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From Mrs. Annie S. Dixon, Snow Hill, R. 2,
Bx.40 Copy
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March 24, 1947
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Dear Cousin Louise:
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Was glad to tell you what I knew about our kinspeople. Wish I
could tell you
more about them, but have no records. Am glad you
got my letter, also glad
you told me who Uncle Richard Dixon
married. I never knew that any of them
ever married in tIie Sugg
family. I guess we are kin on both sides of the
house, as my
mother was a Sugg, nor do I know who any of the older Dixon
married.
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Have never seen any of my husband's Uncles or Aunts but
William Richard. I
did'nt know he was living, as I never have
heard any thing about him in
several years.
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I hav'nt any record of Murphy Dixon or his wife, When they
were married nor
what her name was. He came to North Carolina and
bought land from England,
which the English had discovered and
ruled in North Carolina, until the
declaration of independance was
signed, which gave the United States the
right to make her own
Laws and rule her own people, which was signed in
1776. I have
heard the older Dixons in my father's family say.
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You asked me to tell you about the Hills. I can't tell you
anything about
them, although my mother was kin to them. I don't
have any records nor dates
of their marriage or deaths. The older
Hills were most all dead when I
became large enough to remember.
There are a few of the Hill family in
Greene County but I don't
know but a few of them of the younger set.
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Am glad your operation was successful, hope you will soon
regain your
strength. I am not getting along so well. I am not
able to do any thing but
eat, am glad to be able to do that, but
would rather be working than sitting
around. I havn't any body to
wait on me, but my son and his boys. My son's
wife is not able to
wait on herself, she has the arthritis and can't get any
thing to
do any good. So I have to hire help to wait on me, no hired help
does not do what they should every time.
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If I can find any thing about the Dixon and Hill families I
will 1et you
know. If my hip could get better so I could walk I
would try to find
something about our Kin people. Hope you are
well when you get this. We will
have to keep praying, to soon get
well, hope you may get to see me some time.
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Your cousin
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Mrs. Annie S. Dixon
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Louise P. Jones 407 E. Front St., New Bern, N.
C.
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Annie S. Dixon (Family of
Dixon)
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Obediah Dixon, my great grandfather was brother to your great
great
Grandfather Benajah Dixon, have no record of birth.
Washington Dixon, my
grandfather was first cousin to Benajah Dixon
children.
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Obedish Dixon had two sons, four daughters, his children's
names were- John
Dixon, no birth, no death record, never
married.
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Washington Dixon, my grandfather, married Mary 0rmond, three
sons, four
daughters, Oatsey Dixon, never married, lived to be
old. Sarah Dixon,
married Nathan Edwards, one son, Ben E.
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(will pro. 1876)
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Susan Dixon, married Colonel Nethercutt,(Colonel, war between
states) had
one daughter. Cora U. Nethercut, married Kornegay,
dead Jan. 17, 1887
(Pitt)
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Catherine Dixon, married Lemuel Sugg, had two sons one
daughter.
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My father John Washington Dixon, married Mary Freeman Sugg in
1868, had
three children-Annie S. Dixon married Willis Dixon 1888.
Ed. D. Dixon,
married Jincie Grant 1900, both dead. Corinne W.
Dixon, married George
Edwards 1886.
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This is all I know of the family connection, as I have no
records, only what
their births end deaths in the Bible and they
are so badly written and the
Bible is so old I can't read it, hope
you don't blame me for not writing
sooner, but I could not,
because I am very feeble. I don't have any memoirs
of my family
nor of my husband's family, except the old Bible. I don't lend
it
nor sell it, as it is the only record of any kind of the Dixon
family
and my children will prize it so mucb, to know it was their
grandfathers.
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P.S.
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P1eae write me when you get this if you appreciate what I have
written, and
tell me your father and mothers name as you may not
be the family of Dixon I
am thinking of. Yes, Freddie Lee Edwards
and his wife are both kin to the
Dixon and Ormonds. I will close
as I am tired, so write and if it is so I
can, may learn more of
the Dixon family of Greene County.
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Mrs. Annie S. Dixon
Murphy Dixon, Great Great grand father of all the Dixon in
Greene County,
and surrounding counties. Emigrated from Scotland,
where the Dixons
originated-to England, then to Virginia and North
Carolina.
I have been told by some of the older Dixons, who are now
dead, and have no
records whatever, except the family Bible of
Benajah Dixon, who I have been
told, was his son. Murphy Dixon
came to North Carolina and bought land from
the colonies, when the
King of England ruled the territory, that the English
discovered,
over here before the declaration of Independence was signed in
seventeen hundred and seventy six. No person was granted a tract
or piece
of land however small, unless the King of England granted
him a paper with a
wax seal, from the ruler of all properties in
England, telling what part of
the United States, or I should say
the New Country, for the new discovered
land had not been divided
into states, had no officers to say what to do,
but what laws the
King forced on them.
The Dixons, I don't know how many, came over, but Murphrey
Dixon's family
certainly multiplied, for they are in most all the
oounties of North
Carolina and in several states of the union, as
many of them have moved to
other states.
I am sending you all the names of Dixon I have or know of who
they married
and births and deaths.
Please excuse my not answering your letter sooner, and bad
writing. I don't
have good health, can't see very well and in
September I fell off the bed
arid broke my hip, was in the
hospital a month and am not so I can walk but
can hobble over the
house with the aid of a stick. Write when you get this
to let me
know what your father and mother names were, where you and they
were raised.
Guess I must stop now, I can't see very well, as I am old, 77
years young.
As I am a Dixon and you are too I guess we are
cousins.
Record of Benajah
Dixon.
Benajah Dixon, called Ben, son of Murphrey Dixon was born
February 11th
1786, died Maroh 9, 1834.
Mary Hill, his wife, was born May 3rd. 1792, died October 23,
1820
Married
June 4th. 1807
Children
Josiab Dixon, born April 24th 1808 Died 1824
Eastber Dixon born July 4th. L809 Died 1854
Married
Ormond~
Robin Dixon born March 4th. 1811 Died
Married
Sarah
Moore 1855
Richard Dixon, Born Nov. 11th. 1812 died 1880
Nancy Dixon Born October 24th. 1814.
Peney Dixon Born November 20th. 1816
Shadriok Dixon, Born September 19th 1818 Died 1854
Mary Dawson Dixon, Born August 22 Nd. 1820 Died 1820
Benelah Dixon Jr. Born Sept. 26th. 1821 died 1834
John Murphrey Dixon Jr. Born February 17th. 1824
Henry A. Dixon Born Maroh 4th. 1826, Died 1869
Married
Martha Sugg 1857.
Franklin Dixon Born April 5th. 1828
Mary Elizabeth Dixon, Born May 31st. 1830
Willis B. Dixon Sr. Born November 29th. 1832 Died 1865
Emi1y Richard Dixon, Born April 4th. 1835 died 1835
Mary Elizabeth Dixon Born October 12th. 1836
Nancy Williams Dixon Born September 14th. 1838
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