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Obediah Dixon
, 4th son of Murphrey Dixon and Mourning
Garner, was born
in 1770 and died July 29, 1849, in the Dixonville community,
in the vicinity
of
Hookerton, Dobbs Co., N.C. He followed his father in the
building and
furniture-
making trade and was well known for building homes, churches
and government
buildings in the area (see North Carolina Preservation, No.
69, Fall 1987,
pp. 3-5;
Architects and Builders in North Carolina, a History of the
Practice of
Building,
1650-1980). He settled on a section of Grampion
Hills, the Dixon
family farm,
given him by his father on his death. This farm, which
he named Fort
Hill, became
the site of Obediah's various enterprises, including the
making of brandy,
warehousing,
and the operation of a tar landing at a section of the farm
alongside
Contentnea Creek.
A settlement eventually grew up there called Dixonville.
Obediah died
July 29, 1849.
He married Sarah (Sally) (maiden name unknown), d. Oct. 23,
1834, and they
had the
following children:
Gatsey Dixon, b. Sept. 12, 1801, d. Sept. 9, 1880 (never
married)
John W. Dixon, d. Dec. 9, 1885
Richard W. Dixon, b. Dec. 26, 1804, d. Sept. 27, 1824 (19
years old, never
married)
Washington Dixon
, b. Nov. 5, 1806,
d. Dec. 24, 1856 (m. Mary Ormond)
Marilla Dixon, b. Dec. 5, 1808, d. Feb. 11, 1855
Cathrine Dixon b. Apr. 8, 1811 (m. Lemuel Sugg)
? b. July 31, 1814
Sarah Dixon, b. Mar. 11, 1817 (m. Nathan Edwards)
Susan Matilda Dixon, b. Mar. 11, 1817, d. Nov. 16, 1885 (m.
Col. Nethercutt)
Washington
Dixon
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Washington Dixon, b. Nov. 5, 1806, d. Dec. 24, 1856, son of
Obediah Dixon,
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married Mary Ormond, b. Aug. 25, 1809, d. June 13, 1860,
daughter of Thomas
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Ormond and Margaret (Peggy) Grimsley on Jan. 13, 1828.
Children included:
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William Thomas Dixon
, b. Oct. 14, 1828, d.
(m. Susan James Harper)
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Sarah Ann Richard Dixon, b. Oct. 21, 1831, d. 1897, (m. Thomas
Hart) son,
George
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Washington Hart, b. Dec. 20, 1865
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Mary Elizabeth Margaret Dixon, b. March 25, 1834
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Leah Dixon (name ?), b. April 27, 1836
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Eliza Frances Dixon, b. Aug. 8, 1840
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John Washington Dixon
, b. Oct. 4, 1842. ,
d. ? (m. Mary Freeman Sugg, 1868)
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daughter Dixon, b. Nov. 7, 1844
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James Dixon, b. March 8, 1849
William Thomas
Dixon
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William Thomas Dixon, son of Washington Dixon and Mary Ormond
Dixon, married
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Susan (Susannah) James Harper, b. Dec. 8,
1833. Susan
James Harper was the daughter
-
of James Harper and Susannah Ormond. William Thomas
Dixon and Susan
James Harper
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Dixon had several children, including:
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William Odell Dixon
(m. Lillian Annie
Moseley)
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Dulas H. Dixon (m. Ann Patrick)
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Addie L. Dixon (m. A.J. Grimsley)
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David Dixon (m. Corinne Patrick)
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James Harper, b. Mar. 18, 1800, was the son of John Harper and
Ann Ormond.
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Susannah Ormond, b. Aug. 25, 1808, was the daughter of Watkins
Ormond and
Elizabeth Taylor
William Odell
Dixon
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William Odell Dixon, b. , d., (m.
Lillian
Annie Moseley
). Lived in the town of Hookerton,
-
N.C., and ran a a large boarding house, a general store and
operated part of
the original Dixon
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farm. His son, Sidney Stern Dixon was named for a Jewish
traveling
salesman, Sidney Stern,
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who often stayed at the boarding house. Dixon had
several children,
including:
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Sidney Stern Dixon
(m. Marjorie Floyd of
Fairmont, N.C.)
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Susan Dixon (unmarried)
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Thelma Dixon (m. Harry Stanton Taylor)
Lillian Annie
Moseley
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Lillian Annie Moseley was the daughter of Francis Marion
Moseley and Mary
Elizabeth Edwards.
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She had two brothers, Clyde Moseley (m. Jesse Brown) and
Franklin Moseley
(wife?)
Francis Marion Moseley was the son of William Augustus Moseley and
Rachel
Mewborn.
Mary Elizabeth Edwards was the daughter of William Franklin
Edwards and Martha
Ann Grimsley.
William Augustus Moseley was the son of William Augustus Moseley
and Sallie
Kilpartrick.
Rachel Mewborn was the daughter of Lemuel Mewborn and Louisa
Kilpatrick.
William Franklin Edwards was the son of John Jones Edwards and
Elizabeth Ormond.
Martha Ann Grimsley was the daughter of John Grimsley and Mary Ann
Albritton.
John Washington
Dixon
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John Washington Dixon, b. , d., son of Washington Dixon and
Mary Freeman
Sugg, b., d., were
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married in 1868 and had three children:
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Annie S. Dixon
(m. Willis Dixon, Dec. 24,
1888) (see letter from Annie S. Dixon in Dixon
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papers section of Old Dobbers)
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Ed. D. Dixon, (m. Jincie Grant, 1900)
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Corinne W. Dixon (m. George Edwards, 1886)
Sidney Stern
Dixon
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Sidney Stern Dixon, b. d. (m. Marjorie Mae Floyd).
Sidney Stern Dixon
married
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Marjorie Floyd, a teacher at the Hookerton Institute who came
to live at the
Dixon
-
boarding house. After marriage, Dixon became a salesman
for Lance,
Inc., of Charlotte,
-
and eventually moved to Nashville, Tenn. He returned to
N.C. and lived
briefly in
-
Hookerton and Wilson, retiring in Hookerton where he worked
part-time at his
brother-
-
in-law, Harry Taylor's hardware store. Sidney and
Marjorie had two
children:
Sidney Stern Dixon Jr., b. d., (m. Barbara Ann Smith of Wilson,
N.C., daughter
of James
Thomas Smith and Irene Robbins, children Sidney Stern Dixon III
and Laura Susan
Dixon)
Marjorie Floyd Dixon, b.d., (m. Leonard Hall Barlow Jr. of
Kannapolis, N.C.,
children
Leonard Hall Barlow III., William Dixon Barlow, Marjorie Lucill
Barlow)
Annie S. Dixon
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Annie S. Dixon, daughter of John Washington Dixon and Mary
Freeman Sugg,
married
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Willis Dixon, Dec. 24, 1888. Annie S. Dixon penned
several papers
found in the Dixon papers
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section of Old Dobbers. She had at least one child,
Leather M. Dixon,
b. Jan. 31, 1890.
Harry Stanton
Taylor
Harry Stanton Taylor married Thelma Louise Dixon and they had
three children:
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Harry Stanton Taylor Jr.
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William Fredrick Taylor
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Alice Odell Taylor
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