Ann Eliza Dickson
Ann Eliza Dickson (maiden name: Winans) was born around 1828 in Mississippi to William Winans and Martha DuBose. Her father was a Methodist minister and plantation owner who owned at least 35 enslaved laborers by 1850. She grew up in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and reportedly “finished her education in Shelbyville, Ky.” She married Nolan S. Dickson on January 4, 1849, and they had at least two children: Lucy, born around 1852; and William, born around 1861. They lived in Wilkinson County, and her husband worked as a farmer. A local writer described her as a “woman of fine attainments…a Christian mother and a faithful worker of the Methodist Episcopal church.” By 1870, they owned $6,000 of real estate and $1,300 of personal property. Her husband died on June 9, 1870. She remained in Wilkinson County, and she died sometime in the late 1800s.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1510) | Dickson, Ann Eliza ~ Winans, Ann Eliza | 1828 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 4
- (5364) [recipient] ~ Wesley P. Winans to Nolan S. Dickson and Ann E. Dickson, 11 October 1863
- (5365) [recipient] ~ Wesley P. Winans to Ann E. Dickson et al., 29 September 1862
- (5366) [recipient] ~ Wesley P. Winans to Ann E. Dickson, 26 March 1862
- (5367) [associated with] ~ Wesley P. Winans to Nolan S. Dickson, 22 December 1861
People - Records: 2
- (1510) Dickson, Ann Eliza is the [sibling of] (1508) Winans, Wesley Parker
- (1509) Dickson, Nolan S. is the [husband of] (1510) Dickson, Ann Eliza
Places - Records: 1
- (846) [birth] ~ Mississippi
SOURCES
1850, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Mississippi Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935, available from Ancestry.com; Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Vol. 2 (Chicago, IL: The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891)
