John Thomas And Laura Aldora Smith Dickerson
John and Laura Smith Dickerson are shown on their wedding day, September 1, 1898.
John was born January 15, 1875 and died April 28, 1962. The son of Jim and Matilda Anderson Dickerson.
John can also be seen in a group photo on the Children of Jim and Matilda Dickerson webpage his 80th Birthday.
Laura was born August 2, 1880 and died October 2, 1972. She was the daughter of Wade and Missouri
Gregory Smith. John was reared in the Dickerson Hollow and Laura was reared less than one mile away
at the mouth of the Dickerson Hollow. They became the parents of seven children who lived to be adults.
They resided in the Pleasant Shade community on Little Peyton's Creek across from the Kittrell School
house and are buried in Sanderson's Cemetery. John and Laura were my grandparents.
As John prepared to leave home to meet Laura for their wedding, he noticed that his shoes
needed to be blackened so he rubbed soot from the stove on them.
John Dickerson Family - 1914
L-R: Oakley Bryant (Oak), John, Mary Lue, Dewey, Howard Carl, Annie Audie and Laura.
Oak was born November 20, 1899 and died December 13, 1945. He was married to Alice Toney,
had three daughters and lived in Red Boiling Springs at the time of his death. (Alice still survives,
is 96, has a good memory and resides at the nursing home in Carthage.) John was born January 15,
1875 and died April 28, 1962. Lue was born December 2, 1908 and died April 15, 1992. She was
married to Buford Shrum and they had four daughters and one son. They lived in the Old Bottom
Community of Macon County. Dewey was born February 15, 1903 and died December 8, 1989.
He was married to Grace Gregory and they had three daughters and one son. (They were my parents.)
They lived on Little Peyton's Creek near the Kittrell schoolhouse. Carl was born November 16,
1905 and died June 1, 1974. He was married to Martha Smith and had one son. They lived in the
Cato Community of Trousdale County. Audie was born March 3, 1912 and died January 4, 1935.
She was never married. Laura was born August 2, 1880 and died October 2, 1972. After this picture
was made, two additional sons were born to John and Laura. They still survive and are Dalton, born
October 15, 1916 and Wade Milton (Monk), born September 1, 1919. Dalton is married to Mettie
Wilmore and they have one son. They live on Little Peyton's Creek. Milton is married to Ogeal
Wilmore Gregory, has one daughter and lives in Carthage. Mettie and Ogeal are sisters. Milton
also has a stepdaughter whose father was James Gregory (son of Rome) who died in WW II
Pictures of Audie Dickerson's Girl Party can also be found on this website:
Annie Audie Dickerson
Pictured is Annie Audie Dickerson (my aunt) in about 1932. She was the youngest daughter of John and
Laura Smith Dickerson. Audie was born March 3, 1912 and died January 4, 1935. She was a healthy child
until the age of about three or four years at which time she contracted chicken pox and was never well
after that time. She was never married. Audie was better looking than most Dickersons (me excepted).