James
Dickenson
Word
Sr.
Born in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Adams Word
and Justianna (Dickinson) Word
Brother of
Martin Dickinson Word, Caroline (Word) Faulkner, Elizabeth Adams (Word) Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson Word Sr., William Word, Charles Word, Cuthbert Word and Justianna Dickinson (Word) Thompson
Husband of
Nancy (Forkner) Word
— married
11 Oct 1816 (to 1818) in Surry County, North Carolina
Husband of
Amelia Monroe (Hooper) Word
— married
16 Mar 1826 (to 25 Oct 1850) in Franklin, Heard, Georgia, United States
Husband of
Jane Byrd Word
— married
22 Nov 1854 in Bartow County, Georgia, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas Jefferson Word MD, Matthew Franklin Word, Eleanor Emeline (Word) Nance, William Cuthbert Word, James Dickenson Word Jr., Martha Justina Caroline Word, Charles Monroe Word, Eliza Amelia (Word) Price and Sarah Jane Word
Died
at age 93
in Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, USA
Profile last modified
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Biography
James Dickenson Word was born in 1797, the son of Thomas Word and Justianna Dickinson.
He married Amelia Hooper, and together they had 9 children before she passed away in fall 1850 en route home from a visit to family back in Georgia.
In the 1850 Federal Census, James, Amelia and most of their children were living in Eastport, Tishomingo, Mississippi. [1]
On November 22, 1854, James married a second cousin, Jane Byrd Word in Georgia. She helped him raise his younger children and he provided a home for her and some of her children. Their shared great grandfather was Charles Word Sr./Bartow County, Georgia, USA. [2]
In the US Federal Census for 1860, James and wife Jane are found in Barker’s District, Floyd, Georgia, along with his widowed daughter Amelia Foote and her daughter Clara. Amelia's son James Adonijah was born in September, but is not reflected in the enumeration of people living in the household as of June 1, 1860. [3]
- Note: The 1860 slave schedule recorded 17 enslaved persons and 3 slave houses living on the Word plantation. [4]
By 1870 James has returned to Tishomingo County, Mississippi, but is living in Iuka, a town on the Memphis and Charleston rail line, just a few miles from the river trading village of Eastport. [5]
James appears in the 1880 census at Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, at age 83, as a farmer and surveyor. He is listed as head of household, with widowed daughter "Ellen Nance" (child #3) and her children, as well as granddaughter Nellie G Word. [6]
Died 30 MAY 1890. Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi. His son Thomas died one day later in Texas.
Buried Oak Grove Cemetery, Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, USA. [7]
Event: Codicil to Last Will and Testament. 13 MAR 1888. Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA.
Will: 08 FEB 1886. Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA.
Research Notes
1850 Federal Census Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern Division District 4, Tishomingo, Mississippi; Roll: 382; Page: 76B. Date of enumeration: 20 Nov 1850, by Wm Scruggs, assistant Marshall.
- Jas Word, Male, Age 53 (ed: Using original handwriting which shows Word; transcription error when digitized shows Wood.)
- Birth Year 1797, Birthplace North Carolina
- Home in 1850: Northern Division District 4, Tishomingo, Mississippi, USA
- Occupation Farmer, Industry Agriculture
- Real Estate value $8000
- Dwelling Number 1034, Family Number 1034
- Household Members
- Amellia Age 54, Born in South Carolina (ed: Census original shows "54" as the handwritten age; but when this census was digitized, Amelia's age was entered as "24" which is is clearly an error! Confirmed by wife's name and actual birth year, plus census listed birthplace of South Carolina.),
- Children, all born in Georgia except youngest, Sarah, born in Eastport:
- Thomas, Age 24, Physician
- Matthew Age 22, Druggist
- William, Age 19, Farmer, Attended school within the year
- James, Age 18, Farmer (ed: Original handwriting shows James, transcription error when digitized shows John but there is no son with this name in this family.)
- Charles, Age 15, Attended school within the year
- Eliza, Age 13, Attended school within the year (ed: This is Eliza Amelia.)
- Sarah, Age 9 Born in Mississippi, Attended school within the year
Notes
- James Word's wife Amelia died in October, 1850, before the enumeration date on November 20. However, she was included in that census enumeration since the census instructions above the third column mandated the inclusion of "The name of every Person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June, 1850, was in this family." How sad this must have been for James and the children!
- Marriage info: James and his second wife Jane were second cousins. Their shared great grandfather was Charles Word Sr.
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LJ-XHF : 12 April 2016), Jas Wood, Tishomingo county, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States; citing family 1034, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ Source: #S358
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMY-F6H : 13 December 2017), James Word, 1860.
- ↑ Ancestry.com 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSY-894 : 12 April 2016), James Word, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 9, family 77, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,249.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4P7-GJR : 12 August 2017), James Word, Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 195, sheet 8B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0666; FHL microfilm 1,254,666.
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71445687/james-dickenson-word Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 October 2018), memorial page for James Dickenson Word, Sr (17 Mar 1797–30 May 1890), Find A Grave Memorial no. 71445687, citing Oak Grove Cemetery, Iuka, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by J. Faulkner (contributor 47192216) .
- William Ramage created original page
- Ancestry.com U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls; Repository: #R2
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