Mixon-Mixson Genealogy
Sons of Archibald Kirkland Mixson #709
735 JAMES JOYCE
MIXSON, ARCHIBALD MIXSON (709), JOHN C. MIXSON (706), JOHN C. MIXSON
(700), JOHN MIXSON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN
MIXON I (1)
James Joyce Mixson, son of Archibald K. and
Elizabeth Calhoun Mixson, was b. in Barnwell County, SC Sep 16, 1832, d.
Jan 6, 1919, bur
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Archer, Alachua County, FL. On Sep 17, 1857,
James m. Elizabeth
Stanyard Johnson, b. Sep 19, 1841, d. Dec 26, 1927, dau. Of James
Beckett and Elizabeth Calhoun Johnson. Wounded in Jonesboro GA on Aug
31, 1864, Shot in left shoulder hereby losing bones in arm. Doctor
report says “that his left arm and position of left-scapula had to be
selected from being wounded at Jonesboro GA – which makes left-arm
comparatively useless.”(Updates
from
FL Civil War Pension Records)
All their children (except
the second) were born near the present town of Williston, FL, in an area
of Marion County later transferred to Levy County in the late 1800's.
The second child, Archibald James Kirkland Mixson (790) was born on the
James Beckett Johnson plantation near Johnson's Landing on the Savannah
River in Barnwell District, South Carolina.
James Joyce Mixson
James Joyce Mixson was born in Barnwell District, South Carolina, September 14, 1832. He was deprived of his mother by death when a very small child; at 18 years of age he was overseeing for the largest planter in Screven County, Ga. Six years later he brought his father's negroes, mules and horses overland to Marion County, Fla. , where he engaged in farming and stock raising. He returned to Barnwell District, SC , Sept. 17, 1857 and was married to Elizabeth S. Johnson. On returning to Fla. , he purchased a farm near Archer in Alachua County and engaged in farming until the Civil War broke out and joining the 7th Fla. Infantry, April 12, 1862, went directly to Virginia where he followed the varying fortunes mf Stonewall Jackson and Longstreet. He was at both battles of Manassas and Bull Run, where no army in the world could stand up before the Southern riflemen. He went to Tennessee with Longstreet and was in both battles of Lookout Mountain and Cumberland Gap. It was this campaign where the Southern soldiers suffered terribly of cold, almost without shoes and clothes. During the rigors of winter, he was sent under Joseph E. Johnson to oppose Sherman, where at Jonesboro, on first day Hood took command when thirty thousand Confederates were ordered to charge one hundred thousand Federals in their trenches, a fragment of, shell struck his left shoulder and tore it to pieces. At the end of the Civil War, like other Southern soldiers, he helped to build a new South out of the old. He was always an ardent sportsman and kept a pack of hounds for the chasing of deer, fox and wildcat, and prior to the freeing of the slaves, a pack for catching runaway negroes. He was a member of the Baptist Church, also of Free Masons for sixty years and stated a short time before he died that he always lived up to the tenets and obligations of that order. He died January 6, 1919 at the home of his son, J. M. Mixson, near Williston, Levy County. From Find a Grave
James Joyce Mixson
THE JAMES JOYCE MIXSON (735)
FAMILY
Mr. Mixson was named for an
uncle, James Joyce Mixson #(711) Left to right (seated), James Joyce
Mixson II and wife, Elizabeth Stanyarne Johnson Mixson, and her mother,
Elizabeth Ann Calhoun Johnson. Middle row, Pasley Elhannon Mixson (#
796), girl at right Helen Mixson (#797), (both standing).
Civil War Record:
Enlistment date: Apr, 12, 1862; place: Camp Lee, FL; Rank: 2rd Sergt; Regiment: 7th Infantry; Casualty Date: Sep 2, 1864; Casualty Place: Jonesboro, Georgia; Type of Casualty: Wounded; Casualty Information: Severe wound in shoulder
Census:
1860 Division 17, Alachua, FL, age 27, wife Elizabeth S-18, children: Sarah E-1
1880 Willis Mills, Levy, FL, age 48, wife Elizabeth-38, children: Archer-19, Mary-16, Harriet-13, John-8, Eugene-6, Paul-6mo
1885 District 3, Levy, FL, FL State Census, age 52, wife Elizabeth-43, children: March-23, John-13, Eugene-10, Pauline-4, Pasly-2
1900 Williston, Levy, FL, age 68, wife E S-58, children: Pauline-20, Pasley-17, Helen-14
1910 Williston, Levy, FL, age 77, wife Elizabeth-69, Eugene S-39, dau in law Eliza Mixson-52
1920 New Orleans Ward 12, Orleans, LA, Elizabeth Mixson age 78, widowed, living with dau. and her husband Thomas McCarroll-37, Helen McCarroll-34
Children:
§789 Elizabeth Sarah Mixson - b. Dec 11, 1858, d. May 26, 1940, m. Joseph M. Edwards, Jan 28, 1875
*790 Archibald James Kirkland Mixson - b. Sep 26, 1860, Jan 13, 1938
§791 Mary Walton Mixson - b. Feb 11, 1864, d. May 18, 1917
792 Harriett Hasseltine Mixson - b. Aug 13, 1866, d. Jun 5, 1882, bur. Laurel Hill Cemetery, Archer, Alachua County, FL
*793 John Micajah Mixson - b. Jul 4, 1871, d. Nov 20, 1948
794 Eugene St. Eval Mixson - b. Mar 15, 1874, Williston, FL, d. Aug 18, 1917, bur. Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL. He m. Elizabeth R. Matthews, b. Nov 17, 1857, d. Jul 19, 1929, dau. of Dr. and Mrs. W.L. Matthews. No issue.
E. S. Mixson Killed
Mr. E. S. Mixson of
near Williston and a negro servant named Brown Lewis were returning home
from Williston Saturday noon when their car was struck by a northbound
Atlantic Coast Line passenger train at the crossing two and one half
miles from town. Both were
injured fatally, tying two and three hours later. The car was completely
demolished.
Mr. Mixson was a brother of the late Mrs. Chas. J. Phillips
and a prominent and highly respected citizen of the Williston section.
His death is greatly deplored. There has been quite an epidemic of
railroad versus auto accidents in the Williston section in the past
three months.
§795 Pauline Rosa Mixson - b. Apr 9, 1880, d. Jun 1969 in New Orleans, LA
796 Pasley Elhannon Mixson - b. Nov 2, 1882, He m. (1), about 1910 Gertrude Craven of Raleigh, FL They had two daughters, one of which died in a fire at High Springs, FL The other daughter and the mother were living in or near Plant City, FL The mother later married a Mr. Smith.
m. (2) Sep 19, 1912 in Clinch, GA to Sallie Will Simmons, b. Aug 22, 1895, d. Jul 3, 1959 in Bexar TX. They had one child, a daughter,
6827 Rubye Bishop Mixson - b. Sep 25, 1914, d. Apr 24, 1987, m. William Howard Lawson, b. Apr 6, 1909, d. Apr 3 1987.
Census:
1930 Precinct 1, Karnes, TX, Sally W Mixon age 34, with dau. Rube B Mixon-18
1940 San Antonio, Bexar, TX. William age 30, wife Ruby-26, children: Keonard B-8, Tommy E-6, Hazel Joe-3
Children:
21065 Keonard B. Lawson – b. abt 1932
21066 Tommy E Lawson – b. abt 1934
21067 Hazel Joe Lawson – b. abt 1937
m. (3) ____, of Chicago. They lived at Williston, FL for a time, but moved to Chicago about 1948.
§797 Helen Mixson - b. Nov 29, 1885, d. Dec 24, 1974, in New Orleans, LA, m. Thomas McCarroll.
The Mixson’s Bone Bed
J. J. Mixson of south Archer
Florida has a very interesting hill of prehistoric animal remains for
the geologist to look after. Dr. J. C Neal formerly of Archer, now
of Lake City, frequently examined them, both scientifically and
curiously; sending a numerous specimens to the Smithsonian Institute,
but it remains for the geologists to determine their full character and
value.
The Morning News, Savannah GA, March 1, 1890
In 1884 James Joyce Mixson found an interesting bone on his plantation which appeared to be very old. James then contacted Dr. John C. Neal who upon further excavation found many fossilized bones who sent the fossils to the Smithsonian in Washington DC which then forward them to Leidy for further study. Recognizing their significance, Leidy requested that the United State Geological Survey investigate the site which they did so in 1884-1885. All of the specimens from this first excavation phase are housed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. A second major excavation was done in the late 1930’s and 1940’s which were transferred to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and made available for study.
The fossils were determined to be from the late Miocene Epoch; early Hemphillian (Hemphillian 1) land mammal age, about 8 to 9 million years old (estimated). Leidy named nine new species based on fossils from Mixson’s Bone Bed, two rhinoceroses, two hipparion horses, three camelids, one gomphothere proboscidian, and one suid. The latter he quickly realized was an error and was in fact the lower tusk-like incisor of a rhino. Of these, six are still regarded as valid species.
See more at The Florida Museum, Mixson’s Bone Bed
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