From nobody Wed Sep 27 10:30:52 2006 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8RGUqAH029556 for ROOTS-M; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:30:52 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8RET7Yn010438 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:29:07 -0600 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8RER82C010943 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:29:06 -0600 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8REQwdh010191 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:26:58 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8REQvYn010180 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:26:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8REQsh9010422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:26:54 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8RBieFI005239 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:44:40 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8RBieIp005238 for roots-l@rootsweb.com; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:44:40 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8RBRNFI005139 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:27:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8RE9Nju009803 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:09:23 -0600 X-Envelope-From: joe_hilma@yahoo.com Wed Sep 27 08:09:22 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8RE9MYn009792 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:09:22 -0600 Received: from web54214.mail.yahoo.com (web54214.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.47]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k8RE7gOB019220 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:09:15 -0600 Received: (qmail 85927 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Sep 2006 14:00:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BNhD9GveBkahAzvIwUbJEIzCNIbVymu1gkyBvQ/E2QKKLCVTkDHXKbCL1+TjayVT7OVjjisqwaYCIs9rXGPFiJdC7SJX5E3E2RmBn9geo2R8v1BJXFYSCT9AAvhZeq36e88/A1gNYqRAl7Hq5kII9mtmHi03gnD2xS4chhcJZU0= ; Message-ID: <20060927140055.85925.qmail@web54214.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.215.32.113] by web54214.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:00:54 PDT Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:00:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Hilma To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k8RE9Nju009803 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k8RBRNFI005139 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: James Dixon/Dickson b 1798 N.C. James Dixon/Dickson is my ggg grandfather. The surname is spelled both ways until about 1920 and then the family spelled it DICKSON. My brickwall is trying to find James C. Dixon's parents and finding his first wife. I have alot data on the Dixon/Dickson family coming forward. Am very happy to share my information with others researching this family. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Hilma Ardito Stuart, Florida James C. DIXON/DICKSON born 1798 in North Carolina . James married before 1825 in North Carolina. His first wife is unkown.James died sometime after 1850 as he is not in the 1860 census and have not found anything on him after 1850 census. There is marriage of a James C. Dixon/Dickson in North Carolina Marriage Bonds,1741-1868. James C. Dixon married Salley Freshwaters,30 April ,1822 , Orange County,N.C. record # 04 011 Bondsman: John Mulhollan,Witness: J. Taylor, Jr, Bond # 000102652. I do not know if this is my James C. Dixon. Have not been able to find out anything on Sally FRESHWATER. 1830 census for Orange County, N.C. James C. Dickson The ages and gender of the children match what I know of my James C. Dickson’s family.I know that he was from N.C. and his first three children( that I know of) were born in 1825,1827, 1833 in N.C. Children of James C. Dixon/Dickson and unknown James M. Dixon b.1825 N.C. Mary Dixon b.1827 N.C. T.F. Dixon b.1833 N.C. Benjamin Franklin Dixon b. 1834 Ind. James and his wife and his children , James M. Dixon, Mary Dixon, T.F. Dixon moved to Perry, Clay Co., Indiana between 1833 and 1834. Another child was born there and his wife died there. Sometime between 1839 and 1846, James married Mary Elizabeth Jones CHADWELL , widow of George S. Chadwell(born 1794-- died 1/12/1839 ).Mary Elizabeth Jones Chadwell Dixon was born 1797 in Lee Co., Va. 1840 census Clay County, Indiana James C. Dixon James and Elizabeth joined a wagon train to what is now Cooke County, Texas, arriving in June 1846.There were ads in newspapaers about Peters Colony in Texas. Peters had a contract first with the Republic and then with the State of Texas to bring settlers into a certain parts of North Texas-which became the counties of Grayson, Cooke, Clay, Denton, Wise, Montague,Collins and Dallas. In" His Memoirs" by W.R. Strong , he tells of their trip in oxen driven wagons .There was a caravan of Strongs,Dixons, Chadwells , Southerlands and others. The James Dixons came from North Carolina to Indiana thru Missouri to Texas. Cooke County was organized in 1848 and the town of Gainesville was laid out in 1850. James Dixon build the third mill in the county,it was build from rocks of limestone. There was a road cut for the stage line thru Cooke County and it was surveyed by James C.. Dixon and the main street in Gainesville is named for him—Dixon Street. Around 1867/68, another man named, James Dickson, not related to my James C. Dixon, was murdered. His murder lead to the Gainesville Hangings. Mary Dixon, daughter of James C. Dixon married her step-brother John Ranome Chadwell,son of Mary Elizabeth Jones Chadwell and George S. Chadwell ,Jan 14,1848 . Their son James K. Chadwell was the first child born in Cooke County, Texas. In the 1850 census for Cooke Co. , Texas, page 69, line 3. James C. Dixon 52 Farmer b. 1798 N.C. Elizabeth Dixon 53 b. 1797 Va James M. Dixon 25 Farmer b 1825 .N.C. C. Chadwell 25 Farmer b 1825 .Tenn( Carpenter Britton Chadwell,son of Mary Eliabeth Jones Chadwell & George C. Chadwell) married Susan Rebecca Bryant T.F. Dixon 17 b 1833 .N.C. B.F.Dixon 15 b. 1834 Ind.(Benjamin Franklin Dixon) Amanda Southerland 8 b. 1842 Mo L.O. Lee 14 b. 1836 Tenn Children of James M. Dixon and Lyda M. Reid: Susanna Dixon b 1853 James E. Dixon b 1856 Miles T. Dixon b 1858 Emily C. Dixon b 1861 Sarah E. Dixon b 1864 Benjamin F. Dixon b 1867 John M. Dixon b 1869 Children of Mary Dixon and John Ranome Chadwell: James K. Chadwell b 1847 d. Oct 1919 buried Myra Cem. Children: W.Edward Chadwell son married Emma unknown Mary E. Chadwell daughter married John L Griggs Derald Chadwell son d. 1913 John Chadwell b 1852 William Chadwell b Mar 58, 1855 d July 14,1901 Sarah Elizabeth Chadwell b 1858 Eliza Chadwell b June 3 ,1865 d Jan 24,1892 Lula “Lucy” J. Chadwell b Aug 4, 1869 d. Jan 15 1875 Children of Benjamin Franklin Dixon and Ellen C. Benton: James Marion Dixon b 1862 Cooke County, Texas William Frank Dixon b 1862 Cooke County, Texas Benjamin Missouri Dixon b 1865 Sarah Ellen Dixon b 1867 married A. Coleman Robert Lee (Perry) Dixon b 1869 Wesley Andrew Dixon b Dec 6,1871 Fort Worth,Tarrant Co.,Texas married Loulia Effie Finks,daughter of Abner Berry Finks,Jr and Eliza Cooper Noah Webster Dixon b Feb 27, 1873 Bosque Co. Texas d April 8,1948 John Thomas Dixon b 1874 never married Holder Thadias Dixon b June 25, 1876 Gainesville, Texas d.Oct 5,1943 Never married Minnie Dixon b 1878 never married Mittie Dixon b 1878 married Alpha S.Thacker --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.