Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9[1]
In 1832, Eliza was mentioned as a minor child of John Peters in a Knox Co., Ohio Chancery case, Thornhill vs Peters, where her uncle, Bryant Thornhill, filed against her father's estate and her mother and siblings.
1840 census -- Burlington Twnp, Licking Co., Ohio, USA
Name: Lydia Peters
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Burlington, Licking, Ohio
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 6[2]
She married Archibald Dixon sometime prior to 1843 probably in Licking Co., Ohio.
A daughter in the right age bracket does not appear in the 1840 household of Lydia Peters. Possibly Eliza was working out, living with family, or had already married (and she and Archibald had additional children who did not survive infancy indicating their marriage may have been earlier that 1842).
1850 census -- Burlington Twnp., Licking Co., Ohio, USA
Archibald Dixson, age 34, male, , farmer, born Ohio; Eliza Dixson, age 29, female, , born Ohio; Edith D Dixson, age 8, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Perry A Dixson, age 6, male, , born Ohio, attended school; Mary E Dixson, age 4, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Elimus M Dixson, age 2, male, , born Ohio; Phebe J Dixson, age 2/12, female, , born Ohio.[3]
1860 census -- Burlington Twnp., Licking Co., Ohio, USA
Archibald Dixon, age 42, male, , farmer, $4000 real estate, $668 personal property, born Ohio; Eliza Dixon, age 38, female, , housekeeper, born Ohio; Emily D Dixon, age 17, female, , housekeeper, born Ohio; Perryander Dixon, age 16, male, , farmer, born Ohio, attended school; Mary E Dixon, age 14, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Elmus N Dixon, age 12, male, , born Ohio, attended school; Phebe J Dixon, age 9, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Lydia A Dixon, age 8, female, , born Ohio, attended school; Eloisa M Dixon, age 3, female, , born Ohio; Fanny C Dixon, age 2, female, , born Ohio; John W Dixon, age 1/12, male, , born Ohio[4]
1870 census -- Bennington Twnp., Licking Co., Ohio, USA
Archibald Dixon, age 52, male, white, farmer, $4000 real estate, $930 personal property, born Ohio; Eliza Dixon, age 49, female, white, keeping house, born Ohio; Lydia A Dixon, age 17, female, white, assists in housekeeping, born Ohio, attended school; Malvina Dixon, age 14, female, white, attending school, born Ohio, attended school; Fanny Dixon, age 12, female, white, attending school, born Ohio, attended school; John Dixon, age 10, male, white, attending school, born Ohio, attended school[5]
1880 census -- Bennington Twnp., Licking Co., Ohio, USA
Archibald Dixon, white, male, age 61, married, farmer, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia; Eliza Dixon, white, female, age 57, wife, married, keeping house, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Melvina E Dixon, white, female, age 24, daughter, single, housekeeping, not at home, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; Fannie C Dixon, white, female, age 21, daughter, single, attended school, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; John Dixon, white, male, age 19, son, farm hand, single, not at home, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; John Houck, white, male, age 8, grandson, single, attending school, attended school, born Illinois, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio[6]
She died 5 December 1894 in Homer, Ohio.[7]She is buried in Homer Cemetery in Homer, Ohio.[8]
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42549240/eliza-dixon: accessed February 25, 2024), memorial page for Eliza Peters Dixon (1822–1894), Find A Grave: Memorial #42549240, citing Homer Cemetery, Homer, Licking County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by d clary (contributor 47126895).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eliza 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 Eliza: