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Below is a family biography included in The History of Benton County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Robert A. Hickman, hardware merchant, of Bentonville, Ark., and a member of the firm of Hickman & Maxwell, was born in Monroe County, Tenn. in 1839, and is the son of James and Ann (Daniels) Hickman. The father was born in East Tennessee in 1801, and was a carpenter by trade, but in connection also followed farming. He immigrated to Benton County, Ark., in 1857, and located on Pea Ridge. He bought 440 acres for $4,500, and later entered 200 acres more and purchased forty acres. Still later he purchased 283 acres, making in all 963 acres. He died in 1875. He was a successful business man. His wife Ann Daniels, was born in Monroe County, Tenn., in 1806, and died in 1868. She was the mother of eleven children, seven of whom are now living, Robert A. being the sixth child. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the schools of Tennessee and Arkansas. He remained at home with his parents until the breaking out of the late war, and June 3, 1861, he enlisted in the State service and served three months in Capt. Hays’ company. In September he enlisted in Company F, Fifteenth Regiment Arkansas Infantry, or the “Northwest Fifteenth Regiment” and was in the fights at Pea Ridge, Corinth, Iuka, Port Hudson, Champion Hills, and at the Black River fight was captured and retained for five days, when he escaped and returned to his command after it surrendered. He was paroled at Little Rock. He was in the fight at Marks’ Mill and was in service until June, 1865. At the battle of Corinth, Miss., he was shot in the leg and wounded slightly. December, 1866, he married Miss Virginia A. Evans, who was born in Bedford County, Tenn., in 1841, and who became the mother of one child, Myrtie. Mr. Hickman followed farming near his old home until 1882, and was the owner of 163 acres of land. He then moved to Bentonville.

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