John F. Dickey, farmer and prominent citizen of the Eighth District, was a son of George W. and Margaret H. (Fullerton) Dickey, and was born in Gibson County in 1838, being one of ten children, six of them now living. The father was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in 1807 in South Carolina. His parents immigrated to Alabama when George was a child, and a few years afterward to Gibson County, where they died. While a resident of Gibson County he was married to Miss Margaret H. Fullerton, and in 1849 moved to Dyer County. Mrs. Dickey was born in Middle Tennessee in 1809, and died in 1869, and in 1871 he married Mrs. Melvina Dickens. Mr. Dickey is a quiet, industrious man, and much respected in his community. Our subject, John F. Dickey, remained at home, taking charge of the farm, until he was thirty years of age. In the fall of 1864 he enlisted, under Capt. Grier, in Gen. Forrest's command, but after a year was sent home on account of ill health. December, 1869, he married Miss Margaret K., daughter of Richard G. and Sarah A. Archibald. They had but one child, and it died. He is now farming, owns 200 acres of land six miles southeast of Newbern, and fifty acres more in same district. In 1871 he was elected to the magistrate's office and held it four years. In politics he is strictly conservative, and with his wife belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Dickey was born in North Carolina in 1839, and her parents were natives of that State, moving to Dyer County in 1851.