Source, Rutland (Vt) Daily Herald--Mon.Aug.31, 1908. DEATH OF W. H. DICKENSON. Was a Veteran of the Mexican War, Fighting Under Gen.Taylor and Stonewall Jackson. William H. Jackson, a veteran of the Mexican war, died at his home on South Main street Friday night after a three years' illness with a cancer. Mr. Dickenson was born in Ticonderoga, N.Y., April 11, 1823, but lived in that place only a few years. When a boy of 18 years of age he ran away and enlisted at Danby (Vt) in Company H, 9 th regiment, United States Infantry at the outbreak of the Mexican war,and he was in active service with the regiment under Gen Zachary Taylor during the entire war. Stonewall Jackson was his captain. He was one of the first to scale the walls of the City of Mexico when that city was taken. While in Mexico he was stricken with yellow fever and was left behind when the army came north. He remained there for nine months and during his severe illness his hair turned white. He would relate hair breadth escapes and exciting experiences by the hour and was loud in his praise of his commanders. After the war he went to Middletown Springs, (Vt) where he became the owner of a large farm. The last few years of his life were spent among his children. He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Charlotte Louis of Leominster, Mass., Miss Martha Dickenson, Mrs. Newton Dupius of Evanston, ILL., and Mrs. Nelson Whitcomb of this city (Rutland, Vt), four sons, Charles D., and George Dickenson of Chicago, Martin of Pawlet (Vt) and William Dickenson of the this city (Rutland) and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held at the house tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and will be private, only the relatives and immediate friends to attend. Burial will be at Clarendon Springs.