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- - On 13 August 1813, Hezekiah was a prosecutor in Georgia. Ben, a slave belonging to Robert McGough, took an iron mattock and cut a gash in Hezekiah's head, penetrating to the skull. The jury found Ben guilty. Ben was hung [...suspended between the heavens and the earth by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead and the Lord have mercy on your soul.]
- Hezekiah married his first wife, Sally Strange, in 1788 in Georgia. In 1791, in Georgia, he married the mother of his children, Sally Hickman.
- Mississippi Land Record for Hezekiah Lincecum:
Land Office: MT SALUS
Document Number: 6884
Total Acres: 79.37
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 9 Oct 1834
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 W?NE HUNTSVILLE No 17S 18W 31
- According to the book, "Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist", Hezekiah was large (six feet tall, 200 pounds), strong, very handsome, had a beautiful voice, and had a reputation for being able to out drink anyone. He lived in Wilkes County, Georgia 1786-1790 where he married Sally Strange. About 5 years later, after his divorce from Sally, he married Sallie Hickman.
- Hezekiah served as an officer in Andrew Jackson's Forces in 1808. After being discharged, between 1808 and 1830, he lived in 2 states and 5 counties: Washington, Hancock, and Putnam Counties in Georgia; and Monroe and Lowndes Counties in Mississippi. He settled in Lowndes County around 1830.
- Hezekiah died 04 March 1839 in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The "Columbus Democrat" wrote, "Died suddenly at his residence near this town, on the 4th, Mr. Hezekiah Lincecum, aged 70 years. He was a native of Virginia and for several years resided in the state of Georgia. About 20 years since he emigrated to this neighborhood and was one of the first white settlers in the Choctaw Nation. While a resident of Georgia, he fought bravely on several occasions in defending the frontiers against Indians. His corpse was met at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Bryant." After Hezekiah died, Sally moved to Catahoula Parish, Louisiana where her son, Grant, lived. She died there on 28 May 1848.
- Gideon describes his father, Hezekiah, as "a large, powerful man, six feet high and weighed in the prime of life 200 pounds."
- ..."Yankee Schoolmaster in Lincoln Co[unty], GA by name of Whitney, had invented an iron gin... Hezekiah..." took a nine year old Gideon to see it.
- From "Early Records of Georgia, Vols 1 & 2": Lincecum, Hezekiah to Wm. West, 121 acres on water of Ogeechee on a creek or fork, agreeable to a plat annexed to a grant 1784 to said Lincecum. Nov 17, 1790. Jonathan McCrary, John Nugent, Andrew Burns, J. P. test.
- Hezekiah died in 1839. There are land records for a Hezekiah Lincecum in Mississippi (Columbus Land Office) in 1841. (?)
- He had property Wilkes County, Georgia, 1 December 1788. Linniecom, Hezekiah and wife Sarah, to Matthew McCravey, 179 Acres on Long Creek part of orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Dec. 1, 1788. Henry Townsend, Jona. Mc Cravy, James Wadsworth, Test.
- On 17 February 1788, Hezekiah was excommunicated from the Long Creek Church of Christ in Warren County, Georgia... "The Church of Christ on Long Creek of Ogechee being met in conference, pursued to take into consideration the irreligious conduct of Hezekiah Lensecom and unanimously agreed that he should be excommunicated. First for riding a race on the Sabbath day. Secondly for refusing the hear the Church when called on. Thirdly for offering to commit a rape on M. Jonegen." http://users.ticnet.com/stevem/gawalng.htm>
- Mississippi Land Record for Hezekiah Lincecum:
Land Office: MT SALUS
Document Number: 3709
Total Acres: 78.31
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 1 Dec 1830
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 E?SE HUNTSVILLE No 17S 18W 3
- Hezekiah is at least mentioned in each of the following books:
BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER: A TEXAS FOLKLORE SAMPLER by Francis Edward Abernethy
EARLY TEXAS PHYSICIANS, 1830 - 1915: INNOVATIVE, INTREPID, INDEPENDENT by Texas Surgical Society
THE FIRST WEST: WRITING FROM THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, 1776 - 1860 by Edward Watts
- Hezekiah "lived on a farm on the bank of the river near Champagne and Brandywine springs, four miles above Columbus. [Ancestry.com. A history of Columbus, Mississippi during the 19th century. Provo, UT. MyFamily.com, Inc. 2004. Original title by W. L. Lipscomb, Columbus, Miss. S. D. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. 1909. Pg 39.]
- "Hezekiah married Sally Hickman. Their first and most famous child was Gideon II (1793 - 1874)." [B. J. Lincecum, Lincecum Genealogy; Stephanie Lincecum, Perry, GA, 2015. Featuring "The Lincecum Line" genealogy report dated January 1990.]
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