William "Bill" David Dickerson

In about 1868, Bill and Esther moved to Dade County, GA, near Chattanooga, and were living there for the 1870 census. Bill was listed as a railroad laborer but in later censuses was listed as a farmer. After Esther's death in 1898, Bill, in about 1903, married Sarah Graham from Trousdale County, TN. They were living in the third district of Smith County in the 1910 census. From this marriage, Bill became the father of at least three additional children: Henry, born in 1905, in TN, Nil or Mil, born in 1907 in GA and David, born in 1909 in GA.

Bill died in the early 1920s and was buried in Highpoint, GA but I have not been able to find his tombstone. He, Esther and Sarah have numerous descendants living in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Michigan and other states.

In about 1868, Bill and Esther moved to Dade County, GA, near Chattanooga, and were living there for the 1870 census. Bill was listed as a railroad laborer but in later censuses was listed as a farmer. After Esther's death in 1898, Bill, in about 1903, married Sarah Graham from Trousdale County, TN. They were living in the third district of Smith County in the 1910 census. From this marriage, Bill became the father of at least three additional children: Henry, born in 1905, in TN, Nil or Mil, born in 1907 in GA and David, born in 1909 in GA.

Bill died in the early 1920s and was buried in Highpoint, GA but I have not been able to find his tombstone. He, Esther and Sarah have numerous descendants living in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Michigan and other states.

Two of Bill's siblings, Nancy Dickerson Beasley and James Samuel (Jim) Dickerson, have pictures posted on this website. In addition to these two siblings, Bill had two other sisters: Elizabeth who married Malcolm Calvin (Cab) Smith and Sarah, who married Charles Taylor.

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I have a family story about Bill. I suppose the story came through his younger brother, Jim to John, to one of my cousins, who told his nephew the story. It is probably embellished considerably as my Dickerson side enjoyed spicing-up tales to try to make them more interesting and funny. The story goes that Bill, while working around some rocks, was bitten by a copperhead. It made him mad and he tried to get the snake but it crawled in a hole under a rock. Bill then decided that perhaps he had better get some medical attention. So he went to the house, ate a twist of chewing tobacco and drank a pint of whiskey. After the "medicine" began to work, he went back to the rock, reached back in the hole and tried to grab the snake so he could drag it out and slam it against a rock. As I noted, this tale is probably highly exaggerated but it perhaps had some truth in it.