* Son of Thomas Bickers of Orange Co., Virginia
* "Ludie Brown of Bogota, who passed away this year (ca. 1976) at 97 years of age, related this story. 'William Bickers told his family when he died they should go to no expense but bury him under a certain big hickory tree. He died about two years later and the family followed his wishes, burying him under the old hickory tree with no headstone or marking of any kind. this was the beginning of the Bickers Family cemetery. There used to be four or five rows of graves, but now the old hickory tree is gone and only a few stones remain, to mark this early cemetery.'" (1884 Jasper Co., IL History)
* William was buried in the Bickers Family Cemetery. Survey of the cemetery was by Mr. & Mrs. Gordon workman, information on unmarked graves by Ludie Brown of Bogota, granddaughter of Nancy Kinkade. A memorial was placed on the site in 1973 by Gordon & Marge Workman.
* First, Husband of Sally Leathers b 1780.
* Father with Sally of
Robert, Norah, Uriah, Morgan, William Ennis & Joel Bickers
* Second, Husband of Nancy Todd
* Father with Nancy of
Sarah Ann, Nancy Jane, Fielding, George Washington, Samuel T. & Corp. William P. Bickers.
* "Ludie Brown of Bogota, who passed away this year (ca. 1976) at 97 years of age, related this story. 'William Bickers told his family when he died they should go to no expense but bury him under a certain big hickory tree. He died about two years later and the family followed his wishes, burying him under the old hickory tree with no headstone or marking of any kind. this was the beginning of the Bickers Family cemetery. There used to be four or five rows of graves, but now the old hickory tree is gone and only a few stones remain, to mark this early cemetery.'" (1884 Jasper Co., IL History)
* William was buried in the Bickers Family Cemetery. Survey of the cemetery was by Mr. & Mrs. Gordon workman, information on unmarked graves by Ludie Brown of Bogota, granddaughter of Nancy Kinkade. A memorial was placed on the site in 1973 by Gordon & Marge Workman.
* First, Husband of Sally Leathers b 1780.
* Father with Sally of
Robert, Norah, Uriah, Morgan, William Ennis & Joel Bickers
* Second, Husband of Nancy Todd
* Father with Nancy of
Sarah Ann, Nancy Jane, Fielding, George Washington, Samuel T. & Corp. William P. Bickers.
* Son of Thomas Bickers of Orange Co., Virginia
* "Ludie Brown of Bogota, who passed away this year (ca. 1976) at 97 years of age, related this story. 'William Bickers told his family when he died they should go to no expense but bury him under a certain big hickory tree. He died about two years later and the family followed his wishes, burying him under the old hickory tree with no headstone or marking of any kind. this was the beginning of the Bickers Family cemetery. There used to be four or five rows of graves, but now the old hickory tree is gone and only a few stones remain, to mark this early cemetery.'" (1884 Jasper Co., IL History)
* William was buried in the Bickers Family Cemetery. Survey of the cemetery was by Mr. & Mrs. Gordon workman, information on unmarked graves by Ludie Brown of Bogota, granddaughter of Nancy Kinkade. A memorial was placed on the site in 1973 by Gordon & Marge Workman.
* First, Husband of Sally Leathers b 1780.
* Father with Sally of
Robert, Norah, Uriah, Morgan, William Ennis & Joel Bickers
* Second, Husband of Nancy Todd
* Father with Nancy of
Sarah Ann, Nancy Jane, Fielding, George Washington, Samuel T. & Corp. William P. Bickers.
* "Ludie Brown of Bogota, who passed away this year (ca. 1976) at 97 years of age, related this story. 'William Bickers told his family when he died they should go to no expense but bury him under a certain big hickory tree. He died about two years later and the family followed his wishes, burying him under the old hickory tree with no headstone or marking of any kind. this was the beginning of the Bickers Family cemetery. There used to be four or five rows of graves, but now the old hickory tree is gone and only a few stones remain, to mark this early cemetery.'" (1884 Jasper Co., IL History)
* William was buried in the Bickers Family Cemetery. Survey of the cemetery was by Mr. & Mrs. Gordon workman, information on unmarked graves by Ludie Brown of Bogota, granddaughter of Nancy Kinkade. A memorial was placed on the site in 1973 by Gordon & Marge Workman.
* First, Husband of Sally Leathers b 1780.
* Father with Sally of
Robert, Norah, Uriah, Morgan, William Ennis & Joel Bickers
* Second, Husband of Nancy Todd
* Father with Nancy of
Sarah Ann, Nancy Jane, Fielding, George Washington, Samuel T. & Corp. William P. Bickers.
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