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Show living at Vernal and other places and obtained first hand information from them regarding military tactics in early days in Morgan ( ounty. Pier father with others had served under Captain George A. Davis during the Black Hawk Indian War and were left on guard in Morgan County while the Davis County Militia were ordered south. They were called the Davis County Greys and later received pensions, but the Morgan Militia received no pensions. The photograph of Captain George A. Davis can be seen at the house of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. He was the captain of the Morgan County Militia during the Black Indian War with a training camp at Como Springs. It was at this camp under Captain George A. Davis, where her father Benjamin F. Smith received military training in the Black Hawk Indian War. IMPORTANT EVENTS Born Morgan, Utah, Nov. 21, 1874. Blessed by Bishop Charles Turner, Dec. 10, 1874; baptised by Daniel Robison, Sept. 16, 1883; confirmed by Bishop Oluf B. Anderson, Sept. 16, 1883. Her schooling began at North Morgan, three years at the Morgan Stake Academy, one autumn quarter at the B.Y.U. Piano player in the Old Dance Hall Orchestra. Married to John H. Dickson, Sept. 2, 1896 by John Rex Winder in the Salt Lake Temple. Lived at Richville until 1960. Owned the first piano at Richville. Recited Articles of Faith Dec. 1879. Secretary of North Morgan Sunday School, May 4, 1890. President YLMIA, North Morgan, 1894. Released from YLMIA, May 31, 1896. Second Counselor MIA Richville, June 10, 1899. First Counselor MIA, Richville, April 23, 1899. Organist Richville Ward, 1896-1929 (33 years.) County Superintendent Morgan County Schools, 1909-10. Teaclv er at Richville, 1917-1926. Relief Society Stake Board, Aug. 22, 1926. Taught at South Morgan, 1926-27. Stake President of the MIA, 15 years. Social Worker in the Morgan County Schools. F.E.R.A. Case Worker, 1934-35. Attended USAC, Sept. 23, 1935. Applied for graduation, Oct. 4, 1935. Photo taken in the Cap and —6— Gown, Nov. 18, 1935. State Life Teachers Certificate, Sept. 23, 1931. Grammar Grade Certificate, State Board of Education. Graduated from the USAC, June 1, 1936. Degree of Bachelor of Social Science with a major in Education and Literature. Taught school at Garrison, 1938-39. Operated on, gall bladder, May 19, 1950; operated on, stomach ulcer, May 28, 1951; kidney stone removed, March 16, 1957; one kidney removed, Christmas 1955; broken hip at Shirley's, Feb., 1954. Retired from teaching, June 1, 1939; teacher's retirement, July, 1939; made seven ship quilts in the year 1954. Mrs. Dickson has six living children. They are: Mrs. Curtis Rogers (Thelma), and Ross Dickson of Morgan; Mrs. Jacob Kap (Mildred), and Prof. Dilmar Dickson of Weber College, Ogden, and Prof. LaVern Dickson, band leader at Sandy, and Mrs. Raymond Murdock (Shirley), of Yuba City, California. She has 23 grandchildren and 43 great-grandchildren. The whole family stand for education and practically all college graduates. This year two graduate from the BYU, one from the USAC and one from the University of Utah. The last three graduate next year, with the exception of a high school graduate, while the oldest great-granddaughter Eloise McQuown is at her third year at the University of Utah and the second oldest great-granddaughter Rosanne Tueller is at her first year at the BYU. Most of the graduates are Weber College graduates. Mrs. Dickson taught school for 35 years and sent her six children to college and then graduated herself at the age of 60 years at the USAC with her youngest daughter's husband who graduated with her. There are 12 BYU graduates, eight U. of U., four USAC, two University of Arizona and from University of California. They have degrees of all kinds: Two doctors, two nurses, one lawyer, one pharmacist, 14 education, two civil engineers, six music teachers, electrical engineers, two radio technicians, who talk all over the world and in every state in the Union, three coaches, one TV expert, one girls' physical teacher, four business experts, five LDS missionaries, 12 college teachers, seven |
