Class of 1904, North Carolina Baptist Female University (now Meredith College); the first of her generation to graduate from college. Her college yearbook notes her gifts as a mathematician; had it not been for a lack of funds she might have gone on to graduate study at the University of Chicago. She became a teacher in Chatham and Alamance Counties. She married Burnis Bingham Stinson relatively late in life, at the age of 38; she died at age 42 as a result of lingering complications from childbirth. Family legend has it she so disliked both of her given names that she did not give either of her daughters middle names, saying she wasn't about to saddle them with something they might detest later.
Class of 1904, North Carolina Baptist Female University (now Meredith College); the first of her generation to graduate from college. Her college yearbook notes her gifts as a mathematician; had it not been for a lack of funds she might have gone on to graduate study at the University of Chicago. She became a teacher in Chatham and Alamance Counties. She married Burnis Bingham Stinson relatively late in life, at the age of 38; she died at age 42 as a result of lingering complications from childbirth. Family legend has it she so disliked both of her given names that she did not give either of her daughters middle names, saying she wasn't about to saddle them with something they might detest later.
Gravesite Details
This is my grandmother. Please note that though the name on the gravestone is Elizabeth, her given name throughout her life was Lizzie. Please do not send me Edit requests to change her name. ~~ Doc Wilson
Family Members
Siblings
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William T. Dixon
1879–1880
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Bailey C. Dixon
1880–1881
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James C. Dixon
1884–1908
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Nathaniel George Dixon
1887–1956
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Nora Estelle Dixon Speas
1889–1971
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Robert Colon Dixon
1892–1967
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Minnie Lee Dixon Gorrell
1895–1969
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Mary Katherine Dixon Berry
1898–1948
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Jane Womble Dixon Hewitt
1901–1973
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Lemuel Cullom Dixon
1905–1970
