Pike County Alabama.Biographies - Dickinson, John Phillips 
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The following quote is from: "History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida: 
Being an account of the Amazing March of Methodism through Alabama and West Florida"  
by Marion Elias Lazenby (1960);  
a copy of the actual reference book found in the Orlando (FL) Public Library.

 

"John Phillips Dickinson [born NC 1802]-- p. 392: "J.P. Dickinson joined the Methodist 
Church in 1819, when about seventeen. He gave fifty-one years in the service of our Christ, 
[first] as an exhorter, and then as a local and [finally and primarily] an itinerant minister. 
For many years his service was in the Georgia Conference, transferring to the Alabama in 1857.
Here he served Lafayette, Crawford, Troy and Orion, Brundidge, Union and Villula, 
superannuating in the last named community." 

 
p. 390: [1870] "The superannuated preachers were:  . . . J. P. Dickinson . . . "

  and:

p: 1138: from the "Roll of Deceased Ministers". This listing contains the full name of minister; 
birth date/place; date minister joined Conference; death date/place where buried. 

 
"Dickinson, Anthony Seale; 1808 Jan 24, Moore Co, NC; 1830 Miss; 
1886 Jun 27, Brundidge; [Pike co., AL] Brundidge"  

"Dickinson, Robert Robinson; 1815 Dec 5, Pendleton, SC; 1840 Ala; 1860 Dec 5 near Auburn; 
Auburn  [See 1850 Census Lowndes Co., AL]"

 

"Dickinson, John Phillips; 1802 Mar 17, Moore Co, NC; 1858 Ala; 
1871 Jul 30, Troy; [Pike Co., AL] Little Oak "

 

"Dickinson, John Frederick; 1828 Aug 3, Henry Co, GA; 1856, Ala; 
1870 Mar 31, Pike Co; Little Oak [Son of Rev. John Phillips Dickinson] "