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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 
Died 12 Apr 1961 Granville, North Carolina, USA 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 Died Between 1925 and 1930 Granville, North Carolina, USA Buried Father unknown Thorp | F11334 Group Sheet Mother
Child 1 | Male
Calvin M. Thorp
Born 25 Mar 1912 Granville, North Carolina, USA Died 16 Sep 1988 Granville, North Carolina, USA Buried Spouse Bertha Belle Black | F2868 Married
Child 3 | Male
Benjamin Franklin Thorp
Born Jul 1915 Granville, North Carolina, USA Died 27 May 1940 Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, USA Buried Spouse Lucy | F11335 Married
Child 5 | Male
Robert Lee Thorp
Born 9 Aug 1917 Granville, North Carolina, USA Died 12 Jan 1999 Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, USA Buried Spouse Nannie | F11336 Married
Child 6 | Male
Samuel H. Thorp
Born 27 Feb 1921 Granville, North Carolina, USA Died 6 Jan 1989 Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA Buried Spouse Mary Frances Green | F11337 Married 14 Sep 1942 Granville, North Carolina, USA
Child 8 | Male
William Thorp
Born 1917 Granville, North Carolina, USA Died Bef 1930 Granville, North Carolina, USA Buried
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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.