Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

William Dickson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 74 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1770 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duplin County, North Carolina 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Feb 1816 
  • Death Location:
  • Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Polly Gray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Aug 1802 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee 
  • Child:

  Mary Florida Dickson (Ahnentafel No:37 )

  • Notes: 

  • Tennessee congressman

    Dickson County, Tennessee, is named after William Dickson.

• Additional marriages for William Dickson

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  • Spouse:
  • Susannah Hickman

• Sources for William Dickson

  • ¹ Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Baldwin Genealogy, From 1500 to 1881, Cleveland, Ohio: Leader Printing Company (1881), 451.
  • ² Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress, "DICKSON, William, (1770 - 1816)", (accessed 08/24/2015).
  • ³ Wikipedia, "William Dickson (congressman)", (accessed 08/24/2015).

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