My maternal grandmother and wife of Cecil Steve Sanders of Tracy City, Tennessee.   Alma Virginia Dixon died in Cincinnati Ohio on 27 May 1958 attempting to give birth to her unborn son. Alma had been diagnosed and treated for thyroid cancer.  She had been told by her doctors that she was to weak to give birth, but, she chose to risk her own life in hopes of giving her unborn child a chance at life.  Unfortunately, neither Alma nor her son survived.   My grandmother was only 39 years old.   John 15; Verse 3  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for another [his friends.....]

My mothers first born child and my only sibling, Debra Zackie Dailey suffered a crib death on 1 Dec 1955 from complications associated with acute bronchitis and possible pneumonia. Zackie was named after her great grandfather, Confederate Soldier Zachariah F Taylor of Cobb Co GA. Zackie was not quite 5 months old when she passed away.   Libby

My beautiful great grandmother Sallie Mae Taylor was the wife of John E Dixon. As a child, Sallie was nicknamed Zachey after her father Zachariah F Taylor. As an adult Sallie Mae was lovingly referred to as Little Mommie by those closest to her. Little Mommie was a loving and kind woman who is still sadly missed. While visiting with her kinfolk on Christmas Day 1947_ Sallie Mae suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed and died after walking up the steep hill of Mud Town in Jenkins KY (Letcher County). She was only 57 years old.

The fifth child of John E and Sallie Mae Dixon Ray Edward was born 8 May 1924 at Coeburn, Wise County, Virginia. Ray was a loving father, a retired coal miner and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Ray married Mabel Tackett 2 February 1946 at Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky. Ray and Mabel made their home in Clintwood and had five children. Ray passed away in May of 1997 and is buried beside his parents in the Stanley Cemetery at Longs Fork.