Charles Dickerson

    Charles Dickerson (deceased) was born in Henry County, Virginia, in the year 1764, and was there married when thirty years old to Susan Marlow, who was also a native of the Old Dominion, born in 1774. The Dickersons are of English-Welsh and the Marlows of Welsh-Scotch descent. In 1812 Mr. Dickerson and wife removed on pack horses to Henry County, Kentucky and two years later from there to what is now Warrick County, Indiana, settling at Yankeetown. In 1822 Mr. Dickerson died of milk sickness while on his way to settle up some business in Kentucky. In 1863, his widow died in this county.

    They were Presbyterians, and the parents of eight children, all of whom are dead. Their names were Elizabeth, Martha, Nancy, Temperance, Truxton, Charles, Thomas and John. Three died in childhood, and five lived to be married. In Warrick County there are now living two daughters of Truxton, Mrs. Susan Woods and Mrs. Nancy Glass, at Newburgh, and two daughter of Thomas, Mrs. Minerva Patten and Miss Electa Dickenson. The three married in this county have families.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.