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Marriage: Children:
  1. Sarah Louisa Sikes: Birth: 1849 in , , TN, USA.

  2. John Sikes: Birth: 1850 in , , TN, USA.

  3. <unknown> Sikes: Birth: 1854 in , , AR, USA.

  4. Ellan Sikes: Birth: 30 MAR 1857 in , , AR, USA.

  5. Flora Sikes: Birth: 28 FEB 1859.

  6. Pope Sikes: Birth: 2 SEP 1861 in , , AR, USA.

  7. David Sikes: Birth: 2 SEP 1861 in , , AR, USA.

  8. Daniel Sikes: Birth: BEF 1867.

  9. William Sikes: Birth: BEF 1867.

  10. James Monroe Sikes: Birth: 1867.


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Sources
1. Title:   Public Member Trees
Page:   Database online.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;

Notes
a. Note:   Information I have is that these two Sikes brothers were in the Second Regiment Arkansas Cavalry Volunteers, Union Army, Co. E. Russell J. Sikes, age 36 was a Pvt, enlisted 12 July 1863 at Cassville, MO. His brother William P. Sikes, age 29, was a Pvt., enlisted 12 July 1863 at Cassville, Mo. Am researching this Sikes family and would like to contact others who are doing the same.
  brothers, William P. SIKES and Russell Jacob SIKES, sons of William Arthur and Rhoda Rogers SIKES; served with Capt. Jesse Jackson MILLSAP, Co. E 2nd Ark Cav US during Civil War.
  David Sikes was the son of Reverend Russell J. Sikes who settled in Wright County after the Civil War. Russell was the oldest son of William Arthur Sikes from Union County, North Carolina. William Arthur was the son of Cornelius Sikes from Sampson County, North Carolina.
  In November 1861 Russell was ordered into Company G 45th Regt, Arkansas Malitia, Seary County by Capt Sam Leslie to support a secret organization opposed to the war. He served only 1 month.
 On July 12, 1863 Russell went to Dardenelle, AR and joined the federal Army. He served in Company E 2nd Cavalry commanded by Lutenant Kelly. After three months he was promoted to corporal he served in this position for the next two years. On August 20, 1865 he received an honorable discharge at Murfeesboro, TN. He returned to Arkansas and began farming again.


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