James Nix (1812 - 1882)

Born Jul 1812 in Eastanolle Creek, Franklin County, Georgia, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Collins) Nix — married 12 Mar 1834 (to 1859) in Habersham County, Georgia, USA

Descendants

Died 2 Oct 1882 at age 70 in Blairsville, Union, Georgia, USA

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• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between David Roberds and Kathy King his fifth cousin 2x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are their 4th-great grandparents, Joseph Randel and Ann Unknown. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 4th-6th Cousins, based on sharing 27 cM across 2 segments.

Biography

Jimmy Nix was a son of William and Susannah Stonecypher Nix. Jimmy married first Elizabeth "Betsy" Collins. They had fifteen children. Betsy died in November of 1859. When the Civil War was raging, Jimmy married Carolina Elizabeth Duckworth, who became a loving stepmother to his children. Jimmy enlisted on December 14, 1863 in Company 2 of the Georgia State Militia. To Carolina and Jimmy, four children were born: Mary Eveline, Nancy, Buddy and Sophronia Jane. She would be the youngest to live of Jimmy's twenty children. Her mother died before 1870 when Sophronia Jane was a little over two years old. Jimmy Nix, Jane's father, married the third time to her aunt, her mother's younger sister, Rebecca Evaline Duckworth, in 1872. Jimmy and Evaline's one child was stillborn.

The Nix homestead, on which James Nix had settled on the 160 acres of land he had secured in the land lottery when Union County was new, was in the area of Choestoe where the present-day Richard Russell Scenic Highway intersects with Fisher Field Road. Here the Nix children grew up, going to the local one-room school at Hood's Chapel for their education

Jimmy is buried in Old Choestoe Cemetery, Georgia.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 September 2018), memorial page for James “Jimmy” Nix (1812–1882), Find A Grave Memorial no. 11054844, citing Old Choestoe Cemetery, Choestoe, Union County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Steve Scott (contributor 48936686) .

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZY8-165 : 12 April 2016), James Nix, Union county, Union, Georgia, United States; citing family 664, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMG-ZQR : 13 December 2017), James Nix, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCQM-5KQ : 12 April 2016), James Nix, Georgia, United States; citing p. 47, family 334, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,678.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8P3-ZBT : 11 August 2017), James Nix, Choestoe, Union, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 181, sheet 166C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0169; FHL microfilm 1,254,169.
• Ancestry Family Trees , http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=104021607&pid=389