Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

REV. CHARLES W. DICKEN is the ninth of four sons and six daughters of 
Charles and Mary (Cherry) Dicken, and was born November 24, 1842, in 
Campbell County, Ky.  His father Charles Dicken, was a native of 
Campbell County, and died in 1863, aged sixty-three years.  He was a son 
of Joseph Dicken, of Virginia.  Joseph was one of the patriots of the 
Revolution, and immigrated to Campbell County, Ky., about 1795.  He 
owned a good farm, and slave property, and married Mary Sutton, of 
Virginia.  He was of English and Welsh origin and died at the age of 
eighty-four years.  Mrs. Mary Dicken was a daughter of Nicholas Cherry, 
who came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in an early day.  Charles W. 
Dicken was reared on a farm, and on the death of his father he was 
thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood.  At the age of eighteen 
he procured a license and taught school; later he attended Bethel 
College, and in 1864 went to Toronto, Canada, where he attended the 
Toronto University for some time.  He then entered Georgetown College, 
from which he graduated in 1868.  He engaged in teaching and preaching 
to contiguous churches (was ordained a Baptist minister July 12, 1868) 
for one year in Aspen Grove, Pendleton Co., Ky., and then entered the 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Greenville, S. C., and 
remained two years. He then took charges of churches in Kentucky - the 
first two years in Woodford County - then spent two years in 
Elizabethtown, teaching and preaching.  Later he became president of 
Murray Institute, Calloway County, after which he was for five years 
actively engaged in ministerial work.  In June, 1884, he located near 
Bowling Green, Ky., where he has charge of several churches.  March 26, 
1871, he was united in marriage with Mary Williams, of Greenville, S. C.  
She is a native of Montgomery, Ala., and a daughter of Fr. William and 
Ruth (Bell) Williams, who were born near Athens, Ga.  Dr. Williams was 
educated in Georgia University; received his law education in Boston, 
after which he practiced his profession four or five years in 
Montgomery, Ala.; established a good practice, and proved himself a 
shrewd and able advocate.  Believing he could accomplish greater good 
and be of more lasting benefit to his fellowmen, he entered the 
ministry, and, after twelve years of labor, accepted a professorship in 
the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Greenville, S. C., which 
position he filled with honor and ability, until his death, February 20, 
1877, at the age of fifty-five years.  His father, William Williams, was 
a wealthy and influential planter of Georgia.  To Mr. and Mrs. Dicken 
five children were born:  William Edward, Ruth Bell (deceased), Narcissa 
McCay (deceased), Charles Ernest and Hubert Alvin.  Mr. Dicken is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and politically is a Democrat.

Dicken Cherry Sutton Williams Bell McCay
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Campbell-KY VA PA Toronto-Canada Aspen_Grove-Pendleton-KY SC Woodford-KY 
Elizabethtown-Hardin-KY Calloway-KY GA MA AL

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