Oma Virginia Hicks was the 6th child of 13 born to Francis Marion Hicks (born on 19 Nov 1852 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, - it is important to remember that though Ancestry.com does not recognize Greenbrier County as being in the state of Virginia TODAY, prior to 20 Jun 1863 {when West Virginia officially became the 35th state in the Union}, there was no such state as West Virginia - the son of John Hicks and Jane Walker, and died 14 Sep 1928 in Greenbrier (the city), Summers County, West Virginia) and Mary Elizabeth Ballengee (born on 19 Oct 1856 in Monroe, VA, - the same note on Virginia versus West Virginia applies in this instance, also - the daughter of Archibald J Ballengee and Elizabeth Graham, and she died on 11 Dec 1926 in Hinton, Summers, West Virginia). Oma Virginia Hicks became my Grand Aunt when she married my Grand Uncle Other (pronounced with a long 'O' sound, followed by a hard 'th' sound before the 'ur' sound at the end) Lee Dodd, the 2nd oldest of 12 children - of which one was my paternal grandmother - in 1911. The West Virginia Marriages Index does not get any more specific than the year of marriage and the Dodd family printed historical data is of no further help in the matter. Grand Uncle Other and Grand Aunt Oma remained childless - unless they lost a child that no one has any knowledge of - during the almost 41 years that they spent together before Grand Aunt Oma passed away on 28 May 1952 in Hinton, Summers, West Virginia at the age of 66 years 3 months and 4 days. She was laid to rest on 31 May 1952 in Cales Cemetery, as can be noted on the bottom of this memorial created by the Walter H Pack Family and graciously turned over to me for managing as of 27 Dec 2013. Cales Cemetery is located in Brooks, an unincorporated community just north of the county seat of Summers County - Hinton. I never got to meet my Grand Aunt Oma because she passed away 12 days less than 22 months before I was born. Somehow I feel that through the medium of Find A Grave - and especially once the spring thaw has set in and I can hopefully get a photo volunteer to take a picture of her grave marker (assuming that she indeed has one) and add it to her memorial - that I will have truly established an everlasting link to another member of my ancestral family tree and it feels great. Somehow knowing whom I've come from helps to shed some light on where I am going. I miss not having known you my Grant Aunt Oma but now I believe that you know that I am thinking of you from my corner of the world.