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Royal Dixon and Chester Snowden Photos Clippings March 11, 1916 Read a PDF of this article, which includes the text Several
of the articles I have are from old newspapers and show full pages,
therefore are December 10, 1916 January 14, 1917 Below is an unexpected find, Dixon's passport application March 14 1921 March 27, 1921 PDF
file of photos of early clippings, late teens to ~1921 March 1921 May
5, 1927 Note
in the pargraph that starts "Likes Houston": August 26, 1928 May 5, 1929 it mentions
Snowden "who has illustrated a number of Dixon's books," correspondence with the same camp in 1930 September 12, 1929 September 22, 1929 Download a PDF of this article December 15, 1929 Download a PDF of this article May 14, 1930 January 3, 1932 June 6, 1933 September 11, 1934 below is the house at 1310 Truxillo (renovated in 2001)
September 15, 1935 December 20, 1935 December 3, 1936 1936 February 3, 1937 July 29, 1938
Below
is a rare find, the 1940 Census....with Snowden listed as November 24, 1940 January 27, 1946 December 27, 1946 April 20, 1947 February 13, 1952 below, Snowden in March 1952 October 18, 1953 April 20, 1955 January 15, 1958 Gaps
in the clippings found at this point. Dixon had died in 1962. Note:
both obits say he was survived by his "foster son" Chester
Snowden February 2, 1964 October 13, 1966 1966 (at left), and at right, November 14, 1968
Snowden
Death Certificate also
see
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