Rachel Katherine Hicks

Rachel Katherine was born in 1858 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.¹   Rachel Katherine's father was Nathaniel R. Hicks and her mother was Jannett Gregg.  Her paternal grandparents were Nathaniel Hicks and Mary Smith; her maternal grandparents were Abraham Gregg and Jannette Allison. She had two brothers and five sisters, named Abraham, Edward, Mary Jane, Sarah Rebecca, Martha, Margaret Adeline and Julie Annis.  She was the third youngest of the eight children.