Otis Mixon Sr. (1894 - 1950)

Born 30 Mar 1894 in Garrads, Wright's Creek, Geneva, Alabama, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Son of Travis M. Mixon Sr. and Frances Ann Elizabeth (Hodges) Mixon

Husband of Margaret Gertrude (Watford) Mixon — married 16 Jan 1921 in Geneva, Alabama, United States

Descendants

Died 5 Jun 1950 at age 56 in Dothan, Houston, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Otis was born on March 30, 1894, the fourth son and fifth child of Travis Mixon and Frances Hodges.^[1] He was probably born in Garrads, Wright's Creek, Geneva, Alabama, where he and his family were living in 1900. ^[2]

He had brown eyes.

As of around 1917, he had dark hair, and both a medium build and height. ^[3]

In the first week of May 1950, while on vacation in Fort Pierce, Florida, Otis slipped in the shower and fractured his hip. Five weeks later, on June 3, 1950, he was transferred from Fort Pierce to Dothan, Alabama in an ambulance which collided with a drunk log trucker in Clewiston, FL. He passed away in a Dothan Hospital around 5pm on June 5, 1950. ^{[4] [5]}

Sources

1. ↑ Parental relationships are confirmed by a 23andMe test match between Living Mixon and Living Owens, second cousins once removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Travis Mixon and Frances (Hodges) Mixon, the great-grandparents of Living Mixon and 2nd great-grandparents of Living Owens. Predicted relationship from 23andMe: Third Cousins, based on sharing 158 cM across 6 segments.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M98K-8BY : accessed 9 March 2022), Otis Mixon in household of Travis Mixon, Precincts 2, 4 Garrards, Wright's Creek, Geneva, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 72, sheet, family, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm.
3. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3PN-VB4 : accessed 20 May 2022), Otis Mixon, 1917-1918.
4. ↑ "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J63C-SJC : 09 March 2022), Otis Mixon, 1950.
5. ↑ * "Otis Mixon Passes at Hospital Here", newspapers.com, The Dothan Eagle, 06 Jun 1950, https://www.newspapers.com/image/538996649/. Accessed 11 Nov 2021.

• Mixsonian: Mixon/Mixson Genealogy: Person 2268
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXZT-4PH : accessed 9 March 2022), Otis Mixon in entry for T Mixon, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3FBB-BT2 : accessed 9 March 2022), Otice Mixon, Cottonwood, Houston, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 19B, line 78, family 395, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 19; FHL microfilm 2,339,754.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1GJ-W6Y : accessed 9 March 2022), Otis Mixon, Election Precinct 6 Cottonwood, Houston, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 35-26, sheet 7A, line 5, family 113, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 39.
• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/33110736/otis-mixon : accessed 12 August 2021), memorial page for Otis Mixon Sr. (30 Mar 1894–5 Jun 1950), Find A Grave: Memorial #33110736, citing Big Creek United Methodist Church Cemetery, Dothan, Houston County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Martha Box (contributor 48792761).
• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21F-71X3 : 9 March 2022), Otis Mixon in entry for Otis Mixon and Mabel Granger, 31 Jul 1957; citing Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,892,884.
• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q216-6MV2 : 19 February 2021), Otis Mixon in entry for John R Mixon and Mavis Lorraine Powell, 26 Dec 1951; citing Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,892,833.