Leonidas Camden Dickerson was born on a farm in Floyd County on April 19, 1869, to Burdine and Nancy Sowers Dickerson.  Burdine served four years in the Confederate Army and was Captain of Company A, ...

John was born on July 26, 1938, in Parsons, KS, the son of Howard A. and Lucille (Hughes) Dickerson. He married Delores ‘Susie’ Cunningham on June 6, 1959, in Miami, OK. She survives of the home.