The old Dickerson home site and family cemetery are about one and one-half miles north of the pioneer village of Manningham in northwest Butler County, Alabama. The site is near Cedar Creek, in the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 26, Township 11 North, Range 13 East.

Burials could have begun as early as 1816-1817, when Archelaus Dickerson first settled in this area, and continued into the early twentieth century.

When the cemetery was surveyed by Myra Ware Williams Crenshaw in the 1960s, only two inscribed markers were visible. This was her survey:

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Two graves on a hill near Ollie Wilkerson's house, about 1 1/2 miles north of Manningham & near Cedar Creek:

"Erected by the Woodmen of the World"
(W.O.W. insignia)
T. J. Dickerson
Born Feb. 3, 1860
Died Jan. 24, 1904

Sarah T. Dickerson
Born Jan. 16, 1838
Died Oct. 8, 1911
(verse follows)

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Those two grave markers still exist today (2016), and other graves are marked by field stones. Since the Dickerson family lived for many decades in one location, and burials in the family cemetery continued for nearly -- or over -- one hundred years, it's fairly certain that Archelaus Dickerson, his wife Mary Ray Ogle/Ogly, and various other close relatives who died from 1817 to the early 1900s are interred in this pioneer family cemetery.

In a 1974 letter to Myra Ware Williams Crenshaw, the late Jack Burnett of Greenville, Alabama (a Dickerson descendant), wrote this list of people whom he knew or had been told were buried in the old family cemetery:

These people are in Dickerson Cem.

Archelaus - The big cedar tree is at the head of his grave
His wife Mary -
Elizabeth - stepdaughter
John S. Dickerson - Arches son
Sarah J. - James wife
T. J. - James son
Louise - John S. daughter
Mary - John S. wife
There are some Butts people there, too. Mr. Will Crenshaw helped bury Mr. Dan Hall there. Mr. Will said "He was the last person buried there about 53 yrs. ago."

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The Butler County Historical Society cemetery files include a survey of the Dickerson Cemetery, noting: "This census taken by Jack Burnett in January 1974."

DICKERSON CEMETERY

Township 11, Range 13, NW1/4 Section 26, Butler County

Sarah Cunningham Dickerson
1-11-1838
1-11-1911

Thomas J. Dickerson
B. Feb. 1860
1-29-1904

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The following information on unmarked graves in this cemetery was supplied by Jack Burnett, a member of the Dickerson family.

John Archelaus Dickerson
1886-1869 ["1886" rewritten as "1786"]

Mary Ogley Dickerson, wife of John Archelaus Dickerson
1787-1853

Elizabeth Ogly, step daughter of John Archelaus Dickerson
1811-1861 to 1865

Children of John Archelus and Mary Ogley Dickerson

John S. Dickerson
1828 - ? ? ?

James Dickerson
1831 - ? ? ?

Mary, wife of John S. Dickerson

Sarah, wife of James (marked grave)

T. J. Dickerson, son of James (marked grave)

Louise, daughter of John S. Dickerson

Dan Hall

And people by the last name Butts

-- This census taken by Jack Burnett in January 1974 --