UNKNOWN Anna Born ± ABT. 1828 at TN [Johnson.FTW] [1144734.FTW] REFN: 7017 Married/ Related to: John J. Dickinson, son of Isaac Dickinson and Martha Rogers. Born Apr 8, 1820 at AL [Johnson.FTW] [1144734.FTW] REFN: 6897 [dickins.ged] 1850 Haywood Co., TN 171 Dickenson, J.J. 32 Ala Anna 22 TN Nancy 6 Martha 2 Richey, George 30 Haywood C o., TN County History book "John J. Dickinson 1820-1880" "When Isaac Shelby a nd Andrew Jackson signed the Chickasaw Purchase in 1818, they opened up a wide fertile plain to white settlement. During the next three decades, immigrants poured into that area from all the surrounding states. Among them was John J . Dickinson, a lad of almost ten years, who was traveling with a rather large company of related families looking for greener pastures in the "Chickasaw La nds." "During that long and difficult winter journey from their former home n ear what is now Selma, Alabama, John J.'s father, Isaac Dickinson, developed p neumonia and died in late January or early February of 1830 in the approximate area of Shelby County, AL. According to word-of-mouth family stories, a nephe w, James Dickinson, took the body to be buried in Wayne Co., NC, where Isaac h ad been born, the son of David and Ann Hood Dickinson. With embalming not co mmon practice then, we'll assume it was a very cold winter." "John J.'s mother , Martha Rogers Dickinson, with her eight children, ages 3 to 20, continued th eir journey with the rest of the group. She bought land along the Big Hatchie , where she reared and educated her children and lived until her death in 1842 . Of her eight children, only John J. remained permanently in Haywood County. Willliam and Nancy Elizabeth (m Foreman) died young. Sarah (m Wm. Daniel). R ufus Wylie, Edwin Leroy, Martha Ann (m D.C. Hall), and Eliza Jane (m J. Z. Bun n) all moved further west to Dallas County, Arkansas settling finally in the T ulip and Malvern communities." [Johnson.FTW] [1144734.FTW] REFN99694 Children: 1. Nancy DickinsonBorn ± ABT. 1844 [Johnson.FTW] [1144734.FTW] REFN: 7018 2. Martha DickinsonBorn ± ABT. 1848 [Johnson.FTW] [1144734.FTW] REFN: 7019 |