Article from unknown source with handwritten date of December 1955. Extracted from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison, Missouri. Claud E. Dixon, Prominent Farmer Dies "Claud E. Dixon, 70, prominent farmer of the Madison vicinity, died at 9:15 o'clock Friday night at his home. He was the son of the late Joe and Alice Wood Dixon and was born Mar. 24, 1885, near Madison. Mr. Dixon has spent his entire life in this vicinity. He was a member of the Madison Christian Church. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Ruby Lee Bondurant and four children, Mrs. Weldon Smith, Madison, Mrs. John Peck, Moberly, Mrs. Frank Cramer, Reseda, Calif., and Joe Dixon of the home. There are four grandchildren, Philip Claud, Curtis Dean, Leah Ruth Peck and Syntia Lee Cramer; and a nephew, Donald Dixon, patient at the US Naval Hospital in Corona, Calif. Funeral services were held at Madison Christian Church on Monday afternoon by the Rev. C.W. Cornn, pastor." Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathleen Wilham. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathleen Wilham 2 Sharon Drive