When John William Dickerson was born on 25 May 1849, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, his father, Elijah H. Dickerson, was 21 and his mother, Demaris Saunders Williams, was 23. He married Nancy Ellen Stigleman on 15 May 1882. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lenora, Dewey, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Clark Township, Dewey, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 March 1927, in Dewey, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Center Point Cemetery, Dewey, Oklahoma, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English (East Anglia): post-medieval form of Dickeson , a shortened form of Dickenson .
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