Morricle – Dickerson Cemetery – in a field near 1105 Penn Rd NW, Floyd, VA

On the farm originally owned by Callahill Dickerson. Moral Dickerson built the frame house which is in sight of the family cemetery in a field near 1105 Penn Rd.

36.929583, -80.348861 using Google Maps

36°55'46.5"N 80°20'55.9"W

 

“View from the cemetery. Calahill Dickerson’s home place. White farmhouse belonged to Calahill. His brother Eli’s

House (2 story bldg. with rusty roof) is visible in the group on the left. It was rolled there & used as a barn/shed.

Photo date April 2018”

Added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Original Source: Geraldine Dickerson Larson & Margaret A. Smith.

Visited by Jo Parr & Genevieve C. Starkey Dec 2007

Find A Grave Name: Same

Annotations in Blue – added May 2021 by Barb Camery Reininger

Annotations in Red – correction to original text by Barb Camery Reininger

+ indicates on same tombstone

& indicates a relationship

Notes:

Photo

NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANNOTATIONS

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Calahill

11 Sep 1850

17 Apr 1935

m. 10 Feb 1876

aka Calahil Moral Dickerson, s/o Moral R. & Naomi (Morricle) Dickerson. [DeathCert] [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

m. 1876 Floyd [MarCert]

nee Isabel Hylton, s/o Nathan & Dicy (Wade) Hylton. [DeathCert] [Hylton_Burwell_Mary]

Veterans Administration Headstone

 erected to replace lost marker.

Location of placement is approximate.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Eli

11 Oct 1841

08 Jul 1930

Co K

22 VA Cav

CSA

Eli Dickerson, s/o Moral R. & Naoma (Morricle) Dickerson. [DeathCert] [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

m. 1st 1865 Floyd [MarCert]

nee Eliza J. Jones, Costillo "Costly" & Cynthia (Slusher) Jones. From her DC, she may be buried in this cemetery too. [DeathCert] [Jones_Costillo_Cynthia]

m. 2nd not Floyd

Nora Paige Martin, 1881-1931, d/o Jesse & Adeline (Richardson) Martin.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Harvey

16 Feb 1829

15 May 1912

 

Harvey Dickerson, s/o Moral R. & Naoma (Morricle) Dickerson. [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

m. 1867 Floyd [MarCert]

nee Octavia G. Leah Simmons, d/o Otey Taylor & 1st wife Rachel (Agnew) Simmons. [DeathCert]

[Simmons_OteyT_2wives]

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Isabel

23 Nov 1855

15 Jul 1927

w/o C. M. Dickerson

nee Isabel Hylton, s/o Nathan & Dicy (Wade) Hylton. [DeathCert] [Hylton_Burwell_Mary]

m. 1876 Floyd [MarCert]

Calahil Moral Dickerson, s/o Moral R. & Naomi (Morricle) Dickerson. [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Miriam

25 Aug 1842

FAG is unknown

15 Jul 1894

s/o W. M. Dickerson

Nee Miriam M. Wade, d/o Isaac & Martha (Slusher) Wade. [DeathReg - Line 10] [Wade_Isaac_Martha]

m. 1865 Floyd [MarCert]

William Morricle Dickerson, 1837-1929, s/o Moral R. & Naoma (Morricle) Dickerson. William is buried in the Greasy Creek Cemetery, Floyd, VA. [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

Stone is very worn and is in approximate

location of his burial but most likely

no longer in the exact spot.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Morel

20 Mar 1811

 

19 Jun 1894

 

 

aka Morel R. Dickerson, s/o Moses & Nancy (Reed) Dickerson. [DeathReg - Line 15] [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

m. 1836 Floyd [MarCert]

nee Naomi Morricle, d/o William & Margaret (Weaver) Morricle. [Morricle_William_Margaret]

Stone is broken in half and very weathered.

It is in approximately the place where Naomi

was laid to rest but the exact spot is not

marked exactly.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Naomi

1817

25 Dec 1901

 

nee Naomi Morricle, d/o William & Margaret (Weaver) Morricle. [Morricle_William_Margaret]

m. 1836 Floyd [MarCert]

aka Morel R. Dickerson, s/o Moses & Nancy (Reed) Dickerson. [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

In 2007 a footstone O L D was found & it was documented as

“Apparently footstone for Octavia Leah (Simmons) Dickerson, d/o

Otey T. Simmons & w/o Harvey Dickerson.”

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Dickerson, Octavia Leah Simmons

11 Oct 1850

11 Sep 1933

w/o Harvey Dickerson

nee Octavia G. Leah Simmons, d/o Otey Taylor & 1st wife Rachel (Agnew) Simmons. [DeathCert]

[Simmons_OteyT_2wives]

m. 1867 Floyd [MarCert]

Harvey Dickerson, s/o Moral R. & Naoma (Morricle) Dickerson. [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

Emeline Dickerson (daughter of Naomi Morricle

Dickerson and Morel Dickerson) married a Hylton.

Henry maybe her son? (no, he was her husband no her son)

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Hylton, Henry W.

12 Jul 1878

20 Oct 1912

 

aka Henry Waitmon Hylton, s/o John Bryant & Mary Elizabeth (Slusher) Hylton. [DeathCert] [Hylton_HenryA_2wives]

m. 1897 Floyd [MarCert]

nee Emeline Dickerson d/o Calahill Moral & Isabel (Hylton) Dickerson. [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

Henry Cline Sowers was the first husband

of Lydia Mae Dickerson.

Lydia Mae Dickerson was the daughter

of Simon Peter Dickerson and the

granddaughter of Calahill Dickerson.

(src: Find A Grave; photo added by Chris McKay Mar 2021)

Sowers, Henry Cline

15 Jul 1893

25 May 1921

Co 20

5 Battalion

155 Depot Brigade

Henry Cline Sowers, s/o Charles Flournoy & Martha “Mattie” (Bishop) Sowers. [DeathCert] [Sowers_David_Margaret]

m. 1919 Floyd [MarCert]

nee Lydia May Dickerson, d/o Simon Peter & Mary J. (Hylton) Dickerson. She’ll m. 2nd Andrew Jesse Owens. [DeathCert] [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

No marker found

Wood, Addie Dickerson

01 May 1885

02 Dec 1923

 

Addie Dickerson, d/o Eli & 1st wife Eliza (Jones) Dickerson. [DeathCert] [Dickerson_MoralR_Naomi]

m. 1912 Floyd [MarCert]

Darius Kemper Wood, 1885-1923, d/o Wiley Alexander & Frances F. (Nolen) Wood of Patrick Co., VA. [DeathCert] [Wood_John_Martha]