James C. Dickson, a prominent farmer of Houston County, was born October 19, 1840, near Omega. His father was a native of East Tennessee, and came to Middle Tennessee at a very early day, where he lived and died, having been a farmer. The mother was a native of Robertson County. The father died when James C. Was fifteen years old, and our subject then remained with his mother till eighteen years of age, when he began life for himself. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the Eleventh Tennessee Volunteers, C. S. A., and saw considerable service. He was captured and taken as a prisoner to Camp Douglas, Ill. Returning from the war he resumed farming, which he has successfully continued to the present. October 11, 1874, he was married to Miss Fredonia Adams, a native of Dickson County. Six children have blessed this union, two of whom are dead. Their names are as follows: James L., Alvah C., Luther, William, Sophronia M. and Merdolia. Mr. Dickson and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Dickson is a member of the F. & A. M. He is a Democrat, and is one of the respectable, moral and upright citizens of the county. Mr. Dickson’s paternal grandfather, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, lived in what is now Houston County, then a part of Dickson County.

Transcribed by Susan Knight Gore

Source: Goodspeed, Weston A, and John Wooldridge. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1886.