Pilgrims and Pioneers: Anne Dickerson

Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Anne Dickerson - Indian Territory

Following the path of the descendents of Robert Adams and Mourning Lewis my 3rd great grandmother was Anne Dickerson. She was born in Kentucky and married Parmenus Jones to which my gggrandmother Sarah Jones Dow( More about her later) was born.
Anne Dickerson was a very adventerous woman. She would be married three times in her adult life. After Parmenus Jones died she then married a man by the name of Paterson Aber. He too passsed away( there are family jokes that make reference that she must have been a bad cook!) and she then married Ladovic Underhill.
Ladovic and Anne's stepson Emmet were both Civil war veterans joining in Illinois when they lived in Yorktown( Illinois) Emmet is buried in Erie, Il with a civil war monument- although I have yet to go see it.
This is where her life takes a very interesting twist. She and husband Ladovic migrated to Indian Territory in Oklahoma were they both passed away. They are both buried there.
I have no idea why they went there leaving their families behind. Perhaps they had heard there was money to be made there - the truth is I will never know.
Anne is the start of my pioneer connection in this world and I admire the courage she had!