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William A. Hickman (Nelson County, KY, physician)

b. 1816-10-26 d. 1893

Nelson County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Son of William Hickman and Mary M. Caldwell Hickman. Married to Burnette Barbour Hickman in Nelson County on March 12, 1844. Father of James H. Hickman and Burnette B. Hickman. Married to Susan Suite Hickman in Nelson County on June 6, 1854. Father of Aurelia Hickman. Physician in Bardstown in 1850. Physician in Bardstown in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 276B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 127B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Murry Precinct, p. 225A.

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, March 12, 1844, Film #000481507, p. 385.

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, June 6, 1854, Film #000499977, .

Find A Grave, "Dr. William A. Hickman (1816-1893)," Memorial 24683039, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24683039 (accessed April 15, 2020).

John Carroll Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson & Co., 1876), 374.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 578.

Citation

Hickman, William A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197124 (November 12, 2026).

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