Son of Jesse Mixon #1796

1847 WILLIAM THOMAS MIXON, JESSE MIXON (1796), JOHN MIXON (1775), JESSE MIXON (702), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

William Thomas Mixon, s. of Jesse and Elizabeth Mott Mixon, was b. 1852, MS., d. 1892 Chambers Co., TX, m. Sarah L T Cook, b. Dec 18, 1855, d. Nov 26, 1928.

Census:

1880 Navarro, TX, William T Mixon age 28, wife Sarah-21, children: Claud D-7, Leala-5, Willie T-1mo

Children (from 1880 census):

*20594 Claude Duval “Bud” Mixon – b. Dec 1, 1872, d. Jan 1, 1908, m. Oct 24, 1894 to Adeline Odelia "Della" Oakley, b. Sep 13, 1875, d. Feb 3, 1995

§20595 Elvie Anne Leila Mixon – b. Oct 1, 1874, d. Apr 11, 1918, m. Wilburn Hugh Blue, b. 1873, d. 1936

§20596 Willie Travis Mixon – b. Apr 25, 1880, d. Oct 15, 1971, m. Lecil L. Carter, b. 1870, d. 1939

 

1850 JOHN JAMES LAFAYETTE MIXON, JESSE MIXON (1796), JOHN MIXON (1775), JESSE MIXON (702), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

John James Lafayette Mixon, s. of Jesse and Elizabeth Mott Mixon, was b. in 1860 in MS, d. Jan 6, 1886 in the Galveston Storm. He was orphaned at about six years of age. He continued to live on the White Ranch with his sister Margaret Elizabeth Mixon after his mother's death. He m. Jan 14, 1879 to Laura Josephine Wallis, b. 1859 Wallisville in Chambers County, TX, d. 1888. She was the dau. of Soloman and Sarah Labadie Wallis. She was the granddau. of Dr. Nicholas Descomps Labadie, a surgeon in Gen. Sam Houston's Army. James "Fate" Mixon was a Captain on a boat which carried supplies to towns on Galveston Bay. A very bad storm came up in January of 1886, and he and the boat were lost. His body was washed up at Tremont Warf, and the boat was found at Smith's Point.

 

After her husband's death, Josephine Mixon moved to Colmesneil, TX, a lumber town, and ran a boarding house there. Her eldest daughter, Rowena Courtney, says she died when 28 years old, about 1888, only two years after her husband. She is buried in Wallis Hill Cemetery at Wallisville, Chambers County, TX. The land for the cemetery donated by Soloman Wallis. There is no headstone.

 

The children, Rowena and Jesse James Mixon, lived with their grandfather, Soloman Wallis, until around 1900. Rowena was looking over some belongings of her mother and came across a letter from her father's half-brother, A. G. Brown, of New Augusta, Mississippi. Rowena wrote to him, and when he heard from her, nothing would do but for she and her brother to come to Mississippi. She and her brother lived with Mr. Brown for a while and then with Sarah Stevens Courtney's family.

 

Children of James and Josephine Mixson:

§1925 Rowena Mixon - b. Feb 11, 1880 at Wallisville, TX, d. Mar 22, 1924

8163 Annie Dene Mixon - b. 1882 Wallisville, TX, d. ____ca 1888

1926 Jesse James Mixon - b. ca. 1884, d. Jun 18, 1922 at Camp Bullis in World War I, buried San Antonio National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX. unmarried.

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