"Aunt Tee"


Contributed by Marilyn Bass Baker (#47482841):

(Obituary of Susan Ursula Dobbins Dickerson, 11 January 1950)

CAME HERE IN COVERED WAGON
Pioneer Mt. Bethel
Citizen Dies At 86

One of the first settlers of Mt. Bethel community succumbed this morning at the age of 86.

Mrs. Susan Dobbins Dickerson, who came to Cobb County at the age of 2 in a covered wagon, died suddenly of a heart attack.

The three-week trip from North Carolina to Mt. Bethel was made in a covered wagon caravan composed of 52 persons and 72 head of cattle. Mrs. Dickerson would gather her numerous relatives around her and tell of the trip as told to her by her parents. The caravan didn't cross a bridge during the entire trip making water crossings by ferry.

Among the 52 persons were four newly-wed couples: Mr. and Mrs. James Dobbins, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dickerson, and a Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Hollyfield. These names still are identified with Mt. Bethel's development and growth. Mrs. Dickerson's parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Drury Dobbins.

The original settling site of the pioneers is the present Hugh Spalding farm.

Mrs. Dickerson married at 16 and resided in the same house for 67 years. R. J. Dickerson, her husband died in 1934 at 93. The old homestead now is occupied by the Ted Starkeys.

Sixteen of her grandsons served in the past war without serious injury.

Funeral services for Mrs. Dickerson will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Chattahoochee Baptist Church in Mt. Bethel community. The Rev. Leon Boss will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Bethel Cemetery. Ward Funeral home in charge.

Grandsons of the deceased will serve as pallbearers and are asked to meet at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Friday.

Mrs. Dickerson has been affilliated with church activities at Chattahoochee Baptist Church for the past 50 years.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Otto Rusk of Albany, Ga.; three sons, O.L., Ed and John Dickerson, all of Marietta; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Ella Bowles, Marietta and a numer-