The Dickson Cemetery, Elk Creek , Letcher County, Kentucky

The Dickson Cemetery
at the mouth of Elk Creek

TabTack Description: The Dickson Cemetery at the mouth of Elk Creek is a very small cemetery located on the south side of highway 7, just west of Blackey and just east of where road 3408 enters highway 7. It has a chainlink fence around it with an archway over the entrance gate which says "Dickson 1847". There are three crosses on top of the archway.

TabTack Location: Approximately 37° 08' 17" North Latitude and 82° 59' 17" West Longitude.

TabTack Directions: Take highway 15 north out of Whitesburg, to highway 7 and turn left. Travel westward along Rockhouse Creek for about 8 miles, to just past Blackey. The cemetery is on the left just off of the highway before you get to road 3408.

TabTack Misc. Notes: The cemetery only contains about a half dozen graves. Most, if not all, of the headstones were illegable. However, a stone "marker" has been placed there in dedication to the Dickson (Dixon) family.

Index of Names Found in this Cemetery

John Dickson Tamar (?) Dickson Thomas Dickson
Susan (Profitt) Dickson Possibly others 

DEDICATED 1965

DIXON FAMILY 


JOHN DIED 1848
TAMAR DIED 1847


THEIR SON
AND HIS WIFE


THOS. 1795-1876
SUSAN      1875


CHILDREN OF
THOMAS & SUSAN


JOHN  1821-1888
SALLY  1823-1907
ELD.JAS.1824-1914
JERRY  1827-1874
NANCY  1830-1899
ISAAC

ADDITIONAL NOTE:
The following information was obtained from the book
"The Dixon Story: A Family History"
by Dexter Dixon:

John Dickson, d. Apr. 14, 1847
Tamar, d. Nov. 22, 1847
Thomas Dickson, d. June 12, 1877
John Dickson, Jr. b. Apr. 26, 1821 d. Apr. 27, 1888
Sally Dickson, b. Mar. 8, 1823 d. 1907
James Dickson, b. Dec. 11, 1824 d. Feb. 15, 1914
Jeremiah Dickson, b. July 1, 1827 d. Apr. 18, 1874
Nancy Dickson, b. Apr. 19, 1830 d. Dec. 31, 1899
Isaac Dickson, b. 1831 d.