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Sharecropper's Cabin on Stockdale Farm It has been said that there is a place inside all of us
that is called home. It it a place that we are all longing to return to.
When I look at the old cabin, I recall my childhood and memory becomes
my link to that place which is home.
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The reason I want to search for information on my ancestors is because I desire to know about myself. Genealogy is the search of genetic and cultural history. I think it is most fascinating to illuminate and make discoveries through genealogy and genetics. The first thing a doctor does when seeing a patient is to collect a family history. Why do you think that is so important? A family history can give clues to many things. This fact alone reveals the practical reason for knowing as much about one's genetics as possible. Aside from that fact, I am enthralled by old photographs, collectibles, documents and stories that bring these people to life. Almost everyone likes to be told a story. We grow up hearing stories and learn about people through these stories. When I look at a photograph of an ancestor, I see a part of myself. As I study the photograph, I find myself musing over the thoughts, feelings and experiences that might have been a part of that person's life. If family means anything, it surely must be the knowledge that as long as they are remembered their lives have not been in vain. It is certain that some discoveries may not be pleasant; however, this too is a part of the truth. Many people fear the truth, or prefer to leave it alone, while others recognize truth as fact and realize that some things in life must just be assimilated in mystery (even though they are incomprehensible). Someone might ask "Then why know them?". I ask "Why not?". Carlton Monroe Dickerson
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the family from relatives and when I made my way into the court records
I started finding many answers to the questions I had been seeking.
It can be very confusing to sort through documents so I want to give you
a few clues to what I am seeking to do in this account. You will
find that I have the Dickersons that I am connected to listed by the parents
(beginning with the oldest connection). This is where the research
is right now. Any information you can offer to help connect us from
Margaret Dickerson who died in 1814, to her husband, or to her maiden name,
etc., would be a JOY.
The first picture is out of time sequence, but I thought it was so special that I wanted to begin with a huge group of Dickersons. This picture sure is! The interesting thing for me is the fact that it is a group showing a Dickerson who married a Dickerson. This is my line. |
The Dickerson family sometime before 1883 I believe this picture is around 1873 Nathaniel (Nathan) David Dickerson is the man in front to the right with the beard Nancy Green Moses his wife is the woman on the second row with flowers in her hair Their oldest child Margaret Agnes Dickerson is the first woman on the left, her husband who is her cousin John Benjamin Dickerson is the man standing in front of the pole I believe his second wife who was Margaret's sister, Sarah France Dickerson, is the girl in the white dress on the front row |
| Below you will see that I have taken the little boy in the front, whom I believe to be my grandfather James Monroe Dickerson, and put a picture of myself at the age of seven next to it. What do you think? |
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| If you go to the end of the group of couples, you will be able to work your way up from my father, Monroe Wilson Dickerson. There is a family pedigree link at the top that shows the parents up from him. |
I have placed the husband on the left, and the wife on the right. This is the same system used in Family Tree Maker. You will find that I like pictures. If I have a picture I use it for the person. If there was not picture, I have used something that represents the person, such as a will, marriage bond, deed, plat, etc.. There are places where the space of a wife or husband is occupied by some writing about the other spouse. I think it will be clear if you keep that fact in mind. Keep going up or down and you will come to the spouse. |
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We do not know when she was born, but given the dates of her children, we have speculated that she was born somewhere around 1740. d. Jul. 1814 in Prince Edward County, VA click here to see census |
| When Margaret wrote her will on Thursday, August 6th, 1795, George Washington was President of the United State | |
| Margarett |
Margaret Dickerson ( - 1814) will made 1795 click here to see a transcription |
Benjamin Dickerson (1761/1770 - 13 May/15 July 1833) click on image to see this will as it appears in Will Book 7, page 337 in Prince Edward County, VA to see a transcription click here |
 b.1763 m. 9 Jan 1788 click here to see transcription |
| Benjamin Dickerson (1761/1770- 1833) was married
January 9th, 1788 in Prince Edward County, VA a year before George Washington
became the first President of the USA.
In 1788 on the Personal Property Tax List of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Benjamin Dickerson, appears as a free male tithe in the house of Elkanah Jennings (his father-in-law). 1810 U.S. Census, Prince Edward County, Virginia |
Sarah (Sally) Elizabeth Jennings (Abt. 1763 - ) was the daughter of Elkanah Jennings and Sarah |
David Dickerson (Abt. 1796 - 15 Sept. 1874) Click here to see the entire deed |
Agnes C. Baldwin (1797 - 12 Sept. 1872). |
| David Dickerson was born about 1796 and died in Appomattox County, Virginia, September 15th, 1874. He was the son of Benjamin Dickerson (1767 - 1833) and Sarah (Sally) Elizabeth Jennings (1763 - ). He married Agnes C. Baldwin on Tuesday, December 19th, 1820 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. | Agnes C. Baldwin was the daughter of Lile John Baldwin, Jr. (1770-1815) and Anne Simmons. Agnes was born 1797 in Charlotte County, Virginia. She died on Thursday, September 12th, 1872 in Appomattox, Virginia. She was the mother of twelve children. |
| Margaret Agnes Dickerson was the first child of eighteen born on Wednesday, March 8th, 1837, the year Queen Victoria ascended to the throne, Samuel Morse patented the telegraph and the Daguerreotype the first practical photographic process was developed. She was married on Wednesday, February 4th, 1857 in VA to John Benjamin Dickerson her first cousin once removed. She was the mother of seven children, dies on Wednesday, February 12th, 1890 and was buried in the front yard of the Jennings/Dickerson homestead (see plat above). She was born, married and died on a Wednesday. Her only daughter Nannie Idelia Agnes Dickerson (1859 - 1935) who never married is also buried in the same location. |
Margaret Agnes Dickerson (8 Mar 1837 - 12 Feb. 1890) m. 4 Feb. 1857 first wife of John Benjamin Dickerson Click to see a picture of Margaret's father |
John Benjamin Dickerson (3 Apr 1836 - 30 Jan 1912) |
John Benjamin Dickerson was the 5th, 6th or
7th child of David Dickerson and Agnes C. Baldwin. He was born in
Charlotte County, VA on Sunday, April 3rd, 1836. The Battle of the
Alamo took place that year, Charles Darwin took biological data to England
that was later used to develop the concept of evolution, the American artist
Winslow Homer was born and Martin Van Buren became the eighth U. S. President.
John married his cousin Margaret Agnes Dickerson on Wednesday, February 4th, 1857 in Halifax, VA. James Buchanan became the fifteenth President of the U. S., the United States Supreme Court ruled in the "Dred Scott Case" which is considered to be a key cause of the American Civil War, Queen Victoria established Ottawa, Ontario as the capital of Canada and earthquakes in Tokyo, Japan and Naples, Italy kill over 111,000. John Benjamin served in the Civil War and was wounded...[more] On Tuesday, January 30th, 1912 he died in Appomattox, VA, and was buried in his front yard by Margaret on the property which had come to the Dickerson family through the Jennings marriage connections. The following April saw the sinking of the Titanic. |
| Sarah Frances Dickerson was not quite six months old when John Benjamin Dickerson picked her up, kissed her, and placed her back in the crib on his way to marry her sister Margaret. Little did they know that he would in fact turn out to "rob the craddle", so the speak, forty years latter when he married her. |
Sarah Frances Dickerson (9 Aug. 1856 - 30 Jun 1927) m. 24 Nov. 1897 younger sister of Margaret Agnes Dickerson second wife of John Benjamin Dickerson |
James Monroe Dickerson (10 Nov. 1865 - 11 Jun 1944) |
James Monroe Dickerson was born on Friday,
November 10th, 1865 in Appomattox, VA the third child of John Benjamin
Dickerson & Margaret Agnes Dickerson. This was the year that
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term and in the next month
General Robert E. Lee surrendered in Appomattox, ending the Civil War.
Within the next month, Lincoln was assassinated and Vice President Andrew
Johnson became the 17th President of the United States.
James married his first wife Rosa Lee Harvey, who was named after General Lee, on Wednesday, July 30th, 1890 in Charlotte County, VA. This was one day after Vincent van Gogh died after shooting himself on July 27th. It was also the same year the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded. When Margaret the mother of James would travel from Appomattox to Charlotte to visit her father Nathan Dickerson who was the overseer at Mulberry Hill the children would come along. Two of the boys met the Harvey girls who were living in the community. James and his brother, Floyd Calvin Dickerson both married sisters. Rosa was born in the same year as James on Valentine's Day, which was a Tuesday. Rosa was a widow and had one child Bessie Williamson Glover. James and Rosa then had five children before she died on Sunday, September 1st, 1907, two days before the death of the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg. |
| Eva Frances Foster was born Monday, May 16th,
1887 in Charlotte County, VA. That same year Anne Sullivan began
teaching Helen Keller, the opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi was first
heard at La Scala, and Grover Cleveland was the country's twenty-second
president.
Henry T. Vaughn (Mar 1880 - 16 Apr 1905) was the first husband of Eva. They were married on Christmas, 1902 in Charlotte County, VA and had one son, Champ Vaughn (27 May 1904 - 20 Aug. 1992). When she married James Monroe Dickerson on Wednesday, February 19th, 1908, Theodore Roosevelt was still president in the USA, and Winston Churchill was getting married in England. The marriage brought four family groups together. James Monroe Dickerson's first wife Rosa Lee Harvey had one child, Bessie Williamson (from her first marriage). Rosa and James then had five children. Eva comes along with one child, from her first marriage; and then, she and James would raise another five (a total of twelve children from four marriages). |
 m. 19 Feb. 1908 (second marriage) second wife of James Monroe Dickerson Click here to see Paul Shipp's Website about Eva Frances Fosters |
Monroe Wilson Dickerson (1 Nov. 1918 - 6 Mar 1987) |
Nellie Grey Taylor (1920 - ) m. 30 Jul. 1940 |
| Monroe Wilson Dickerson was the last child
born to James Monroe Dickerson and Eva France Foster. He married
Nellie Taylor on Tuesday, July 30th, 1940 in Charlotte County, VA.
They spent their wedding night in the old office
building on the Harvey/Dickerson property where they lived until the
death of James Monroe Dickerson.
He served as Pfc. 33857529, Rifleman 745 in Company "E" 9th Division, 39th Infantry Regiment of the US Army. He had his medical examination May 11th, 1944 and entered July 27th, 1944 at Fort George G. Camp Meade, MD, at the age of 25, and had basic training at Camp Croft, SC. During the time he was at Camp Croft, he returned home twice, once to attend the funeral of Howard Bernard Dickerson (half brother) who died November 14th, 1944, and again around Christmas. After 17 weeks training, he left from New York January 6th, 1945 (Epiphany) and went overseas to England (by ship) arriving January 16th, 1945. Most likely it was to Liverpool. From England he went to France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany, where he was in combat for about 30 days. He was experienced in tactics and use of all infantry weapons. It was his responsibility to make frequent day and night patrols into hostile territory to determine the enemy disposition and strength. In January of 1945 he was hospitalized for pneumonia while in France. While going into an attack on April 9th, 1945, he suffered a concussion when two of his fellow servicemen were killed. He was admitted to the 97th General Hospital in England and departed May 9th, 1945, arriving back in the US May 24th, 1945 and was sent to the Hospital Center, Camp Pickett, Virginia. My mother remembers talking with him on the phone and having a hard time getting him to hear. More than likely damage from shell shock. He received a Certificate of Disability for Discharge September 17th, 1945 and was awarded the European African Middle Eastern Theater Medal. His Honorable Discharge given at 1318 SCU Hospital Center, Camp Pickett, Virginia was September 20th, 1945. |
Nellie Grey Taylor was the third child of John Abb Taylor (26 Sept. 1889 - 13 Nov. 1958) and Norma Ann Thornton ( 10 Mar 1897 - 13 Dec 1977). She was born on Wednesday, December 1st, 1920 in Charlotte County, VA. |
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Carlton Monroe Dickerson
in Caribbean National Park, Puerto Rico on February 4th, 2004