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Grant County adopts resolution honoring Private Gerald Dixon, to be presented at reinterment
Summary
The board unanimously approved Resolution No. 10 honoring Private Gerald Dixon, a Buffalo Soldier whose sentence and treatment during World War I era events were described in the resolution; the county will present the resolution at a reinterment event this weekend.
A county commissioner read Resolution No. 10, a formal statement honoring Private Gerald Dixon and recognizing the historical injustice he endured. The resolution recounted Dixon’s service with the 24th Infantry (a Buffalo Soldier unit), cited an 08/23/1917 confrontation and its consequences, and described Dixon’s conviction, commutation and later parole. The reading said Dixon was born in Seymour, Indiana, lived in Marion, and passed away on Oct. 27, 1967.
A commissioner moved to approve Resolution No. 10, noting that earlier convictions of the men involved had been revisited and that the county planned to present the resolution at a reburial/reinternment ceremony. Commissioners Barnsley and Wright moved and seconded the resolution; the board approved it by voice vote.
The resolution will be signed after the meeting and formally presented to Dixon’s family at the event this weekend, the commissioners said.
All factual claims in the article about history are drawn from the resolution text read into the record and are reported here as the content of that resolution; the article does not independently verify those historical assertions.
