John Leeper Dickie
A Confederate Soldier and Pioneer Ranchman

John Leeper Dickie was born in Lawrence County, Tennessee, August 5, 1837.

He married Miss Jane Hatch, October 16, 1855. They were the parents of four children, two boys (one died at the age of six years, the other at the age of nineteen), and two daughters. The daughters became Mrs. W. J. Evans, who died in 1888, and Mrs. J. C. Crawford, who died in 1892.

Leaving their Tennessee home for Texas in 1858, they came down the Tennessee River into the Mississippi River to the New Orleans across the Gulf of Mexico, landing at Old Indianola. The first two years they lived at the John S. Menefee home.

During the Civil War, Mr. Dickie, enlisting in 1860, served the entire four years. After the war he bought a ranch on the Sandies where he lived a number of years and engaged in farming and stock raising.

He was life-long member of the Methodist Church. He was also a Mason, having joined the Texana Masonic Lodge in later years he was made an honorary member of the Edna Masonic Lodge.

He sold his ranch in 1899 and moved to Ganado, where his wife died in 1920.

He had a wonderful disposition, always jolly and full of fun. He died December 10, 1923. Surviving him was one granddaughter, Mrs. Camille Crawford Smith.

The Cavalcade of Jackson County, by I. T. Taylor, Third Edition, Pages 372-373
Used by permission of the Jackson County Historical Commission
 

Sarah Jane Dickie
Mrs. J. L. Dickie

Edna, Tex., Feb. 9.--Mrs. J. L. Dickie, a pioneer Jackson County resident, died at her home in Ganado as the result of a recent fall.

Mrs. Dickie was the wife of Capt. J. L. Dickie, who survives her, and was 85 years of age. She had resided in Jackson County for about 60 years.

San Antonio Express, February 10, 1920