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This comes under "other". I didn't fnd her parents.
Charles Jenkins has her on RW WC.
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
If he is your brother-in-law or first cousin, this won't surprise you.
It looks to me like the widowed David remarried and is in Wayne County, MI in 1880:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's
Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
David DICKERSON Self M Male W 46 NY Farmer NY NY
Lura DICKERSON Wife M Female W 45 NY Keeping House NY CT
Jay DICKERSON Son S Male W 14 MI NY NY
Mamie DICKERSON Dau S Female W 7 MI NY NY
James HOLIDAY Other S Male W 23 NY Laborer NY NY
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Census Place Sumpter, Wayne, Michigan
The above is from
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/se...
The names and ages look pretty close, based on my experience. "Mamie" there
looks like Amanda May, named after her late mother.
This doesn't give you Amanda's parents, but it gives you a county to look in for
her death record. David might have moved after she died, but odds are he kept the farm and
married again.