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Dr David Catchings Dickson

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Dr David Catchings Dickson

Birth
Georgetown, Copiah County, Mississippi, USA
Death
5 Jun 1880 (aged 62)
Texas, USA
Burial
Anderson, Grimes County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
1401 FM-1774, ANDERSON, TX
Memorial ID
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DICKSON, DAVID CATCHINGS (1818-1880). David Catchings Dickson, physician, legislator, civil servant, Confederate soldier, and lieutenant governor of Texas.

He was a warm personal friend of General Sam Houston, as stated in "The Saga of Anderson."

He is also listed in Sam Houston's Hearne Collection,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

He died at the Grimes County Courthouse, and is buried on the land he once owned, and resided on, in Anderson, Texas. It is privately owned now. Needs to be noted and preserved.

More information on him can be read at Handbook of Texas Online.

His papers are preserved at the Barker Texas History
Center,University of Texas at Austin.

Anderson, Texas, has a historical figure, that needs to be highlighted.

Mary Elizabeth Rumsey is Dr. David Catchings Dickson's Great-Great-Great Granddaughter.
DICKSON, DAVID CATCHINGS (1818-1880). David Catchings Dickson, physician, legislator, civil servant, Confederate soldier, and lieutenant governor of Texas.

He was a warm personal friend of General Sam Houston, as stated in "The Saga of Anderson."

He is also listed in Sam Houston's Hearne Collection,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

He died at the Grimes County Courthouse, and is buried on the land he once owned, and resided on, in Anderson, Texas. It is privately owned now. Needs to be noted and preserved.

More information on him can be read at Handbook of Texas Online.

His papers are preserved at the Barker Texas History
Center,University of Texas at Austin.

Anderson, Texas, has a historical figure, that needs to be highlighted.

Mary Elizabeth Rumsey is Dr. David Catchings Dickson's Great-Great-Great Granddaughter.


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