Husband: James Monroe DICKSON
Birthdate: 6 Sep 1813
Birthplace: Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 18 Apr 1898
Place of death: Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Father: James Curry DICKSON I (b abt 1791)
Mother: Elizabeth SHI/SHY (b abt 1795)
Other Spouses:

Marriage date: 28 Dec 1838
Marriage place: Washington Co., Ga.

Wife: Margaret A. CRAWFORD
Birthdate: 12 Feb 1814
Birthplace: South Carolina
Death date: 1876
Place of death: Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Father: James CRAWFORD (possible father)
Mother:
Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: William Solomon DICKSON II CSA
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 Sep 1839 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 30 Dec 1913 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date: 23 Dec 1865
Spouses' names: Rebecca A. KELLY

Child No. 2: Eliza J. DICKSON
Sex: F
Birthdate: 14 Jun 1840 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 11 Feb 1910 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 3: James Curry "C" DICKSON II
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Apr 1843 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 17 May 1920 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Hancock
Marriage date: 15 Aug 1869
Spouses' names: Martha A. Elizabeth KELLY

Child No. 4: Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) DICKSON
Sex: F
Birthdate: 25 Oct 1845 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 11 Feb 1919 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga
Marriage date: 28 Oct 1868
Spouses' names: Benjamin Joseph CLARKE CSA

Child No. 5: Georgia Ann B. DICKSON
Sex: F
Birthdate: 7 Dec 1848 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 28 Apr 1913 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 6: Emily Frances DICKSON II
Sex: F
Birthdate: 29 Jun 1853
Death date:
Burial:
Marriage date: 24 Dec 1872)
Spouses' names: Joseph (James?) M. DICKSON

Child No. 7: David W. DICKSON (2)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Sep 1855 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: aft 1920
Burial: Dickson Family Cemetery, Hancock Co.,
Marriage date:
Spouses' names: Julia LAUGHLIN

Child No. 8: Green L. DICKSON
Sex: M
Birthdate: Apr 1858 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 24 Apr 1937 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date:
Spouses' names: Sarah
 
 
Documentation:
1. Fanning, Grace Clarke (great granddaughter, James M. Dickson & Margaret A. Crawford)
2. Georgia Marriages to 1850, Ancestry.com Library
3. Van Schaick, Edward E., Jr., compiler & editor. Some Georgia County Records, volume 8: Being Some of the Legal Records of Burke, Chatham, Columbia, Montgomery, Murray, Oglethorpe and Washington Counties. Southern Historical Press.
4. Kimbrough, Mrs. Effie. Cemetery Records of Hancock Co., Ga.
5. Fanning, Grace Clarke
6. Bethel Baptist Church Records (Hancock Co., Ga.).
7. Dickson Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
8. Fanning, Grace Clarke
9. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1860-1865.
10. Census, 1870, Hancock Co. Ga
11. Census, 1860, Hancock Co., Ga. 1860 Slave census.
12. Census, 1860, Hancock Co., Ga.
13. Worsham, Louise Dunn. (great granddaughter of James M. Dickson & Margaret A. Crawford)
14. Census, 1850, Hancock Co., Ga.
15. Census, 1870 ,Hancock Co. Non-population census.
16. Census, 1880 Hancock Co., Ga.
17. Dickson Cemetery
18. Fanning, Grace Clarke
19. Census, 1850 Hancock Co., Ga.
20. Jackson, Claude W. (great great grandson of James M. Dickson & Margaret A. Crawford)
21. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1860-1865.
22. Fanning, Grace Clarke
23. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1860-1865.
24. Memoirs of Georgia, 2 vols. Atlanta, Ga: Southern Historical Association,. c1895.
25. Worsham, Louise Dunn
26. Smith, Elizabeth Wiley. The History of Hancock County, Georgia. 2 volumes. Wilkes Publishing Co., Inc. Washington, Ga. c1974. 1:140.
27. Census, 1910, Hancock Co., Ga.
28. Census 1900, Hancock Co., Ga.
29. Fanning, Grace Clarke
30. Dickson Cemetery
31. Fanning, Grace Clarke
32. Worsham, Louise Dunn
33. Fanning, Grace Clarke
34. Ibid.
35. Kimbrough. Cemetery Records of Hancock Co., Ga.
36. Census. 1900, Hancock Co., Ga.
37. Census, 1920, Hancock Co., Ga.
38. Fanning. Grace Clarke
39. Ibid.
40. Worsham, Louise Dunn
41. Dickson Cemetery
42. Kimbmrough. Cemetery Records of Hancock Co., Ga.
43. Fanning, Grace Clarke
44. Worsham, Louise Dunn
45. Fanning, Grace Clarke
46. Ibid.
47. Census, 1900, Hancock Co., Ga.
48. Census, 1920, Hancock Co., Ga.
49. Dickson, James Nathaniel (grandson of Greene Dickson, great grandson, James M. & Margaret A. Crawford)
50. Worsham, Louise Dunn
51. LDS Family History Library. LDS film #0222081. Hancock Co., Ga. Court of Ordinary. Wills. Book 1, 1882-1909.
52. Census, 1900 Hancock Co., Ga.
53. Census, 1920, Hancock Co., Ga.
54. Census, 1910, Hancock Co., Ga.
55. Smith-Wilson, Gina ( great granddaughter of David Dickson, son of James Monroe Dickson & Margaret A. Crawford)
56. Dickson Cemetery
57. Georgia Deaths, 1919-1998. (database online) Ancestry.com
58. Dickson, James Nathaniel
59. Dickson Cemetery
60. Kimbrough. "Cemeteries of Hancock Co., Ga."
61. Census, 1920, Hancock Co., Ga.

Notes:
* Marriage (1,2,3): Source says: "Dickens, James - Crawford, Margaret - 28 Dec 1838"
* James Monroe DICKSON CSA
Birth(4,5):
Death(6,7,8):
General(9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16): Served in the Confederate Army, unknown regiment.
* Margaret A. CRAWFORD
Birth(17,18,19,20): Tombstone says birth Feb 12, 1815
Death(7):
* William Solomon DICKSON II CSA
Birth(21,7):
Death(6,7,22):
General(23,24,25,26,6,27,28): William S. Dickson (2) Served in Company K, 15th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, C. S. A. Hancock County, Ga. Private July 15, 1861. Wounded, left shoulder, permanently disable, at Sharpsburg, MD, Sept. 17, 1862. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1862. On detached duty at C Cop Hospital April 9, 1865. Captured and paroled at Athens, Ga. May 8, 1865.
* William & Rebecca Dickson became memers of the Bethel Baptist Church, Hancock Co., Ga. in 1867. He was a deacon and served as Clerk there for 37 years, from 1875 until his death in 1913.
* This William S. was the nephew of William S. (1) and grandson of James Curry Dickson (1).
* William and Rebecca Kelley Dickson had no children.
* Eliza J. DICKSON
Death(7,29):
Death(7):
Birth(30,31):
General(32): Eliza was blind. However, she could ride a horse and was fairly independent.
* James Curry "C" DICKSON II
Birth(33):
Death(34):
Burial(35):
General(10,6,36,37): This James Curry was the grandson of James Curry Dickson (1)
* J. C. Dickson became member of the Bethel Baptist Church, Hancock Co., Ga. in 1876
* Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) DICKSON
Birth(38):
Death(39):
General(40): Sallie Dickson was 12 years when the Yankees came through Hancock Co., burning the Dickson home and pulling up the apple orchard. Her father, James M. was away fighting for the Confederacy.
* Georgia Ann B. DICKSON
Birth(8,41):
Death(6,42,43):
General(44,45):
* Emily Frances DICKSON II
Birth(46):
* David W. DICKSON (2)
Birth(10,47):
Death(48,49):
* David Dickson is not on the list of burials from "The Cemeteries of Hancock County, Georgia." Grave not found on visit of Dec 14, 2001. James Nathaniel Dickson remembers site as being beside Greene L. Dickson's grave just outside of fenced area. Neither tombstone could be found. Nathaniel is Greene Dickson's grandson and remembers his funeral.
General(50,51,52,53,54,55): David W. Dickson never married but had a longstanding relationship with Julia Laughlin, the daughter of John Laughlin, a white Hancock Co., Ga. slave owner, and had ten children by her.
* Green L. DICKSON
Birth(56,10,47):
Death(57,58,59): James Nathaniel Dickson, grandson of Greene Dickson, says that death was result of freak accident when a car ran of the road in from of house and crushed him against truck.
Burial(60):
General(61): Greene L Dickson had relationship with black woman, Sarah unknown and had two sons with her.

Researching: Clark(e), Dennis, Dickson, Dudley, Dunn, all of whom were in Hancock County, Georgia by 1800.
Prepared 19 Feb 2002 by Mary Ann Willoughby.