Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of J. H. Vickers
  (?-?, buried ?)
   
A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, 
  Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893; pages 859


   J. H. Vickers, real-estate, loan and collecting agent, of Mexia, Limestone
county, is a son of Berry A. and Marrella (Ransom) Vickers. The father was a 
native of Georgia, was a carpenter by occupation, and died in the Confederate
army in 1863, aged thirty-five years.  He was a member of the Ninth Georgia 
regulars, and died of small-pox. The mother, also a native of Georgia, died in
Freestone county, this State, in 1882, aged forty-five years.  They were the 
parents of six children, four daughters and two sons, four of whom lived to 
years of maturity:  J. H., Susan, William D., and Eliza.