Family Research Documents Focusing on: Hickman, Kinney, Curtis and Pendergrass families In Illinois By Jan Bryant (June 2008)

Freedom Papers (An Act) For Fanny and her children: John, Grove, Henry, William, Hetty, Eliza, and Frank An intermarriage between Pascal And Fanny Hickman Married more than 30 years From Burke County, GA Sign by the Governor William Lumpkin Dated: December 22, 1834 Secretary of State Milledgeville, Ga 30 March 1840 Georgia Law (GL1834 Vol Page: 230 Sequential Number: 173)

JOSEPH GROVE2 HICKMAN (PASCHAL1) was born Abt in Georgia. He married (1) MARGARET HARTLEY March 31, 1852 in Madison County, Illinois. She was born Abt in Georgia. He married (2) SARAH ANN CURTIS February 17, 1856 in Clinton County, Illinois. She was born Abt in Clinton County, Illinois. Marriage Notes for JOSEPH HICKMAN and MARGARET HARTLEY: The marriage record for Joseph Grove Hickman and Margaret Hartley was recorded in Madison County, Illinois in Interestingly, the 1850 census list Margaret in the household with Josepph Grove Hickman and four children. 1. Clemmens age 11; 2. Paskal age 9; 3. Susan age 6; and 4 Elizabeth age 6 months. According the 1880 census for Clinton County, Illinois, C.G. Hickman (Clemens) age 41 lists his mother's birthplace as Ireland. According to oral history, this family does claim Irish (European) ancestry. If Margaret was of Irish descent, then her marriage to Joseph Grove Hickman would have been illegal in Georgia, therefore they legalized their union in Illinois. (This is a theory) Children of JOSEPH HICKMAN and MARGARET HARTLEY are: i. CLEMENS3 HICKMAN, b. Abt ii. PASKAL HICKMAN, b. Abt iii. SUSAN HICKMAN, b. Abt iv. ELIZABETH HICKMAN, b. Abt v. CAROLINE HICKMAN, b. Abt Grove and Margaret Hickman

Grove and Sarah (Curtis) Hickman Grove and Sarah Hickman with their daughter Martha Grove Hickman’s Bible (1814 to 1875)

A History of Burke County, Georgia by Albert M. Hillhouse

There are two records with the same date of emancipation: one with the other party named John Thomas and the other with James Thomas listed. One of these documents have remarks on the original. The remarks say “Born Free”

Abraham Kinney’s Pension Records

John and Anna (Kinney) Hickman Anna is Abe and Frances (Pendergrass) Kinney’s daughter. Frances’ mother was Ann Curtis John is Grove and Sarah (Curtis) Hickman’s son

Richard Pendergrass (part of Samuel Jones’ inventory)

On March 17, 1781 Richard Pendergrass was a prisoner of General Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War At the Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina Negro Rich Pendergrass North_Carolina_Geneolo gical_Society_Journal_V ol5_p81.jpgNorth_Carolina_Geneolo gical_Society_Journal_V ol5_p81.jpg Many of Richard Pendergrass’ children move to Tennessee and then to Illinois. He is listed in the 1794 tax records. In Person County Deed Book C list him as making land transactions in 1797, 1799, 1802,1804 and 1805

Henry Curtis, Sr Henry shows up in several court record. He was born in In 1769 Henry was bounded out to a George Henry He is listed on Caswell Co. tax rolls in 1779 Members of his family moved from Virginia to Illinois

Many men from the Breeze Community fought in the Civil War: Pendergrass’, Curtis’, Kinney, Killion

Napolean Curtis 55 th Massachusetts Regiment

Record of the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Reprinted from a copy in the Fisk University Library Negro Collection,

1896 Cherokee Application Page 1 of 4

1896 Cherokee Application Part of page 2

Thank You For the Sharing information, picture and documents Eleanor Arnwine Novella Hickman Muriel Belford Ward &Glennie Hickman Bill Buie Carroll Killion Leroy George Kimberly Virdure King Lyle Gibson Hilda Washington Edward Herndon Vivian Williams Albert Hickman (John and Sarah’s Son) & Many others Carl Hickman Dr. Eugene Hickman Leo Hickman Gregory Hickman Williams