The body of Benjamin Dixon was brought here last Thursday for burial by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dixon of Oxford, Neb. He was twenty three years of age and was working in a mine out in Wyoming when taken sick with typhoid fever, from which he died. Wm. Dixon is a brother to Asa Dixon of this place and was formerly a resident of this county.

Note: His headstone is engraved with the death date as 11/01/1904.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial #113534408