Spouse: Carrie Sacket
She is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery
Children: (1) Mildred; (2) Josephine married Ralph Myers; (3 and 4) Joe and Jessie were twins. Jessie Dickerson Waldron died July 30, 1987 and is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma County and Joseph Thomas Dickerson, JR died May 5, 1988 in Jackson, Hinds Co. Mississippi and is buried in the Lakewood Memorial Park. (5) daughter Dorothy moved to Florida.

Joseph Thomas Dickerson was named after his grandfather Joseph Dickerson, and his father Thomas Dickerson.

His father Thomas Dickerson and his family left Ohio and moved to Iowa, and after living in Iowa two or three years they moved to Kansas. It was on September 1, 1871 that they crossed the Missouri River at St. Joseph into the Sunflower state. The trip was made by wagon, and there were ten teams and wagons in the procession--those being the days of much migration from Iowa to Kansas. The party drove cattle and horses with them and took thirty days for the trip. They located in Osage County--at the Sax and Fox reservation--and lived there eighteen months. In the spring of 1873 they came on to Marion County where they homesteaded the farm four miles south of Marion. In their later years they moved into town. Source: Marion Kansas newspaper articles kept in the Thomas Dickerson family Bible.

Joseph Thomas Dickerson began the practice of law at Marion, Kansas in 1887 and served as county attorney and district judge. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him district judge for the Southern District of the Indian Territory, serving as federal judge until Oklahoma's statehood in 1907.

He practiced law in Chickasha until 1910 when he was appointed to the State Board of affairs at which time he moved to Edmond. He served as judge of the Common Pleas Court of Oklahoma County, and one time was the Republican party candidate for the U.S. Senator.
---THE SCROLL, of Phi Delta Theta for March 1954, p. 356.