Dr rob hicks biography

The other day I talked about the twin cities of Copperhill, TN and McCayesville, GA.  The two sleepy Southern mining towns that straddle the state line.

There is one tale from these town so twisted and mysterious that I wanted to give it its own entry.  That is the story of the Hicks babies.

Dr.

Thomas Jugarthy Hicks was a beloved local doctor the worked in the 50s and 60s in Copperhill, TN.  Dr. Hicks was adored by the towns folks as he would often treat the impoverished for free and helped the local miners and their mine related ailments.

But Dr.

Hicks had a not-so-secret dark secret.  He was the premier abortion doctor in the South, which was illegal at the time.  Dr. Hicks was well know through out the South for helping wealthy families get rid of embarrassments.  Wealthy families for Chattanooga and Atlanta would ship their daughters to the rural mountains of the Copper Basin to have secret abortions.  Dr.

Hicks was so prominent that the tow