4. William S.² Dixon (Samuel J.¹) (#188) was born December 9, 1827. William died January 1887 in Washington, at 59 years of age.⁽²⁶⁸⁾

He married Rachel Ingersoll AFT 1842. (Rachel Ingersoll is #189.) Rachel was the daughter of Daniel Ingersoll. Rachel died June 1922.⁽²⁶⁹⁾ "WILLIAM DIXON had a son, MANUEL, who was raised by and with the family of DANIEL GREGG DIXON and later died in Linton." "WILLIAM DIXON was a Forty-Niner, going to California via the Panama Route. He returned with a bag of gold and a sore leg, overland. (I have a three leg cast iron pot brought back by him in which it is said he brewed herbs with which he treated his leg.) Later he married RACHEL INGERSOLL, a cousin of Grandmother Ingersoll (MARY INGERSOLL HUNT) and went west again, branching off the Overland Trail west of Fort Bridger, west of Cheyenne somewhere, and homesteaded in Oregon, where his descendants are scattered through the Northwest Pacific States and Montana. Two Grandsons are doctors practicing somewhere East of the Rockies, the last we heard."<2> Source Key <2> Letter of Nathan Dixon Hunt to Spencer Dixon, dated 30 Jan 1945

William S. Dixon and Rachel Ingersoll had the following children:

20 i. Rachel³ Dixon (#190) was born before March 7, 1947, the first event for which there is a recorded date. Rachel died March 7, 1947.⁽²⁷⁰⁾ She married Henry Henshaw. (Henry Henshaw is #194.)

+ 21 ii. Daniel Dixon was born before 1881, the first event for which there is a recorded date.

22 iii. Elizabeth Dixon (#192) was born on (birth date unknown).

23 iv. Martha L. Dixon (#193) was born in Iowa, United States 1868. Mattie died AFT 1947. She married George Anderson BEF 1900. (George Anderson is #199.) George died 1900. (See George Anderson for the continuation of this line.) My Grandmother, ny father's mother, was named Martha Solsby. My father went to California in 1850, I think he and two of my half brothers, Bill and Diarius Ingersoll, I am not sure how long he was there about two or three years. He went back to Indiana by boat to the Isthumus to Panama walked across the Isthumus then by boat up to the Atlantic Coast and back to home. As for gold dust ... he did not come back with much money just a few thousand might be considered a lot in those days. My mother was Marie Dixon and she and my father were married the 8th of May 1856. He did not come west again until April 1881. Left Indiana in 1868 settled in Iowa when I was born in 1868. About 1870 moved to Kansas where they stayed until 1881 ... and into Washington where they took government homestead. My father died in January 1887. My mother June 1922. My brother Dan 1907 and my sister Rachel March 7, 1947 age 90 and 19 days she had no children. My brother left two sons, Bill Dixon a big farmer near ... Washington where he settled 66 years ago. Dr. Henry Dixon located here in Portland. He and my grandson are together here, Dixon and Dickel. My brother's daughter Ruth Dixon Peterson live here. I lost my husband in 1900, 2 children my daughter died 10 years ago, my son William Anderson a mining engineer now lives in San Mateo, California but he and his two sons are operating a phosphate mine in Montana. I have 6 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren. I will be 79 next November. Have lived every minute to the most of my 79 years, I have gotten a lot out of life and still do. I like life, like people and friends. I realize I haven't too much time left but that is alright too. I am still able to enjoy everything that comes my way. The only one of my father's people I have ever known is a cousin of my father who married my mother's sister ... Ingersoll. They have both been dead for many years. Their daughter (Billie) Dixon (Camel) lives in Pomona California. Then I knew your Aunt Matt Geckler and Louise. Very Respectfully yours

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