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Name: William Irving Dickey
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Birth Date: 10 Feb 1879
BirthPlace: Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama
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Father's Name: John Robert Dickey
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Mother's Name: Mary Ann Meods
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System Origin: Alabama-ODM
GS Film Number: 1481533
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C00204-5
'Alabama Births and Christenings, 1881-1930,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:V29Z-M5T : 27 November 2014), William Irving Dickey, 10 Feb 1879; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,481,533.
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Death
Name: William Irvin Dickey
Death Date: 02 May 1949
Death Place: Thorndale, Milam, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: About 70 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1879
Birth Date: No Record
Birth Place: Alabama
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse Name: [Rebecker Thomas Dickey]
Father Name: John Dickey
Father birth Place: Alabama
Mother Name: Mary Ann Meads
Mother birth Place: Alabama
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Route 2, Thorndale, Texas
Cemetery Name: Pleasant Retreat
Burial Place: Thorndale, Texas
Burial date: 2 May 1949
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...Informant: O P Organ
Film Number: 2223340
Digital GS number: 4031781
Image Number: 2440
Reference number: cn 24292
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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