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Hicks, George Barton, a veteran Elder in the Church and a former resident of Spanish Fork, Utah county, Utah, was born Dec. 15, 1803, near Enniskillen, county of Fermanagh, Ireland, the son of Robert Hicks and Frances Armstrong. He emigrated to America in 1820 and settled in Canada. In 1834 (Jan. 25th) he married Martha Ann Wilson, by whom he had three sons and four daughters, July 16, 1837, he and his wife were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Priest Theodore Turley and confirmed the same day by Elder Almon W. Babbitt. In November; 1839, he, with his family, came to Nauvoo (then called Commerce) Hancock county, Illinois, where they remained until the final expulsion of the Saints in 1846. The family came to Utah in 1852, arriving in Salt Lake City Oct. 3rd, of that year. Ever after that he was a resident of Utah and died Jan. 13, 1885, at the town of Spanish Fork as a High Priest in the Church, who had ever lived faithful and true to the Gospel of Christ. His wife died April 2, 1885.
Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. Salt Lake City 2:163 |
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