I was born in 1944 in oak ridge tn, eldest son of Samuel Frank dixon jr and Bonnie Susie Butler Dixon and grandson of Oscar Butler and Sarah Mathis Butler of Newport, TN and Samuel Franklin Dixon Sr and Hixie Cynthia Carver Dixon of Maryville, TN. I lived in Cocke County until 1951 when my family relocated to Illinois.

I was born in 1944 in oak ridge tn, eldest son of Samuel Frank dixon jr and Bonnie Susie Butler Dixon and grandson of Oscar Butler and Sarah Mathis Butler of Newport, TN and Samuel Franklin Dixon Sr and Hixie Cynthia Carver Dixon of Maryville, TN. I lived in Cocke County until 1951 when my family relocated to Illinois.