Edmund Bolton Dixon was a son of Levi Dixon and Sarah Waller Bolton. Edmund married Mary Elizabeth Fowler May 5,1861. They had 16 children of those only 8 survived. Their children were Anna Lee, Joel Edmund, Mary Louise, Missouri Isabell, Clay (died in infancy), Finnis Lewis, William Warren, Myrtle, Mary Leona,. Edmund was a Confederate Soldier, He was a Pvt. with Parson's Brigade. He was in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Battle of Carthage, Battle of Dug Springs, he was captured and taken to Rolla MO. then later released. Edmund was married twice, after Mary Elizabeth died ( she is buried in Marvin Chapel in Nevada MO.)he married a second time Sept 14,1887 to Sarah M. Ball. According to the death certificate I have on Edmund, he was divorced from Sarah at the time of his death. They had 5 children. Edmund's grave stone has his birth year as 1841, his death certificate has 1842 also his death date is listed as July 8, 1925. He died of heat exhaustion I believe the headstone is NOT Correct on Birth and Death info. Edmund was the father of 32 children, only about half lived to adulthood.
Pvt. Edmund Bolton Dixon, a 19 year old state guard drummer boy in the Battle of Carthage, enlisted shortly before in Cole county, near his home, which was 10 miles west of Jefferson City. A son of slaveowners in the rich Missouri river valley, he was born in 1842. After the war he lived on a farm in Vernon County, where he died in July 1925. On July 4, 1861, Pvt. Dixon was a member of a foraging party which confiscated a load of flour at Bower's Mill in Lawerence County and returned the loot to Camp Lamar. This picture is a copy of one owned by his daughter, Mrs. Lee Brooks(Mary Leona Dixon Brooks).
Parents:
Father: Levi Dixon
Mother: Sarah Waller Bolton
Both Parent are Buried on the Dixon Family Farm in Dixonville MO.
Siblings:
Lydia Ann Dixon Fulkerson (1817-1873)
Catherine Warren Dixon Winston (1823-1809)
Sallie Waller Dixon Lockett (1828-1898)
Phoebe Dixon (1830-1842) age 12
Francis M. Dixon (1833- died in Texas cannot find a death year)
William G. Dixon (1835-1870)
Maria Louisa Dixon (1837-1858)
Levi Marshall Dixon (1839-1901)memorial# 114893415
Mary L. Dixon Scott (1841-1905)
Marion L. Dixon Price (1842- no info. on death)
This memorial has only some information, it is to help others with their Dixon Family Tree. My information was given to me by a family member that had alot of my family History in papers. I will change what I have found to be incorrect. I cannot change the information that is carved in stone.
Pvt. Edmund Bolton Dixon, a 19 year old state guard drummer boy in the Battle of Carthage, enlisted shortly before in Cole county, near his home, which was 10 miles west of Jefferson City. A son of slaveowners in the rich Missouri river valley, he was born in 1842. After the war he lived on a farm in Vernon County, where he died in July 1925. On July 4, 1861, Pvt. Dixon was a member of a foraging party which confiscated a load of flour at Bower's Mill in Lawerence County and returned the loot to Camp Lamar. This picture is a copy of one owned by his daughter, Mrs. Lee Brooks(Mary Leona Dixon Brooks).
Parents:
Father: Levi Dixon
Mother: Sarah Waller Bolton
Both Parent are Buried on the Dixon Family Farm in Dixonville MO.
Siblings:
Lydia Ann Dixon Fulkerson (1817-1873)
Catherine Warren Dixon Winston (1823-1809)
Sallie Waller Dixon Lockett (1828-1898)
Phoebe Dixon (1830-1842) age 12
Francis M. Dixon (1833- died in Texas cannot find a death year)
William G. Dixon (1835-1870)
Maria Louisa Dixon (1837-1858)
Levi Marshall Dixon (1839-1901)memorial# 114893415
Mary L. Dixon Scott (1841-1905)
Marion L. Dixon Price (1842- no info. on death)
This memorial has only some information, it is to help others with their Dixon Family Tree. My information was given to me by a family member that had alot of my family History in papers. I will change what I have found to be incorrect. I cannot change the information that is carved in stone.
Edmund Bolton Dixon was a son of Levi Dixon and Sarah Waller Bolton. Edmund married Mary Elizabeth Fowler May 5,1861. They had 16 children of those only 8 survived. Their children were Anna Lee, Joel Edmund, Mary Louise, Missouri Isabell, Clay (died in infancy), Finnis Lewis, William Warren, Myrtle, Mary Leona,. Edmund was a Confederate Soldier, He was a Pvt. with Parson's Brigade. He was in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Battle of Carthage, Battle of Dug Springs, he was captured and taken to Rolla MO. then later released. Edmund was married twice, after Mary Elizabeth died ( she is buried in Marvin Chapel in Nevada MO.)he married a second time Sept 14,1887 to Sarah M. Ball. According to the death certificate I have on Edmund, he was divorced from Sarah at the time of his death. They had 5 children. Edmund's grave stone has his birth year as 1841, his death certificate has 1842 also his death date is listed as July 8, 1925. He died of heat exhaustion I believe the headstone is NOT Correct on Birth and Death info. Edmund was the father of 32 children, only about half lived to adulthood.
Pvt. Edmund Bolton Dixon, a 19 year old state guard drummer boy in the Battle of Carthage, enlisted shortly before in Cole county, near his home, which was 10 miles west of Jefferson City. A son of slaveowners in the rich Missouri river valley, he was born in 1842. After the war he lived on a farm in Vernon County, where he died in July 1925. On July 4, 1861, Pvt. Dixon was a member of a foraging party which confiscated a load of flour at Bower's Mill in Lawerence County and returned the loot to Camp Lamar. This picture is a copy of one owned by his daughter, Mrs. Lee Brooks(Mary Leona Dixon Brooks).
Parents:
Father: Levi Dixon
Mother: Sarah Waller Bolton
Both Parent are Buried on the Dixon Family Farm in Dixonville MO.
Siblings:
Lydia Ann Dixon Fulkerson (1817-1873)
Catherine Warren Dixon Winston (1823-1809)
Sallie Waller Dixon Lockett (1828-1898)
Phoebe Dixon (1830-1842) age 12
Francis M. Dixon (1833- died in Texas cannot find a death year)
William G. Dixon (1835-1870)
Maria Louisa Dixon (1837-1858)
Levi Marshall Dixon (1839-1901)memorial# 114893415
Mary L. Dixon Scott (1841-1905)
Marion L. Dixon Price (1842- no info. on death)
This memorial has only some information, it is to help others with their Dixon Family Tree. My information was given to me by a family member that had alot of my family History in papers. I will change what I have found to be incorrect. I cannot change the information that is carved in stone.
Pvt. Edmund Bolton Dixon, a 19 year old state guard drummer boy in the Battle of Carthage, enlisted shortly before in Cole county, near his home, which was 10 miles west of Jefferson City. A son of slaveowners in the rich Missouri river valley, he was born in 1842. After the war he lived on a farm in Vernon County, where he died in July 1925. On July 4, 1861, Pvt. Dixon was a member of a foraging party which confiscated a load of flour at Bower's Mill in Lawerence County and returned the loot to Camp Lamar. This picture is a copy of one owned by his daughter, Mrs. Lee Brooks(Mary Leona Dixon Brooks).
Parents:
Father: Levi Dixon
Mother: Sarah Waller Bolton
Both Parent are Buried on the Dixon Family Farm in Dixonville MO.
Siblings:
Lydia Ann Dixon Fulkerson (1817-1873)
Catherine Warren Dixon Winston (1823-1809)
Sallie Waller Dixon Lockett (1828-1898)
Phoebe Dixon (1830-1842) age 12
Francis M. Dixon (1833- died in Texas cannot find a death year)
William G. Dixon (1835-1870)
Maria Louisa Dixon (1837-1858)
Levi Marshall Dixon (1839-1901)memorial# 114893415
Mary L. Dixon Scott (1841-1905)
Marion L. Dixon Price (1842- no info. on death)
This memorial has only some information, it is to help others with their Dixon Family Tree. My information was given to me by a family member that had alot of my family History in papers. I will change what I have found to be incorrect. I cannot change the information that is carved in stone.
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