REV. WILLIAM WARD HICKS,
Pastor in charge of the M. E. Church, South, in the East Abingdon
district, was born in Washington county, May 11, 1849. He married
in Tazewell county, Virginia, October 3, 1872, Mary A. Bane, who was
born in that county, October 10, 1850. The issue of this union is
seven children, born in the order named: Charles E., N. E. May, Maud,
William Bane, Marguerite A., Spiller, Ellen Stuart.
The father of William Ward Hicks is Rev. William Hicks, son of
William Hicks from Maryland, whose father came from England. His
mother is Elizabeth M., daughter of William Ward of Wythe county,
Virginia, whose father came from Ireland. William Ward, of Wythe
county, married a Miss Young of Tennessee.
Rev. William Hicks, pastor in the M. E. Church, South, was a prominent
member of the Holston conference, and several times a member of
the general conference. He was the Hayward county delegate to the
North Carolina convention at Raleigh that passed the ordinance of
secession, and during the war was chaplain of the 6th North Carolina
Infantry. Before the war he was editor of the Herald of Truth, subsequently
edited the Holston Advocate, in Virginia, also served as
superintendent of public schools in Bland county, Virginia.
The wife of Rev. William Ward Hicks is a daughter of William R.
Bane, Esq. of Tazewell county, whose father, Howard Bane, came from
Giles county to Tazewell county, the family of Scotch extraction. Her
mother was Nancy, daughter of Howard Haven, of Tazewell county.
