Thirty or so people showed up at small inn in Ducktown, Tennessee, on Saturday to have their cheeks swabbed for DNA testing. Now in their 50s and 60s, they are so-called Hicks babies, having been given up by their birth mothers as infants and sold to new families by Dr. Thomas Hicks from his clinic in McCaysville in the ’50s and ’60s. They hope their DNA will help them find their birth families and the missing link to their medical histories.
Anyone who suspects they may be related to a Hicks baby may contact Melinda Elkins Dawson at 937-248-4712 or Paul Payne at 423-637-2617 for DNA testing.
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