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Andrew Hicks
Lot Title none Location in Cemetery Section: a Lot: -- Grave: --
Date of death Feb-4-1895	Date of birth Jun-17-1799	Age 95 yrs 7 mths 8 dys
Verse (Legibility: G - GOOD) Unspecified
Veteran Information No War Periods Served Veteran: No
Relatives Eldest son of Barney Hicks & Sarah Cook.
Stone Shape SQ - SQUARE TOP	Stone Decoration N - NONE	Stone Condition G - GOOD
Stone Material G - GRANITE	State of Stone U - OK - STANDING UPRIGHT
Other Information In 1836 at age 37 began a 50 year whaling business; owned 11 ships including the Andrew Hicks built at Westport Point. This ship was the last American whaling vessel & was sold in 1917 as a merchant marine ship. Andrew was a director of Merchants' Nat'l. Bank & owned an entire city block in New Bedford. He never married and died at his Westport Point farm in his 96th year.
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Cemetery

HICKS - SOWLE

Address

1603 Main Road, At end of private lane
Westport
Massachusetts
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Supplementary Information

18 Marked Stones in this Cemetery
1 Unmarked Stones (Fieldstones) in this Cemetery
Does host War Veterans
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G.R.35. - gravestone records, Hicks Private lot, on road from Gifford's Corner to Westport, and G.R. 36. - Gravestone record, Sowle Private Lot, on road from Gifford's Corner to Westport Point, both in Westport Vital Records to 1850. These cemeteries are combined into one by transfer of bodies to the Hicks Private Lot. It is located on private property and not to be entered without express permission. Gravestones cleaned June, 2020.