History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Zimri Dixon

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  published by Goodspeed, Pg. 731, 732
Cedar County Section

Zimri Dixon, a substantial farmer residing about ten miles from 
Stockton, Mo., was born in Ross County, Ohio, June 19, 1823, and 
is a son of Jacob and Nancy (Darby) Dixon, who were born on 
Kentucky soil in 1803, and died in Cedar County, Mo. (whither they 
came in 1838), in 1884 and in 1869, respectively.  They suffered 
many privations and hardships in clearing their wood-land farm, 
but eventually became well-to-do.  Zimri Dixon was the second of 
their then children, and, after his mother's death, remained with 
his father, assisting on the home farm until manhood, in the 
meantime receiving no educational advantages.  In 1855 he married 
Miss America Hopper, who was born in Tennessee about 1836, and 
their union was blessed in the birth of ten children, seven living:
William H., George L., Loransy L., Parlee, wife of James Campbell, 
Dennis C., Delphia and Lewis M.  In the summer of 1850 Mr. Dixon 
crossed the plains to California, where he remained until 1854, 
then returning to Cedar County, Mo.  He has 210 acres of good land, 
which is well improved.  He is a Republican politically, and during 
the late war served in the State militia.  Mrs. Dixon's parents, 
Jackson and Nancy Hopper, came to Cedar County, Mo., about 1850, 
where they spent the rest of their lives.
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