Mrs. Nancy J. Dickson is a native of Bedford County, Tenn., and was born on Duck River August 6, 1833. She is the second of five children born to the marriage of Leroy Blackburn and Elizabeth C. Cooper, and is of Irish extraction. Her father and mother were born in Bedford County, Tenn., April 22, 1812, and February 20, 1811, respectively. Mrs. Dickson, when about six years of age, moved with her parents to Hickman County, where she remained twelve years and then came to Perry County, where she has since resided. The father moved to Arkansas when comparatively a young man, and remained four years. After his wife's death, April 30, 1857, he returned to Tennessee, and manages the plantation of his daughter, Mrs. Dickson, in a very successful manner. Mrs. Dickson was married in Perry County December 19, 1852, to Albert B. Dickson. To this union there have been no children born, but by adoption Mrs. Dickson has one son, Bethel Tipton Blackburn, born February 18, 1873. Our subject is a member of the Daughters degree of F. & A. M. and also of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. She owns 365 acres of good land, on which she raises the cereals and grasses to some extent but devotes the most of her land to the production of peanuts. Abundant evidences have been found on her farm of iron ore and also coal, the latter having been satisfactorily tested. Mrs. Dickson's father is an old line Democrat, and a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.