registrar, L. A. Hagstrom. Her daughter Mary Jane was Mrs. Hagstrom.

Parents

Ruth Hull b. 1823

Bryant Hicks

Children

Willoughby Minshew 1862-1938

Sources

Florida State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, certificate of death, Volusia County, state file no. 22376, Willoughby Minshew, 1938; image on Find a Grave memorial 32303597.

Florida death certificate, Volusia County, Willoughby Minshew, 1938, state file 22376; Find a Grave memorials 32295535, 32303597

Florida death certificate, Volusia County, Willoughby Minshew, 1938, state file 22376; Find a Grave memorials 32295535, 32303597; Florida death certificate, Volusia County, file 4478, Martha Jane Harper, 1917 (image on Find a Grave memorial 32295535); Florida, Marriages, 1837-1974, Archibald Minshew and Martha Jane Hicks, 1859 (FamilySearch 1:1:V5ZS-HTT)

Florida, State Board of Health, certificate of death, Volusia County, file 4478, 1917; image on Find a Grave, memorial 32295535, added by GenGirl.

Find a Grave, memorial 32295535, photograph added by Billy Walker on 10 Dec 2014.

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