This site records the ancestry of my mother, Lucy Dickinson Fryxell, daughter of Henry Kline Dickinson and Bernice Esther Lowe of Opelika, Alabama. This family’s history stretches back into the settling of the Deep South (known as the “Old Southwest”) and, even further back in time, into colonial America. It includes patriot ancestors recognized by the DAR, a signer of the US Constitution, one of the first “Regulator” martyrs to the cause of American Independence, early settlers of Virginia, Huguenot refugees, and countless other contributors to the American story. Among the families this site might help you research are: Lowe, Stow(e), Rousseau, Chapman, Clough, Seale, Oglesby and Pitts.

This research represents a work in progress, however, and some connections here should be considered speculative (for example, the Pitts ancestry back to England). If you have better information or wish to share your own research, please contact me at davidfryxell(at)comcast.net.

The photo above, circa 1928, shows (from left) my uncle William Dickinson (future congressman from Alabama); my mother; my aunt Louise Dickinson Aldrich; and my uncle Henry Dickinson. The photo below shows my mother, my grandmother, and my uncle Henry in 1927. The map at top shows Opelika about the same time period.