Ancestry of
Wild Bill Hickok

Gunfighter and Lawman

James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Alonzo Hickok 
  • Mother:
  • Polly Butler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 May 1837 
  • Birth Location:
  • Homer (now Troy Grove), LaSalle, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Aug 1876 
  • Death Location:
  • Deadwood, Lawrence, South Dakota 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Lawrence, South Dakota 
  • Notes: 

  • Lawman, gunfighter, and gambler.

    Originally buried at Ingleside Cemetery, he was later moved to Mt. Moriah Cemetery by a couple of his friends.

• Marriages for James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok

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  • Spouse:
  • Agnes Mersman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Mar 1876
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming

• Sources for James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/28/2012).
  • ² Hickok, Charles Nelson, The Hickok Genealogy: Descendants of William Hickoks of Farmington, Connecticut with Ancestry of Charles Nelson Hickok, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co. (1938), 212-213.
  • ³ Phillips, Larissa, Wild Bill Hickok: Legend of the Wild West, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. (2004).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Wild Bill Hickok", (accessed 09/28/2012).