Bannister Hickey is buried in the Stone Cemetary on county line of Jasper and Newton Countys. The cemetary book has some very interesting history of his family. His grandfather John married Mary Middleton. John's will left at least 400 acres to each of his 11 children and a life interest to the plantation and the business in Henry Co Virginia to his wife Mary. Bannister and Middleton came with 3 more brothers to Cooper county Mo then to the Carthage MO. where the set up the first court house. Bannister married Marthe "Patsy" Burris and when she died he married Lucretis (Cagel) widow of William Melugin. His daughter married her step brother William Martin Melugin. Their daughter married Robert Sherman Martin. Their daughter was my Grandmother.