{"id":216,"date":"2014-04-10T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/?p=216"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:47:44","slug":"james-w-dickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/james-w-dickson\/","title":{"rendered":"DICKSON, James W. (1847-1873)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>James W. Dickson<\/strong>, a farmer of Houston County, was born December 12, 1847, in the county. His father, Hugh J. Dickson, was born in 1816; was raised in Houston County, and died October 3, 1873. His mother was raised in Humphreys County; she died in March, 1870. At the age of twenty-one J.W. married Miss Bennetta Edmonson, of Montgomery County, the ceremony being solemnized December 16, 1875. Three children have blessed this marriage: Benjamin H., Minerva B. and Francis P.\u00a0 Mr. Dickson&#8217;s wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Dickson&#8217;s educational advantages were limited. He has been a farmer all his life and has been successful. Politically he has always been a firm Democrat. He is a good and substantial citizen of Houston County and is highly respected as such by all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by <a href=\"mailto:cphistory@aol.com\">Susan Knight Gore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>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, 188<\/em>6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James W. Dickson, a farmer of Houston County, was born December 12, 1847, in the county. His father, Hugh J. Dickson, was born in 1816; was raised in Houston County, and died October 3, 1873. His mother was raised in Humphreys County; she died in March, 1870. At the age of twenty-one J.W. married Miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[151,152],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-dickson","tag-edmonson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}