Chilon Ford DICKERSON
- BIRTH: 8 OCT 1808, Denville, Morris Co., NJ
- DEATH: 17 OCT 1894, Lapeer Co., MI
- BURIAL: 1894, Ferguson Cemetery, Lapeer Co., MI
Father: // DICKERSON
Mother: Unknown
Family 1: Susan HOWDER
- MARRIAGE: 6 AUG 1831, Niagara Co., NY
- CHILDREN:
- +Don C. DICKERSON
- +Ellis Ann DICKERSON
- +Albina F. DICKERSON
- Leonidas DICKERSON
- +Weattha Adelaide DICKERSON
- +Helen J. DICKERSON
- +Arabelle DICKERSON
- Mary E. DICKERSON
- +Viola Almaretta DICKERSON
- +George Willard DICKERSON
Family 2: Malinda STODDARD
- MARRIAGE: 22 SEP 1878
__ _Nodiah DICKERSON _| | |__ _// DICKERSON_| | | __ | |_Phoebe HEATON ____| | |__ | |--Chilon Ford DICKERSON | | __ | ___________________| | | |__ |______________| | __ |___________________| |__
Notes
Updated March 12, 2005. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):
(1) Application for probate of the last will and testament of Christian
Howder, Niagara Co., NY, May 28, 1832.
(2) Michigan Land Records via Ancestry.com
Name: CHILLION F DICKERSON
Land Office: DETROIT
Sequence #: 1
Document Number: 2415
Total Acres: 160
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: August 16, 1837
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warrantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 NE MICHIGAN-TOLEDO STRIP No 7 N 12 E 2
(3) 1850 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Almont Twp.:
Household 170, July 26, 1850.
Chilon (listed as "Chilion") Dickerson is head of household, married to
Susan (listed as "Susana") [Howder] Dickerson. Chilon is 52 years old,
born in New Jersey and is a farmer. Children in the household are Don
C., Elisa A., Albina, Leonidas, Weatthha A., Hellen J., Arabella and Mary
E. Dickerson.
(4) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Twp. of Almont
(Almont Post Office): Page 127; July 7, 1860.
Chilon Dickerson (listed as "Dickenson") is head of household, married to
Susan [Howder] Dickerson. He is 51 years old, born in New York, and is a
farmer with real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at
$1,000. Children in the household are Ellis, Leonardis, Adalaide, Helen,
Arabella, Mary, Viola and Willard.
(5) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Almont (Almont
Post Office): page 36; dwelling 271; family 282; August 21, 1870.
Chilon Dickerson is head of household, married to Susana (Howder)
Dickerson. He was born in New Jersey, is 61 years old and is a farmer
with real estate valued at $5,100 and personal estate valued at $1,500.
He is eligible to vote. Children listed in the household are: Adelaide,
Mary, Retta, and Willard G.
(6) 1880 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Goodland Twp.:
Supervisor's District 3; Enumeration District 167; page 2; June 1-2, 1880.
C. F. Dickerson is head of household, married to Malinda [Stoddard]
Sanderson. Malinda's children from a previous marriage are included in
the household: Benjamin H., George L. and Thomas E. Sanderson. Next
door is his son George W. Dickerson and family.
(7) Pioneer Families and History of Lapeer County, Michigan. J. Dee
Ellis, compiler. Ellis Publishing Co., Lapeer, MI, 1978, pages 98-99 &
corrections page.
Spells his name Chilion F. Dickerson. "Went 1829 to Niagara Co., NY,
came 1839 to Almont twp [Lapeer Co., MI] and in 1874 moved to Sec 32,
Goodland [Lapeer Co., MI]. Source lists date & location of birth,
marriage info.
(8) "The History of Lapeer County, Michigan: with illustrations and
biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers." H. R.
Page (Chicago: 1884), via The University of Michigan
Digital Library Text Collections.
"CHILION F. DICKERSON was born in Morris County, N. J., in 1808, and, in
connection with his father's family, settled in Washington County, Pa.,
in 1811, and moved to Greene County, Pa., in 1816, thence to Beaver
County, same State, in 1820. In 1829 he settled in Niagara County, N. Y.,
where he remained till 1839, when he settled in Almont, Lapeer County,
Mich., and in 1874 settled on section 32, Goodland, where he now resides.
He has been twice married. First, Aug. 6, 1831, to Susanna Howder, who
was born in Niagara County, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1812, and died June 3, 1873,
having ten children, all of whom are still living, viz: Don C., born in
1832; Ellis A. Blackmore, 1834; Albina Seaton, 1836; Leonidas, 1837;
Adelaide Soper,1841; Helen Waller, 1843; Arabelle Whittiker, 1845; Mary
Mackey, 1848; Almaretta Lovelace, 1851; George Willard, 1854. Second
marriage, Sept. 22, 1878, to Mrs. Thomas Sanderson, who was born in
Washtenaw County, Mich., May 1840. Her maiden name was Malinda Stoddard
and she was married to Sanderson in 1861. He died Jan. 31, 1878. leaving
three children, Benjamin H., born 1862; George L., born 1865, and Thomas
E., born 1873." (Page 177)
(9) Moore, Charles, 1855-1942. "The History of Michigan." Lewis
Publishing Company (Chicago: 1915), via The University of Michigan
Digital Library Text Collections, pages 919-920.
"...Chilon Ford and Susan (Howder) Dickerson, natives respectively of New
York and Pennsylvania. The Dickerson family is one of the old and honored
ones of Lapeer county, having been founded here in 1832 by [Chilon]...
Dickerson, a shoemaker by trade. After spending four years here at his
trade, he returned to New York, where he had left his wife and three
children, and brought his family back to Almont, then little more than a
scattering settlement in the wilderness. He was an honest, industrious
workman, and in spite of primitive conditions managed to give his
children good educations, so that his seven daughters all became school
teachers of Lapeer county. He died at the age of eighty-six years,
honored and esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. Dickerson managed to
accumulate considerable farming property, although he never engaged
actively as a farmer himself. He took some interest in local political
affairs, and his opinion had much to do in influencing others. In New
York he had received a military training in his youth, but saw no active
service as a soldier, being rejected when he volunteered, because of a
physical disability."
(10) Tombstone at the Ferguson Cemetery, Lapeer Co., MI reads: "CHILON F
/ DICKERSON / DIED OCT 17 1894 / AGED 86 YRS 9D."
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General notes:
- Also spelled Dickison in some sources.
- Nephew of John H. Dickison/Dickerson.