52 Week Challenge - Favorite Photo  - My ancestor 3 is John Freeman Dixon (my dads father).

My grandfather is John Freeman Dickson (Dixon) who was born on Oct 11, 1902 in Delight AR.  I only visited him on summer vacations every year as they lived in Wichita KS, Idabel OK or Luxor/Blytheville AR most of the time I was growing up.  I remember us kids helping him dig potatoes in Idabel and remember him and his brothers Oscar and Otis telling stories from "the old days" when they lived in AR.  Us kids were mesmerized by these stories of a different life that we ever knew.  This is where we first heard the work "Hant" which means ghost.  Grandpa was a carpet layer in Wichita, but was retired in Idabel and Blytheville.  The wore very thick glasses as he had cataract surgery before they implanted a lens in your eye.  He died in 1977 in Osceola AR when I was 26 years old.  I took a bus with Ricky to attend his funeral.  We rode back with mom and dad.

This is a picture of him and my grandmother taken in 1956 when he was 54 years old.