Josiah Jefferson “Jeff” Dickson (1835-1863)

Josiah Jefferson “Jeff” Dickson

Birth

1835

Chambers County, Alabama, USA

Death

Jun 1863 (aged 27–28)

Arkansas, USA

Burial

Dickson Cemetery

Waldo, Columbia County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map

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Josiah Jefferson Dickson was buried in the Dickson Family Cemetery near Waldo, Arkansas apparently in an unmarked grave. It was originally believed that the marker with his name was in the form of a cenotaph.

In 1933, his niece, Mary Dickson Worley, the daughter of his brother, Henry Clay Dickson, applied for a military marker. The application states that he was buried in an unmarked grave and in a private cemetery in Waldo, Arkansas.

Receipt of the marker was to go to his nephew, Troup Elmer Dickson, the son of a second brother, Christopher Columbus Dickson. It is questionable whether this marker was ever produced since the only indication of his burial today is on an obelisk containing multiple family names. This does, however, give credence to his actual burial in the Dickson Family Cemetery and not in the battlefield.