Lenoir County NcArchives Obituaries.....Dixon, David V. November 1922
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Greensboro Daily News, November 8, 1922
Funeral of David V. Dixon Held At Kinston Yesterday

(Special to Daily News)

Kinston, Nov. 7. - The funeral of David V. Dixon, prominent local business man 
who died at his residence, Blount and McLewean streets, at 4 a. m. Sunday, was 
held yesterday.  Mr. Dixon was one of the best-known merchants here, and was 
affiliated with a number of local enterprises.  He was born in Greene county 
August 26, 1856.  He was in business at Howerton during his early manhood.  He 
came to this city in 1893, entering business here with the late J.W. Grainger.  
After two years he established the business of D. V. Dixon and son, one of the 
best-known hardware concerns in this part of North Carolina.

Mr. Dixon was a director of the Caswell Cotton mills and vice-president and 
director of the National Bank of Kinston.  He was a steward of Methodist 
churches 40 years, and was treasurer of the board of Queen Street church here 
at the time of his death.  For a number of years he was prominently identified 
with several of the leading business enterprises here.  He married Miss Corinne 
Bryant Patrick in 1879.  She died September 21, 1914.  In 1918 Mr. Dixon 
married Mrs. Clare B. Mooring, member of a prominent family in Tidewater 
Carolina, who survives him.  Sons surviving are David L. and William T. Dixon.  
Another son was the late Errol P. Dixon, eldest of the three, who died in 
December, 1916, leavng a widow and five children.  The only daughter is Mrs. 
Robert H. Rouse.  One brother also survives, D. H. Dixon, of Goldsboro.

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