![]() ![]() He supported himself thereafter by typesetting, contributing to local newspapers, and giving temperance lectures.Īt the age of nineteen, on August 28, 1855, he married Jeannette Annie Wilcox (1837-1889) they had two children, George Preston Sikes (1856-1957) and Clara Jeanette Sikes (1858-1956). ![]() At fourteen he went to work for a printer and learned how to set type. Sikes himself was seriously ill as a child and almost lost his hearing, so he was largely educated at home. He was the seventh of eleven children, of whom only six survived to adulthood. From the Wikipedia: Wirt Sikes -"William Wirt Sikes was born in Watertown, New York, the son of William Johnson Sikes, a prominent local physician. ![]()
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