Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Ezekiel John Alcorn Dickson

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Ezekiel John Alcorn Dickson, one of Benton County's (Ark.) oldest and 
most highly esteemed citizens, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., 
March 21, 1813, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. He is a son of Ezekiel 
Dickson, who was born in Lincoln County, N. C., in 1782. and in 1802 
was married to Mary McKissick, and the following year moved to 
Tennessee, where he resided until the spring of 1836, when he located 
in Benton County, Ark., and in 1841 settled on the farm now owned by 
his son, Ezekiel J. A. Dickson. He died on the 14th of May, 1858. His 
wife was born in 1780, also in Lincoln County, N. C. She was a 
daughter of Daniel McKissick, a Revolutionary soldier, who was for 
many years clerk of Lincoln County, N. C. He died in 1818 in Bedford 
County, Tenn. Mrs. Dickson died June 2, 1853, having borne nine 
children, two of whom are living: Ezekiel J. A. and Mary E., widow of 
William R. Ogden. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Gen. 
Joseph Dickson, who was a native of Pennsylvania, born about 1750. He 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died in 1825 in Rutherford 
County, Tenn. Ezekiel J. A. Dickson was reared on a farm, and in 1835 
left his native State and immigrated to Arkansas with his uncle, 
Joseph McKissick, and located on a farm about eight miles west of 
Bentonville. November 26, 1840, he was married to Sophia Jane 
Morrison, who was born in Bedford County, Tenn., in 1820, and a 
daughter of Andrew and Jane (Robinson) Morrison, and their union was 
blessed in the birth of seven children: Isabella Emily, widow of R. P. 
Lynn; James Milton, who died in 1862 at the age of eighteen years: 
Margaret Adaline, wife of Dr. E. P. Hansard; Caledonia Wilson, wife of 
T. J. Vaughn; Nannie Eliza, wife of John W. Williams; Mary Harris, 
wife of J. M. Wier, and Robert A., who died in 1880 at the age of 
twenty-five years. Mr. Dickson located on his present farm in 1847. 
[p.827] He owns 770 acres at the present time, but at one time owned 
990 acres. He is one of the oldest citizens of Benton County, Ark., 
having been a resident of the same for fifty-three years, and in 
politics has always been a firm believer and supporter of Democratic 
principles. He was school commissioner of Benton County for eight 
years, and was justice of the peace for six years. He is a Royal Arch 
Mason, and he and wife have long been members of the Presbyterian 
Church.