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Sabine County Reporter
May 19, 2004

S.C. "Ted" Hicks

Samuel Clayton "Ted" Hicks of Jasper died Sunday, May 9, 2004 at his residence. Hicks was born Sept. 12, 1918 in McKinney as a son of the late W.L. and Emma Edith (Higgins) Hicks. He moved to Jasper in 1935 with the Civilian Conservation Corp. He retired in 1985 after 37 years of employment with Temple-Inland and was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. Hicks was an active member of Zion Hill Baptist Church. Survivors: his wife of over 66 years, Marie McLemore Hicks of Jasper; daughters and sons-in-law, Elizabeth and Robert Earl THOMAS of Jasper and Janette and Jerry CLARK of Buna; four grandchildren, Todd THOMAS of Houston, Tedd THOMAS of Brookeland and Jerilyn Clark WALTERS and Joel CLARK, both of Buna; six great-grandchildren, two brothers, and three sisters. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Stringer and Griffin Funeral Home chapel in Jasper. Interment followed at Zion Hill Cemetery in Jasper County.

Samuel married Annie Marie McLemore on 20 Nov 1937 in Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas. Annie (daughter of Ivy Augustus McLemore and Kate Elizabeth Sims) was born on 13 Nov 1921 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 10 Sep 2011 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Member of the Texas and National Associations of Realtors; Jasper Chamber of Commerce. Her hobbies are travelling, handwork, and her grandchildren.

When Marie was a little girl, she told her cousin Ruby Lee Morgan "My daddy said I'm going to get a permanent this year, (even) if it takes all his sheep."

Obituary

Annie Marie McLemore Hicks went to be with her Savior on Saturday, September 10, 2011. She was surrounded by her family, who loved her dearly and will miss her greatly. Funeral Services will be 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home in Jasper, with burial to follow at Zion Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be 5:00 - 8:00 p.m., Monday, September 12, 2011, at the funeral home. A lifelong Jasper resident, Marie was born on November 13, 1921, to Ivy A. and Kate McLemore. She was one of nine children, having six brothers and two sisters. She married S.C. 'Ted' Hicks on November 20, 1937. Marie and Ted were married for 66 years. Marie was a homemaker in her early years, later attending Piney Woods Business College and working for E.P. Hughes as a legal secretary. Her interest in land and knowledge of the Jasper area led her to become a realtor. She served thirty years in the Real Estate Industry, the last fifteen years as a partner with John Lanier in Lanier Hicks Real Estate of Jasper. She served as President of the Deep East Texas Board of Realtors, was an active member of the Newcomers Club, and Director of The Jasper Chamber of Commerce. She was a member of the Zion Hill Baptist Church. She and Ted developed a herd of cattle after retirement on the Sims, McLemore owned land in the Springhill Community of Jasper. She loved to travel, create art, quilting, and tending to her farm and cows. Most of all she loved her Lord and was strong in her faith in God, her family, the Jasper area and it's people. She is survived by her two daughters, Elizabeth Hicks Thomas and husband, Robert Earl of Jasper, and Janette Hicks Clark and husband, Jerry of Buna; two brothers, John D. McLemore and Dr. Bobbie F. McLemore; four grandchildren, Todd Thomas and wife, Bridget of Houston, Jerilyn Walters and husband, Todd of Buna, Tedd Thomas of Brookeland, and Joel Clark and wife, Jo Della of Buna; six great grandchildren, Erin Thomas, Elise Thomas, Jacob Clark, Jessi Clark, Joseph Clark, and Hannah Walters. She is also survived by numerous other family and friends. Marie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, S.C. 'Ted' Hicks; four brothers, Tommie, J.W., Earl, and Hoy McLemore; two sisters, Irma Brauniger and Elsie Gilley. The family wants to express their heartfelt thanks to all of Marie's caregivers over the years. Memorials may be made to Lakes Area Hospice PO Box 2086 Jasper, TX 75951 or the charity of your choice.

Published in The Beaumont Enterprise on September 13, 2011
Also published in The Sabine County Reporter, September 21, 2011

Ivy married Kate Elizabeth Sims on 24 Apr 1907 in Jasper County, Texas. Kate (daughter of Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims and Francis Amanda Allen) was born in Dec 1893 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 28 Feb 1978 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He married Kate Elizabeth Sims 9-4-1910, the sister of his brother Frank's wife. He later bought her father's farm where he and Kate lived out their lives. (Nan Kittell).

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According to Minnie McLemore, he could not read or write; Rose Ella taught him as well as her children. According to Othalia (Mrs. Lee) McLemore, Sam wore two sets of glasses at once, pushing one up on his forehead. He died after getting a stone bruise on his heel at his home in Erin, Texas.

The information about Samuel McFarland McLemore and his descendants was generously provided by Nan McCoy Kittell. It is from a Living Family History loose leaf notebook she prepared for the fifth anniversary of the Samuel McFarland McLemore reunion held in June 1984. Her information was updated at subsequent reunions. The final reunion was held in 1999 at the Zion Hill Baptist Church in Jasper.

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, Jasper County, Pr. No. 3
Enumerated 26 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 29 Sheets 21 B and 22A
355-358
McLemore, Sarah Head W F Jan 1845 55 Wd 9/5 Ga Ga Ga Farmer
McLemore, George Son W M Mar 1873 27 S Tx Nc Ga Farm Laborer
356-359
McLemore, Sam Head W M Oct 1861 38 M Tx Nc Ga Farmer
McLemore, Rosella Wf W F Nov 1861 38 M 25 10/10 Tx Ga Ga
McLemore, Frank Son W M Oct 1887 12 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
McLemore, Ivey Son W M Dec 1888 11 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
McLemore, Bulah Dtr W F Oct 1892 7 Tx Tx Tx
McLemore, Ollie Dtr W F Jan 1894 6 S Tx Tx Tx
McLemore, Roy Son W M Jan 1896 4 S Tx Tx Tx
McLemore, Minnie Dtr W F Jun 1897 2 S Tx Tx Tx
McLemore, Lee Son W M Mar 1899 1 S Tx Tx Tx
Turner, Cecil Stepson W M Jan 1882 18 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Turner, Hattie Stepdtr W F Jun 1884 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Turner, Annie Stepdtr W F July 1887 12 S Tx Tx Tx

1920 Census
Texas, Jasper County, JP 8
Enumerated 12 Feb 1920
SD 326 ED 80 Sheets 8B
145-155
McLemore, Samuel Head M W 59 m Tx NC Ark Farmer
McLemore, Rose Wf F W 58 M Tx Ga Ga
McLemore, Lucy Dtr F W 13 S Tx Tx Tx

Samuel married Mary Palmyra Horn on 12 Dec 1886 in Jasper County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Elmer Augustus Horn and Sarah Hester Haynes) was born on 15 Oct 1869 in Magnolia Springs, Jasper County, Texas; died after 1888 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Springs Cemetery, Magnolia Springs, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Performed by the Rev. B. B. Saxon of Jasper.

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In A.C. Sims' memoirs of the Civil War, he tells that he joined up with General Hood's Texas Regiment in Georgia after the death of this twin brother, Hub in Arkansas. His elder brother, Tom, was an officer in the Confederate Army. A.C. suffered much illness during the period he was in Georgia. Upon the end of the fighting, he returned home to East Texas where he was a teacher and later a Baptist Minister.

He first married Rachell Segrest, and on the 1870 Tyler County census, they were living in the home of Rachell's father, Jacob Segrist. About 3 months after the birth of Apless Arabella, Rachell died, leaving A.C. with 5 children under the age of 10. He later married Fannie Allen, and they had 5 more children.

His last will and testament was very simple:

State of Texas Jasper, Jasper County 21 January 1903

To all whom it may concern: Know by these prescence that it is my will that my beloved wife F.A. Sims after my decease shall retain full possession of all that is called mine as a means of support until her death provided, however, she remains single. In the event that she should marry again or die, all properties in anywise belonging to me be equally divided between my ten children. Written with mine own hand this 21 day of January A.D. 1903.

A.C. Sims

(The foregoing information is courtesy of Candie Sims. A. C. Sims's full memoirs of the Civil War, orginally published inthe JASPER NEWS BOY on May 17, 1911, can be found on Candie's website: http://CandiesTree.webjump.com/ )

Alfred married Francis Amanda Allen on 15 Sep 1884. Francis (daughter of John M. Allen and Ann Thyrxa/Thriza Thomason) was born on 1 Sep 1853 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 1 Dec 1933 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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At the time of hte 1930 Federal Census, she was living with her son and daughter-in-law, Albert and Ruth Sims, in Jasper.

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In August, 1884, A.C. Sims wrote this letter to Miss Fannie Allen, a maiden woman of 31 years. They were married in September.

Beech Grove Jasper County, Texas August 8th, 1884

Miss Fannie Allen,

I trust that you will forgive my presumption in thus addressing you without first having obtained your permission to do so. Though I am a stranger to you, yet your bright smiles haunt me still so that you no longer seem as a stranger to me, and I cannot forbear the temptations longer that I have to make known to you some of my thoughts, affections and wishes, and fearing lest I should not have such an opportunity as I would desire to express my sentiments, were I to visit you, I have concluded to adopt this medium of expression. Affection is sometimes of slow growth and again it springs up in a moment and I hope you will pardon me for confessing the truth by declaring to you my love for you at first sight and you will not, I trust, think it so strange of it when you shall learn of the favorable reports which I have received of you which taken in connection with your personal beauty I think sifficient cause to engage the affections of even the most fastidious.

I of course cannot hope to have made so favorable an impression on your mind on so short an acquantance but I do not know what is in your heart or what might be hereafter and I therefore desire to give expression of my feelings and learn my fate before it is too late. I wish that you may therefore after serious consideration of this letter to inform me whether or not I shall cherish this feeling or shall I smother it at once. I fully believe that when two like hearts meet that it is no difficult taks for them to determine that fact and I cannot help entertaining a hope that you are one that I am in search of and in futher testimony there of I will relate to you a strange circumstance. Before arriving at your house last Sunday, I asked a sign of the Lord that if either of the three ladies that were there should be the one that she might show it by asking me if I had not been to dinner. I hope that the answer is from the Lord and that he may awaken in your bosom the same feeling that I now experience for you. If you should see fit to answer this letter direct it to me at Town Bluff, Texas. If you should wish to send it by hand you need not be afraid to deposit it with your Cousin Dug as she is aware that I have written this to you but no one else,

Respectfully,

A.C. Sims

(Courtesy of Candie Ann Marie Sims)

The 1900 Census showed they had been married 16 years, and that she was the mother of 5 children, all living.