Montgomery-Autauga-Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Pickett, William Dickson 1802 - November 1837
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Author: From "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public MEn From 1540 to 1872,: by Willis Brewer, page 452

William D. Pickett resided in this county.  He was the son of Hon. Wm. R. 
Pickett of Autauga, and was well educated.  Having read law, he practiced for 
several years at Washington, in Autauga, but came to reside here about the year 
1830.  The legislature of 1829 elected him solicitor of the circuit court over 
Hon. Nathan Cook of Butler, and he held the office a short time.  He was 
elevated to the bench in 1834, and died in the flower of his manhood in 
November 1837.  He possessed a high order of talent, and lent the dignity of a 
virtuous life to the culture of a jurist and scholar.  

Additional Comments:
William was a son of William Raiford Pickett and Frances Amelia Dickson.  He 
parents immigrated to Autauga County, AL from Wadesboro, Anson Co., NC in about 
1818.  

William Dickson married Eliza Goddard Whitman on June 10, 1829 in Washington, 
Autauga Co., AL.  She was from Providence, RI.  Eliza had died by 1835 when 
William made a will in Rhode Island.  The will was probated in Montgomery 
County, AL January 15, 1838.  Eliza Dickson Pickett, their daughter, was born 
March 10, 1832 in Alabama.  After her father's death, Eliza lived with her 
uncle, Albert James Pickett.  Eliza married Leroy Pope Walker in Autauga 
County, Al on July 29, 1850 and died November 26, 1885 in Huntsville, Madison 
Co., AL

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