Married to:
1st wife: Emily Sugg Dixon - died Apr 16,
1835
2nd wife: Mary Barrington Suggs Dixon
approx 1836
Died: March 28, 1880
Buried in a family cemetary in Greene County, just west of Farmville,
NC
DAR papers of Ima Mewborn: Tombstone reads Richard Dixon, born November
11, 1812, Died March 28, 1880, age 67. verse
Children with 1st wife Emily Dixon
Emily Richard Dixon (born 04 Apr 1835)
Children with Mary Barrington Sugg Dixon
Josiah "Joseph" Dixon (1837)
John Dixon(1840)
Mary "Elizabeth" Dixon (1844)
Drew Dixon (1846) (?married Mary Gracie Dec
20, 1870 in New Bern)
Peninah Adeline Dixon Mewborn (1849)
husband: Drewery Aldridge
Mewborn (1840-1928), minister, CSA.
Louvenia Dixon (1850-1918)
Benjamin Franklin Dixon (~1851)
Henry Ward Dixon (1853)
Ellen Dixon (1861-1873)
William Dixon (1865)
The 1850 census shows Adeline Suggs (16yr old female) living with this
family. This was probably Nancy Adeline Sugg, Mary's sister.
Parents
Benajah Dixon, called Ben, son of Murphrey
Dixon
was born February 11th 1786, died March 9, 1834
Mary Hill (Dixon), his wife,
was born May 3rd. 1792, died October 23, 1820
Married June 4th 1807
GrandParents
Murphrey Dixon & Mourning
Garner Dixon (see dixongreene.txt)
Siblings
Josiah Dixon, born April 24th 1808, Died 1824
Easther Dixon , Born July 4th. 1809, Died
1854 Married Ormond?
Robin Dixon , Born March 4th, 1811, Died,
Married Sarah Moore 1835
Nancy Dixon ,Born October 24, 1814
Penelope "Peney" Dixon, Born November 20th,
1816
Shadrick Dixon, Born September 19th 1818,
Died 1854
Mary Dawson Dixon, Born August 22nd, 1820,
Died 1820
Benajah Dixon, Jr, Born September 26th, 1821,
Died 1834
John Murphrey Dixon, Jr., Born February 17th,
1824
Henry Aldridge Dixon, Born March 4th 1826,
Died 1869 Married Martha Sugg 1857
Franklin Dixon, Born April 5th, 1828
Mary Elizabeth Dixon, Born May 31st, 1830
Willis B. Dixon, Sr., Born November 29th,
1832, Died 1865