Mary Frances DICKERSON

Father: Christopher John DICKERSON
Mother: Louisa Antoinette WELCH 

                                                        _Nodiah DICKERSON _
                               _John Heaton DICKERSON _|
                              |                        |_Phoebe HEATON ____
 _Christopher John DICKERSON _|
|                             |                         _Christian HOWDER _
|                             |_Margaret HOWDER _______|
|                                                      |_Mary HOUSTATER ___
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|--Mary Frances DICKERSON
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|                              _Walter WELCH __________|
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|_Louisa Antoinette WELCH ____|
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Notes

Updated December 10, 2017. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Hillsdale Co., Village of Hillsdale (Hillsdale Post Office): Page 19; June 6, 1860.

Fanny DICKINSON is the daughter of Christopher J. and Louisa A. DICKINSON. She is 7 years old, born in Michigan and is attending school.

(2) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Hillsdale Co., Third Ward City of Hillsdale (Hillsdale Michigan Post Office): page 20; dwelling 158; family 156; June 13, 1870.

Fannie M. DICKERSON is the daughter of C. J. and Louisa DICKERSON. She is 17 years old, born in Michigan, and is at home.

(3) Find a Grave

- Name: Fanny DICKERSON
- Birth: 1853
- Death: 17 Aug 1873
- Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery; Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan, USA
- Plot: SECTION 15 ROW 6
- Memorial ID: 115176130

(4) Michigan State Library, Pioneer Record for Christopher John DICKERSON, submitted by Vivian Lyon Moore, Oct. 19, 1949.

- Lists Mary Frances DICKERSON as unmarried

(5) Sketches of Old Hillsdale, Historical and Genealogical, Volume IV. Vivian Lyon Moore, for the Daughters of the American Revolution library, 1956., pages 85-90.

- Died "in senior year at Hillsdale College."

(6) "The History of Hillsdale County, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers." Everts & Abbott (Philadelphia: 1879), via The University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collections, pages 116-117.

"...Mrs. DICKERSON [Mary's mother Louisa] with her son and daughter [Mary] sailed for Europe, to spend two years in travel and study, where the general was to join them at the expiration of a year. When apprised of his illness they immediately retraced their steps, but the swift messenger of death had completed his work ere they reached their home. The only daughter [Mary], borne down by the weight of her sorrow, soon followed her father to the grave..."