SOLOMON DIXON, a native of North Carolina, born in 1798, moved to Tennessee, where he was married, coming to Greene county a few years after that event, in 1830. He settled near where the town of Rockbridge now stands, where he lived until 1870, when he removed to Kansas, where he died a few months after reaching that state. His wife was Sarah Burger. They had eight children. Mrs. Dixon died here in 1844.