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1775 JOHN JEHU MIXON, JESSE MIXON (702), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

John Jehu Mixon, s. of Jesse and Elizabeth Mixon, was b. in Effingham County, GA in 1792, d. Oct 3, 1855 from an accident that happened to him at his mill. He married on Aug 1, 1822 in Marion County, bur. Sweetwater Cemetery, Perry County, MS, MS to Rebecca Slade, the dau. of Samuel and Matilda? (Irby) Slade. She was born in Barnwell District, SC, on Mar 15, 1807, d. March 1878.  Rebecca Mixon is buried on land belonging to John Franklin Mixon at one time, and now belongs to a Mr. Clinton, son of a Mr. Clinton who ran Clinton Lumber Company. The cemetery is off a road which runs parallel to the Indian Springs Road.

Census:

1850 Perry, MS, age 58, wife Rebecca-45, children: John-24, Franklin-17, Henry-16, Sarah-10, Harrison-7, Washington-5, Cornelius-3

1870 On Tallahala Creek, Perry, MS, Rebecca-58 and dau. Rachael-18, with son George-26 wife Jane-26, also mother and son Rebuen’s children: Frank-13, Lizzie-12, Acey-9

Children:

*1794 Reuben Mixon - b. Jul 27, 1825, d. Oct 2, 1862, in a hospital in Chattanooga, TN.

*1795 John Christopher Mixon - b. Jan 18, 1827, d. Dec 24, 1914

*1796 Jesse Obediah Mixon - b. Jan 18, 1829, d. Mar 12 or 25, 1963

§1797 Mary Ann Mixon - b. ca. 1831, m. William Mark Stephens

*1798 Benjamin Franklin Mixon - b. 1833, d. Jul 22, 1863

*1799 Henry Clay Mixon - b. ca. 1835

§1800 Sarah Mixon - b. Dec 19, 1838, d. Jan 20, 1901, m. Pleasant T. Gillis

1801 William Harrison Mixon - b. Mar 12, 1843, enlisted in the Confederate Army, May 13, 1862, at Mobile, AL, by J. B. Kennedy. He was absent in hospital in Kentucky, February 5, 1863, and died in hospital in Shelbyville, Tennessee, March 2, 1863. unmarried

*1802 George Washington Mixon - b. Mar 27, 1845, d. Sep 11, 1902, m. Jane Mathis

*1803 Cornelius Victor Mixon - b. Mar 10, 1847, d. Oct 10, 1908

§1804 Rachel Mixon - b. 1852, d. March 1, 1923, m. Alpheus Draughn

 

From Marguerite Richardson Biemer
The Mixon-Mixson Family Volume II

This story is from Grandmother and from Cousin Biddie McAdory: Rebecca's mother was the daughter of an Indian Princess, whose Indian name meant White Star. The princess was baptized and took the Christian name, Rebecca, and married Dave? Irby. The Indian family name was Urey (correct spelling not known), and they belonged to the Cherokee Tribe.

 

During the Civil War some Federal Soldiers came to Rebecca's home. They tried to burn down the mill by running it without grain. One of Rebbeca's negroes, Handy, slipped out and opened the gate so the water ran out of the pond so the mill could not run. Then the soldiers told two negro boys to catch the chickens for them. Handy told them they "better not let him see then catch any of Miss Becky's chickens", so the boys ran and chased the chickens, but could not catch even one. Then the soldiers took a young hog, killed it, and tore up a fence for firewood. They used all the corn to feed their horses.

 

Shortly after the Civil War, Mr. Carpenter took Rebecca's home for payment for building the mill. John Mixon had died without talking, did not have the money on him he said was for payment for the building, nor had a receipt to show payment. The land was sold to a Mr. Denham, and a Mr. Kennedy bought the parcel where John and Rebecca Mixon had lived. He moved her house to a place seven miles north of Tallahala Creek where she lived the rest of her life. Most of this land was very swampy and not too good for farming, according to Mrs. Lizzie Morren.

 

Mrs. Vardaman Davis said her grandparents, the Cornelius Mixons, visited Rebecca Mixon to show her a new grandchild, about six weeks of age. Rebecca was in a rocking chair and holding the baby while they talked. They noticed Rebecca did not have much to say, and asked her a direct question which she did not answer. The baby was taken from her and they checked to see if Rebecca was all right, but she had died It is not known what year she died Cornelius' first baby, Mary Adeline Mixon was born December 26, 1875, and his second child, Annie Nebraska Mixon was born February 2, 1878. Cornelius' third child, Rebecca Polina Mixon was born July 3, 1880, and was named for her two grandmothers. If she were the first child born after Rebecca died, and named for her, then it may be Rebecca Mixon died in March 1878, which seems to be right.

 

Note: I (LMM) received an email from Michele Lewis in May of 2023 who did some research on Rebecca Slade who provided the following.  

 

There is no evidence that Samuel Slade ever married a woman by the name of Elizabeth Matilda Irby (a very specific name) other than “everyone says so.” If you have some solid evidence I would LOVE to see it! I descend from Daniel Grantham and Sarah Slade. I have neglected this line for quite some time and I'm trying to really work on it hard.

 

Family lore is that Elizabeth’s mother was Native American. I wanted to investigate if there was a chance this could be true so I found a direct line female descendent of Samuel Slade's wife and I just got the results back. This is mitochondrial DNA not autosomal DNA like Ancestry.  I am not sure how much experience you have with DNA so I wanted to make that distinction.

Here is the tester's line...

 

Elizabeth Irby

to Sarah Slade

to Mary Grantham

to Corrine Graham

to Claudia Simmons

to Eula Lee

to LIVING female

to LIVING female (tester)

 

Native American is associated with haplogroups A, B, C, and D. The tester’s haplogroup is H1a. From Family Tree DNA, "Mitochondrial haplogroup H is a predominantly European haplogroup that originated outside of Europe before the last glacial maximum (LGM). It first expanded in the northern Near East and the southern Caucasus between 33,000 and 26,000 years ago, and later migrations from Iberia suggest it reached Europe before the LGM. It has also spread to Siberia and Inner Asia. Today, about 40% of all mitochondrial lineages in Europe are classified as haplogroup H."

 

So whoever Sarah Slade’s mother was (Elizabeth Irby or otherwise) DNA says she was not Native American, at least not on her maternal line.

 

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