Jackson Co., OK - Obits: David Levi Lincoln Waterman Dickey *********************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Joseph & Patricia Howard Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** David Levi Lincoln Waterman Dickey (1860-1937) Obituary from the Olustee News, March 1937: REV. D. L. DICKEY, PIONEER OF OLD GREER COUNTY, PASSES Impressive Funeral Services Held Thursday Morning at Methodist Church Funeral services for Rev. D. L. Dickey were held Thursday morning at the Methodist church in Olustee with Rev. M. M. Monk of Carnegie, this state, conducting the services, assisted by Rev. R. C. King, pastor of the Baptist church of Olustee. In Spite of the severe cold and a biting wind with swirling dust the church was filled to capacity, every seat being taken and a number forced to stand during the services. Rev. King offered prayer and Rev. Monk paid fine tribute to the pioneer preacher and frontiersmen who was among the first to settle in this country. Over the casket and all about the front of the church were banked wreaths of flowers, silent tribute from friends and neighbors, who, without exception, attest the sterling qualities and fine spirit of Dave Dickey, as preacher, newspaper man, citizen, in whatever calling he had chosen to labor during a long and eventful career. A choir, composed of Mrs. Ralph Phillips, Mrs. Bess Woodard. Fred Kent and R. D. Curnutt sang old favorite songs of Rev. Dickey. "All Is Well," "Precious Memories," “My Jesus As Thou Wilt.” Pallbearers were Dick Warren, Douglas Wilson, Charles Prater, Jim Howard, Ellis Cleveland and R. M. Crutchfieid. Funeral arrangements were directed by E. A. Carter, Olustee funeral director. Burial taking place in the Olustee cemetery. The Masonic lodge of which the deceased was an honored member, conducted the final rites at the grave. Two years after moving to this country D. L. Dickey was married to Lula 0. Echols. To this union eleven children were born, one dying in infancy. The ten surviving were all present at the funeral rites Thursday morning. The children include Mrs. E. R. Nesmith, Mrs. J. A. Heiskell, Mrs. H. L. Sellers, J. E. Dickey, Dee and David Dickey, all of Dallas; Mrs. M. D. Cundieff; Romayor, Texas; Mrs. W. L. Howard, Mrs. Roy Milner and. F. K. Dickey, Olustee. A sister, Mrs. S. H. Landrum, resides at Austin, Texas, and a brother, W. A. Dickey; lives in Chino, California. There are 24 grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. WAS PIONEER SETTLER The passing of Reverend D. L. Dickey removes one of the few remaining pioneers who located in this section when it was a wild prairie. It was back in 1888 when D. L. Dickey first cast his lot in what was then the frontier of America. The few settlers there at that time lived in dugouts for the most part, and Rev. Dickey began his religious work by holding meetings in these dugouts where the few settlers gathered from miles around to hear the pioneer preacher exhort them to follow the teachings of the Christ. Before coming to this country Rev. Dickey had been pastor of a Presbyterian church at El Paso, Texas, and had served other churches. He was pastor at one time of the Methodist church [also the Presbyterian church] in Olustee. As this section settled up and pioneers began to build homes, Rev. Dickey held services in different homes about the country, later having meetings in the little school houses that were built to provide schooling for the children of the early pioneers. Old citizens of Olustee will remember D. L. Dickey, as editor of the Olustee Democrat for a number of years, and many here still have copies of the paper in which appeared his writings. ---