Brief Life History of Mary Caroline
When Mary Caroline Dixon was born on 6 March 1808, in Chatham, North Carolina, United States, her father, Benjamin Dixon, was 41 and her mother, Ruth Marshall, was 28. She married Elihu Pickett on 11 September 1827, in Cane Creek MM, Orange, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 2 July 1851, in Hamilton, Indiana, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Hinkle Creek Cemetery, Noblesville, Hamilton, Indiana, United States.
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- Mary Pickett in household of Elihu Pickett, "United States Census, 1850"
- Birth, 6 March 1808, Mary Dixon, Book ‘Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy’
- Elihu Pickett, "Find A Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1816
Indiana is the 19th state.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Dickson , a patronymic from the personal name Dick .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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