My Genealogy Hound

Columbus F. Dixon, was born in Wayne County, Tenn., in 1828, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Boyd) Dixon, who were born in North Carolina, and came to Tennessee with their parents when quite young. The father was a farmer and distiller, and was very prosperous, supporting a family of seventeen children. His wife died November 23, 1863, and he took for his second wife Mary Foster, who was the mother of five of the children. Mr. Dixon died in Wayne County July 16, 1877. When twenty-four years old our subject married Sarah A. Springer, who was born in Tennessee, in 1836, and a daughter of Jonas and Annie Springer, and twelve children have blessed their union: Jonas S., John, Elizabeth A. (deceased), Mary J., Andrew J. (deceased), James M. (deceased), Robert M. (deceased), William F., Amanda P., Martha R. and Ella (deceased). Mr. Dixon owns 369 acres of land, on which he has lived thirty-seven years; 150 acres are well improved and well tilled, besides this, he owns two other tracts of land consisting of 118 and 454 acres, respectively. He has filled the office of constable, and is a man who has lived an exemplary life. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a stanch Republican, and sided with the Union cause during the late war.