Alfred “Alf” Dickinson 

Birth 21 Jul 1870 Cedar County, Missouri 
Death 26 Apr 1940 (aged 69) Jerome, Arizona
Burial Cottonwood Cemetery Cottonwood, Arizona, USA   Plot C 435

Alf was a member of a wagon train that left Humansville, Polk County, Missouri on 26 April 1875 and reached Wales Arnold's ranch near Montezuma Well in the Verde Valley on 23 August 1875.

The train took three months and twenty days to reach Verde Valley, going through Kansas City, Emporia and Dodge City, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico and continued west by the Old Star Mail route through Winslow and Holbrook, and on over a rocky trail which took them over the Mogollon Mountains, by way of Pine Springs, Stoneman's Lake then past Rattlesnake Tanks to the Verde Valley.

Alf was a hotel owner in Flagstaff, Arizona and a rancher.

Parents
Samuel Cotton Dickinson 1827–1907
Nancy Jane (Green) Dickinson 1836–1916

Spouse
Ida May (Van Deren) Dickinson 1876–1945

Siblings
Margie Ann Dickinson Back 1862–1926
Sam C Dickinson 1864–1864
Mariah May (Dickinson) Hawkins 1864–1889
Frank Lee Dickinson 1867–1925
William Green "Willy" Dickinson 1868–1931
Edward Virgil Dickinson 1872–1958

Half Siblings
Charles Dickinson 1853–1926

Children
Ralph Elwin Dickinson 1897–1918
Walter Edwin Dickinson 1899–1946
Rolland Brice "Don" Dickinson 1901–1918
Elma May (Dickinson) Knowles 1908–2002

The Coconino Sun April 14, 1911

Round Up Notice
The spring rodeo starts at Hayden's ranch April 25th. Alfred Dickinson elected rodeo boss.