John S. M. Dickinson

Birth Date

1824-10-07

Death Date

1903-06-08

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Clay County, Kentucky, attorney and county judge. Tennessee native. Married to Mary E. Burchell Dickinson. Clerk in Claiborne County, Tennessee, in 1850. Household owned twelve enslaved persons in Claiborne County in 1850. Attorney in Clay County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Clay County in 1860. Presiding judge of the Clay County Court in 1862 and 1863. Attorney in Clay County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Claiborne County, Subdivision 7, p. 265B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Claiborne County, Subdivision 7.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 23.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 349B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, Precinct 1, p. 171A.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clay County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 101.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 27299.
"John Stewart Mcfarlane Dickinson (1824-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial 132771650, accessed January 6, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132771650.

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