Son of John Mitchell Mixon #1607

1761 VERBON CORNELIUS MIXON, JOHN MITCHELL MIXON (1607), FLETCHER C. MIXON (1403), JOHN MIXON (1197), ISAAC MIXON (1052), JEHU MIXON II (989), JEHU MIXON (976), MICHA MIXON (701), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

Verbon Cornelius Mixon, s. of John Mitchell and Nettie Evelyn Ikner Mixon, was b. at Megargel, AL, Feb 16, 1931, d. Oct 20, 1993, bur. Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Uriah, AL. On Jul 19, 1953,  he m. Metty Joyce Petty, b. Sep 27, 1932, dau. of Bertram Elmore and Mettie Grimes Petty, at Lucedale, MS All their children were b. in Monroeville, AL
Children:

1766 George Michael Mixon - b. Jun 8, 1954

1767 Timothy Mitchell Mixon - b. Nov 15, 1960

1768 Teresa Lynn Mixon - b. Feb 19, 1965

 

1763 JOHN CARL MIXON, JOHN MITCHELL MIXON (1607), FLETCHER C. MIXON (1403), JOHN B. MIXON (1197), ISAAC MIXON (1052), JEHU MIXON II (989), JEHU MIXON (976), MICHA MIXON (701), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

John Carl Mixon, s. of John M. and Nettie E. Ikner Mixon, was b. at Megargel, AL, Jun 23, 1939, d. Aug 2, 2013, bur. Union Cemetery, Frisco City, Monroe County, AL. On Jun 5, 1958, he m. Angielou Bernatha Till, b. Jul 20, 1941, dau. of John Percy and Amanda Rebecca Bailey Till, at Brewton, AL
Children:

1769 Debra Ann Mixon - b. Dec 9, 1959

7690 Sherry Lynn Mixon - b. Jan 25, 1961

 

On the following is a copy of a letter written by Mary Mixon concerning information on the Micha Mixon family.

 

                                                                                                               Box 243 Lamar, SC Feb 3, 1933

Mrs. Willard B. Woodman

Marion, AR

 

Dear Cousin Anna:

 

Will now tell you a few things I have recently learned, as Willie spent the weekend with us three weeks ago and took us to Bishopville to visit my mother's niece, Mrs. Lester DuBose. She is about 63 years old, has a good memory, reads a lot and is a great talker, and seems very much interested in the Belk family history that you are wanting to assemble.

 

I told her about some of the things you wished to know. She told me quite a lot of things and I am going to tell you of it as follows:

 

Mrs. Lester, or Zuleka DuBose, granddaughter on her mother's side, and my grandmother (Phoebe Mixon Harris) were first cousins. Zuleka DuBose's father, Madison Waynewright Harris, was a brother to my mother, Elizabeth Harris (who married Wesley Alexander, my father). Mrs. Lester's, or Zuleka DuBose's great grandmother was Elizabeth Mixon Fields. Elizabeth Mixon Fields was sister to my great grandfather Jehu Mixon, the father of my grandmother Elizabeth Harris. Both Elizabeth Mixon Harris and Jehu Mixon were children of my great great grandfather Micha Mixon. Cousin Anna, both Elizabeth and Jehu were brother and sister to your great grandmother Anna Mixon, who married Jeremiah Belk of Darlington County, SC, back in the last quarter of the seventeen hundreds, or about that time, for your great grandmother, Elizabeth Belk was born you say in 1794 and being the child of Jeremiah and Anna Belk.

 

Mrs. DuBose got out her grandparents Fields' Bible over100 years old. Their family record in it is as follows: "John Fields married Elizabeth Mixon, dau. of Micha Mixon and his wife, Lydia." So Micha Mixon's wife's first name was Lydia. She also showed us a china bowl that her great grandmother Elizabeth Mixon Fields bought - not that she needed it, but because it was so very pretty. It is of floral design and the flowers look very bright right now, and we did enjoy looking at it. You remember the pitcher I wrote you about sometime ago, well it all goes together.

 

Mrs. DuBose has a copy of a paper published in Bishopville, SC about 25 years ago, or about 28 years ago, which had an article in it about Bishopville. It was written of it back in the time that it was nothing but Singleton's Cross Roads. The reason she kept it was because it brought in some Revolutionary War data on Micha Mixon. It stated when Marion and Sumter reached DuBose crossing (across Lynches River), they were brought over and entertained at Micha Mixon's home for three or four days.

 

Micha Mixon was one of the first settlers on this side so my cousin Zuleka DuBose told me. She told me that he owned property, many slaves, had a shoemaker and was independent. Zuleka said she had heard our grandfather shoemaker and was independent. Zuleka said she had heard our grandfather Harris say she had seen grandfather Micha Mixon's sword and some buckles he used when he was in the Revolutionary War.

She told me that my great grandparents, the old Jeremiah and Anna Belk home vas an old time two story house built out of the hearts of timbers (hewn logs, we called them) he had built for himself. His negro slave quarters were down back of it so Zuleka said. (I remember seeing the house once since my father and mother died).

Now this was the same home you see of great great grandparents, Jeremiah and Anna Belk, and they were my great grandparents on my father's side. (Wesley Alexander was son of Massey Belk Alexander and she was the dau. of Jeremiah and Anna Mixon Belk). Mrs. DuBose told me that Micha Mixon's lands were in the Darlington District. Her husband also told me the same thing.

 

The old Jeremiah Belk house burned about six or seven years ago and it would be a good house now if it had not burned. There is an old cemetery out there and Mr. and Mrs. DuBose said they believed all of Jeremiah Belk's family were buried out there. I am going to go out there soon as Willie can take me and see if I can find some slabs to any of their graves. They also told me they were of Methodist denomination and I am going to see if I can find any records about them at Old Cypress Methodist Church, the nearest Methodist Church to them.

 

Mrs. DuBose and myself hope you will visit us this summer and will take you to all these old family spots of interest to us as well as to yourself. I am, with much love,

Your cousin,

(s) Mary Mixon

(The newspaper referred to in above letter was "THE LEADER AVINDICATOR", March 11, 1909 issue, published in Bishopville).

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