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I presume the Hicks had moved from NC to TN before she married Thomas Green who was native of Jackson County - but can not definitely identify them in the census. Three widowed Hicks women came to Jackson County, TN before 1840 Elizabeth, Prudence, and Temperance - but Elizabeth came first before 1830. Elizabeth is also the oldest b~1790 and probably the mother of Nancy Hicks; in this family, either a Rebecca Hicks b.>1815 m.1837 or Nancy b.1814 m.1836 but Rebecca has daughter named Prudence and Nancy has sons named Lewis and Abraham (her brothers' names if Elizabeth is her mother). Also Rebecca is born in TN and Nancy in NC. Both Mary Hicks Gaines and William Hicks named a daughter Nancy. Finally, Temperance Hicks is likely Temperance Parish who married Daniel Hicks in Warren Co, NC, and probably not even related to Elizabeth or Prudence.

from William L Hix at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/x/Christopher--L-Hix/index.html
"In the late 1700's or early 1800's, three women bearing the surname Hicks crossed the mountains from North Carolina and into the Indian Lands now known as Tennessee. Elizabeth, Prudence, and Temperance Hicks settled into the wilderness just north of the Cumberland River near the present day Jackson County, Tennessee. Little is known of these women except for the fact that they were born in North Carolina. So far the identity of their spouses have remained elusive. Joseph Hicks, son of Prudence, claimed in a Civil War document that his father died in the fall of 1833 in Warren County, Tennessee and that no records were kept. Some researchers claim that the three women were actually sisters bearing illegitimate children, others claim that they were the wives of three Hicks brothers who were all killed or died prior to their arrival in the Jackson County area, still others claim that they were of no relation at all. However all of the families seem to indicate the presents of Native American blood. This may explain why their spouses' identities have remained a mystery.The children of these women married into the GAINES, LEE, KEELING, CURNEL / KERNELL, PURCELL, LONG, WILSON, and other families. Most remained in the area around Macon and Jackson Counties of Tennessee in the areas around Whitleyville, Haydenburg, Willette, North Springs and Red Boiling Springs. Most of their descendants can be found there today."