Husband's 2nd great grandfather. Son of Isaac Dickerson Sr. (born in England).
Isaac Dickerson Jr. & Mary Margaret Wolf married March 15, 1866 in Kalamazoo Co., MI. Obviously they divorced because according to the news article posted he married Elizabeth Hackley in the fall of 1896.
From the writings of Aletha Margaret McCann Howe Snyder, 1995: "Isaac was my grandfather. He met my grandmother (dates unknown). Her name was Mrs. Mary Margaret Smith Dickerson. Marriage date unknown. She was a widow and had three daughters. Daughters were Mary Smith Alexander, Effie and Etta Smith (twins).
"Mary and Isaac married and had Charles Edwin Dickerson, (my mother) Aura Gertrude Dickerson and Elnora Dickerson. I do not known any birth dates except my mothers.
"In 1928 I had a letter from New Jersey from Ed Dickerson asking me to help with the family genealogy. He happened to be a second cousin who I had never heard of. That is when I found out that my grandmother Dickerson and my grandfather Dickerson were own cousins. My grandmother divorced Isaac and never married again."
Note: Brother's (Charles Edwin Dickerson) Death Certificate identifies mother's maiden name as Wolf yet his 2nd Marriage Certificate to Etta Blake identifies it as Dixon; unknown which is correct. However, Grandpa & Grandma's marriage has it as Mary W. Smith which would lead one to believe Wolf to be correct.
From the Saline, Michigan Observer, Thursday, April 15, 1897 under the section for news from around Michigan: Farmer Shot His Wife and Suicided: "Isaac Dickerson, aged 60, a farmer living three and a half miles east of South Haven shot his wife in the breast just below the heart and then shot himself through the head with a 32 caliber revolver. Both are dead. Dickerson was possessed of an ungovernable temper and his first wife left him several years ago and secured a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. His second wife, who was 56 years of age was a very fine woman, respected and loved by her friends and neighbors. She was a widow when she married Dickerson and had one son, a young man, and it was a quarrel over him and family affairs in general that led to the tragedy. Dickerson also tried to shoot Mrs. Mary Austin, who made her home at Dickerson's but was prevented by James Holly, a friend who was visiting the family."
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Husband's 2nd great grandfather. Son of Isaac Dickerson Sr. (born in England).
Isaac Dickerson Jr. & Mary Margaret Wolf married March 15, 1866 in Kalamazoo Co., MI. Obviously they divorced because according to the news article posted he married Elizabeth Hackley in the fall of 1896.
From the writings of Aletha Margaret McCann Howe Snyder, 1995: "Isaac was my grandfather. He met my grandmother (dates unknown). Her name was Mrs. Mary Margaret Smith Dickerson. Marriage date unknown. She was a widow and had three daughters. Daughters were Mary Smith Alexander, Effie and Etta Smith (twins).
"Mary and Isaac married and had Charles Edwin Dickerson, (my mother) Aura Gertrude Dickerson and Elnora Dickerson. I do not known any birth dates except my mothers.
"In 1928 I had a letter from New Jersey from Ed Dickerson asking me to help with the family genealogy. He happened to be a second cousin who I had never heard of. That is when I found out that my grandmother Dickerson and my grandfather Dickerson were own cousins. My grandmother divorced Isaac and never married again."
Note: Brother's (Charles Edwin Dickerson) Death Certificate identifies mother's maiden name as Wolf yet his 2nd Marriage Certificate to Etta Blake identifies it as Dixon; unknown which is correct. However, Grandpa & Grandma's marriage has it as Mary W. Smith which would lead one to believe Wolf to be correct.
From the Saline, Michigan Observer, Thursday, April 15, 1897 under the section for news from around Michigan: Farmer Shot His Wife and Suicided: "Isaac Dickerson, aged 60, a farmer living three and a half miles east of South Haven shot his wife in the breast just below the heart and then shot himself through the head with a 32 caliber revolver. Both are dead. Dickerson was possessed of an ungovernable temper and his first wife left him several years ago and secured a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. His second wife, who was 56 years of age was a very fine woman, respected and loved by her friends and neighbors. She was a widow when she married Dickerson and had one son, a young man, and it was a quarrel over him and family affairs in general that led to the tragedy. Dickerson also tried to shoot Mrs. Mary Austin, who made her home at Dickerson's but was prevented by James Holly, a friend who was visiting the family."
Union Civil War Veteran
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1st N.J. Cav
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