Ida E. (Hicks) Wamsley's parents are John Henry Hicks and Barbra (Garrison) Hicks

Ida E. (Hicks) Wamsley's parents are John Henry Hicks and Barbra (Garrison) Hicks, she is the niece of Joseph V. Hicks and Mary (Weaver) Hicks not their daughter, records and census records back this all up. Joseph and Mary had a daughter the same year Catherine Gertrude "Kate" (Hicks) Edwards. The 1856 Iowa Census for Butler Co., Iowa shows both families in their own homes next door to each other verifying which children belong to which parents, and the grandmother of Ida and Kate, Mrs. Gertrude Hicks also. L Edwards