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Mrs. Ella DIXON - 15 Mar 1859 - after Sept 1, 1941
Mrs. Ella Dixon, 82, one of the most beloved women of this city, passed
away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. K. E. Rapp, in Highland Park here
Tuesday morning at 9:45 o'clock. She suffered a paralytic stroke on
September 1 and has been bedfast since. Her condition had been critical
several days.
Born at Columbia, Ky. on March 15, 1859, she was a daugter of the late
William Henry and Mary Ann Walker. She was married to Dr. James A.
Dixon, prominent Burkesville physician, on Feb. 14, 1878. Following the
death of her husband in 1905, she moved to Glasgow, where she resided
except for five years spent in Lexington, KY.
She was one of the most remarkable women in many respects that this
community has ever known. A lover of culture and all the things that
encourage a higher plane of living, she acquired for herself a broad
education, through application of her brilliant mentality and kept
herself well posted on world events and abreast with the years as she
journeyed through them.
Mrs. Dixon was well read and a splendid conversationalist. Thruout her
life she had been active in civic and religious circles and her
achievements were manyh. The educational circles of this city have lost
a true patron and servant in her passing. She was a devout member of the
Christian Church, and had taught a Sunday School class in the church
here for over thirty-five years.
In addition to her religious activities she helped to organize the
Parent-Teachers Association in Glasgow, was charter member of the
Medical Auxiliary, served as member of the Glasgow Library board;
charter member of the Edmund Rogers Chapter D.A.R.; active in Red Cross
work, and inaugurated plan[s] to provide food for underpriviliged
children of the city schools.
She descended from families prominent and influential in the business,
social and religious circles of this section for many years.
Besides Mrs. Rapp, she is survived by three other daughters, Mrs.
Alanson Trigg, this city, Mrs. Nora McGee, Burkesville, and Mrs. Wendell
Fry, of Dallas, Texas; two sons, Messrs Paul Dixon ... rest of article
missing.
Undated Glasgow KY newspaper.
No found buried locally, possibly buried in Burkesville beside her
husband.
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