This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RS.2ADE/4.108.112.346.344.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John J. Dickinson, Sr. could have been married twice. John J. Jr. was married twice. I find that naming him, Jr. could have been that he was his father. Although there were occasions in a community where two resided, and they would call them Jr. and Sr. because of age difference. But having the same middle initial leads me to think they were father and son. 2. John J. Dickinson had land patened in Marion County in March 1853 and 1858. 3. John Jr. lived in different places. His probate records (I have them) show that his 2 children by his second wife was in care of W. R. Houston Loden in Hamilton, Marion County AL. I could not find Susan S. again in the census. I found them in 1880 John J. was 65 and she was 24. Her son , John was 2 and Joseph 5/12. Are you saying that Susan S. was the daughter of John L. Nix? 4. In his Commission Claims paper, he stated he had a brother in the CSA and cousins. Andrew J. Huston, my great,great,great grandfather also wrote a letter for John J. The Southern Claim Commission papers were kept if they couldn't prove that they were actually Union Loyalists. If they proved it, all the records have is the amount they were paid. Because both Andrew J. Huston and John J. Dickinson papers were there (and I have both), the government did not believe they were actually Union Loyalist. My ancestor's brother Jasper N. Green (the son of the man Elijah C. Green, who is in the cemetery you mentioned) was a Sgt. in the Union Army. Conclusion: I do not know if John J, Jr's father was John Sr. I am most interested to find out if his first wife was Mary A. Kemp.