Martha Lee (Lula) Hickerson (1853-1956)

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April 5, 2003.  This page will be updated periodically.  If you have additional information, can clarify any of the fuzzy areas or correct any of the no doubt numerous mistakes in this history, please email me:  [email protected].  Comments are always welcome!

Children of Charles Kendall Hickerson and Martha Frances Burroughs

Martha Lee (Lula) Hickerson (1853-1956)[1]

Lula was the daughter of Charles Kendall Hickerson and Martha Frances Burroughs, and was born in 1853.[2]  She was said never to eat chocolate or bananas.[3]  She married Charles Tackett[4] (December 4, 1845 – October 9, 1920).[5]  He was a Civil War veteran, who had fought at Gettysburg.[6]  He was probably related in some way to Elizabeth Tackett, Lula’s grandmother. The Tacketts were Huguenots and had a presence in Stafford County for many generations.[7]  Lula and Charles had one daughter, Florence Tackett (December 28, 1879 – April 5, 1969)[8], who was unmarried and lived in Remington across the road from the Hickerson family farm.  Both Lula and Charles Tackett are buried in the Burroughs Hickerson cemetery outside Remington, Virginia.[9] Florence Tackett is buried in Remington Cemetery.[10] 

Florence Virginia Hickerson (April 10, 1854 – November 26, 1905)

Florence was born April 10, 1854.[11]  She never married and remained in Remington.[12]  In 1886, she bought shoes, buttons, and four yard of gingham fabric from James M. Daniel.  She paid for part of the balance with 98 chickens (she got $1.24 for the chickens).[13]  Later that year, she bought10 yards of calico fabric, six yards of wine dress material and a pair of shoes from G. W. Taylor.[14]   In 1888, she bought three chairs and a rocker, and paid $0.44 to have them shipped by rail to Rappahannock Station (Remington) on the Virginia Midland Railway Company.[15]

 

In 1890, Florence paid the bill for Miss Fannie Brannin, when Fannie bought nine yards of lawn dress material and two handkerchiefs from N. T. Shacklette.[16]  Florence’s aunt Virginia Hickerson married Richard Shacklett.  It is not known whether these two Shackletts are related.

 

Florence Hickerson died November 26, 1905 and is buried in the Burroughs Hickerson cemetery in Remington.[17]

Ella C. Hickerson (April 10, 1854[18] – 1854)

Ella and Florence were twins; Ella died as an infant. 

John Burroughs Hickerson (January 31, 1856 – November 27, 1940)

See Sketch.

 

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[1] Margaret Galloway, interview with the author, Richmond, Virginia, September 15, 2001.  Margaret’s father, John Murray Forbes Taylor, was the son of Lucy Hickerson and the grandson of Ransom Hickerson

[2] Dalton, Jett, Wiley.

[3] Amy Hickerson Dalton, Sue Hickerson Jett, and Louise Hickerson Wiley, interview with the author, Richmond, Virginia, September 15, 2001.

[4] Dalton, Jett, Wiley interview. 

[5] Gravestone of Charles Tackett, Burroughs Hickerson Cemetery, Remington, Virginia, investigated in the field by Martha Wiley, September 12, 2001.

[6] Civil War Reunion ribbons and medals, currently in the possession of the author.  According to Louise Hickerson Wiley, great granddaughter of Charles Kendall Hickerson, the medals had originally belonged to Charles Tackett and were inherited by his daughter, Florence Tackett.  

[7] Jerrilyn Eby, They Called Stafford Home, The Development of Stafford County, Virginia from 1600 until 1865 (Bowie, Maryland:  Heritage Books, 1997) p.153-155, 164-166.

[8] Gravestone of Florence Tackett, Remington Cemetery, Remington, Virginia.  Investigated in the field by the author, September, 2001.

[9] Charles Tackett’s gravestone was present in the cemetery in September 2001 and August, 2002.  Lula Tackett’s gravestone was reported present in 1950, on a map of the cemetery dated 9-20-1950, but was not listed by Nancy Chappelear Baird, Fauquier County, Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions (Delaplane, Virginia: 1970), or by Nancy Baird, Carol Jordan and Joseph Scherer, Fauquier County Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 2 (Bowie, Maryland:  Heritage Books, 2000), and was not found by the author on either field visit in 2000 or 2001.

[10] Gravestone of Florence Tackett.

[11] Fauquier County Birth Registry, 1853 – 1896.  Abstracted and compiled by Dee Ann Buck (Fairfax, Virginia, 1996) p. 115.

[12] Dalton, Jett, Wiley interview.

[13] Hickerson papers, Miss Florence Hickerson in account with James M. Daniel, April-October 1886.

[14] Hickerson papers, Miss Florence Hickerson, bought of G. W. Taylor, 1886.

[15] Hickerson papers, Virginia Midland Railway Company, April 16, 1888.

[16] Hickerson papers, Miss Fannie Brannin, January, 1891.

[17] Gravestone of Florence Virginia Hickerson, Burroughs – Hickerson cemetery.

[18] Fauquier County Birth Registry, 1853 – 1896, p. 115.

 

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