Iowa Family Group Sheet for the Robert HICKLING Family

Submitted by: Robert Hickling 

HUSBAND: Robert HICKLING
Birth date: 18 Jul 1831
Birthplace: Louth, Lincolnshire, ENG
Death date: 15 Sep 1895
Place of death: Goodland, Sherman Co., KS
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Other Spouse: 
Father: John HICKLING
Mother: Mary BROWN

Marriage date: 27 Feb 1853
Marriage place: Ottawa, La Salle, IL

WIFE: Deborah Sears PIERCE
Birth date: 21 Jul 1831
Birthplace: MA
Death date: Aft. 1910
Place of death: CO
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Father: 
Mother: 

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Edwin Eugene HICKLING
Sex: M
Birth date: 1858
Birthplace: Owen Twp., Cerro Gordo Co., IA
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Place of death: CO
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Spouse's name: Katherine P. BIGGERSTAFF
Marriage date: Abt. 1882
Marriage place: Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., IA

Child No. 2: Thomas HICKLING
Sex: M
Birth date: 1860
Birthplace: Owen Twp., Cerro Gordo Co., IA
Death date: Bef 1870
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Child No. 3: Walter HICKLING
Sex: M
Birth date: 1860
Birthplace: Owen Twp., Cerro Gordo Co., IA
Death date: 
Place of death: Red Willow Co., NE
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Spouse's name: Sarah J. Wynn
Marriage date: Abt. 1896
Marriage place: Red Willow Co., NE

Child No. 4: Isabella Edith "Belle" HICKLING
Sex: F 
Birth date: Abt. Mar 1862
Birthplace: Floyd Co., IA
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Place of death: CO
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Spouse's name: William Yost Johnson
Marriage date: 31 Dec 1885
Marriage place: McCook, Red Willow Co., NE

Child No. 5: Delia Etta HICKLING
Sex: F
Birth date: 8 Jul 1864
Birthplace: Lime Creek Twp., Cerro Gordo Co., IA
Death date: 16 Jun 1953
Place of death: Vinta, Craig Co., OK
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Spouse's name: Otis Sanford Flower
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Documentation and Sources:

The names of Eugene and Robert are from family oral history. I am the 
great grand son of Eugene. Birth year for Robert is from a photograph 
of his gravestone located in Goodland KS. Birth year for Eugene is 
derived from census records from 1850 (Ottawa, La Salle Co., IL), 1860 
(Owen Twp., Cerro Gordo Co., IA), 1870 (Adams, La Salle Co., IL), and
1880 (Lime Creek Twp., Cerro Gordo Co., IA) so they are approximate.  
1850 was not long after Robert emigrated from England to the USA. He 
was in the 1841 census in England. By the way, the indexing for 1880
was bad for this family at Ancestry.com. They appeared as the Hichlings.  
I looked at the image. It really looks like an 'h' instead of a 'k'.  
Not sure if the census taker had bad penmanship or bad hearing.
I have submitted corrections for the index.

Young Thomas was in the 1860 census as a 4 month old baby, so that 
is why a month is included in his birth date. I have no concrete 
document of his death, but he did not appear in the 1870 or 1880 
census with the rest of the family, so the death date just says 
Bef. 1870. Could have been at 5 months, or 9 years. 

From 3 newspaper articles from 1866, Robert had a cheese factory 
built in Cerro Gordo County which he then rented out to a noted 
cheese maker. It was heralded as the first cheese factory west of 
the Mississippi.

I do not have in my possession, but we did obtain a marriage certificate 
for Robert Hickling and Deborah Sears Pierce from the court house in Ottawa IL.

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