TITLE PAGE PIONEER NAME 13ILLA DICKSON BIRTH DATE AND PLACE March 8, 1815 Elizabeth, Ontario, Canada DEATH DATE AND PLACE January 30, 18?8, Richville, Morgan, Utah FATHER John Dickson MOTHER Mary Henderson WHO MARRIED AND DATE Mary Ann Stoddard, May 10, 1837 YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH 1854 NAME OF COMPANY Ezra T. Bensen. 14th Company WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE Josephine Diokson Smith WHO SUBMITTED HISTORY AND DATE Jolene R, Price ADDRESS 74 S. 200 E. Morgan. Utah. 84050 .TELEPHONE NO. 829-3466 CAMP NAME South Morgan COUNTY NAME Morgan CAMP HISTORIAN Lucille O. Williams ADDRESS COUNTY HISTORIAN Barbara C. Porter ADDRESS \ JPEG-Bk13 HISTORY OF BILLA DICKSON f AND MARY ANN STODDARD Name «... .. .Billa Dickson Date of Birth March 8, 1815 Place of birth. Elizabeth, Ontario, Canada Date of death January 30, 1878 Place of death Richville, Morgan, Utah Wife' s name Mary Ann Stoddard Date of birth Oct. 18, 181? Place of birth Washing ton, Litchfield CT Date of death Aug. 11, 1902 Place of death Richville, Morgan, Utah In 1854—55 Billa Dickson, along with the William Lindsey, Shipleys, Crofts, and Marion Mark Whitesides and their families lived on the little Fort lane in Layton. The road led from the main road to the fort. The little fort was built in the shape of a square, the houses forming the outer walls with a court in the center. The fort was built of rocks and dried mud. Mortar was also used. Other homes in Layton On the mountain road near Waltons, (about 1363 No. Highway 89) Red brick two story house on west side) First home, Rock dried mud mortar, second home, brick CHILDREN Born Fe. 26, 1838, Bastard, Ontario Canada Born Jan. 16, 1840, Pleasant, Porter IN Born April 10, 184-3, Hancock, IL Born Jan. 26, 1846, Camp Creek Hancock, IL Born Mar. 22, 1850, Monroe, Jasper IA Born Nov. 13, 1853, American Fork UT Occupation before immigrating.. Farmer and Blacksmith Occupation while living in Layton Blacksmith and Farmer Immigrated from Elizabeth, Ontario, Canada Person preparing this information Josephine Dickson Smith Life history of Albert Douglas Dickson, a son of Billa Dickson dictated to abel J. Dickson by his father, Albert Douglas Dickson in 1911 and assembled by Elbern Dicksn on June 5, 1931 History of Layton Compiled about 1930 by Edwina Whitesides Knowlton, Nettie Burton Whitesides and Emma Dawson Simpson, member of the Columbine Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. ^ Samantha Jane Dickson.... Albert Douglas Dickson... Judson Dickson.. Alvire Aurelia Dickson... William Henderson Dickson John Henry Dickson It is assumed that Billa Dickson earned his living farming and hunting. His family enjoyed skating on Redo Lake which was close to this home. In the year I836 or 1837 Billa1s father opened his door to two Mormon missionaried, Elders John E. Page and James Blakeley. The Dicksons accepted their message and joined the church. Billa married Mary Ann Stoddard on May 10, 1837 in Brockville, JPEG-!y«&St Grenville, Ontario, Canada. He and his wife moved to Hancock County, Illinois and from there to Wisconsin to work in the lead mines. They remained there a couple of years to obtain substance to live on so they could come west. They succeeded in obtaining an outfit and a small flock of sheep which they brought to Utah. From Wisconsin fl the family moved to Monroe County, Iowa, where they lived two years. In 1350 they moved to Pig Pigeon, Iowa. Here they raised seventeen acres of corn which helped other members of the church who traveled westward. The fall of 1851 found them in Kanesville Iowa, where they bought a farm. Later the selling of this farm enabled them to buy two yoke of oxen and two yoke of cows. In 1852 they went to the Missouri River where they joined Ezra T. Bensen who was organizing the Fourteenth Company of saints for the trip to Utah. Some of the members of their party were killed accidently. Just out of Grand Island, Nebraska, they killed their first buffalo. The meat caused unexpected joy to the entire company. Billa used his skill at blacksmithing several times while crossing the plains. The Fourteenth Company of Saints reached the Salt Lake Valley the first part of October in 1851. After visiting relatives in Centerville, the family moved to American Fork where they built two houses and a blacksmith shop from which they received their living that winter. In the fall of 185^ they moved to Davis County. Billa Dickscn,Alva Nickles and John Myers build the first threshing machine in Layfcon and spent most of the winter of 185^-55 threshing grain, oftentimes shoveling the snow from the stack. Billa made the cogs for the machine. In I856 the family moved to Centerville where they raised a good crop on some land they rented from Henry Dalton. This was a hard year for the people of Utah. They nearly starved before harvest came. In 1859 Billa bought a small farm on the mountain toad in layton. In 1862 Billa moved to Richville, Morgan, Utah, where he spent the remaining ^ years of his life. Five of their children were born while they were following the saints through Canada, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Their sixth child was born in American Fork. r -Bk13