Hiram Ricketson was born April 21, 1836 in Ware County, GA, and died April 20, 1914 in Oxford, Llano County, TX. He married Amelia (Milly) Wright 1855 in Coffee County, GA, daughter of William Wright and Susan Carver.
Hiram Ricketson served in the Confederate Army in the 1st Battalion of
Georgia
Sharpshooters Co. B. Hiram and his family moved from Coffee County GA (formerly Ware
County) to
Burnet County before the 1870 and then to Oxford, Llano County, Texas,