JOHN T. DIXON

JOHN T. DIXON, M. D., a physician of note in Meriwether County, and a man of fine business ability, is a native of the county, born in 1837, the son of John L. and Elizabeth (Gorley) Dixon.

The former was a native of Hancock County, but an early settler of Meriwether County, where he died in January, 1892. His parents were Harry and Ann (Hines) Dixon, Virginians, who early settled in Georgia. Mr. Dixon served in the War of 1812. The father of Dr. Dixon‘s mother was also an early settler of the state.

Dr. Dixon himself passed his early years on the farm, obtaining his early training in the old log school house of his district; then he attended the Greeneville school, and finally the Collinsworth Institute.

In 1861 he enlisted in Company E of the Twenty-eighth Georgia Regiment, under Capt. Moore. In the battle of Seven Pines Mr. Dixon was badly wounded and returned home to recruit. During the twelve months he was away from the army he took a course of medical study in the Virginia Medical college, at Richmond, and then went into the hospital service for the remainder of the war.

He then entered the medical college in Atlanta, from which he graduated in 1866. Having received his degree, Dr. Dixon returned to Meriwether County, and established himself in the practice of his profession at Woodbury, in which he has had great success, his practice being widely extended and very lucrative, and he is highly esteemed throughout the community.

Dr. Dixon was married in 1865, his wife being Miss Celeste E. Hussey, a daughter of Hiram and Sarah (Edwards) Hussey, of Meriwether County, where Mrs. Dixon was born, in 1844. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and died in 1891, leaving her husband with seven children: Sallie, Mary I., Emmett E., John L., Harry, Joel T., and Nellie.

In 1892 Mr. Dixon married Mrs. H. H. Hinton, who was born in Meriwether County in 1838, and is the daughter of Brown Fuller. Dr. and Mrs. Dixon are both faithful and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing historical accounts of the states civil, military, industrial and professional interests and personal sketches of many of it’s people, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895

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