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URIAH GILLIAM DICKENS was the tenth child of the above Uriah and Susan(May) Dickens. He was born 9 July 1852 at Humboldt, Gibson County,Tennessee. He came to Arkansas with his parents in the Fall of 1860and they settled near Springfield, Conway County. While Uriah Gilliamwas educating himself for the practice of medicine he made his livingcarrying the mail, mostly on horseback, from Springfield to Cave City,and when the Little Red and the White Rivers were at flood stage andcould not be forded, of course, a boat was involved. While he was onlyabout ten years old, and his father sixty, in the time of the CivilWar they kept the home fires burning while the four older brotherswere in the Armies and the fortunes of War swept back and forth overthe homestead. He married Mary Frances Polk, the daughter of John Polkthen in Polk County. She was born 5 August 1856 at Mt Mollis, Georgia.The marriage took place 20 October 1872 at Dover, then the County seatof Pope County. Mrs. Mary Frances (Polk) Dickens died on 6th November1924, at Newport, Arkansas. Uriah Gilliam Dickens, after completinghis literary schooling, began the study of medicine under Dr. EnochDennis and at the age of twenty-four enterred into practice at OldHickory. Three years later he moved to Enola, Faulkner County,continuing his work as a Doctor and also engaged in farming inconnection with his practice. He died 6th December 1911, at Dennard,Arkansas. To Dr. Uriah Gilliam and Mary Frances (Polk) Dickens wereborn eight sons and five daughters, as follows: Alice Eldorado b.15Apr 1874 Dover, Ark. d. 26 Dec 1958 George Warren 31 May 1877Morrilton 19 Aug 1932 John Uriah 22 Jul 1878 Enola, Ark. 22 Jul 1883Martha Susan 16 Mch 1880 " "Mattie" William Alexander 28 Jul 1881"(Campbell) Sep 1882 Marion Thomas 17 Sep 1883 " Mary Frances 13 Aug1885 Laurel, Ark. "Mollie" Tavner Tidings 21 May 1887 Mayflower, Ark28 May 1887 Judson Melton 21 Jun 1889 " 18 Jun 1957 Harvey Lewis 25Mch 1891 " Aug 1893 Maggie Maude 21 Dec 1893 " Emily Cassandra 12 Mch1895 " 1897 Charles Oklahoma 24 Nov 1899 McCloud, Okla." From MarionT. Dickens "OUR DICKENS HERITAGE.
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