Sons of James Joyce Mixson #735

790 ARCHIBALD JAMES KIRKLAND MIXSON, JAMES JOYCE MIXSON (735), ARCHIBALD K. 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)

 

Archibald James Kirkland Mixson, son of James Joyce and Elizabeth Stanyarne Johnson Mixson, was born in Barnwell District, SC , Sep 26, 1860 while his mother was visiting her parents, d. Jan 13,1938, buried in the Wacahoota Baptist Cemetery, Alachua County, FL. He was named James for his father and Archibald Kirkland for his grandfather, but later dropped the “Kirkland” because his name was too long. On Feb 2, 1893, he m. Mattie Ella Mims (a third cousin) on her father's plantation near the Savannah River in Screven County, Georgia, b. Jul 18, 1860, d. May 26, 1910, bur. Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL, dau. of Thomas Shadrack and Mary Elizabeth Lyons Mims of Screven County, GA

Census:

1900 Williston, Levy, FL, age 39, wife E M-39, children: Thomas G-6, Harold-5, James A-3, Marie 1

1910 Williston, Levy, FL, age49, wife E M-49, children: Goodwin-16, Harrold-15, Augustus-13, Marie-11, Lizzie-9, Jay-6

1920 Williston, Levy, FL. age 54. wife Mary-27, children: Charles William-1, Frances Saunders Mixon-1, A J-16

1930 Williston, Levy, FL, age 69, wife Mary-37, children: step dau. Frances-17, Charles-11, Herman-7, Marjorie-9, Doris-5, James-1, niece Liza Jean Mixson-13

All their children were b. in FL

*869 Thomas Goodwin Mixson - b. Oct 12, 1893, d. 1986

*870 Harold Joyce Mixson - b. Sep 25, 1895, d. Aug 29, 1959

871 James Augustus Mixson - b. Sep 25, 1896, Williston, FL, d. Mar 30, 1989, bur. Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL, m. May 10, 1919 to Juliet Roberts Cummings - b. Apr 12, 1894, in Washington DC, d. Feb 26, 1992, bur. Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL. She was the dau. of Joseph Franklin and Emily Miller Umberger Cummings of Sunbury, Northumberland, Pa. He is a Brigadier General, U.S. Marines (Ret'd). They have no children.
James served in WWI in the army, 2nd Lt. stationed in the US at Wintrhop, MD; Quantico, VA; Parris Island, SC; 6th Brig Cuba; 1^st Brig Haiti.

872 Mary Ella Mixson - b. Nov 20, 1898, d. Feb 27, 1969, did not marry.

873 Elizabeth Georgia Mixson - b. Jan 24, 1901, d. Aug 26, 1996, bur Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL. She was a retired Lt. Col., U. S. Army Nurse Corps. During her long service in the Army Nurse Corps, she was on duty in many parts of the world, 278the Philippine Islands (under Gen. Douglas MacArthur), the Hawaiian Islands, on both coasts of the United States and in between, and during World War II (The Great War) she was Chief Nurse of the 125th General Hospital in England, and later (by request of the Chief Medical Officer) was Chief Nurse of the 820th Hospital Center in Nancy, France, where she had supervision over all the nurses in the mobile hospitals of the assault armies.

874 Archibald James Mixson - b. Oct7, 1903, Williston, FL, d. Jul 2, 1972, m. Lois Willodean Edwards - b. Jan 22, 1900, d. Oct 17, 1983, dau. of John Edwin and Palona Annette Edwards, Mar 24, 1932. The wedding was held at Apalachicola, FL. Both bur Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL They have no children.

 

Archibald James Kirkland Mixson m. (2) Dec 18, 1916, Mary Heim Saunders, a widow, b. Dec 25, 1892, d. Aug 21, 1969, bur. Wacahoota Baptist Cemetery, Alachua County, FL, dau. of William Henry and Lucetta Weitega Heim of Chicago, a family of German descent. Mrs. Mixson had one child by her first marriage, Frances Elizabeth Saunders. All following children were born at Williston, FL:

875 Charles William Mixson - b. Aug 23, 1918, Williston, FL, d. Apr 5, 2011, bur. Orange Hill Cemetery, Williston, FL, m. Marguerite Horne on Feb 2, 1941.
Children:

§6835 Marguerite Annette Mixson - b. Apr 16, 1942

6836 Cynthia Sue Mixson - b. Sep 27, 1949, m. Jul 25, 1970, Earl Eugene Waters - b. Dec 30, 1949.

6837 Mary Florence Mixson - b. Apr 26, 1953

§876 Marjorie Julia Mixson - b. Aug 23, 1920, d. 2016, m. Herman Lloy Fagley, Feb 18, 1950

*877 Herman Louis Mixson - b. Feb 12, 1923, d. Jan 6, 2010

§878 Doris Hanson Mixson - b. Mar 26, 1925, d. 2011, m. Albert Edward Barker, Jr.

879 James Kirkland Mixson - b. Oct 5, 1928, Williston, FL, m. Elizabeth Ann White. They have no children.

880 Joseph Johnson Mixson - b. May 3, 1932, Williston, FL, m. Apr 30, 1951 to Natalie Mary Henderson, b. Oct 4, 1935, Miami, FL, dau. of Woodrow Pickett and Mary Ann Ward Henderson, on Apr 30, 1951, at Gainesville, FL Children:

6840 Brenda Joyce Mixson - b. Feb 7, 1953 at Williston, FL , married, Aug 20, 1971, William Owen Shoemaker - b. March 25, 1951. They live in San Francisco, CA. No children.

6841 Joseph Johnson Mixson, Jr. - b. Jan 1, 1955 at Williston, FL, m. March 7, 1954, Karon Kim Wilson - b. Jan 23, 1957.

881 Miles Edward Mixson - b. Jun 2, 1935, Williston, FL, m. Jun 19, 1958, in First Presbyterian Church of Cherryville, NC., to Meta Christine Devine - b. Oct 22, 1935 at Asheville, NC, dau. of Hilbert and Katherine Maxine Costner Devine. Major, U. S. Marine Corps.
Children:

6842 Kathi Dian Mixson - b. Mar 29, 1959 at Fredericksburg, VA

6843 Kaura Frances Mixson - b. Jul 10, 1961 at Pensacola, FL

 

 

MATTIE ELLA MIMS MIXSON
OBITUARY

"MATTIE ELLA MIMS MIXSON, wife of A. J. Mixson, Williston, FL , was born in Screven County, Georgia, Jul 9, 1860, and died at her home, May 26, 1910. She was the fourth daughter and the eleventh child of Dr. Thos. S. and Mary E. Mims. Her father was a native of Barnwell County, SC , but moved to Screven County, Georgia, in 1840, where he lived for sixty-six years in the perfect confidence of his neighbors as physician and citizen. Her mother was Mary Elizabeth Lines, born in Liberty County; GA , and reared chiefly in Bulloch County, GA , where she married at her mother's home in 1810 in the seventeenth year of her age. This mother is remembered as a woman of refinement and of face and character alike, beautiful - these the daughter inherited in no small degree. Mrs. Mixson has left in sorrow a husband and six children, four sons and two daughters, who will ever remember her thoughtful, self-sacrificing devotion to their care and their interest. There are also four brothers and a sister, and three half sisters and one half brother that are saddened in that she is no longer with us, but consoled by the consciousness that it is such as she who make up the Kingdom of Heaven. Mrs. Mixson was a member of the Independent Presbyterian Church at Savannah, GA , having joined that church at the age of seventeen, while attending a boarding school in that city. The learned and faithful Dr. Axson was the rector. She continued steadfast to that faith. Mrs. Mixson inherited to a marked degree the dignity of bearing and lofty purposes of her resolute, ambitious and honorable father, and the tender, gentle, lovable character of her angelic mother.

 

The precious memory of this handsome, amiable, kindhearted, courteous and intelligent woman will abide with those who were near to her, as long as life shall last, and serve, it is believed, as an inspiration to higher ideals of life.”

 

Written by her brother, JAMES AUGUSTUS MIMS, M.D.

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