Robert's son, Frank (William Francis) described his father as "5 ft.8 in. and slender, weighing 150 pounds and had fine health until he took cold while riding all day in a drizzling rain which gave him bronchitis which later became bronchial pneumonia."

p. 193: "The ninth session, with Bishop Andrew presiding, opened Dec. 30, 1840 at Selma (the first time there), and adjourned Jan 6, 1841. Thirteen were admitted: R.R. Dickinson......"

p. 234: Appointed in the new district of Demopolis, 1844-45: "Cahawba, R.R. Dickinson"

p. 307: "R.R. Dickinson was licensed to preach in the Belleville Circuit, Mobile District, in 1840. Meek, guileless, and full of tenderness, he was in all respects a Christian gentleman. His presiding elder, who visited him during the afternoon prior to his death, said, "He told me he had been in peace from first to last during his illness, and that not a cloud darkened his sky."