DICKERSON.
John Dickerson was settled in the north part of the county,
while yet it belonged to Louisa. He lived on the north fork
of the Rivanna, not far from Piney Mountain. He died in
1788. He and his wife Mary had three sons, John, William
and Thomas. Thomas died in 1807. His wife's name was
Mildred, and his children were Frances, the wife of Rev.
John Goodman, the wife of William Thurman, the wife of
John Crossthwait, Thomas, Wiley, who married Nancy,
daughter of Rev. Jacob Watts, Griffith and Lucy. Another
Wiley, son of one of the other brothers, married in 1789
Mary, daughter of John Carr. He died in 1847. His children
were William, Willis, Malinda, the wife of George W.
Turpin, Martha, the wife of Richard Simms Brockman, the
wife of B. C. Johnson, Mary, the wife of Elisha Thurman,
and Sarah, the wife of Archibald Duke.
