Born in Boothsville, Marion County, West Virginia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jerome Wilson Nixon
and Saloma (Bice) Nixon
Sister of
Alice Ann Nixon
Wife of
Orpha Dorain Morris
— married
9 Oct 1926 in Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Betty Lou (Morris) Webb
Died
at age 89
in Bridgeport, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Apr 2016
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Biography
Georgia was born 18 August 1891 in Boothsville, Marion County, West Virginia.[1] She was the daughter of Jerome Wilson Nixon and Saloma Bice.
She married Orpha Dorain Morris on 9 October 1926 in Salem, Harrison County, in a ceremony performed by Geo. B. Shaw, Minister of the Gospel.[2]
Georgia died in September 1980 in Bridgeport, Harrison County,[3] and she is buried in Marshville in the Marshville Cemetery.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Marion County Birth Register 1: 166, no. 29, Georgia Edna Nixon, 18 August 1891; digital image, West Virginia Archives & History (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=2866093&Type=Birth : accessed April 2017).
- ↑ Harrison County Marriage Register 41: 448, Orphy Morris and Georgia Nixon, 9 October 1926; digital image, West Virginia Archives & History (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=55437&Type=Marriage : accessed April 2017).
- ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," Georgia Morris, September 1980, last residence Harrison County, West Virginia; database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPXB-NPV : accessed April 2017).
- ↑ Jeanne Herrod, "Georgia Edna Nixon Morris," Memorial no. 5993613, posted 24 November 2001; memorial with photograph, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5993613&ref=acom : accessed April 2017).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Georgia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Georgia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Georgia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Georgia:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Betty (Reed) Dowdell 
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~0.78%
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