Third Generation
70. Thomas Lee
'Tommy' DICKENS Eld was born on 5 Jul 1816.332 He died on 27 Nov 1908.332 He was buried in Thomas Dickins, Cem., Carroll County,
Virginia.332
His grave marker reads - Pastor of many New River Primitive Baptist Churches
1868-1886. Thomas Lee 'Tommy' DICKENS Eld and Penelope COCK were married.
Penelope COCK (daughter of Squire John COCK and Jane
PHILLIPS) was born on 15 Apr 1811.332,333 She died on 20 Jan 1898.332 She was also known as Penelope
Dickens. She was buried in Thomas Dickins, Cem., Carroll County,
Virginia.332 Thomas Lee
'Tommy' DICKENS Eld and Penelope COCK had the following children:
+433 | i. | Franklin C. DICKENS was born about 1838
in Virginia.180
Franklin Dickens "joined the army (Co. C., 24th VA) May 24, 1861 as
an original member of the company. He was with the company during nearly all
of the hard campaigning in 1862 and took part in the invasion of Pennsylvania
in the summer of 1863. He was captured on July 5, 1863 as the army retreated
from Gettysburg. He was imprisoned at Fort Delaware and held there until the
end of the war when he took the oath of allegiance and was released on May 11,
1865." (from the Civil War writings of John Perry Alderman) | 434 | ii. | James Madison DICKENS
was born about 1842 in Virginia.180
James M. Dickens joined Co. C., 24th VA "March 13, 1862 at Hillsville....
He was sent to the hospital sick on May 8, 1862 and the company never saw him
again. There is a tradition in the family that he survived the war and was seen
afterwards, but the archives flatly state that he died in May 1862 in Richmond
of the fever." (from the Civil War writings of John Perry Alderman) | +435 | iii. | William Preston
DICKENS was born on 10 Sep 1850.334
He died on 14 Feb 1933.334
He was buried in Hugh McGavock Family Cemetery, Wythe Co., Virginia.334 |
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