HICKMAN, Robert Armstrong - {from The Bentonville Democrat} With the death of Robert Armstrong Hickman, which occurred at his home here on Sunday, April 9th, 1922 at 12:30 o'clock p.m. came another break in the "thinning ranks of grey." His death, which came at the good age of eighty-three years, was the direct result of an acute attack of asthma and heart trouble of only a few days' duration, but followed many months of intermittent suffering with these maladies. Mr. Hickman was born near Sweetwater in Monroe county, Tennessee on February 4, 1839. In 1857 he came to Pea Ridge, Arkansas with his parents and other members of the family, making his home in that locality until moving to Bentonville in 1882. On December 6, 1866 he was married to Miss Virginia A. Evans, a member of another pioneer Benton county family. On June 3, 1863 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, joining Capt. Hays' company and in September of the same year became a member of Company F., 15th Reg. Arkansas Infantry, known as the "Northwest Fifteenth." Among the battles in which he participated were those of Pea Ridge, Corinth, Iuka, Port Hudson, Champion Hills and Marks Mills. In the Black River fight he was captured but made his escape after being held prisoner for five days by the Union troops, making his way back to his command. He was wounded in the battle of Corinth. He was paroled at Little Rock in June 1865, following Gen. Lee's surrender to over-whelming forces at Appomattox, and his death occurred on the 57th anniversary of the date of the surrender. As valiant and honorable in civilian life and affairs as in war, Capt. Hickman merited and had the highest regards of his neighbors and other friends and acquaintances wherever known and was entrusted with the office of Sheriff of Benton county when that office, combining with it that of tax collector, was the most important county position of trust within the gift of the voters of Benton county. He is survived by his only living child, Mrs. Harry S. Jackson of this city, one brother, James Hickman, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Monks, both living here (and now the sole survivors of a family of ten children), two grandchildren, Robert and Virginia Jackson, his son-in-law, Harry S. Jackson, nephews and nieces, other relatives and a large circle of friends. His wife died September 1, 1910 and six of their seven children had died in early childhood. The funeral service, conducted by Rev. H.C. Hoy, pastor of the M.E. church, South, was held Monday afternoon in the house that had been Mr. Hickman's home for nearly forty years, and interment made at the Hickman cemetery on Pea Ridge beside his wife and children and where his parents and many other relatives rest. [Rogers Democrat - Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas - April 20, 1922]