I found this from Ancestory.com. Someone had posted it on their family tree. I haven't figured out the connection yet... But I will put it in the comments when I find it.
Lewis Silas Fricks: (my great-great grandpa). His son, my grandpa, Jonathan Davis Fricks, was also in the Civil War.
"He was born 1801 in South Carolina, probably the Pendleton District. He married August 29, 1821(1) Elizabeth Vice, daughter of Roebuck Vice and Jane (Willis?). She was born in 1804 in Kentucky and died March 20,1900 in Murphy County, North Carolina.
Lewis was granted 816 acres in Pendleton District on February 11, 1826 on Little River. James Barron of Pickens County sold to Henry Fricks 350 acres on Cane Creek "adjoining land occupied by Lewis Fricks" August 22, 1833.(2) Lewis relocated his family to Lumpkin County, Georgia and appears there on the 1838 state census with eight people in his household.
During the War Between the States he enlisted in Company F, 3rd Tennessee (USA) Calvary. He was captured September 25,1864 and died in a parole camp at Vicksburg, Mississippi April 2, 1865.
Footnotes:
1. In an 1866 affadavit for widow's pension, the marriage date is given as 1821 per "examined family records," signed by Benjamin J. Davis, Lumpkin Co, GA court clerk. Pension was granted and begsn 1868.
2. Pickens Co, SC Deed Book Q, p. 138
Other Sources: 1840, 1850 Census Lumpkin Co, GA; Notes from E.E. Fricks, Jr.;Pendleton Messenger 30 Apr 1825; 11 Sept 18232; 30 Mar 1837; Pickens County, SC Deed Book 1, p. 220; The History Of Stephens County by Kathryn C. Trodon; Fricks of SC by Jesse D. Fricks, SC Archives;
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