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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