Born 1883, died 1977, buried Green Mount Cemetery, West Chester , Pa. Married J. Oscar Dicks, M.D. (1875-1938), buried in same place. See also AP-5507. Sister of Mildred Brooks, see AP-8346.
She lived from 1840 to 1919. She escaped from John Y. Mason's Fortsville Plantation with two of her children and her brother Andison Parham and his daughter. They fled to the Union army as it passed Fortsville plantation on the way to Petersburg in 1864. Martha Jane and Andison Parham worked for the Union army at the siege of Petersburg before continuing north to the Arlington Heights refugee camp on the outskirts of Washinton, D.C.
