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Unknown Unknown 1700-2002-0000.jpg PO-2002 B&W 1700-2002-0000 1700-2002-0000 Print 8x10 Historic Photographs c. 1910 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Charles Payne Hicks (b. 1856 - d. 1929) was born in Fayette, Howard County Missouri and arrived in the Prescott area in 1880, where he worked for Judge Edmund Wells. Hicks is well-known as the adoptive father of Violet Hicks, a baby who was won in a gambling game after being abandoned atop a bar counter of a Whiskey Row saloon. According to popular legend, the baby's name was Chance Cobweb Hall, although research reveals there was no such person who went by that name.The case of Violet Bell served as the basis for the Chance Cobweb Hall story.
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