Benjamin Dickson (1784 - 1865)

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Benjamin was born in 1784. Benjamin Dickson to Michael and Margaret Barnett Dickson. He attended Shy's meeting house in Hancock Co. Ga. and when he and his family moved to Crawford Co. he established Dixon Methodist Church in that Co. He passed away in 1864-5

In the approximate year of 1800 or so, there was a camp revival in Hancock County at Shy's meeting house area where many Methodist preachers attended the event. According to the "Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand" page 78-79, possibly 3,000 people attended. Benjamin Dickson and his family were recorded attending there 1836.^[1]

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1. ↑ Shy's Meeting House in Hancock Co., Georgia Membership: Benjamin Dickson, Elizabeth Dickson; Polly Dickson, removed; Elizabeth Dickson, Methodist Church, Rev. William Buckner Snead, Pastor. "Hancock County GaArchives Roll of Members, Shy's Meeting House, 1836" http://files.usgwarchives.net/ Accessed 22 July 2023.

Marriage Record, Hancock Co., GA dates 1808-1879, pg 4A, Atl. Archives performed by R. Blount J.P.

Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand, the Story of Frontier Religion by Ross Phares, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 1964.

Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 20, Crawford, Georgia; Roll: M432_67; Page: 414A; Image: 73.

Children named in deed devising estate dated 7 Dec 1864 - to Clarissa Dickson DB M, pg. 710, Crawford Co., Georgia.