Benton Co., AR - Biographies - J. Alvin Dickson

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SOURCE:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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J. Alvin Dickson, farmer and nurseryman, three miles southeast of Bentonville, is a native of
Benton County, Ark., born in 1845, and is the son of James A. and Mary A. (Wood) Dickson, and
grandson of Maj. John B. Dickson, who immigrated to Madison County, Ark., about 1830, and two
years later moved to Benton County, of the same State; he was circuit clerk, ex officio recorder
of Benton County, and a member of the State Legislature. He was in the War of 1812, was in the
battle of New Orleans, and was shot in the leg. He was one of the first settlers of Benton
County. About 1851 he moved to the Lone Star State, and there died in 1879 at the age of eighty-
four years. His son, James A., was born in Bedford County, Tenn., in 1819, and was but a boy when
his parents moved to Benton County. June, 1844, he married Miss Mary A, Woods, who was born in
Marshall County, Tenn., in 1820, and who was the daughter of Samuel Woods. She is the mother of
five children: J. Alvin; Sarah, wife of James Black; Charlotta E.; Belle, wife of Frank Kindley,
and Dwight. After marriage Mr. Dickson located four miles southeast of Bentonville, and in 1846
moved to Osage Springs, and from there to Bentonville in 1849. Here he followed merchandising
until 1866, when he moved three and a half miles southeast of Bentonville, and there he now
resides. J. Alvin Dickson was educated in Bentonville, and served two years in the late
Rebellion. He was in Company G, Second Arkansas Cavalry, and was in the fight at Marks' Mill,
Jenkins' Mill, Pine Bluff, and in numerous other skirmishes. After the war he was in a drug store
in Bentonville, Ark., and in 1877 he married Miss Lillie Woolsey, daughter of Henry B. Woolsey,
and a native of Benton County, Ark., born in 1860. This union was blessed by the birth of five
children: Eva, Mettie, Jewell, Gertrude and an infant son. Mr. Dickson is the owner of 200 acres
of land, on which he located directly after his marriage. In 1881 he became a partner with his
father-in-law in the nursery business. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.