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My great-great-grandfather Dickey was
James G. Dickey,
born 1808 in Warren Co., Ky., raised in Beans Creek Community,
Franklin County, Tenn; died 1885 Leon Co., TX. He was married
to Sarah Virginia Reeves, probably the daughter of Avery Reeves of
Franklin Co., TN; her sister Nancy married a Handley. He came to
Houston County with his eight oldest children in early 1854, and the
youngest son was born in Texas in September of that year.
BNB
note: He was the son of Mathew Dickey b. 1776 York Co., SC died 1810
Franklin Co., TN and Rebecca Handley 1779-1852 according to Ancestry.com
postings. He was the son of Mathew Dickey and wife Rebecca but
there is no documentation proving Rebecca was a Handley. It is
proven that her daughter married a Handley. Caution is advised
in taking these listings as fact until it can be documented.
The
second son was my great-grandfather, Matthew
H. Dickey. He was already married and had a baby daughter
when they arrived in Texas.
As I understand it, after a few months in Houston County, James made
arrangements to buy land in the southeastern section of Leon County,
west of the Trinity River near Caney Creek. The area was known as
Leona Village at the time, but later became known as "Dickey."
My grandfather McCan was postmaster of Dickey, Texas, in the early
1900s.
The oldest son, Minor W. Dickey, stayed behind
in Houston County where he was married to
Amanda Allbright, as her second
husband. They had three children, James Avery,
Robert Claiborne, and Sally J. Dickey, all of whom lived most
of their lives in Houston County. Minor died in 1867, and Amanda
married twice more before her death in 1875.
I
also need to mention that my g-g-g-grandfather
David Barrett and wife (g-g-g-grandmother
Elizabeth Whitten) and
g-g-g-grandfather Iredell Reding and
wife (second wife) moved to Houston County in the 1830s and settled
at Mustang Prairie. They all came from Fayette County, Tennessee.
G-g-g-gf Reding was the first signer on the petition to create
Houston County from Nacogdoches. David and Elizabeth Barrett died in
Houston Co. TX, but the Redings moved on to Montgomery County, TX
and lived near Lindley's Prairie, which became the village of
Danville.
I had a wonderful mentor/coach back in the 60s and 70s, and she led
me through reading the Houston County tax lists in lieu of court
records. Through those records, I was able to prove that Elizabeth
Whitten Barrett married as her second husband a neighbor,
Barton Clark. She died before he did,
her death date being in the family Bible of
John Whitten Barrett, my g-g-gf.
BNB
Notes: Source: Ancestry.com.
Children of James G. Dickey were:
1.
Minor W. Dickey; 1830-1866
2.
Matthew Henderson Dickey; 1832-1916
3.
Jonathan Reeves Dickey; 1834-1900
4.
William A. Dickey; 1837-1900
5.
Rebecca Dickey; 1839-
6.
Nancy Jane Dickey; 1841-1893
7.
Sarah Virginia Dickey; 1846-1918
8.
James Edmond Dickey; 1849-1917
9.
Claiborne "Clabe" Hanley Dickey; 1855-1921
Military Records: Source: TXGenWeb Leon Co., TX
Matthew Henderson Dickey
B: 11 Mar 1832, Franklin Co., TN
D: 28 Dec 1916, Oakwood, Leon Co., TX
Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Oakwood, Leon Co., TX
Enlisted: 08 Jan 1863 in Crockett, Houston Co., TX., Timmon's Regt.
Co. C, Texas Infantry
Johnathon Reeves Dickey
B: 19 Aug 1834, Franklin Co., TN
D: 09 Oct 1900, Leon Co., TX
Buried: Pleasant Grove, Leon Co., TX
Enlisted: 22 Feb 1862, Centerville, Leon Co., TX, J. N. Black's Co
A, 13th Regt, Texas Cavalry
William A. Dickey
B: Nov 1836, Franklin Co., TN
D: Aft 1900
Burial site unknown
Enlisted: 20 Oct 1862 in Crockett, Houston Co., TX, in 7th Texas
Cavalry, Mounted Volunteers
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The "other" Dickeys were James Madison Dickey and his eight (I
think) children.
They came to Houston County in time for James to qualify for a third
class headright grant. They settled in Grapeland, where all of his
children married and lived for a good part of their lives.
Ancestry trees say that he was born in Iredell County, N. C. in
1795, married in Knox County, Tn., served in War of 1812 from Knox,
moved to Walker Co., Ga. by 1850. He
arrived in Texas in the 1850's, to qualify for the headright
grant but was in Walker Co., GA for the 1850 census.
Back in the "olden days," I spent years corresponding with Billy W.
Dickey, a descendant of the "other" Dickey family, who helped
greatly to get the descendants of the two Dickey families sorted
out. I ordered all the Civil War records for both Dickey families
(now all are available on Fold3), and I read the tax lists on
microfilm in lieu of courthouse records for Houston County. And of
course, the census.
I visited with Mr. J. Milton Dickey in Grand Prairie (not my Dickey
line, we were living in Euless at the time), but I did it to help
pay back the assistance I had gotten from Billy and from his cousin
Lewis Dickey.
So that's the story about the two Dickey families.
INTERVIEW WITH J. MILTON DICKEY by Karen Hett
James Madison Dickey's Headright Certificate - page 1
(The Dickey grant was under the act
to authorize the location and settlement of
the Mississippi and Pacific Rail Road passed
August 26, 1856 and he continued to live on
it until he filed in February, 1857. There
were lots of kinds of grants given and this
was one to establish the railroad... some
were to build shipping docks, roads through
wilderness, etc. Different grants had
different provisions and apparently this one
didn't require a person to be in Texas any
specific amount of time, just finish the
railroad work to qualify for the land.
James Madison Dickey's Headright Certificate - page 2
1. William
Houston Dickey born April 1823 in S. Carolina and died Feb 22, 1910
and buried in Evergreen cemetery in Percilla, Houston Co. Tx.
Co ''B'' 1st
Regt. Texas State Cav. Troops
2. Jonathan
D. Dickey born Apr 29, 1835 in Tennessee and died Oct 14, 1908 and
buried in Mulligan cemetery in Latexo, Houston Co. Tx.
Wounded in
thigh during the War. He served in Co. ''C'' 6th Battalion Texas
Cav. Gould's. Tx. Pension # 07123 (missing) from Anderson Co.
Martha A.
Dickey received Pension #14294 out of Houston Co. widow of Jonathan
D. Dickey
3. J. P. T.
Dickey - John P. T. Dickey was born in Georgia in 1838. He served
as a private in Co. ''H'' 7th Tx. Cav.
3. M. A.
Dickey - Matthew A. Dickey was born in Georgia in 1841. He served as
a private in Co ''H'' 7th Tx. Cav.
5. David H.
Dickey, born 1842 in Tennessee, died 1928, buried Southland
Cemetery, Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas, Pvt. Co. H. 7th
Regiment, Texas Cavalry, Texas pension # 18435 from Tom Green Co. Tx.
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