Name:John Kirby Dickerson
Birth:20 Aug 1846 - Morgan Co., GA
Death:05 Oct 1930 - Ladonia, Fannin Co., TX
Burial:07 Oct 1930
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Fannin Co. TX, USA
Inscription: Co I 32 GA Inf CSA
Notes: Places of birth and death and burial date from Texas Death Certificate.
- Additional Information -
The Paris News
Paris, Texas
Monday 27 Feb 1937, Page Four
BACKWARD GLANCES
By A. W. Neville
Early-Day Homicide In Red River
W. A. Roach Tells Of the Affair and Its Sequel, Many Years Apart
Continuing his story of John Dickerson who had killed a man near Halesboro about 1876, then went "west" and after years returned, stood trial and was acquitted, W. A. Roach said:
"It seems that the 'out west' where Dickerson went was in Fannin county, where he lived under the name of John Kirby, the last name being his middle name. Dickerson made the acquaintance of a young woman about twenty years of age, daughter of Major Cunningham, one of the best Fannin county families. It is probable that Dickerson, according to his code of ethics, told his prospective father-in-law about his trouble in the section from which he had come. At any rate there is yet rumor in the memories of oldtimers that Major Cunningham told Dickerson, known as Kirby, that he would have to straighten up that matter before he would give consent to a marriage with his daughter - hence the return to Red River county and the trial.
"On his return to Fannin county Dickerson resumed his name of John Kirby Dickerson, he and Miss Cunningham were married and settled on a farm a few miles from Ladonia, which then was a village without railroad, telegraph or telephone. No children were born to their union.
"Old neighbors tell of some of Dickerson's eccentricities. When he began marketing cotton in the late 'seventies he refused to accept 'Yankee greenbacks' in payment but demanded gold. All give Dickerson the character of being honorable and truthful. He died in 1930 and is buried at Oak Ridge cemetery, about four miles from Ladonia.
"Time marches on.
"In January this year (1939) a funeral was held in Ladonia and I learned it was that of a widow named Dickerson. My informant told me that meny years ago she married a man named Dickerson who had come to Fannin county under the name of Kirby, that it seemed he had been in some kind of trouble before coming to Fannin county but that the matter was cleared up and he then assumed his full name of John Kirby Dickerson.
"As I stood by the casket of the wife and widow of the hero of my boyhood days, and called from memory that tragic story of more than sixty years ago, I said to myself, 'Truly facts are stranger than fiction.'
"Out at Oak Ridge cemetery, where sleep side by side the remains of John Kirby Dickerson and his wife, each having reached the eighty-fourth year before passing, this inscription is on a marble slab at the head of the graves:
John K. Dickerson
Born Aug. 20, 1846, died Oct. 5, 1930
A Confederate Soldier
Company I, 32d Georgia Infantry
- Death Certificate Information -
Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: J. K. Dickerson
Death Date: 05 Oct 1930
Death Place: Ladonia, Fannin, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 84 years 1 month 15 days
Estimated Birth Date: 1846
Birth Date: left blank
Birthplace: Morgan Co., Ga.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Laura Dickerson
Father's Name: DK
Father's Birthplace: DK
Mother's Name: DK
Mother's Birthplace: DK
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence: Fannin Co., TX
Cemetery: Oak Ridge Cemetery
Burial Place:
Burial Date: 07 Oct 1930
Informant: George Dibley, Honey Grove, Texas
Certificate Number: 48243
Cause of death: Paralysis
Birth:20 Aug 1846 - Morgan Co., GA
Death:05 Oct 1930 - Ladonia, Fannin Co., TX
Burial:07 Oct 1930
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Fannin Co. TX, USA
Inscription: Co I 32 GA Inf CSA
Notes: Places of birth and death and burial date from Texas Death Certificate.
- Additional Information -
The Paris News
Paris, Texas
Monday 27 Feb 1937, Page Four
BACKWARD GLANCES
By A. W. Neville
Early-Day Homicide In Red River
W. A. Roach Tells Of the Affair and Its Sequel, Many Years Apart
Continuing his story of John Dickerson who had killed a man near Halesboro about 1876, then went "west" and after years returned, stood trial and was acquitted, W. A. Roach said:
"It seems that the 'out west' where Dickerson went was in Fannin county, where he lived under the name of John Kirby, the last name being his middle name. Dickerson made the acquaintance of a young woman about twenty years of age, daughter of Major Cunningham, one of the best Fannin county families. It is probable that Dickerson, according to his code of ethics, told his prospective father-in-law about his trouble in the section from which he had come. At any rate there is yet rumor in the memories of oldtimers that Major Cunningham told Dickerson, known as Kirby, that he would have to straighten up that matter before he would give consent to a marriage with his daughter - hence the return to Red River county and the trial.
"On his return to Fannin county Dickerson resumed his name of John Kirby Dickerson, he and Miss Cunningham were married and settled on a farm a few miles from Ladonia, which then was a village without railroad, telegraph or telephone. No children were born to their union.
"Old neighbors tell of some of Dickerson's eccentricities. When he began marketing cotton in the late 'seventies he refused to accept 'Yankee greenbacks' in payment but demanded gold. All give Dickerson the character of being honorable and truthful. He died in 1930 and is buried at Oak Ridge cemetery, about four miles from Ladonia.
"Time marches on.
"In January this year (1939) a funeral was held in Ladonia and I learned it was that of a widow named Dickerson. My informant told me that meny years ago she married a man named Dickerson who had come to Fannin county under the name of Kirby, that it seemed he had been in some kind of trouble before coming to Fannin county but that the matter was cleared up and he then assumed his full name of John Kirby Dickerson.
"As I stood by the casket of the wife and widow of the hero of my boyhood days, and called from memory that tragic story of more than sixty years ago, I said to myself, 'Truly facts are stranger than fiction.'
"Out at Oak Ridge cemetery, where sleep side by side the remains of John Kirby Dickerson and his wife, each having reached the eighty-fourth year before passing, this inscription is on a marble slab at the head of the graves:
John K. Dickerson
Born Aug. 20, 1846, died Oct. 5, 1930
A Confederate Soldier
Company I, 32d Georgia Infantry
- Death Certificate Information -
Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: J. K. Dickerson
Death Date: 05 Oct 1930
Death Place: Ladonia, Fannin, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 84 years 1 month 15 days
Estimated Birth Date: 1846
Birth Date: left blank
Birthplace: Morgan Co., Ga.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Laura Dickerson
Father's Name: DK
Father's Birthplace: DK
Mother's Name: DK
Mother's Birthplace: DK
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence: Fannin Co., TX
Cemetery: Oak Ridge Cemetery
Burial Place:
Burial Date: 07 Oct 1930
Informant: George Dibley, Honey Grove, Texas
Certificate Number: 48243
Cause of death: Paralysis
Name:John Kirby Dickerson
Birth:20 Aug 1846 - Morgan Co., GA
Death:05 Oct 1930 - Ladonia, Fannin Co., TX
Burial:07 Oct 1930
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Fannin Co. TX, USA
Inscription: Co I 32 GA Inf CSA
Notes: Places of birth and death and burial date from Texas Death Certificate.
- Additional Information -
The Paris News
Paris, Texas
Monday 27 Feb 1937, Page Four
BACKWARD GLANCES
By A. W. Neville
Early-Day Homicide In Red River
W. A. Roach Tells Of the Affair and Its Sequel, Many Years Apart
Continuing his story of John Dickerson who had killed a man near Halesboro about 1876, then went "west" and after years returned, stood trial and was acquitted, W. A. Roach said:
"It seems that the 'out west' where Dickerson went was in Fannin county, where he lived under the name of John Kirby, the last name being his middle name. Dickerson made the acquaintance of a young woman about twenty years of age, daughter of Major Cunningham, one of the best Fannin county families. It is probable that Dickerson, according to his code of ethics, told his prospective father-in-law about his trouble in the section from which he had come. At any rate there is yet rumor in the memories of oldtimers that Major Cunningham told Dickerson, known as Kirby, that he would have to straighten up that matter before he would give consent to a marriage with his daughter - hence the return to Red River county and the trial.
"On his return to Fannin county Dickerson resumed his name of John Kirby Dickerson, he and Miss Cunningham were married and settled on a farm a few miles from Ladonia, which then was a village without railroad, telegraph or telephone. No children were born to their union.
"Old neighbors tell of some of Dickerson's eccentricities. When he began marketing cotton in the late 'seventies he refused to accept 'Yankee greenbacks' in payment but demanded gold. All give Dickerson the character of being honorable and truthful. He died in 1930 and is buried at Oak Ridge cemetery, about four miles from Ladonia.
"Time marches on.
"In January this year (1939) a funeral was held in Ladonia and I learned it was that of a widow named Dickerson. My informant told me that meny years ago she married a man named Dickerson who had come to Fannin county under the name of Kirby, that it seemed he had been in some kind of trouble before coming to Fannin county but that the matter was cleared up and he then assumed his full name of John Kirby Dickerson.
"As I stood by the casket of the wife and widow of the hero of my boyhood days, and called from memory that tragic story of more than sixty years ago, I said to myself, 'Truly facts are stranger than fiction.'
"Out at Oak Ridge cemetery, where sleep side by side the remains of John Kirby Dickerson and his wife, each having reached the eighty-fourth year before passing, this inscription is on a marble slab at the head of the graves:
John K. Dickerson
Born Aug. 20, 1846, died Oct. 5, 1930
A Confederate Soldier
Company I, 32d Georgia Infantry
- Death Certificate Information -
Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: J. K. Dickerson
Death Date: 05 Oct 1930
Death Place: Ladonia, Fannin, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 84 years 1 month 15 days
Estimated Birth Date: 1846
Birth Date: left blank
Birthplace: Morgan Co., Ga.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Laura Dickerson
Father's Name: DK
Father's Birthplace: DK
Mother's Name: DK
Mother's Birthplace: DK
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence: Fannin Co., TX
Cemetery: Oak Ridge Cemetery
Burial Place:
Burial Date: 07 Oct 1930
Informant: George Dibley, Honey Grove, Texas
Certificate Number: 48243
Cause of death: Paralysis
Birth:20 Aug 1846 - Morgan Co., GA
Death:05 Oct 1930 - Ladonia, Fannin Co., TX
Burial:07 Oct 1930
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Fannin Co. TX, USA
Inscription: Co I 32 GA Inf CSA
Notes: Places of birth and death and burial date from Texas Death Certificate.
- Additional Information -
The Paris News
Paris, Texas
Monday 27 Feb 1937, Page Four
BACKWARD GLANCES
By A. W. Neville
Early-Day Homicide In Red River
W. A. Roach Tells Of the Affair and Its Sequel, Many Years Apart
Continuing his story of John Dickerson who had killed a man near Halesboro about 1876, then went "west" and after years returned, stood trial and was acquitted, W. A. Roach said:
"It seems that the 'out west' where Dickerson went was in Fannin county, where he lived under the name of John Kirby, the last name being his middle name. Dickerson made the acquaintance of a young woman about twenty years of age, daughter of Major Cunningham, one of the best Fannin county families. It is probable that Dickerson, according to his code of ethics, told his prospective father-in-law about his trouble in the section from which he had come. At any rate there is yet rumor in the memories of oldtimers that Major Cunningham told Dickerson, known as Kirby, that he would have to straighten up that matter before he would give consent to a marriage with his daughter - hence the return to Red River county and the trial.
"On his return to Fannin county Dickerson resumed his name of John Kirby Dickerson, he and Miss Cunningham were married and settled on a farm a few miles from Ladonia, which then was a village without railroad, telegraph or telephone. No children were born to their union.
"Old neighbors tell of some of Dickerson's eccentricities. When he began marketing cotton in the late 'seventies he refused to accept 'Yankee greenbacks' in payment but demanded gold. All give Dickerson the character of being honorable and truthful. He died in 1930 and is buried at Oak Ridge cemetery, about four miles from Ladonia.
"Time marches on.
"In January this year (1939) a funeral was held in Ladonia and I learned it was that of a widow named Dickerson. My informant told me that meny years ago she married a man named Dickerson who had come to Fannin county under the name of Kirby, that it seemed he had been in some kind of trouble before coming to Fannin county but that the matter was cleared up and he then assumed his full name of John Kirby Dickerson.
"As I stood by the casket of the wife and widow of the hero of my boyhood days, and called from memory that tragic story of more than sixty years ago, I said to myself, 'Truly facts are stranger than fiction.'
"Out at Oak Ridge cemetery, where sleep side by side the remains of John Kirby Dickerson and his wife, each having reached the eighty-fourth year before passing, this inscription is on a marble slab at the head of the graves:
John K. Dickerson
Born Aug. 20, 1846, died Oct. 5, 1930
A Confederate Soldier
Company I, 32d Georgia Infantry
- Death Certificate Information -
Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: J. K. Dickerson
Death Date: 05 Oct 1930
Death Place: Ladonia, Fannin, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 84 years 1 month 15 days
Estimated Birth Date: 1846
Birth Date: left blank
Birthplace: Morgan Co., Ga.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Laura Dickerson
Father's Name: DK
Father's Birthplace: DK
Mother's Name: DK
Mother's Birthplace: DK
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence: Fannin Co., TX
Cemetery: Oak Ridge Cemetery
Burial Place:
Burial Date: 07 Oct 1930
Informant: George Dibley, Honey Grove, Texas
Certificate Number: 48243
Cause of death: Paralysis
Inscription
Co I 32 Ga Inf CSA
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