Thomas was born in Maryland on March 17, 1803. He died in Missouri, January 1, 1885. His wife, Permelia, was born October 6, 1811 and died October 28, 1863. Thomas was the son of John and Drussella Harvey Dixon; as a year old boy his folks moved from Maryland to near Winchester, Virginia. He was a relative of Jeremiah Dixon who surveyed the MASON-DIXON line. In 1826 {family records} he and his 16 year old bride came to Dry Grove in McLean County. (Other sources say 1829.) He hauled corn to Springfield, the nearest mill, for 'cracking.' He moved into Kansas Twp. near a ford on the Mackinaw in 1829 (?) which bears his name. Thomas built the first water powered 'corn cracker' in the area, and enjoyed a good business, customers waiting their meal while they fished. He served as Major Stillman's teamster in the Black Hawk War, but was not present the day of 'Stillman's Defeat.' He did bury the dead, however, and then marched to Ottawa. His earliest land patent is for the NE 1/4 o f the NW 1/4 of Section 3, Kansas Twp. and is dated June 25, 1835, with other Kansas Twp. patents in 1836. He then patented the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 31 in El Paso Twp. on April 16, 1841, having moved onto this farm in 1833. This farm is known today as the Harold Kring farm. His house was south of the Kring house. Children of Thomas and Permelia were: Anna (Ross), Helpa (Mrs. Snavely), Smith and Allen Dixon. Smith Dixon was the grandfather of Ward Dixon; Evaline (McNaught); Ann (Ross); Caroline (Greer) ; and Charles (infancy). The Thomas Dixons were operating the mill in the 'winter of the deep snows,' 1830-31. Chicago was founded the year Dixon moved from the mill, and had 550 inhabitants. Thomas died at his son's, Allan Dixon, Judge in Joplin Missouri, but was returned to Centennial Chapel for burial in the old cemetery at that Chapel.
From: El Paso Story The Centennial Book of El Paso, Illinois, First published in 1954 and updated in 1979, pages 22 to 24.
EARLY SETTLERS OF MARSHALL COUNTY
Thomas Brooks, a pious and devout "Man of God"came to "Sandy" in 1830, where he settled and spent several years of his life. It was at his house in 1831 that the first religious society in the Town of Evans was formed. John Dixon, a local preacher of Dry Grove, came to Cherry Point, on the creek, to visit his son, Thomas Dixon. While there he "felt a call" to do some religious work. He held a two days' meeting and succeeded in enrolling in his class Thomas Brooks and wife, Justice Jones and wife, Abram Jones and wife, Josiah Evans and wife, Thomas Dixon and wife, and Barton Jones,- eleven in all. In 1831, this was a showing of nearly 100 per cent of the residents in that immediate neighborhood. William R. Royal, a Methodist preacher, then a member of the Peoria mission, took charge of this little flock and ministered to it for a time, but on account of the subsequent removal from the locality of Thomas Brooks, Thomas Dixon, Abram Jones, and their wives, this society soon died out.
From C. A. Darnell, "Benjamin Darnell, Fort Darnell, and Early Settlers of Marshall County," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Oct.,1934), pp. 297-329., University of Illinois Press, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40187842.
Reuben Thomas DIXON and Permilia RADCLIFF Dixon are buried in the Centennial Chapel Cemetery. The Cemetery is West of Kappa on County Road 600. It is West of 2300e, a North South road, and about half way to 2175. The Building is long gone, and my recollection is that the Church was several hundred yards south of 600 with the Cemetery behind that. ( Ron Hoffman )
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Obit:
Reuben Thomas Dixon A PIONEER GONE
Thomas Dixon is Called to His Reward After a Long and Useful Life.
Thomas Dixon, the last of the very oldest settlers of this vicinity, died at the residence of his son Allan, near Joplin, Mo., on New Year's day. The body was brought to Kappa on Saturday and the funeral occurred on Sunday from the Centennial church, Revs. North and Wood-side officiating. For some years Mr. Dixon had made his home in Missouri and about three weeks ago was taken with a dropsical affection which terminated his life at the good old age of 82. He was the father of Mrs. Snaverly, of Oak Grove, of Mrs. J. Ross and of Smith Dixon, of Kappa, of Mrs. Geer, Mrs. Wilcox and Allen Dixon, of Missouri. Thomas Dixon was born in 1803 in Maryland. At the age of one year he moved to Hampshire County, Virginia, not far from the battle ground of Winchester where Gen. Shields, the loyal and brave Irishman. whipped Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and to whom Gen. Phil Sheridan made his celebrated ride on his black charge Chester, twenty miles away." His father's name was John Dixon, and his mother's, Drussell Harvey. He was a relative of Jeremiah Dixon, who, with Mason, made the survey known as Mason and Dixon's line. In 1815 the Dixon family emigrated to Ohio, and settled on Stillwater river in Harrison county. In 1826 Thomas with his new wife moved to Illinois, near Dry Grove, in what is now McLean Co., but at that time McLean and Woodford formed part of Tazewell county, only the year previous these three counties formed part of Fayette county. After a short time he moved to the old homestead (the place is now occupied by Dan Kring just west of where Kappa now is. The writer has spent hours listening to the stories, reminiscences and anecdotes of Uncle Tommie, describircg the olden times and ways, of how, during the deep snow of 1831, the family had to live on pounded corn and how they would occasionally indulge in the luxury of parched corn meal ground in a coffee mill or pounded on a flat stone. The nearest mill was at Springfield, no streams were bridged and after they got there they sometimes found so many ahead of them they had to wait two \veeks to get a grist ground. During the Black Hawk or Indian war in 1832 Mr. Dixon was a teamster for Major Stillman. On May 13th, 1832, he started on the Stillman's Run expedition. Major Stillman had two-hundred and six men all told. They started from Dixon's ferry and on the second day discovered moccasin tracks. The men were much excited and lost tin cups, etc. Mr. Dixon lightened his load by issuing ammunition and whisky to the men. The men filled their powder horns and some of them tied up powder in their handkerchiefs. They filled their canteens, coffee pots and bottles with whisky but were not able to take it all and left some in the barrel and during all the afternoon whisky was as free as water and more plentiful just then. Mr. Dixon was not at the battle of Still-man's Run, being detained by duty elsewhere, but the next day assisted in burying the dead. He was at Ottawa to assist in defending that place from the Indians and shortly afterwards they returned home. They talked of building a fort at Bloomington and did build one at Pekin, 'and for sixty days kept near on the county line watching for Indians. Mr. Dixon had many stories to tell of the sudden change in December, 1836, when in five minutes the weather changed from quite warm to the severest cold. Ducks and geese were frozen in the mud before they could get out. A man riding on horseback killed his horse, cut him open, removed the entrails and crawled into the warm carcass only to he frozen to death. A man and his daughter, living north of here, went out to feed the cows and before they could get to the house were frozen dead. Hundreds of animals and many persons were frozen to death during this sudden change. Mr. Dixon was a most successful hunter and columns could be filled with interesting stories of his hunting adventures in these early times, but his life is ended and another of the very few remaining links that bind us to these early days has been closed. Peaceful be the rest and green be the grass above the graves of these noble, hardy, heroic pioneers, through whose energy, hardships and privations we now enjoy our many blessings.
Contributor: 1st cousin, 4 times removed, Charles W. Harvey -Find A Grave ID-49417712
From: El Paso Story The Centennial Book of El Paso, Illinois, First published in 1954 and updated in 1979, pages 22 to 24.
EARLY SETTLERS OF MARSHALL COUNTY
Thomas Brooks, a pious and devout "Man of God"came to "Sandy" in 1830, where he settled and spent several years of his life. It was at his house in 1831 that the first religious society in the Town of Evans was formed. John Dixon, a local preacher of Dry Grove, came to Cherry Point, on the creek, to visit his son, Thomas Dixon. While there he "felt a call" to do some religious work. He held a two days' meeting and succeeded in enrolling in his class Thomas Brooks and wife, Justice Jones and wife, Abram Jones and wife, Josiah Evans and wife, Thomas Dixon and wife, and Barton Jones,- eleven in all. In 1831, this was a showing of nearly 100 per cent of the residents in that immediate neighborhood. William R. Royal, a Methodist preacher, then a member of the Peoria mission, took charge of this little flock and ministered to it for a time, but on account of the subsequent removal from the locality of Thomas Brooks, Thomas Dixon, Abram Jones, and their wives, this society soon died out.
From C. A. Darnell, "Benjamin Darnell, Fort Darnell, and Early Settlers of Marshall County," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Oct.,1934), pp. 297-329., University of Illinois Press, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40187842.
Reuben Thomas DIXON and Permilia RADCLIFF Dixon are buried in the Centennial Chapel Cemetery. The Cemetery is West of Kappa on County Road 600. It is West of 2300e, a North South road, and about half way to 2175. The Building is long gone, and my recollection is that the Church was several hundred yards south of 600 with the Cemetery behind that. ( Ron Hoffman )
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Obit:
Reuben Thomas Dixon A PIONEER GONE
Thomas Dixon is Called to His Reward After a Long and Useful Life.
Thomas Dixon, the last of the very oldest settlers of this vicinity, died at the residence of his son Allan, near Joplin, Mo., on New Year's day. The body was brought to Kappa on Saturday and the funeral occurred on Sunday from the Centennial church, Revs. North and Wood-side officiating. For some years Mr. Dixon had made his home in Missouri and about three weeks ago was taken with a dropsical affection which terminated his life at the good old age of 82. He was the father of Mrs. Snaverly, of Oak Grove, of Mrs. J. Ross and of Smith Dixon, of Kappa, of Mrs. Geer, Mrs. Wilcox and Allen Dixon, of Missouri. Thomas Dixon was born in 1803 in Maryland. At the age of one year he moved to Hampshire County, Virginia, not far from the battle ground of Winchester where Gen. Shields, the loyal and brave Irishman. whipped Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and to whom Gen. Phil Sheridan made his celebrated ride on his black charge Chester, twenty miles away." His father's name was John Dixon, and his mother's, Drussell Harvey. He was a relative of Jeremiah Dixon, who, with Mason, made the survey known as Mason and Dixon's line. In 1815 the Dixon family emigrated to Ohio, and settled on Stillwater river in Harrison county. In 1826 Thomas with his new wife moved to Illinois, near Dry Grove, in what is now McLean Co., but at that time McLean and Woodford formed part of Tazewell county, only the year previous these three counties formed part of Fayette county. After a short time he moved to the old homestead (the place is now occupied by Dan Kring just west of where Kappa now is. The writer has spent hours listening to the stories, reminiscences and anecdotes of Uncle Tommie, describircg the olden times and ways, of how, during the deep snow of 1831, the family had to live on pounded corn and how they would occasionally indulge in the luxury of parched corn meal ground in a coffee mill or pounded on a flat stone. The nearest mill was at Springfield, no streams were bridged and after they got there they sometimes found so many ahead of them they had to wait two \veeks to get a grist ground. During the Black Hawk or Indian war in 1832 Mr. Dixon was a teamster for Major Stillman. On May 13th, 1832, he started on the Stillman's Run expedition. Major Stillman had two-hundred and six men all told. They started from Dixon's ferry and on the second day discovered moccasin tracks. The men were much excited and lost tin cups, etc. Mr. Dixon lightened his load by issuing ammunition and whisky to the men. The men filled their powder horns and some of them tied up powder in their handkerchiefs. They filled their canteens, coffee pots and bottles with whisky but were not able to take it all and left some in the barrel and during all the afternoon whisky was as free as water and more plentiful just then. Mr. Dixon was not at the battle of Still-man's Run, being detained by duty elsewhere, but the next day assisted in burying the dead. He was at Ottawa to assist in defending that place from the Indians and shortly afterwards they returned home. They talked of building a fort at Bloomington and did build one at Pekin, 'and for sixty days kept near on the county line watching for Indians. Mr. Dixon had many stories to tell of the sudden change in December, 1836, when in five minutes the weather changed from quite warm to the severest cold. Ducks and geese were frozen in the mud before they could get out. A man riding on horseback killed his horse, cut him open, removed the entrails and crawled into the warm carcass only to he frozen to death. A man and his daughter, living north of here, went out to feed the cows and before they could get to the house were frozen dead. Hundreds of animals and many persons were frozen to death during this sudden change. Mr. Dixon was a most successful hunter and columns could be filled with interesting stories of his hunting adventures in these early times, but his life is ended and another of the very few remaining links that bind us to these early days has been closed. Peaceful be the rest and green be the grass above the graves of these noble, hardy, heroic pioneers, through whose energy, hardships and privations we now enjoy our many blessings.
Contributor: 1st cousin, 4 times removed, Charles W. Harvey -Find A Grave ID-49417712
Thomas was born in Maryland on March 17, 1803. He died in Missouri, January 1, 1885. His wife, Permelia, was born October 6, 1811 and died October 28, 1863. Thomas was the son of John and Drussella Harvey Dixon; as a year old boy his folks moved from Maryland to near Winchester, Virginia. He was a relative of Jeremiah Dixon who surveyed the MASON-DIXON line. In 1826 {family records} he and his 16 year old bride came to Dry Grove in McLean County. (Other sources say 1829.) He hauled corn to Springfield, the nearest mill, for 'cracking.' He moved into Kansas Twp. near a ford on the Mackinaw in 1829 (?) which bears his name. Thomas built the first water powered 'corn cracker' in the area, and enjoyed a good business, customers waiting their meal while they fished. He served as Major Stillman's teamster in the Black Hawk War, but was not present the day of 'Stillman's Defeat.' He did bury the dead, however, and then marched to Ottawa. His earliest land patent is for the NE 1/4 o f the NW 1/4 of Section 3, Kansas Twp. and is dated June 25, 1835, with other Kansas Twp. patents in 1836. He then patented the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 31 in El Paso Twp. on April 16, 1841, having moved onto this farm in 1833. This farm is known today as the Harold Kring farm. His house was south of the Kring house. Children of Thomas and Permelia were: Anna (Ross), Helpa (Mrs. Snavely), Smith and Allen Dixon. Smith Dixon was the grandfather of Ward Dixon; Evaline (McNaught); Ann (Ross); Caroline (Greer) ; and Charles (infancy). The Thomas Dixons were operating the mill in the 'winter of the deep snows,' 1830-31. Chicago was founded the year Dixon moved from the mill, and had 550 inhabitants. Thomas died at his son's, Allan Dixon, Judge in Joplin Missouri, but was returned to Centennial Chapel for burial in the old cemetery at that Chapel.
From: El Paso Story The Centennial Book of El Paso, Illinois, First published in 1954 and updated in 1979, pages 22 to 24.
EARLY SETTLERS OF MARSHALL COUNTY
Thomas Brooks, a pious and devout "Man of God"came to "Sandy" in 1830, where he settled and spent several years of his life. It was at his house in 1831 that the first religious society in the Town of Evans was formed. John Dixon, a local preacher of Dry Grove, came to Cherry Point, on the creek, to visit his son, Thomas Dixon. While there he "felt a call" to do some religious work. He held a two days' meeting and succeeded in enrolling in his class Thomas Brooks and wife, Justice Jones and wife, Abram Jones and wife, Josiah Evans and wife, Thomas Dixon and wife, and Barton Jones,- eleven in all. In 1831, this was a showing of nearly 100 per cent of the residents in that immediate neighborhood. William R. Royal, a Methodist preacher, then a member of the Peoria mission, took charge of this little flock and ministered to it for a time, but on account of the subsequent removal from the locality of Thomas Brooks, Thomas Dixon, Abram Jones, and their wives, this society soon died out.
From C. A. Darnell, "Benjamin Darnell, Fort Darnell, and Early Settlers of Marshall County," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Oct.,1934), pp. 297-329., University of Illinois Press, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40187842.
Reuben Thomas DIXON and Permilia RADCLIFF Dixon are buried in the Centennial Chapel Cemetery. The Cemetery is West of Kappa on County Road 600. It is West of 2300e, a North South road, and about half way to 2175. The Building is long gone, and my recollection is that the Church was several hundred yards south of 600 with the Cemetery behind that. ( Ron Hoffman )
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Obit:
Reuben Thomas Dixon A PIONEER GONE
Thomas Dixon is Called to His Reward After a Long and Useful Life.
Thomas Dixon, the last of the very oldest settlers of this vicinity, died at the residence of his son Allan, near Joplin, Mo., on New Year's day. The body was brought to Kappa on Saturday and the funeral occurred on Sunday from the Centennial church, Revs. North and Wood-side officiating. For some years Mr. Dixon had made his home in Missouri and about three weeks ago was taken with a dropsical affection which terminated his life at the good old age of 82. He was the father of Mrs. Snaverly, of Oak Grove, of Mrs. J. Ross and of Smith Dixon, of Kappa, of Mrs. Geer, Mrs. Wilcox and Allen Dixon, of Missouri. Thomas Dixon was born in 1803 in Maryland. At the age of one year he moved to Hampshire County, Virginia, not far from the battle ground of Winchester where Gen. Shields, the loyal and brave Irishman. whipped Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and to whom Gen. Phil Sheridan made his celebrated ride on his black charge Chester, twenty miles away." His father's name was John Dixon, and his mother's, Drussell Harvey. He was a relative of Jeremiah Dixon, who, with Mason, made the survey known as Mason and Dixon's line. In 1815 the Dixon family emigrated to Ohio, and settled on Stillwater river in Harrison county. In 1826 Thomas with his new wife moved to Illinois, near Dry Grove, in what is now McLean Co., but at that time McLean and Woodford formed part of Tazewell county, only the year previous these three counties formed part of Fayette county. After a short time he moved to the old homestead (the place is now occupied by Dan Kring just west of where Kappa now is. The writer has spent hours listening to the stories, reminiscences and anecdotes of Uncle Tommie, describircg the olden times and ways, of how, during the deep snow of 1831, the family had to live on pounded corn and how they would occasionally indulge in the luxury of parched corn meal ground in a coffee mill or pounded on a flat stone. The nearest mill was at Springfield, no streams were bridged and after they got there they sometimes found so many ahead of them they had to wait two \veeks to get a grist ground. During the Black Hawk or Indian war in 1832 Mr. Dixon was a teamster for Major Stillman. On May 13th, 1832, he started on the Stillman's Run expedition. Major Stillman had two-hundred and six men all told. They started from Dixon's ferry and on the second day discovered moccasin tracks. The men were much excited and lost tin cups, etc. Mr. Dixon lightened his load by issuing ammunition and whisky to the men. The men filled their powder horns and some of them tied up powder in their handkerchiefs. They filled their canteens, coffee pots and bottles with whisky but were not able to take it all and left some in the barrel and during all the afternoon whisky was as free as water and more plentiful just then. Mr. Dixon was not at the battle of Still-man's Run, being detained by duty elsewhere, but the next day assisted in burying the dead. He was at Ottawa to assist in defending that place from the Indians and shortly afterwards they returned home. They talked of building a fort at Bloomington and did build one at Pekin, 'and for sixty days kept near on the county line watching for Indians. Mr. Dixon had many stories to tell of the sudden change in December, 1836, when in five minutes the weather changed from quite warm to the severest cold. Ducks and geese were frozen in the mud before they could get out. A man riding on horseback killed his horse, cut him open, removed the entrails and crawled into the warm carcass only to he frozen to death. A man and his daughter, living north of here, went out to feed the cows and before they could get to the house were frozen dead. Hundreds of animals and many persons were frozen to death during this sudden change. Mr. Dixon was a most successful hunter and columns could be filled with interesting stories of his hunting adventures in these early times, but his life is ended and another of the very few remaining links that bind us to these early days has been closed. Peaceful be the rest and green be the grass above the graves of these noble, hardy, heroic pioneers, through whose energy, hardships and privations we now enjoy our many blessings.
Contributor: 1st cousin, 4 times removed, Charles W. Harvey -Find A Grave ID-49417712
From: El Paso Story The Centennial Book of El Paso, Illinois, First published in 1954 and updated in 1979, pages 22 to 24.
EARLY SETTLERS OF MARSHALL COUNTY
Thomas Brooks, a pious and devout "Man of God"came to "Sandy" in 1830, where he settled and spent several years of his life. It was at his house in 1831 that the first religious society in the Town of Evans was formed. John Dixon, a local preacher of Dry Grove, came to Cherry Point, on the creek, to visit his son, Thomas Dixon. While there he "felt a call" to do some religious work. He held a two days' meeting and succeeded in enrolling in his class Thomas Brooks and wife, Justice Jones and wife, Abram Jones and wife, Josiah Evans and wife, Thomas Dixon and wife, and Barton Jones,- eleven in all. In 1831, this was a showing of nearly 100 per cent of the residents in that immediate neighborhood. William R. Royal, a Methodist preacher, then a member of the Peoria mission, took charge of this little flock and ministered to it for a time, but on account of the subsequent removal from the locality of Thomas Brooks, Thomas Dixon, Abram Jones, and their wives, this society soon died out.
From C. A. Darnell, "Benjamin Darnell, Fort Darnell, and Early Settlers of Marshall County," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Oct.,1934), pp. 297-329., University of Illinois Press, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40187842.
Reuben Thomas DIXON and Permilia RADCLIFF Dixon are buried in the Centennial Chapel Cemetery. The Cemetery is West of Kappa on County Road 600. It is West of 2300e, a North South road, and about half way to 2175. The Building is long gone, and my recollection is that the Church was several hundred yards south of 600 with the Cemetery behind that. ( Ron Hoffman )
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Obit:
Reuben Thomas Dixon A PIONEER GONE
Thomas Dixon is Called to His Reward After a Long and Useful Life.
Thomas Dixon, the last of the very oldest settlers of this vicinity, died at the residence of his son Allan, near Joplin, Mo., on New Year's day. The body was brought to Kappa on Saturday and the funeral occurred on Sunday from the Centennial church, Revs. North and Wood-side officiating. For some years Mr. Dixon had made his home in Missouri and about three weeks ago was taken with a dropsical affection which terminated his life at the good old age of 82. He was the father of Mrs. Snaverly, of Oak Grove, of Mrs. J. Ross and of Smith Dixon, of Kappa, of Mrs. Geer, Mrs. Wilcox and Allen Dixon, of Missouri. Thomas Dixon was born in 1803 in Maryland. At the age of one year he moved to Hampshire County, Virginia, not far from the battle ground of Winchester where Gen. Shields, the loyal and brave Irishman. whipped Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and to whom Gen. Phil Sheridan made his celebrated ride on his black charge Chester, twenty miles away." His father's name was John Dixon, and his mother's, Drussell Harvey. He was a relative of Jeremiah Dixon, who, with Mason, made the survey known as Mason and Dixon's line. In 1815 the Dixon family emigrated to Ohio, and settled on Stillwater river in Harrison county. In 1826 Thomas with his new wife moved to Illinois, near Dry Grove, in what is now McLean Co., but at that time McLean and Woodford formed part of Tazewell county, only the year previous these three counties formed part of Fayette county. After a short time he moved to the old homestead (the place is now occupied by Dan Kring just west of where Kappa now is. The writer has spent hours listening to the stories, reminiscences and anecdotes of Uncle Tommie, describircg the olden times and ways, of how, during the deep snow of 1831, the family had to live on pounded corn and how they would occasionally indulge in the luxury of parched corn meal ground in a coffee mill or pounded on a flat stone. The nearest mill was at Springfield, no streams were bridged and after they got there they sometimes found so many ahead of them they had to wait two \veeks to get a grist ground. During the Black Hawk or Indian war in 1832 Mr. Dixon was a teamster for Major Stillman. On May 13th, 1832, he started on the Stillman's Run expedition. Major Stillman had two-hundred and six men all told. They started from Dixon's ferry and on the second day discovered moccasin tracks. The men were much excited and lost tin cups, etc. Mr. Dixon lightened his load by issuing ammunition and whisky to the men. The men filled their powder horns and some of them tied up powder in their handkerchiefs. They filled their canteens, coffee pots and bottles with whisky but were not able to take it all and left some in the barrel and during all the afternoon whisky was as free as water and more plentiful just then. Mr. Dixon was not at the battle of Still-man's Run, being detained by duty elsewhere, but the next day assisted in burying the dead. He was at Ottawa to assist in defending that place from the Indians and shortly afterwards they returned home. They talked of building a fort at Bloomington and did build one at Pekin, 'and for sixty days kept near on the county line watching for Indians. Mr. Dixon had many stories to tell of the sudden change in December, 1836, when in five minutes the weather changed from quite warm to the severest cold. Ducks and geese were frozen in the mud before they could get out. A man riding on horseback killed his horse, cut him open, removed the entrails and crawled into the warm carcass only to he frozen to death. A man and his daughter, living north of here, went out to feed the cows and before they could get to the house were frozen dead. Hundreds of animals and many persons were frozen to death during this sudden change. Mr. Dixon was a most successful hunter and columns could be filled with interesting stories of his hunting adventures in these early times, but his life is ended and another of the very few remaining links that bind us to these early days has been closed. Peaceful be the rest and green be the grass above the graves of these noble, hardy, heroic pioneers, through whose energy, hardships and privations we now enjoy our many blessings.
Contributor: 1st cousin, 4 times removed, Charles W. Harvey -Find A Grave ID-49417712
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