Dickens Cemetery

Dickens Cemetery was the only cemetery to serve the town of Dickens. It began in 1891, the same year the town was founded, after Mrs. C. F. Jones, wife of pioneer settler and town barber C. F. Jones, died and was buried by her husband at the foot of a hill overlooking the Croton Breaks. The property owner, M. S. Crow, at the suggestion of his attorney, W. C. Ballard, donated five acres of land surrounding the grave site for a community cemetery. W. C. Ballard, considered by many to be the "Father of Dickens," died in 1913 and was buried there as well. Many early settlers and city and county officials are interred in the graveyard, along with veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Over the years the cemetery expanded through additional land donations. A fence was erected in 1919, and in 1948 local citizens formed a cemetery association to care for the grounds and monuments. Now encompassing more than eighteen acres, it reflects the history of the area.

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