
My ggg-grandmother Hester Jane (Ingram) Hicks was born in Crowan, Cornwall, England in 1822, and died on October 24, 1889, in Scales Mound, Jo Daviess Co, Illinois. When she was 20 years old, she married Henry Hicks. The marriage took place in Cornwall, England, on March 28, 1842. According to her son Alfred's biography published in The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties (1919) V.II, page 645: "They were married in their native country and their wedding journey consisted of a trip to the United States. … [Read more...]


