WILLIAM HICKS
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Officer Rank: Spec. Deputy Marshal
Memorial Panel: 27-W: 9
Department: U.S. Marshals Service
End of Watch: April 15, 1872
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: On April 15, 1872, eight deputy marshals were shot and killed in what came to be known as the Going Snake Massacre, which occurred in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The lawmen went to a murder trial armed with an arrest warrant to detain the defendant if he was acquitted. As the lawmen approached the building they were fired upon by a group of men who were waiting inside. Six possemen were killed on the spot: Black Beck, Sam Beck, William Hicks, George Seldridge, Jim Ward, and Riley Woods. William Beck and Jacob Owens died the next day of their wounds.
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