Make sure that the file is a photo. At-home DNA testing wasnt available until recently. Several in the town told the outlet the story was sensationalized. Jane needs to get a DNA test and compare it to Doris Abernathy, the town historian. I think that you did well with pointing out that this is not on and well done. L.C. There was a tip-off, though. It sickens me to see any one make what he did look OKAY! You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Hicks was the beloved town doctor in the tiny mountain town of McCaysville, but women came from miles around to seek his services. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSZD-WWR: accessed 10 April 2021), Thos J Hicks in household of D Flem Hicks, Civil District 10, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 110, sheet 7A, family 118 Stapleton, who now lives in Long Beach, Calif., with his longtime girlfriend, was reunited with a half sister, with whom he shares a father. Try again later. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Dr Thomas Jugarthy Hicks Sr. Cristine Santander is a content writer for KnowYourDNA. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Dr. Thomas Hicks was a small-town Georgia doctor who was posthumously accused of selling hundreds of babies in illegal adoptions. What we have now is the mothers side of the story. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. I mean no disrespect towards anyone. After years of wondering about her birth family, will Diane finally have closure? pic.twitter.com/aTH43ks3Co. You are absolutely correct in your assumption. Thomas Hicks McCAYSVILLE, Ga. This man not only took away peoples family history, but ruined their future as well. If it wasnt Hicks, there was someone doing the same thing during the war years adopting babies out to Akron. And most of these women were likely unmarried, which was a huge no-no at the time. Dr. Thomas J. Hicks performed abortions in the 1950s, long before abortions were legalized in Roe v. Wade. He died at age 83 in 1972 of leukemia, according to Appalachian History. In the mid-1940s, Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks opened the Hicks Community Clinic in the small town of McCaysville, Georgia, mere steps from the Tennessee state line. Dr. Thomas Hicks has a large mausoleum which bares his name at Crest Lawn Cemetery, standing tall above many of the other cemetery plots marked with headstones.

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