DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to our forefathers
 who, with their strong character and pioneering spirit
helped make our nation what it is,
  
FOR
 
"Happy is the man who recalls his ancestors with pride, who treasures the story of their greatness, tells the tales of their heroic lives, and with joy too full for speech, realizes that fate has linked him with a race of goodly men." - - Carlysle

John Leslie Mixson
The Mixon-Mixson Family
Volume I

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