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Dickson - Rankin Cemetery, 87-2 Summary Report, page 2
at Camp Douglas in Chicago. He caught consumption and died a couple years after the war. His photo, made while he was sitting next to his brother Joe Graham, is on page 107 in my book about Doctor William Simpson. About 10 feet laterally from Nancy Graham's grave is Virginia G. Dickson's grave. This marker is a tapering cylindrical shaft from which a top fixture of some sort appears to be missing. Inscribed on the shaft: Virginia G. Dickson, August 22, 1811, March 4, 1877. Inscribed on the base: "Having Finished Life's Duty She Now Sweetly Rests". This stone faces west while the others face east. The fourth marker is in a corner of the cemetery somewhat apart from the other three. A plain marker in comparison to the others, it reads: Charles S. Fowler, Born Mobile, Ala. March 27, 1827, Died December 11, 1889. Charles S. Fowler was an educator, the husband of Juriah James (Graham) Fowler, who is buried next to her father at the old Somerville Cemetery, Somerville, Morgan County, Alabama. There was a fifth monument for another sister of Nancy and Virginia Dickson, that of Sarah A. Dickson, whose birth was recorded on the marker as October 29, 1813, but her date of death was not mentioned when the DAR asked Frank Jacobs to record the information for them. Frank was a neighbor of both the Simpson's and Dickson's. He was a Free Black, whose ancestor by the name of Jacobs freed his slaves. Frank was a descendant of a White master and a former Black slave. During the War they helped a lot of Slaves in the area with freedom. Sallie or Sarah A. Dickson was never married. She resided at the Troup Store in Somerville, where she probably died before October 27, 1873, when letters of Administration were issued to John Simpson. I also have some history on the Timmons Cemetery if you need more information on that. William H. Timmons was living in the Simpson home after his parents died. John Simpson was his legal guardian. Dennis The above communication came as a result of an offer to exchange information about pioneers and cemeteries of Redstone Arsenal lands with Dennis Simpson of California. Dennis is a descendant of the Simpson family, as represented by the Simpson - Jones Cemetery, 65-3. He is also a thorough and dedicated researcher of the early history of the area, having published a book about Doctor William Simpson with many related family 2 - (2858)