Hicks Newspaper Articles
The Nicholas Chronicle. Summersville, W.Va. Thursday, September 29, 1921- Marriage Licenses -- Andrew Rivanko 36 & Annie Klite 40 ---Homer P. Nutter 31& Alda Dempsey Bays 28 --- Edward Strickland 19 & Willmath Isa Elkins 17 --- Russell Carder Catlette 22 & Helen Brown 22 ----Geo. W. Pitsenbarger 41 & Naomi Grose 35 ---Harry C. O'Dell 19 & Marguerite Kelly 23 ----Robert C. Arbaugh 27 & Bernice Wilson Seay 23 ---Homer Mullens 40 & Ocie Phillips 28 ----Cody Hicks 25 & Edith Walker 18 ---Daniel J. Hanna 19 & Eura Alice Collins 19 --- Edward Carl Callison 25 & Annie Lee Moses 16 --- Everette R. Roach 30 & Manda E. Reip 21 ---Marion Tincher 34 & Dona Meadows 21--- Ernest Butcher 20 & Martha Lassin 24 --- Lester Anderson Bowers 21 & Grace Murphy 18.
The Nicholas Chronicle, Summersville, W.Va. Thursday, February 17, 1949 - INJURED IN MINE ACCIDENT - Cody Hicks of Gad, an employee of the Peters Creek Coal Co.; was seriously injured Thursday while at work in the mine. The accident occured while he was attempting to place a post. When the post slipped it released slate which fell pinning him underneath. He is a patient in the Sutton General Hospital being treated for a fractured skull, injured eye, and facial lacerations. Hospital attachee said his chances for recovery are fair.
The News Leader, June 1957 - Mrs. Mildred Hicks, 99 Attends Past 80 Party
    Richwood, June 7 (RNS)------"You don't get old----just a bit older," might be the theme of her life for Mrs. Mildred Fitzwater Hicks of Gad, reigning centenartian at the Past 80 Party, which was held in Richwood June 1. Mrs. Hicks was accompanied to the community celebration in recognition of octogenarians by her son Cody Hicks, and her granddaughter, Mrs. Lois Dooley of Mt. Nebo. Mrs. Dooley's concern was that "grandma might drop some fire on the new couch." Couches, sofas, and chairs were installed for the comfort of the guests by Chrichton stores. "Grandma gave up smoking for a while, but not for long, said she couldn't do without her pipe. Mrs. Dooley said. "She's smoking a new pipe today. Her usual pipe and homegrown tobacco is so strong there wouldn't be any party if she'd light up." declared Mrs. Dooley. What does grandma think of television, or has she seen it? Said Mrs. Dooley, "She hasn't seen it. But I don't think she'd like it. She doesn't like radio too well, she can't hear well enough. We've thought about getting her a hearing aid, but she doesn't seem to want it."  Guests at the party, visiting dignitaries, all paid there respects to Mrs. Hicks. She greeted them all with a twisted smile and twinkle of eye. Between puffs from her new pipe, she touched the buttons on her orchid printed dress. Numerous greetings, pictures, and interviews, were all part of grandma's day. Six years older than the state of West Virginia, Mrs. Mildred Hicks will be 100, on June 21, 1957. (Note year should be 1958)
The Nicholas County Newsleader, Richwood W.Va. April 15, 1959 - Mother Will Chaperone Her Two Past 80 Daughters At Party - By Past 80 Editor - Two past 80 girls are coming to the Past 80 Party on June 13th and they are bringing their mother along. The story is worth the price of a years subscription even if we don't sell another paper at all. It's this way. Somebody had told me that I should come over to Gad and get three past 80 women there. The first one was Onie Fitzwater and she stayed with a niece of hers. Mamie Fitzwater and we could get the rest of the names from there. So we got to Gad by gad and we knocked at Mamie Fitzwater's door and said if you are harboring a past 80 lady here, then we would just have to shoot her. That's are jolly way of saying that we would be taking a picture. The lady in question was right in the room all starched up as if her beau was coming instead of a past 80 photographer on the prowl. She said you ain't takin' my picture because I don't want a picture in the paper when I won't even get to see it. I said why won't you get to see it and she said because I'm blind, that's why. But I assured her that I would do right by her and she kept on saying no and Mamie her niece said. Why don't you go up and get her mother and maybe she'll talk her into it. Confused I start laughing because it's funny who people are getting confused these days. I say it sounded like you said I should tell this 85 year old lady's mother on her if she doesn't mind. And I laughed some more. Mamie says, well, it wouldn't hurt maybe. She lives up the hollow just a short distance. She might come. Her son Cody can carry her she doesn't weigh very much. I sit down by now because that's too much for one day. And I say. what you mean is that this lady's mother is living. What's her name? Mamie says her name is Mildred Hicks and adds. You know her because she has been to the party twice and she is more than 100 years old. About 103 or 4, I'd say. So now I remember and Rolland ---- they call him Rowl ---- Hart drops in. He is past 80 too and he say's he'll go up to fetch Mildred down because by now I am really frothing at the bit. to get a mother  and daughter picture with a daughter 85. That's something for the papers. So off we go. As we go along Rowl tells about Mildred. She is sound as a good walnut all except her hearing. He says that he took her to the polls to vote for Eisenhower last time, the poll clerk says how are you Mildred, and she says, The straight Republican ticket. Mildreds son Cody picks her up like three feathers, farther, and brings her out the gate and slips her in under the steering wheel and soon we are back down at Mamie's and getting a picture. Cody says it's too bad Bessie couldn't be here. Bessie turns out to be another of Mildred's past 80 daughters. But Cody promises that the first good day he will have all three of them together and I can make all the pictures I want. I make one or two of the mother and daughter together. I tell them I want a kind of a picture of the daughter  helping the mother with her hair, a kind of fake picture to use for Past 80 Party getting ready stuff. The girl laughs and gets a comb and she starts combing. She says to her mother, mom this isn't my doings. The man told me to. Who is he anyhow Mildred wants to know. So they tell her that I am one of the two men who put on the Past 80 party each year. and she  beams because Mildred remembers the Good grub that she stowed away and how a real United states Senator (Chapman Revercomd) sat down by her side and and talked with her. There's a lot more to this story. but I am saving it until the paper before the party.There's the story about Mildred and her burying her clothes, there's the story of how she licked cancer after she was 100, there's the story of her broken leg and there's the story about how she got up the morning her last baby was born and cooked breakfast and milked the cow. I am not spilling it all out now. I am saving it up. And I just wonder how many parties you or anybody will ever attend in this world  where a woman comes to a party to chaperone her two past 80 daughters. That's all for this week. There will be more next week. You past 80's get your attendance coupons sent in and you non-past 80's start thinking what kind of food you are going to prepare and what gifts you are going to be fixing up for these wonderful old people.(Note Mamie Fitzwater was the wife of Onie's 1st cousin Henry Fitzwater & Bessie should be Lizzie. Mildred was a midwife and delivered tons of babies. Her last child Margaret born May 2, 1901 was born in the yard. Mildred had gone out to milk the cow and didn't make it back in time so she delivered in the yard, wrapped the baby in her apron went back in the house cleaned up the baby and cooked breakfast. Mildred also delivered all of her daughter Lizzie's Sparks children except for Bud who was a change of life baby.) There was also the photo in the paper but the paper is old and yellowed.
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