Daughters of Joel Mixon #987

1038 ELIZABETH WILES MIXON, JOEL MIXON (987), JEHU MIXON (976), MICHA MIXON (701), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

Elizabeth Wiles Mixon, dau. of Joel and Phereby Phillen Mixon, was b. Dec 28, 1814 in Darlington District, SC, d. Feb 13, 1897 in Wilcox County, AL, m. Isaiah Jeremiah Hestle, Dec 16, 1830 in Wilcox County, b. Dec, 1809, d. May 11, 1893. Both bur Liberty Methodist Church Cemetery, Hestle, AL.  All following children were born in Wilcox County.
Children:

5104 Margaret J. Hestle - b. Dec 21, 1835, d. Oct 30, 1867, m. ____ Doak

18001 Angeline Hestle - b. Mar 1, 1838, d. Jul 17, 1847

5105 Mary E. Hestle - b. 1840, m. ____ Jones

5106 William Jasper Hestle - b. May 19, 1842, d. Jan 22, 1910, m. Elizabeth Laverna Powe, b. Aug 24, 1845, d. Feb 6, 1935

18003 Ophelia Hestle - b. Aug 19, 1847, d. Dec 18, 1923, m. R. H. G. Gaines, b. Nov 3, 1841, d. Jun 12, 1922

18002 Dixon Hestle - b. Jun 26, 1845, d. Apr 21, 1849

§5107 Anna Eliza Ophelia Hestle - b. 1846

5108 Virginia Hestle - b. 1849

5109 Amanda Hestle - b.

 

1039 PAMELA ANN MIXON, JOEL MIXON (987), JEHU MIXON (976), MICHA MIXON (701), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

Pamela Ann Mixon, dau. of Joel and Phereby Phillen Mixon, was - b. Oct 22, 1815, d. Nov 22, 1874, m. (1) William Mason, b. Jan 18, 1765, d. Nov 14, 1836, bur. Hasley Cemetery, West Monroe, LA. 
Children:

18228 Joseph Mason - b. May 12, 1833, d. Jul 15, 1836, bur. Hasley Cemetery, West Monroe, LA

 

Pamela m. (2) May 17, 1832 to William Wood Farmer, b. Apr 27, 1813, d. Oct 23, 1854, an attorney. They moved to LA, where he d. Oct 29, 1854. He was Lt. Gov. of the state, contracted yellow fever, d. in New Orleans.

From: Book "A", p. 486, Succession Records, Union Parish, LA

WILLIAM W. FARMER, Monroe, LA, d. 1854, leaving widow,

PERMELIA FARMER, Heirs

WILLIAM MILLS FARMER and

FRANCES ANGELINE FARMER.

JOEL MIXON appointed under tutor, Nov 9, 1855.

IBID. Book A-1, p. 483 Jan 7, 1868

Charles Morrison, Administrator of the estate of W. W. Farmer. Wife, Permelia A, Farmer Fannie Farmer.

(William Mills Farmer riot listed. He had died).

 

18004 William Wood Farmer, Jr. - b. Mar 29, 1840 d. Apr 14, 1883, bur. Old City Cemetery, Monroe, LA.  William was the only son of William Wood Farmer Sr.  Never married.

 

The war found him an ardent sympathizer with the South, and he joined Dreux's battalion [Co. D, 1st Special Battn.] and served the first term of his enlistment as a private. In 1862 he was chosen captain of a company that became a part of Morrison's regiment [Co. H, 31st LA Inf.]. He was engaged in all the battles preceding the investment of Vicksburg and was among the prisoners of that memorable surrender.

 

He was a member of the lower House of the State Legislature in 1880 and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. He was chosen by that assembly Judge of the Second Circuit and resigned. In 1881 he gave up the judgeship and resumed the practice of the law.

 

Judge Farmer's mind was large, his perception quick and his reasoning bordered upon intuition. There was no plodding — a case stated was covered by an opinion. His reading was extensive, his memory tenacious and the collation of the authorities was all that was necessary to confirm his conclusion. He was honest and had a supreme contempt for Quirk, Gammon & Snap practice. Whenever a client had a case to make he found in Farmer a lawyer unremitting in his exertions to secure his rights. He never made an effort to mislead a court by suppressing evidence, garbling authorities or toadying his views to judges in private. He rested upon the law and the evidence as they were written and his urged them with a force that every adversary dreaded.

 

As Judge of the Second Circuit he was laborious beyond his strength. He heard argument patiently, examined evidence closely, read authorities carefully and decided conscientiously. We have it from him that he made no law while in the ermine; that he was merely its interpreter, no matter at times of its distastefulness.

Judge Farmer never married, and a name that will ever be remembered in Louisiana with honor is now extinct.

 

Family records state that Frances ("Fannie") Angeline Farmer had married Charles H. Morrison.
They had only one child, FARMER MORRISON, who had married and had several children. They had made their home at Roanoke, Va.

 

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