University of Virginia Library

16. Hicks, Herbert Worchester

March 30, 1937

Chauncey C. Moore, Supervisor

Indian-Pioneer History, S-149

James R. Carselowey

Field Worker

Interview: Herbert W. Hicks

Vinita, Okla.

Father: Herbert Worcester Hicks, born at Pork Hill, Indian Territory, May 14, 1861 and was married to Rachel Cardwell at Fayetteville, Arkansas, December 23, 1886. Rachel Cardwell was the daughter of James and Sarah Cardwell and was born July 20, 1869, in Washington County, Arkansas. To this union the following children were born: Ethel Inez, Homer Wilton, Clifton A., Vern Clara, Ralph Conner, Herbert Morris

Vera Clara died November 20, 1900.

Father's Name: Abijah Hicks, born March 2, 1819, married January 30, 1852 to Hanna Worcester and she was born January 29, 1834, at New Echota, Georgia.

My father and mother came with the Cherokees from Georgia and Tennessee in 1838. My mother was a daughter of Reverend Samuel A. Worcester, one of the first missionaries to the Cherokees back in Georgia and my father was a descendent of Charles Hicks, a Cherokee chief in the old Cherokee Nation in Georgia.

In 1835, after serving a term in the Georgia penitentiary, because of his firm fidelity to the tribe, my grandfather, Rev. Worcester, was forced to leave Georgia. His notice to evacuate follows:

It becomes my duty to give you notice to evacuate the lot of land No. 125, in the 14th District, of the third section, and to give the house now occupied by you to Col. William Handen, or whoever he may put forward to take possession of the same and that you may have ample time to prepare for the same, I will allow you until the 28th day of this month to do the same.