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An airline map of streets in Arlington and Alexandria, including the street layout of where the Hicks cemetery would have been located. The cemetery would have been to the north of 22nd Street North, to the west of the intersection with Lee Highway.

Page 45 of "Graveyards of Arlington County", compiled by the Arlington Genealogy Club, containing Lucy Belle Hicks Coates' (possibly inaccurate) account of the movement of the Hicks Cemetery to Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and references to the…

An account in Arlington Historical Magazine, matching the account in the Genealogical Society's "Graveyards of Arlington County, Virginia".

The Quick/Gibson Family Tree's entry for William H. Hicks on Ancestry.com. The birthday, siblings, and date of death are consistent with census records, and following the census records indicates that he is the same William H. Hicks whose gravestone…

A book created and published by the Lee Highway Association in the year 1926, describing the history and importance of Lee Highway, the first highway to connect the east and west coasts of America (and also the highway which, after being expanded in…

Described in the Lee Highway Association's book concerning Lee Highway in 1926, the Zero Milestone is a monument on the south lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, the landmark from which all highways radiating from the city are measured. This…

HICKS
William H.
Died Oct. 15, 1912
Aged 48 Years
Loved In Life, In Death Remembered

Headstone faces west.

(Illegible) Hicks
Died Dec 23, 1926

Faces east. Census records do not indicate the existence of a relative of William H. Hicks whose death date and name correspond with these markings, nor does the survey's account of the graves moved from the…

One of two unmarked grave markers in the section of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery that appears to be occupied by the headstones moved from the Hicks Family Cemetery. This marker has no information on it beyond the name of the church, and…

A destroyed headstone in the vicinity of the William H. Hicks marker at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, potentially from the Hicks Cemetery.