{"id":43441,"date":"2014-11-06T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=43441"},"modified":"2014-11-06T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T02:00:04","slug":"sjindy-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/sjindy-49\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/141107date.jpg\" alt=\"141107date\" width=\"500\" height=\"50\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43444\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hicks1.jpg\" alt=\"hicks2\" width=\"474\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43445\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Living Estate Sale<\/strong>: <em>Jack and Marta Giesecke are leaving the historic Hicks House<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After 38 years, Jack and Marta Giesecke are leaving the historic Hicks House. On the way out the door they want to share some of the treasures they have lived with over the years.<br \/>\nMany wonderful items have been found in the attic, carriage house and basement and brought to the main floors of the house. And they are all on sale this weekend, November 6 &#8211; 8. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe house was built by local pioneer merchant John Hicks. John Hicks came to St. Johns, moving from DeWitt in 1856. He had been a merchant with his uncle, David Sturgis. He established his St. Johns store in a frame building in the new village. Hicks Store served the community and its customers for 112 years, closing in 1961.<br \/>\nIn 1858 John Hicks began buying grain and built a warehouse. At his death in 1903, he was Clinton County\u2019s oldest grain merchant as well as the oldest proprietor of a dry-goods store. His son, John C. Hicks, took over the family business.<br \/>\nActive in the Methodist Church of St. Johns, he served as chairman of its board and a trustee. The will of John Hicks left a pipe organ to his church and at the death of his wife, Eliza Ann Huston Hicks, the family gave the tower bells. When the 1895 church burned October 10, 1936, only the tower with its chimes were saved and are used in the present church today.<br \/>\nAmong the items for sale this weekend are 50 chairs of all sorts of vintages, tools, an old phone booth top, toys, an 8 foot Santa and real child&#8217;s sleigh, cedar chest, desk, books of all sorts, records, and more. Organizers are still unpacking, but this an extraordinary sale in a must see home.<br \/>\nAlso included in this sale will be two grandfathers clocks, an amazing carved lion chair, many paintings a 3 piece setee set, a baby cradle, corner whatnot, lamps, marble top tables, traditional couch from park place, a camel back sofa from Hammary furniture company and many orientals carpets. This is a very full house with something for everyone.<br \/>\nOther families who have lived in the home include the L.H. Hull family and the Dr. Franklin Smith family. Who will be next?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hicks2.jpg\" alt=\"hicks1\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43446\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Estate Sale: Jack and Marta Giesecke are leaving the historic Hicks House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}