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Sources consulted for the biography of:George Lewis Dixon (1818–1907)
Biographical Information
- Biography in Fredericksburg Daily Star, April 21, 1903 (with birth date and variant birthplace of Westmoreland Co.).
- Marriage date in Fredericksburg Free Lance, August 11, 1896.
- Hector Sears to Orlando Brown, March 15, 1867, Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen (Mar.–May 1867), Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia (1865–1869), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1048, Reel 47, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Dixon testimony (with full name, birth year, and mother's name as Katie Dixon), July 29, 1904, in Trustees, Shiloh (Old Site) Baptist Church, Fredericksburg, Va. v. The United States, Court of Claims (U.S. Treasury Dept.) Congressional Case no. 11,781, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
- Philadelphia City Death Certificate, Department of Public Health, Philadelphia City Archives.
Newspapers
- Fredericksburg Virginia Herald, June 14, 1869; June 17, 1869; June 28, 1869; July 15, 1869; May 15, 1876; May 29, 1876.
- Fredericksburg Virginia Star, July 13, 1878; May 22, 1880.
- Fredericksburg Free Lance, October 2, 1885.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, June 24, 1869.
Secondary Sources
- [Beatrice H. Hester], The History of the Shiloh (Old Site) Baptist Church, Fredericksburg, Virginia (1927), 11–12.
- Ruth Coder Fitzgerald, A Different Story: A Black History of Fredericksburg, Stafford and Spotsylvania, Virginia (1979), esp. 112–115.
Obituaries
- Fredericksburg Daily Star, July 15, 1907 (birthplace of Port Royal).
- Funeral account in Fredericksburg Free Lance, July 20, 1907.
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