TAKEN FROM INFORMATION GIVEN TO ME BY KIGHT RESEARCHERS IN WESTERNPORT, MARYLAND.

"Louise Gay Kight was the 7th child of Emanuel Miller and Charlotte Ayers Kight. She was born in Calhoun County, West Virginia at White Pine on Feb. 4, 1862.

In 1873, when Louise was 11 years old, the family moved to Glenville, West Virginia where the State Normal School was located. There she attended school for four years. Old report cards still in existence show she studied Arithmetic, Geography, Spelling, Reading, and Penmanship, and all her grades were within the GOOD range according to her teacher Mr. Elmer H. Dodson. Though this was a State Normal School, demerits were given, and Louise got enough demerits to show she had spirit.

In 1877, the family moved to Elmont, Texas, near Van Alstyne in Collin County, Texas. It was here that she met and married Joseph Columbus Dickey.

She had a forgiving and uncritical spirit and dealt gently with all her grandchildren as well as friends. (This was confirmed by all her grandchildren who were fortunate enough to know and love her.)

Joseph Columbus Dickey and Louise Gay Kight were married at Old Parson Elliot's before breakfast on November 1, 1880. They had spent the night the the Elliots and were married a little after sunup on a Monday morning.

GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE

A college that offers both professional and general education with emphasis on teacher education was established by the Legislature in 1972 as the Glenville Branch of the West Virginia Normal School. Became Glenville State Normal School in 1898. Became the Glenville State Teachers College in 1930 with 4 year degree granting status. The present name was approved in 1943 by the Legislature. FROM A HISTORICAL MARKER AT THE GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE."

WRITTEN BY MERLE SCOGGIN KNIGHT (FAMILY HISTORY # 329) IN THE HISTORY OF GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS PUBLISHED BY THE GRAYSON COUNTY FRONTIER VILLAGE ASSOCIATION, 1979.

Joseph Columbus Dickey, my grandfather, migrated from Arkansas to Collin County, Texas and married Louise Gay Kight in 1880 at Weston, Collin County, Texas. He moved his family to Claude, Armstrong County, Texas in 1893 where he worked in a mercantile store while making repeated excursions over into "The Nation" (Oklahoma) to run for land. Being unsuccessful in procuring land, he moved his family to Grayson County in 1894 and bought a parcel of land about 1 1/2 miles north of the community of Ethel. A few years later, he bought the old "Warren" place about 2 1/2 miles south of Ethel. There the family lived until 1912 when they moved to Gunter, Grayson County, Texas, to take advantage of the educational opportunities offered by the Gunter Bible College just east of Gunter. Both parents and children were members of the Church of Christ. Mr. Dickey's family grew up in Grayson County. 

In 1918, Mr. Dickey decided to move west, so he sold his land and moved to Floyd County, Texas in the Panhandle. The children of "Joe" and "Lou" as they were called were as follows:

Of the above Dickey children, only three survive in 1978, those being Alla Mae Hatchett, Charlotte Ayers Horn and Joel Ray Dickey. The two youngest live in Lubbock.

Joel Ray Dickey and Alvin Luther Scoggin organized an automobile agency in Lubbock, Texas in 1929. This agency is known as Scoggin-Dickey Buick Company. It still exists, being the oldest family owned and operated automobile agency in Texas. It is still owned and operated by the Scoggin-Dickey descendants."