Elizabeth Magee Bickham the daughter of John and Sarah Magee, widow of Sheriff Thomas Bickham, of Washington Parish, lived in the southern part of Holmesville,Pike County Mississippi .
Mrs. Elizabeth Bickham, becoming a widow by the death of her husband, became a resident of Holmesville and a conspicuous factor in its higher social life. She was a woman of queenly bearing, tender-hearted and kind, and delighted in the entertainment and happiness of young people. Her children, like herself, were all hand-some and proud."
Mrs.. Bickham residence, built by Reddick Sparkman, now owned and occupied by Dr. Lucius M. Quin. The resident was across the street from William Monroe Quin who owned a large cotton plantation about eight miles west of town, once known as Quin Station, Next to him, on same block, was the home of Jacobowsky and Hart, afterward Wm. A. Barr. East of this, on Carroll Srteet, was the old home of Tom Guinea, then James A. Ferguson and Owen Conerly. At the foot of the ridge, on the west and south of the old Liberty road, was the residence of John S. Lamkin, lawyer, who married Bella Tunison, of Monticello.

On the other side was the Baptist Church, and further north the residence of S. A.
Matthews, a native of Ohio, who married Caroline, daughter of William Ellzey Next to him, and facing the courthouse square, was the home of John T. Lamkin, the lawyer from Georgia, who bought it from Wm. A. Stone in 1839. History of Pike County, Mississippi; Luke Ward Conerly pages 117 and 151
Among Elizabeth Magee Bickham's children and grandchildren were some of the prominent Bickhams of Washington Parish during the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Thomas Dolphus Bickham, who married at age 17, was a father and a Confederate private at age 18, Sheriff of Washington Parish at 34, and ultimately the father of 17 children; Charles Monroe Bickham, father of nine children including Houston Bickham, Jewell Oscar Bickham, Charles Hampton Bickham, and Benton D. Bickham, and John Oscar Bickham who would find his way to west Texas by the end of the century. In 1970, a great-great grandson, Governor W Dunn, elected Governor of Tennessee.(1971-1975)

United States Census 1850 Washington Parish Louisiana
T C Bickham 1818 Louisiana Elizabeth Bickham 1824 Martha E Bickham 1840 Louisiana Sarah L Bickham 1842 Louisiana Tho Bickham 1843 Louisiana Eliza J Bickham 1845 Louisiana Chs M Bickham 1846 Louisiana Mary R Bickham 0 Louisiana

History of Pike County, Mississippi; Conerly, page 117 and 151
William Magee and Mary Margaret James and their Descendants 1770-1993 by the William Magee Committee in Franklinton, Louisiana