By Way Of?: Tracing the Johnson, Cooper, Cummings, Matthews and Dixon Families

By Lynn M. Dixon

By Way Of: Tracing the Johnson, Cooper, Cummings, Matthews and Dixon Families is a compilation of family trees, brief biographical sketches along with some pictures and artifacts. Many stories have been handed down through the generations so that the future generations can see themselves on many of the pages about their ancestors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Oct 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781698703688

Lynn M. Dixon

Lynn M. Dixon lives in Chicago. She has published two other works with Trafford: A Golden Leaf in Time and Traveling Streams.

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ISBN: 978-1-6987-0369-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6987-0368-8 (e)

Trafford rev. 10/14/2020

Table of Contents

1. Foreword

2. Introduction

3. Hazel’s Paternal Family

4. Johnson Family Tidbits

5. Robert and Sophie Johnson’s Family Picture

6. Uncle Bob’s Family Tree

7. Uncle Bob and Aunt Earline’s Family Pictures

8. Hazel’s Maternal Family

9. Cooper Tidbits:

10. The Coopers Pictures

11. Cummings Family Tree

12. Cummings Tidbits:

13. The Historic Corrie Cummings and Chester Johnson Merger

14. Cummings Pictures

15. Hazel Johnson Dixon’s Family Tree

16. Hazel -Always Creating

17. Hazel’s Pictures

18. Oscar and Hazel Dixon’s Children’s Family Pictures

19. Dixon Girls as Adults

20. Cheryl Audrey’s Family Tree

21. Cheryl Tidbits

22. Cheryl’s Pictures and Artifacts

23. Cheryl’s Limo Business Card

24. Ingrid Juarleise’s Family Tree

25. Ingrid Tidbits

26. The Studesvilles- (Staci’s Family) -Christmas 2019

27. Janet Celeste’s Family Tree

28. Janet Tidbits

29. Janet’s Pictures

30. Lynn Margarita’s Family Tree

31. Lynn’s Tidbits

32. Lynn’s Pictures

33. Uncle Robert’s Family Tree (Hazel’s Brother)

34. Robert I, Jr.’s (Bobby) Family Tree

35. Uncle Robert’s Family Tidbits

36. Uncle Robert’s Family Pictures

37. Mary Ann’s Pictures

38. Bobby’s Pictures

39. Larry’s Pictures

40. Linda’s Pictures

41. Carl’s Pictures

42. The Johnson Grandchildren

43. Obituary from Uncle Robert’s Funeral- Memphis, TN -August 2010

44. Aunt Dorothy Family Tree (Hazel’s Sister)

45. Aunt Dorothy’s Family Tree- Continued

46. Aunt Dorothy’s Tidbits

47. Johnnie Coleman Tidbits

48. Aunt Dorothy’s Pictures

49. Ronald’s Pictures

50. Kenneth’s Pictures

51. Shelia’s Pictures

52. Anita’s Pictures

53. George Coleman’s Picture

54. Chris’ Pictures

55. Chris’ CD’s.

56. Kenneth’s Poem to Johnnie Coleman.

57. Oscar Dixon’s Family Tree

58. Oscar’s Family Tidbits

59. Mary Louise’s Pictures and Tidbits

60. Oscar’s Tidbits

61. Oscar’s Determination- His Story

62. Oscar’s Children:

63. Oscar’s Pictures

64. Theresa’s (Tiny) Family Tree

65. Theresa’s Family Tidbits

66. Theresa’s Family Pictures

67. Appendix

By Way Of…

by Lynn M. Dixon

Foreword

As a proofreader during the 1980 Session for the Georgia Legislative Counsel, I had the pleasure of meeting Senator Horace Tate. He was one of the two black senators in the state Senate at that time.

We were being treated to a feast that was provided by the Counsel at the Georgia State Capitol Building. We refer to me, Bea and Alicia who were struggling transplants working as proofreaders in the city of Atlanta. We landed this job through a temporary agency and the meal with huge stuffed mushrooms along with other delicacies was quite memorable.

We were black women that hailed from the North and before we arrived, the Counsel had been unable to retain employees for the proofreading positions. One challenge may have been the required hours of the job.

We had to start at the normal time of eight or nine in the morning. But we had to keep ourselves occupied until legislation ended and then the typed bills came over to us. Around five or so in the evening, we were then inundated with the real work of the day.

The typists or data entry clerical staff input the bills, printed them, and then brought them over for us to proof them. That meant that we had a normal full workday to find ways to calmly wait. We played Scrabble, told stories, and even tore the edges off the perforated dot matrix paper to keep ourselves occupied during the lulls.

When the bills did appear, one would read to the other out loud to catch all grammatical and\or spelling errors. That was how proofreading was done back then. There was no Spell Check or Editor to make corrections for us. Thus, our workdays ended late like eleven pm or midnight but the three of us made it to the finish line. Thankfully, security men walked us to our cars.

So, when Senator Tate approached us during that one time that we were free to roam the Capitol Building, he said, I was wondering who was correcting those bills. Then he asked each of us, Where are you from? Bea said, I am from Rochester, New York."

He asked, By way of? and waited for an answer. She did not know how to answer the question.

He asked Alicia where she was from and she responded, Cleveland, Ohio. And he asked, By way of? The light bulb