| Hicks, Green Reunion
by Joyce Woods Cox
The descendants of Robert S. Hicks and
Juliaet Carmikel gathered for an annual reunion, Sunday September 2, 2001
at Moody Elementary cafeteria. This reunion has occurred on the Sunday
before Labor Day at various places through the years. Approximately 60
were present.
Robert, Juliaet, twin daughters, Eliza and
Hannah and son, Robert, Jr., came by covered wagon from Tenn. to Texas in
1875. The children were dressed in red so they could be spotted easily as
they traveled. Robert and Juliaet had 10 children, 8 reaching maturity.
Five sons and three daughters, "Robert Hicks founded the Willow Grove
Community southeast of Moody. He acquired land, established the community
and raised their families there. Robert
then moved to Moody and left the men on the land to farm. He claimed he
could go to the top floor of his home in Moody and with his long army spy
glass, he could see what they were doing on the farms. Spy glass being a
holdover from the civil war, where he served as an aide to General Robert
E. Lee," Bobbie Phillips Fischgrabe, family genealogist said. “Ruby
Hicks Miller (Robert's granddaughter) told me Robert had the first
telephone and first phonograph in the Willow Grove Community. Also one of
the first to own a car, a bright red topless two-seater.”
The eldest present was Velva Viola Hicks
Kelley from Troy, Texas. She will be 96 on Oct 29, 2001. Her surviving
brother and sisters include, L.H Hicks of Willow Grove, Pauline Anderson
of Carrollton, Maureen Anderson of Lancaster (they married brothers) Velva
Viola Hicks Kelley of Troy. Deceased children, brothers and sisters of
these are Ray Hicks, Ernest Hicks, Hazel Phillips and Velma Robinson.
These all belonged to Rufus Hicks, son of Robert S. Hicks. Rufus married
Nancy Ella Birchum. J. D. and Billy Hicks both live at Belton and are sons
of Ray Hicks. Ray Hicks married Eva Green, thus the Green connection.
Youngest was 3 year old Kameron Myhre from
Belton, Texas (great, great, great grandson of Robert and Juliaet.
Traveling the furthest was Howard and Lorraine McElhaney from Norman,
Okla. Luther and Lora Hiser Green were from the Mother Neff State Park
area. Lora parents were Rev. J.W. Hiser a Baptist preacher and his wife
Mattie Ila Stockton. Doris Green Brown said, “Grandma had to do the
driving until she died. Grandpa never learned to drive.” Luther Green's
parents were Calvin and Doshia Legg Green. They lived in the Moody area.
Two children survive the Green’s. J. L. Green and his sister Doris Brown
both of Moody. J.L. is married to Shirley Brentham. Brown’s husband Lee
is deceased. They had three children. Donnita, Kenneth and Billy Wayne.
Organizers for the reunion were Jack and
Wilma Day of Troy, J.D. Hicks, Billy Hicks of Belton and Brett Oglesby of
Belton, Dale and Bobbie Fischgrabe of Moody. |
