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Family: William Thomas Hicks / Lucy Thorp (F2866)



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  • Father | Male
    William Thomas Hicks

    Born  21 Mar 1894  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  12 Apr 1961  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Married     
    Father  William Lewis Hicks | F2865 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Ailsie Thomas Slaughter | F2865 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Lucy Thorp

    Born  May 1894  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Between 1925 and 1930  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Father  unknown Thorp | F11334 Group Sheet 
    Mother   

    Child 1 | Male
    Calvin M. Thorp

    Born  25 Mar 1912  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  16 Sep 1988  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Bertha Belle Black | F2868 
    Married     

    Child 2 | Female
    Tassie L. Thorp

    Born  1913  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried     

    Child 3 | Male
    Benjamin Franklin Thorp

    Born  Jul 1915  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  27 May 1940  Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Lucy | F11335 
    Married     

    Child 4 | Female
    Annie R. Thorp

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    Buried     

    Child 5 | Male
    Robert Lee Thorp

    Born  9 Aug 1917  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  12 Jan 1999  Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Nannie | F11336 
    Married     

    Child 6 | Male
    Samuel H. Thorp

    Born  27 Feb 1921  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  6 Jan 1989  Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Mary Frances Green | F11337 
    Married  14 Sep 1942  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 7 | Male
    Lewey E. Thorp

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    Died     
    Buried     

    Child 8 | Male
    William Thorp

    Born  1917  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Bef 1930  Granville, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     

  • Notes 
    • Someone who knew the family told me years ago that William Thomas Hicks had children by a black woman named Lucy Thorp. I was shown the family cemetery and was told that the black descendants living in the area kept it up. I have checked the census records and found that in 1900 William Thomas Hicks and Lucy Thorp lived in the same neighborhood. In 1910, they were listed three houses apart. They were teenagers and probably met about then. Lucy's first child was born about 1912. In 1920, they were listed two houses apart. Lucy had five children at that time. She was listed as "widowed" although two more children show up in the 1930 census, and there was never a father listed in her household. William was still living with his mother in 1920. In 1930, William was listed as living adjacent to Lucy's children. Lucy evidently died sometime after the last child was born (about 1925), but before the census (1930). The oldest child, Calvin M. Thorp, was 18 and head of the household which consisted of him and his four brothers and two sisters. Lucy was listed as black in the 1900 census and mulatto in 1910 and 1920. The children were listed as mulatto in 1920 and as Negro in 1930.


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