Green, Samuel A. [HERITAGE BOOKS ONLINE] Epitaphs from the old burying ground in Groton, Massachussetts : with notes and an appendix Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1878, 296 pgs. Page 219. GROTON EPITAPHS 1860 (A Monument) (West side) WALTER DICKSON Died January 21, 1860 AEt. 61. A Missionary in Palestine for five years. (North side) FRED W. STEINBECK Killed by Arabs in Jaffa, Palestine Jan. 12, 1858, AEt. 36. MARY E. his wife, dau. of WALTER & SARAH DICKSON, died Dec. 10, 1867, AEt. 34 WALTER DICKSON was the son of WALTER and ANNA (TUFTS) DICKSON, and was born March 15, 1799, at Groton. His father removed to this town from Menotomy, since West Cambridge, and now Arlington. WALTER, the son, was a farmer unti October 1853, when he left Groton, to work as an independent missionary in Palestine. In January 1858, MR. DICKSON's house in Jaffa was attacked by Arabs, and he himself severly wounded; his son-in-law, STEINBECK, was killed at the same time. He came back to this country in the following September. ===============================================