Thurston Hicks was the oldest son and second child of Benjamin Willis Hicks and Isabella Jane Crews. He married Mary Eliza Horner and had four children. He was a lawyer in Henderson NC.
Near the end of his life, he wrote a book which was published privately in 1926 (reprinted by his son in 1954) which is considered a primary source for genealogical research in the Vance and Granville County areas. The title is:
"SKETCHES
- OF -
WILLIAM HICKS
ABNER HICKS
JASPER HICKS
GEORGE HARRIS
JAMES CREWS
JOHN EARL
And Something of their Descendants
With Comparisons of Present Conditions of Living With Those of Sixty Years Ago."
THURSTON T. HICKS Obituary "News and Observer"
SUCCUMBS AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
T.T. HICKS DIES AT HENDERSON HOME
Well Known Attorney, Dean of Bar, Passes After
Long Illness
Henderson, July 28.Thurston T. Hicks, dean of the Henderson bar, and prominent in Republican politics in North Carolina, died suddenly at his home on Burwell avenue in this city at 8:25 o'clock this morning. He was sitting in a chair on the porch awaiting breakfast when death called him. He had been in ill health for the past year and a half, suffering from angina pectoris and an ailment of the kidneys, and during most of that time had been unable to attend to his large law practice. He had been confined to his home almost continuously for the past six or eight months, and during that period had been considered in a critical condition.
Mr. Hicks was born in Granville county October 14, 1857, and was in his seventieth year. On January 5, 1881, he was licensed to practice law, and moved to Henderson January 8, 1882, and 'had been practicing here since that time. He was the oldest member of the Henderson bar, both in years and in point of residence here, having come to Henderson a few years prior to Judge Thomas M. Pittman, and being the latter's senior by a month. They were life long friends and practitioners at the local bar.
Mr. Hicks was married December, 6 1883, to Miss Mary Horner, who survives, together with two sons, Edison T., and Benjamin H. Hicks, both of whom were associated with their father in the practice of law here, and one daughter, Mrs. S. P. Purvis, of Salisbury. Two brothers, A. A. Hicks, prominent member of the Oxford bar, and H. B. Hicks, well known farmer of Vance county, and one sister, Mrs. S. R. Harris, Sr. of Henderson, also survive.
Funeral This Afternoon.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock from the Methodist Protest church of this city, of which he was for many years a leading member,-and will be conducted by the pastor. Rev. R. A. Hunter. Interment will be at Elmwood cemetery here, in the family plot. Active pallbearers, all members of the Henderson bar, were announced today as follows: T. M. Pittman, J, H. Bridgers, J. C. Kittrell, R. S. McCoin, B. H. Perry, J. P. Zollicoffer, Irvine B. Watkins. Honorary pallbearers were announced as follows: George A. Harris, S. H. Satterwhite, S. J. Satterwhite, R. B., Powell, Gus Roth, W. B. Parham, L. W. Burroughs, E. O. Taylor, S. F. Teiser, S. B. Burwell. W. P. Gholson, Henry Perry, R. E. Clements, Al. B. Wester, George B. Harris, R. G. Kittrell, D. P. McDuffee, J. M. Peace, A. A. Bunn, J. H. Zollicoffer, T. P. Gholson, T. S. Kittrell, R. G. S. Davis, Vernon |W. Faris, L. R. Gooch, A. A. Zollicoffer, R. J. Southerland, Dr. R. T. Upchurch, L. M. Bullock, h. T. Howard, S. T. Peace, K. L. Burton- W. C.
Might, C. W. Hargrove, J. I. Miller, Dr. B. G. Allen, W. S. Parker, S. M. Blacknall, C. L Blacknall, B J. Corbitt, L. C. Kerner, Dr. W. H. Purman, S. P. Cooper, E. G. Landis, J. S. Evans, H. O. Faulkner, W W. Parker, S. W. Greenway, C. W. Finch, S. S. Parham, N. A. Garrett, Sheriff W. H. Smith, Dr. F. R. Harris, M. L. Legg.
Honored By His Party
Mr. Hicks was twice elected mayor of Henderson, in 1899 and 1900. In l892 he ran for the State Legislature against a Populist and a negro, and in his own words, "I beat the Populist and the negro beat me," and at that time he broke with the Democratic party and since had been affiliated with the Republican party in politics, and had been highly
honored by that organization in many ways. In 1909 he was prominently mentioned for "United States district judge for Eastern North Carolina, and had the promise of President Taft for the office, but failed of the support of the North Carolina Senators and was not appointed..In 1910 he was the Republican candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and six years ago he was a candidate for associate justice of the Supreme Court., In 1926 he was on tho Republican ticket in the third district as the opponent of Judge Garland E. Midyette. He had attended a number of Republican National Conventions, and was a man high in the councils of his party, and whose advice was often sought in the conduct of its affairs. Mr. Hicks was prominent in the North Carolina Bar Association, and at the time of his death had for years been a member of its executive committee, having been reelected at the 1927 convention, despite his illness and inability to attend its meetings.. He was also at one time a vice-president of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Mr. Hicks was a great student of history, law, philosophy and religion. Once he said that "poetry was the delight of my youth, fiction and humor of my young manhood, biography and the philosophy of religion of my later years." .
In Prominent Legal Battle
The deceased figure prominently in many years of the most important legal battles in this and nearby counties in the past forty years. One of them was the fight in which it
was held that all fines imposed by mayors or other police courts should be paid to the school fund and not to the town treasuries. He always regarded the famous Gattis vs Kilgo case as tho longest and best fight he ever made. He had the choice of sides and chose the defendant. It was a "seven years war" of acute public interest all the time, was four times in the Supreme Court and five times fiercely fought before Judges Bryan, Hoke, Shaw, W. R. Allen and Fred Moore. He was noted as a criminal lawyer, and took part in most such trials of importance in Vance county for the past four decades.
The Henderson bar held a meeting this afternoon and adopted resolutions of sympathy to the family and paying a tribute to his memory and to his long service as a barrister in Vance county. He was known of nearly every citizen of the county, and, despite his political views and convictions, which were strong and vigorous, was respected for his honesty of purpose and intentions, and held in the highest esteeem and affection by nearly every one who knew him.
Near the end of his life, he wrote a book which was published privately in 1926 (reprinted by his son in 1954) which is considered a primary source for genealogical research in the Vance and Granville County areas. The title is:
"SKETCHES
- OF -
WILLIAM HICKS
ABNER HICKS
JASPER HICKS
GEORGE HARRIS
JAMES CREWS
JOHN EARL
And Something of their Descendants
With Comparisons of Present Conditions of Living With Those of Sixty Years Ago."
THURSTON T. HICKS Obituary "News and Observer"
SUCCUMBS AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
T.T. HICKS DIES AT HENDERSON HOME
Well Known Attorney, Dean of Bar, Passes After
Long Illness
Henderson, July 28.Thurston T. Hicks, dean of the Henderson bar, and prominent in Republican politics in North Carolina, died suddenly at his home on Burwell avenue in this city at 8:25 o'clock this morning. He was sitting in a chair on the porch awaiting breakfast when death called him. He had been in ill health for the past year and a half, suffering from angina pectoris and an ailment of the kidneys, and during most of that time had been unable to attend to his large law practice. He had been confined to his home almost continuously for the past six or eight months, and during that period had been considered in a critical condition.
Mr. Hicks was born in Granville county October 14, 1857, and was in his seventieth year. On January 5, 1881, he was licensed to practice law, and moved to Henderson January 8, 1882, and 'had been practicing here since that time. He was the oldest member of the Henderson bar, both in years and in point of residence here, having come to Henderson a few years prior to Judge Thomas M. Pittman, and being the latter's senior by a month. They were life long friends and practitioners at the local bar.
Mr. Hicks was married December, 6 1883, to Miss Mary Horner, who survives, together with two sons, Edison T., and Benjamin H. Hicks, both of whom were associated with their father in the practice of law here, and one daughter, Mrs. S. P. Purvis, of Salisbury. Two brothers, A. A. Hicks, prominent member of the Oxford bar, and H. B. Hicks, well known farmer of Vance county, and one sister, Mrs. S. R. Harris, Sr. of Henderson, also survive.
Funeral This Afternoon.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock from the Methodist Protest church of this city, of which he was for many years a leading member,-and will be conducted by the pastor. Rev. R. A. Hunter. Interment will be at Elmwood cemetery here, in the family plot. Active pallbearers, all members of the Henderson bar, were announced today as follows: T. M. Pittman, J, H. Bridgers, J. C. Kittrell, R. S. McCoin, B. H. Perry, J. P. Zollicoffer, Irvine B. Watkins. Honorary pallbearers were announced as follows: George A. Harris, S. H. Satterwhite, S. J. Satterwhite, R. B., Powell, Gus Roth, W. B. Parham, L. W. Burroughs, E. O. Taylor, S. F. Teiser, S. B. Burwell. W. P. Gholson, Henry Perry, R. E. Clements, Al. B. Wester, George B. Harris, R. G. Kittrell, D. P. McDuffee, J. M. Peace, A. A. Bunn, J. H. Zollicoffer, T. P. Gholson, T. S. Kittrell, R. G. S. Davis, Vernon |W. Faris, L. R. Gooch, A. A. Zollicoffer, R. J. Southerland, Dr. R. T. Upchurch, L. M. Bullock, h. T. Howard, S. T. Peace, K. L. Burton- W. C.
Might, C. W. Hargrove, J. I. Miller, Dr. B. G. Allen, W. S. Parker, S. M. Blacknall, C. L Blacknall, B J. Corbitt, L. C. Kerner, Dr. W. H. Purman, S. P. Cooper, E. G. Landis, J. S. Evans, H. O. Faulkner, W W. Parker, S. W. Greenway, C. W. Finch, S. S. Parham, N. A. Garrett, Sheriff W. H. Smith, Dr. F. R. Harris, M. L. Legg.
Honored By His Party
Mr. Hicks was twice elected mayor of Henderson, in 1899 and 1900. In l892 he ran for the State Legislature against a Populist and a negro, and in his own words, "I beat the Populist and the negro beat me," and at that time he broke with the Democratic party and since had been affiliated with the Republican party in politics, and had been highly
honored by that organization in many ways. In 1909 he was prominently mentioned for "United States district judge for Eastern North Carolina, and had the promise of President Taft for the office, but failed of the support of the North Carolina Senators and was not appointed..In 1910 he was the Republican candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and six years ago he was a candidate for associate justice of the Supreme Court., In 1926 he was on tho Republican ticket in the third district as the opponent of Judge Garland E. Midyette. He had attended a number of Republican National Conventions, and was a man high in the councils of his party, and whose advice was often sought in the conduct of its affairs. Mr. Hicks was prominent in the North Carolina Bar Association, and at the time of his death had for years been a member of its executive committee, having been reelected at the 1927 convention, despite his illness and inability to attend its meetings.. He was also at one time a vice-president of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Mr. Hicks was a great student of history, law, philosophy and religion. Once he said that "poetry was the delight of my youth, fiction and humor of my young manhood, biography and the philosophy of religion of my later years." .
In Prominent Legal Battle
The deceased figure prominently in many years of the most important legal battles in this and nearby counties in the past forty years. One of them was the fight in which it
was held that all fines imposed by mayors or other police courts should be paid to the school fund and not to the town treasuries. He always regarded the famous Gattis vs Kilgo case as tho longest and best fight he ever made. He had the choice of sides and chose the defendant. It was a "seven years war" of acute public interest all the time, was four times in the Supreme Court and five times fiercely fought before Judges Bryan, Hoke, Shaw, W. R. Allen and Fred Moore. He was noted as a criminal lawyer, and took part in most such trials of importance in Vance county for the past four decades.
The Henderson bar held a meeting this afternoon and adopted resolutions of sympathy to the family and paying a tribute to his memory and to his long service as a barrister in Vance county. He was known of nearly every citizen of the county, and, despite his political views and convictions, which were strong and vigorous, was respected for his honesty of purpose and intentions, and held in the highest esteeem and affection by nearly every one who knew him.
Thurston Hicks was the oldest son and second child of Benjamin Willis Hicks and Isabella Jane Crews. He married Mary Eliza Horner and had four children. He was a lawyer in Henderson NC.
Near the end of his life, he wrote a book which was published privately in 1926 (reprinted by his son in 1954) which is considered a primary source for genealogical research in the Vance and Granville County areas. The title is:
"SKETCHES
- OF -
WILLIAM HICKS
ABNER HICKS
JASPER HICKS
GEORGE HARRIS
JAMES CREWS
JOHN EARL
And Something of their Descendants
With Comparisons of Present Conditions of Living With Those of Sixty Years Ago."
THURSTON T. HICKS Obituary "News and Observer"
SUCCUMBS AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
T.T. HICKS DIES AT HENDERSON HOME
Well Known Attorney, Dean of Bar, Passes After
Long Illness
Henderson, July 28.Thurston T. Hicks, dean of the Henderson bar, and prominent in Republican politics in North Carolina, died suddenly at his home on Burwell avenue in this city at 8:25 o'clock this morning. He was sitting in a chair on the porch awaiting breakfast when death called him. He had been in ill health for the past year and a half, suffering from angina pectoris and an ailment of the kidneys, and during most of that time had been unable to attend to his large law practice. He had been confined to his home almost continuously for the past six or eight months, and during that period had been considered in a critical condition.
Mr. Hicks was born in Granville county October 14, 1857, and was in his seventieth year. On January 5, 1881, he was licensed to practice law, and moved to Henderson January 8, 1882, and 'had been practicing here since that time. He was the oldest member of the Henderson bar, both in years and in point of residence here, having come to Henderson a few years prior to Judge Thomas M. Pittman, and being the latter's senior by a month. They were life long friends and practitioners at the local bar.
Mr. Hicks was married December, 6 1883, to Miss Mary Horner, who survives, together with two sons, Edison T., and Benjamin H. Hicks, both of whom were associated with their father in the practice of law here, and one daughter, Mrs. S. P. Purvis, of Salisbury. Two brothers, A. A. Hicks, prominent member of the Oxford bar, and H. B. Hicks, well known farmer of Vance county, and one sister, Mrs. S. R. Harris, Sr. of Henderson, also survive.
Funeral This Afternoon.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock from the Methodist Protest church of this city, of which he was for many years a leading member,-and will be conducted by the pastor. Rev. R. A. Hunter. Interment will be at Elmwood cemetery here, in the family plot. Active pallbearers, all members of the Henderson bar, were announced today as follows: T. M. Pittman, J, H. Bridgers, J. C. Kittrell, R. S. McCoin, B. H. Perry, J. P. Zollicoffer, Irvine B. Watkins. Honorary pallbearers were announced as follows: George A. Harris, S. H. Satterwhite, S. J. Satterwhite, R. B., Powell, Gus Roth, W. B. Parham, L. W. Burroughs, E. O. Taylor, S. F. Teiser, S. B. Burwell. W. P. Gholson, Henry Perry, R. E. Clements, Al. B. Wester, George B. Harris, R. G. Kittrell, D. P. McDuffee, J. M. Peace, A. A. Bunn, J. H. Zollicoffer, T. P. Gholson, T. S. Kittrell, R. G. S. Davis, Vernon |W. Faris, L. R. Gooch, A. A. Zollicoffer, R. J. Southerland, Dr. R. T. Upchurch, L. M. Bullock, h. T. Howard, S. T. Peace, K. L. Burton- W. C.
Might, C. W. Hargrove, J. I. Miller, Dr. B. G. Allen, W. S. Parker, S. M. Blacknall, C. L Blacknall, B J. Corbitt, L. C. Kerner, Dr. W. H. Purman, S. P. Cooper, E. G. Landis, J. S. Evans, H. O. Faulkner, W W. Parker, S. W. Greenway, C. W. Finch, S. S. Parham, N. A. Garrett, Sheriff W. H. Smith, Dr. F. R. Harris, M. L. Legg.
Honored By His Party
Mr. Hicks was twice elected mayor of Henderson, in 1899 and 1900. In l892 he ran for the State Legislature against a Populist and a negro, and in his own words, "I beat the Populist and the negro beat me," and at that time he broke with the Democratic party and since had been affiliated with the Republican party in politics, and had been highly
honored by that organization in many ways. In 1909 he was prominently mentioned for "United States district judge for Eastern North Carolina, and had the promise of President Taft for the office, but failed of the support of the North Carolina Senators and was not appointed..In 1910 he was the Republican candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and six years ago he was a candidate for associate justice of the Supreme Court., In 1926 he was on tho Republican ticket in the third district as the opponent of Judge Garland E. Midyette. He had attended a number of Republican National Conventions, and was a man high in the councils of his party, and whose advice was often sought in the conduct of its affairs. Mr. Hicks was prominent in the North Carolina Bar Association, and at the time of his death had for years been a member of its executive committee, having been reelected at the 1927 convention, despite his illness and inability to attend its meetings.. He was also at one time a vice-president of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Mr. Hicks was a great student of history, law, philosophy and religion. Once he said that "poetry was the delight of my youth, fiction and humor of my young manhood, biography and the philosophy of religion of my later years." .
In Prominent Legal Battle
The deceased figure prominently in many years of the most important legal battles in this and nearby counties in the past forty years. One of them was the fight in which it
was held that all fines imposed by mayors or other police courts should be paid to the school fund and not to the town treasuries. He always regarded the famous Gattis vs Kilgo case as tho longest and best fight he ever made. He had the choice of sides and chose the defendant. It was a "seven years war" of acute public interest all the time, was four times in the Supreme Court and five times fiercely fought before Judges Bryan, Hoke, Shaw, W. R. Allen and Fred Moore. He was noted as a criminal lawyer, and took part in most such trials of importance in Vance county for the past four decades.
The Henderson bar held a meeting this afternoon and adopted resolutions of sympathy to the family and paying a tribute to his memory and to his long service as a barrister in Vance county. He was known of nearly every citizen of the county, and, despite his political views and convictions, which were strong and vigorous, was respected for his honesty of purpose and intentions, and held in the highest esteeem and affection by nearly every one who knew him.
Near the end of his life, he wrote a book which was published privately in 1926 (reprinted by his son in 1954) which is considered a primary source for genealogical research in the Vance and Granville County areas. The title is:
"SKETCHES
- OF -
WILLIAM HICKS
ABNER HICKS
JASPER HICKS
GEORGE HARRIS
JAMES CREWS
JOHN EARL
And Something of their Descendants
With Comparisons of Present Conditions of Living With Those of Sixty Years Ago."
THURSTON T. HICKS Obituary "News and Observer"
SUCCUMBS AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
T.T. HICKS DIES AT HENDERSON HOME
Well Known Attorney, Dean of Bar, Passes After
Long Illness
Henderson, July 28.Thurston T. Hicks, dean of the Henderson bar, and prominent in Republican politics in North Carolina, died suddenly at his home on Burwell avenue in this city at 8:25 o'clock this morning. He was sitting in a chair on the porch awaiting breakfast when death called him. He had been in ill health for the past year and a half, suffering from angina pectoris and an ailment of the kidneys, and during most of that time had been unable to attend to his large law practice. He had been confined to his home almost continuously for the past six or eight months, and during that period had been considered in a critical condition.
Mr. Hicks was born in Granville county October 14, 1857, and was in his seventieth year. On January 5, 1881, he was licensed to practice law, and moved to Henderson January 8, 1882, and 'had been practicing here since that time. He was the oldest member of the Henderson bar, both in years and in point of residence here, having come to Henderson a few years prior to Judge Thomas M. Pittman, and being the latter's senior by a month. They were life long friends and practitioners at the local bar.
Mr. Hicks was married December, 6 1883, to Miss Mary Horner, who survives, together with two sons, Edison T., and Benjamin H. Hicks, both of whom were associated with their father in the practice of law here, and one daughter, Mrs. S. P. Purvis, of Salisbury. Two brothers, A. A. Hicks, prominent member of the Oxford bar, and H. B. Hicks, well known farmer of Vance county, and one sister, Mrs. S. R. Harris, Sr. of Henderson, also survive.
Funeral This Afternoon.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock from the Methodist Protest church of this city, of which he was for many years a leading member,-and will be conducted by the pastor. Rev. R. A. Hunter. Interment will be at Elmwood cemetery here, in the family plot. Active pallbearers, all members of the Henderson bar, were announced today as follows: T. M. Pittman, J, H. Bridgers, J. C. Kittrell, R. S. McCoin, B. H. Perry, J. P. Zollicoffer, Irvine B. Watkins. Honorary pallbearers were announced as follows: George A. Harris, S. H. Satterwhite, S. J. Satterwhite, R. B., Powell, Gus Roth, W. B. Parham, L. W. Burroughs, E. O. Taylor, S. F. Teiser, S. B. Burwell. W. P. Gholson, Henry Perry, R. E. Clements, Al. B. Wester, George B. Harris, R. G. Kittrell, D. P. McDuffee, J. M. Peace, A. A. Bunn, J. H. Zollicoffer, T. P. Gholson, T. S. Kittrell, R. G. S. Davis, Vernon |W. Faris, L. R. Gooch, A. A. Zollicoffer, R. J. Southerland, Dr. R. T. Upchurch, L. M. Bullock, h. T. Howard, S. T. Peace, K. L. Burton- W. C.
Might, C. W. Hargrove, J. I. Miller, Dr. B. G. Allen, W. S. Parker, S. M. Blacknall, C. L Blacknall, B J. Corbitt, L. C. Kerner, Dr. W. H. Purman, S. P. Cooper, E. G. Landis, J. S. Evans, H. O. Faulkner, W W. Parker, S. W. Greenway, C. W. Finch, S. S. Parham, N. A. Garrett, Sheriff W. H. Smith, Dr. F. R. Harris, M. L. Legg.
Honored By His Party
Mr. Hicks was twice elected mayor of Henderson, in 1899 and 1900. In l892 he ran for the State Legislature against a Populist and a negro, and in his own words, "I beat the Populist and the negro beat me," and at that time he broke with the Democratic party and since had been affiliated with the Republican party in politics, and had been highly
honored by that organization in many ways. In 1909 he was prominently mentioned for "United States district judge for Eastern North Carolina, and had the promise of President Taft for the office, but failed of the support of the North Carolina Senators and was not appointed..In 1910 he was the Republican candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and six years ago he was a candidate for associate justice of the Supreme Court., In 1926 he was on tho Republican ticket in the third district as the opponent of Judge Garland E. Midyette. He had attended a number of Republican National Conventions, and was a man high in the councils of his party, and whose advice was often sought in the conduct of its affairs. Mr. Hicks was prominent in the North Carolina Bar Association, and at the time of his death had for years been a member of its executive committee, having been reelected at the 1927 convention, despite his illness and inability to attend its meetings.. He was also at one time a vice-president of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Mr. Hicks was a great student of history, law, philosophy and religion. Once he said that "poetry was the delight of my youth, fiction and humor of my young manhood, biography and the philosophy of religion of my later years." .
In Prominent Legal Battle
The deceased figure prominently in many years of the most important legal battles in this and nearby counties in the past forty years. One of them was the fight in which it
was held that all fines imposed by mayors or other police courts should be paid to the school fund and not to the town treasuries. He always regarded the famous Gattis vs Kilgo case as tho longest and best fight he ever made. He had the choice of sides and chose the defendant. It was a "seven years war" of acute public interest all the time, was four times in the Supreme Court and five times fiercely fought before Judges Bryan, Hoke, Shaw, W. R. Allen and Fred Moore. He was noted as a criminal lawyer, and took part in most such trials of importance in Vance county for the past four decades.
The Henderson bar held a meeting this afternoon and adopted resolutions of sympathy to the family and paying a tribute to his memory and to his long service as a barrister in Vance county. He was known of nearly every citizen of the county, and, despite his political views and convictions, which were strong and vigorous, was respected for his honesty of purpose and intentions, and held in the highest esteeem and affection by nearly every one who knew him.
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