Edward Dickson Hicks I, son of Louis Hicks and his wife [Elizabeth] Dickson Hicks, was conspicuously a man of affairs who was to be reckoned with in the business world of early Tennessee and Georgia in the beginning of the 19th century. He was a member of the noted firm of Woods and Hicks, known throughout the new country for its enterprise and its integrity. Later he became a member of the powerful corporation of Hicks, Vanleer, and Baxter which operated stores and iron furnaces in Georgia as well as in Tennessee. Having large interests in both States, Edward Dickson Hicks lived part of his time in Tennessee and part in Georgia. On a trip to the West Indies in pursuit of these interests, he died on the way home, at Nassau. His body was brought to the United States and buried in Griffin, Georgia. He was twice married: 1st to Miss Nancy Davis, daughter of the pioneer Captain John Davis of Nashville, Tenn. The highbred features of Mrs Nancy Davis Hicks are perpetuated in a lovely miniature painted by the celebrated artist Dodge. It is now owned by her granddaughter, Mrs Emma (Hicks) McDonald. Her only child, Edward Dickson Hicks II, was an infant when she died. It was his good fortune to be adopted by his wonderfully kind and capable aunt, Mrs Sophia Davis Horto.n. The second marriage of Edward Dickson Hicks I was to Miss ––, who also died early, leaving one child [Emma Elizabeth Hicks], who become the wife of Col Livingston Mims of Georgia and the mother of Mrs Emma (Mims) Thompson, the wife of Hon. Joseph Thompson of Atlanta who graced with distinction her position as society leader and as President of the Woman's Board of Atlanta Cotton States Exposition. Besides the vast interests Edward Dickson Hicks in Tennessee and Georgia, he had holdings in the then wild country of Texas. No attention paid to these after his death. They were sold for taxes and lost to his heirs while in their minority. Captain John Davis, the father of Mrs Nancy (Davis) Hicks and grandfather of Mr Edward Dickson Hicks II, was an early settler near Nashville, who had emigrated to Davidson County from North Carolina, where his father Frederick Davis had done a soldier's duty in the War of the Revolution. John Davis married Miss Dorcas Gleaves of Wythe County, Va. He was a man of such sterling traits as to win from all those who wrote of the times in which he lived. Mr Willoughby Williams in his Recollections of Nashville of him as Esquire John Davis, the county surveyor, a man universally esteemed and beloved than any man in the for his integrity honesty and benevolence. He was the grandfather of E.D. Hicks of the Commercial Insurance Company and one of the earliest settlers of the county.