Dickey, Robert

DICKEY

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 12:27:26

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.737

DICKEY, ROBERT, farmer, Linn Township, Sec. 10; P. O. Norwalk; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1815, but was raised in Coshocton county, where he made his home till he came to this county, in the spring of 1868; he was married in Ohio, in 1837, to Miss Elizabeth Kinney, of that State; they have by this union a family of ten children: Phoebe J., (wife of William Porter), Sarah a. (wife of J. B. Stuart), J. P., R. W., Almira E. (wife of V. M. Clary), Sadie E. (wife of Joe Patterson), Josephine J. (wife of J. P. Kinney), George W., F. W. and Joy G.; he enlisted in the late war in Co. H, 80th regiment, Ohio volunteers, October, 1862, and served eighteen months, and was discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, on account of wounds received at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi; he owns a nicely improved farm of 240 acres.