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Descendants of Joshua Sikes

Generation No. 2

2. JAMES MADISON² SIKES (JOSHUA¹) was born May 07, 1844 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, and died May 03, 1916 in Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee. He married (1) RACHEL M. E. THOMPSON. She was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, and died December 26, 1881 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. He married (2) SARAH MINERVA HALL April 19, 1885 in Morristown Tennessee, daughter of JAMES HALL and MINERVA DAWSON. She was born March 07, 1868 in Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee, and died January 19, 1948 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Notes for JAMES MADISON SIKES:
Notes for James Madison Sikes: James was born on 5 September 1845, in Morristown, Jefferson County, Tennessee. Jefferson was later split up and became a part of Hamblen County in 1870. James was 5'7", dark complexion, dark hair and had blue eyes. He weighted about 147 (taken from military records). He had alleged his date of birth was 7 May 1844, however the page from the family bible shows he was born on 5 September 1845 in Morristown. His occupation was farming. He lived in Chestnut Bloom, Jefferson County, Tennessee. He is buried in the Mount Airy Cemetery, Morristown, TN.

His mother was Sarah A. Sikes (maiden name unknown) She is listed as "Widowed" in the 1880 Hamlen County, TN census and is living with James and his first wife and children. James had eleven siblings. Eight by his father's first wife, James, Joshua and Alice were born to Joshua and Sarah A. Sikes. This information about James, Joshua and Alice was taken from a page out of the family bible, used to prove James Madison's date of birth for his Civil War pension.

James Madison served with the 8th Regiment Tennessee Calvary Volunteers (Union). He enlisted on 28 July 1863 at Camp Nelson, Kentucky and was assigned to Company C, of the 7th Regiment. He was almost 20 years old when he enlisted. Nov evidence was found to show he was the company Bugler (family oral history says he was a Bugler and his uniform is on display at the Davy Crockett Museum in Morristown, TN). My wife and I was at Morristown in September 2002, and could not prove any of the above. Military records shows that James was absent in military prison, Knoxville, Tennessee on 28 January 1865 and again in February 1865. He attained the rank of Corporal. He was reduced in rank from Corporal to Private and repomoted to Corporal prior to being mustered out of service on 21 September 1865 in Knoxville, TN.

He applied for a Civil War Pension on 7 August 1888, application umber 667544 and received certificate number 506067. His second wife, Marah Minerva (Hall) Sikes applied for a widows pension on 17 May 1916, application number 1066293, certificate number 811,604. He received, after many many months of corresponding with the war Department, disability for total deafness in the left ear.

James's death certificate shows his father as "J. Sikes" and his mother as "Sarah Hall" (which is his wife) showing both mother and father as being born in Tennessee. His cause of death on 3 May 1916 is listed as "Strangulated Hernia". Sarah, his second wife, left Morristown, in 1938 and moved to Knoxville, TN to live with her daughter Ruth Ann. Sarah was blind in the right eye and had problems seeing with her left eye.

More About JAMES MADISON SIKES:
Burial: Mt. Airy Methodist Cemetery, Morristown, Tennessee

Children of JAMES SIKES and RACHEL THOMPSON are:

	i.		MARTHA M.³ SIKES, b. September 03, 1868; d. February 22, 1872.
	ii.		SARAH EMILY SIKES, b. November 25, 1871; d. March 31, 1891.
	iii.		CORDELIA CLEMENTINE SIKES, b. November 19, 1875.
	iv.		NANCY ALICE SIKES, b. September 03, 1878; d. 1881.
	v.		MARY ESTHER SIKES, b. September 16, 1881; d. September 16, 1881.

Children of JAMES SIKES and SARAH HALL are:

5.	vi.		JAMES WALTER³ SIKES, b. October 08, 1885, Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee; d. November 29, 1973, Douglas, Coffee Co., Georgia.
	vii.		RUTH ANN SIKES, b. February 26, 1887, Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee; d. October 03, 1971, Knoxville, TN; m. JAMES MCGEE; b. Abt. 1859.

Notes for RUTH ANN SIKES:
Notes for Ruth Sikes: She married James McGee. They had no children, however McGee had two sons; Clyde and Gordon L., They are both listed in the census as being 14 years old, so it is assumed that they are twins. James McGee is listed as being 71 years old and Ruth is 43. She is also listed in the census as a "Lodger". The date of marriage is unknown. She later married an unknown Reiche and lived in Knoxville, TN. Her mother, Sarah Minerva, moved in with Ruth in April of 1938 and lived with her until her death in 1948.

6.	viii.	WILLIAM ALVIN SIKES, b. May 21, 1888; d. June 06, 1975.
7.	ix.	HUBERT WINFRED SIKES, b. March 09, 1889; d. November 1987.
	x.	HENRY LAFAYETTE SIKES, b. September 03, 1892, Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee; d. September 02, 1908, Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee.

Notes for HENRY LAFAYETTE SIKES:
Notes for Henry: Date of birth and death taken from his headstone in the MT. Airy Cemetery, Morristown, Tennessee. He is buried in the Mount Airy Methodist Cemetery, Morristown, TN.

8.	xi.		GRADY ALEXANDER SIKES, b. December 05, 1893.
9.	xii.		JOSEPH HALL SIKES, b. January 15, 1906, Morristown, Hamblen Co., Tennessee; d. July 12, 1992, Richmond, Virginia.

3. JOSEPH H.² SIKES (JOSHUA¹) was born 1847 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. He married (1) ISSIE OVERTON. He married (2) ELIZABETH LONGMIRE January 11, 1866 in Anderson Co., TN. He married (3) CARRIE MORGAN November 18, 1903. She died November 27, 1906.

Notes for JOSEPH H. SIKES:
Notes for James H. Sikes: Here is a write up on a nephew of James Madison Sikes, James H. Sikes, son of Joshua James Sikes and Norma Alice Burnett.

From a standard history of Oklahoma, by Joseph B. Thoburn, American Historical Soc. Chicago and New York, 1916, included photo (looks like Bob Sikes?). James H. Sykes, representative of the important County of Tulsa in the Fifth General Assembly of the Oklahoma Legislature, Mr. Sikes is engaged in the active practice of law in the city of Tulsa and is one of the prominent and successful younger member of the bar of his adopted state, within which his high attainments and sterling character have given him secure vantage ground in popular confidence and approbation.

AT Morristown, the judicial center of Hamblen Co., Tennessee, James H. Sikes was born on the 5th of January1880, and he is a son of Joshua James and Alice (Burnett) Sikes. The father was one of the early steamboat engineers on the Tennessee river and for many years thereafter was one of the prosperous agriculturists and influential citizens of Eastern Tennessee. He now maintains his home at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His wife, a woman of most gentle and gracious personality, was there summoned to eternal rest on the 31 of December 1914, at the age of 56 years and she held the affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of her influence. Her father, Rev. M. D. Burnett, was one of the distinguished clergymen of the Baptist Church in Tennessee and for many years was a contributing editor of the Baptist Reflector, the leading Baptist publication in the U.S.

Honorable James H. Sikes is indebted to the public schools of Tennessee for his early educational discipline, and in 1899 he entered Emory and Henry College at Emory, Virginia, where he continued his studies until he had completed the work of his junior year in 1901. There after he assumed a clerical position in the employ of the Southern Express Company, and within a year he was promoted to the position of auditor in the company's office at Chattanooga, Tennessee. His ambition was not to be deflected from its course, however, and while thus employed he devoted close attention to the study of law as a member of a night class in the law department of Chattanooga University. The caliber of his mind and the strenuous zeal with which he applied himself are fully shown forth in the fact that he completed a three-year course in a single year and was graduated with highest honors of his class in 1905. He was class orator in his senior year and at the commencement observances, and in addition to receiving the well-earned degree of Bachelor of Law he was duly admitted to the bar of his native state. In 1906 Mr. Sikes engaged in the practice of his profession at Chattanooga, and it will readily be understood that to one whose valiant spirit had made possible such achievement as a student, success came as a normal prerogative when he applied himself with characteristic enthusiasm to the practical work of his chosen vocation.

Children of JOSEPH SIKES and ELIZABETH LONGMIRE are:

	i.		JAMES H.³ SIKES.
	ii.		JOHN SIKES.
	iii.		FEMALE SIKES, m. ROEL RUTHERFORD.
	iv.		FEMALE SIKES, m. WILLIAM W. MARKWOOD.
	v.		FEMALE SIKES, m. DAVID RUTHERFORD.

Child of JOSEPH SIKES and CARRIE MORGAN is:

vi.

CARTRIE³ SIKES, m. UNKNOWN BRYSEA.

4. JOSHUA JAMES² SIKES (JOSHUA¹) was born May 1852 in Hamblen Co., TN, and died December 22, 1931 in Claremore, Tulsa Co., Oklahoma. He married NORA ALICE BURNETT December 02, 1876 in Roane Co., TN.

Notes for JOSHUA JAMES SIKES:
Notes for Joshua James Sikes: He is found in the 1880 census for Hamblen co., TN. He is also found in the 1880 Morristown, Hamblen Co., TN Census.

More About JOSHUA JAMES SIKES:
Burial: Park Grove Cemetery, Broken Arrow, Tulsa Co., OK

Child of JOSHUA SIKES and NORA BURNETT is:

10.

JOHN JACOB NELSON³ SIKES, b. May 15, 1882, Jefferson County, Tennessee; d. November 10, 1924, Tulsa, Tulsa Co., Oklahoma.

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