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Descendants of John Dickey
1.JOHN1 DICKEY was born Abt. 1833 in Miss., AL or Ireland, and died Bef. 1870 in Mississippi.He married MARIA J CARTWRIGHT July 04, 1857 in DeSoto county, Mississippi, daughter of MATHEW CARTWRIGHT and SARAH.She was born 1836 in Mississippi, and died Bef. 1870 in Mississippi.
Notes for JOHN DICKEY:
John was said to have come from Ireland.I have two census and one shows
Miss. and the other shows Alabama.
John Dickey served in the Civil War from July 3, 1862, to Feb. 28, 1863.
Co. A, 2 Mississippi Partisans. Confederate.He served under Blythe, signed
up at Horn Lake.It is said he was a Sharpshooter, he took a bullet in leg.
John and Maria had a farm in Mississippi, believed to be in De Soto county.
John and his wife Maria both died before 1870, leaving the children, to be raised by some of the Cartwrights, and then, the children were left to be raised by a family believed to be Ropers.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and MARIA CARTWRIGHT are:
i. | SARAH2 DICKEY, b. 1859, Mississippi; d. Unknown. | ||
2. | ii. | JAMES BENJAMIN DICKEY, b. Bet. April 1864 - 1866, DeSoto county/ Hernando, Mississippi; d. December 12, 1930, Shreveport, Louisiana. |