Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Robert A. Hickman

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Robert A. Hickman, hardware merchant, of Bentonville, Ark., and a 
member of the firm of Hickman & Maxwell, was born in Monroe County, 
Tenn., in 1839, and is the son of James and Ann (Daniels) Hickman. The 
father was born in East Tennessee in 1801, and was a carpenter by 
trade, but in connection also followed farming. He immigrated to 
Benton County, Ark., in 1857, and located on Pea Ridge. He bought 440 
acres for $4,500, and later entered 200 acres more and purchased forty 
acres. Still later he purchased 283 acres, making in all 963 acres. He 
died in 1875. He was a successful business man. His wife, Ann Daniels, 
was born in Monroe County, Tenn., in 1806, and died in 1868. She was 
the mother of eleven children, seven of whom are now living, Robert A. 
being the sixth child. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the 
schools of Tennessee and Arkansas. He remained at home with his 
parents until the breaking out of the late war, and June 3, 1861, he 
enlisted in the State service and served three months in Capt. Hays' 
company. In September he enlisted in Company F, Fifteenth Regiment 
Arkansas Infantry, or the "Northwest Fifteenth Regiment," and was in 
the fights at Pea Ridge, Corinth, Iuka, Port Hudson, Champion Hills, 
and at the Black River fight was captured and retained for five days, 
when he escaped and returned to his command after it surrendered. He 
was paroled at Little Rock. He was in the fight at Marks' Mill and was 
in service until June, 1865. At the battle of Corinth, Miss., he was 
shot in the leg and wounded slightly. December, 1866, he married Miss 
Virginia A. Evans, who was born in Bedford County, Tenn., in 1841, and 
who became the mother of one child, Myrtie. Mr. Hickman followed 
farming near his old home until 1882, and was the owner of 163 acres 
of land. He then moved to Bentonville.