Daughters of Benjamin Franklin Mixon #1798
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1854 MARTHA JANE MIXON, BENJAMIN F. MIXON (1798), JOHN MIXON (1775), JESSE MIXON (702), JOHN MIXON IV (6), JOHN MIXON III (3), JOHN MIXON II (2), JOHN MIXON I (1)

 

Martha Jane Mixon, dau. of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth Welch Mixon, was b. Mar 25, 1862 in Perry County, MS, d. Jan 25, 1935 Perry Co., MS. She m. Mar 8, 1882 to Robert Randolph Ferguson, b. Sep 19, 1854, d. Nov 8, 1928. Both bur. Ferguson Cemetery, Perry County, MS

 

Martha Jane Ferguson, baby of her family, was the first to marry on the Eighth of March, 1882, to Robert Randolph Ferguson who was the baby in his family. They lived with Elizabeth Mixon until their first child, Nancy Bridget, was one and a half years old, when they homesteaded land next to Elizabeth's land.

 

Jane and Randolph Ferguson's first house was a log house with a wooden floor, brick chimney, and glass windows. It had two rooms, front porch and a back porch. The kitchen was built separately with a walk connecting it to the house. The Fergusons bought John Mixon's house when he moved to Perkinston. It was lost by fire around 1932.

 

Robert Randolph Ferguson was the son of Angus and Dicy Cooper Ferguson. He was reared in a house his father built a quarter of a mile southwest of Good Hope Presbyterian Church just across a small branch that ran south of the church and about a mile southwest of the old John Ferguson home. He was county superintendent of education in Perry County, preceding Dr. E. J. Currie. He also taught in the schools of Perry County.

 

Jane and Randolph Ferguson had four boys in World War I, and a daughter a nurse at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. The youngest son, Robert, wanted to go to war, but Aunt Jane would not sign the papers for him, as he was the last of her boys and so young. As soon as he was of age, he did join the army and died in France at Argonne Forest.

CChildren of Martha and Robert Ferguson are:

§8195 Nancy Bridgett Ferguson - b. Apr 4, 1883 Perry Co., MS, d. Dec 3, 1976, m. John Lloyd McAdory

8196 Angus Franklin Ferguson - b. May 12, 1885 Perry Co., MS, d. Aug 28, 1911, bur. Ferguson Cemetery,, Perry County, MS

§8197 John Andrew Ferguson - b. May 18, 1887 Perry Co., MS, d. Apr 1, 1960, m. Jul 25, 1923 to Jewel Gertrude Albaitton

8198 Sarah Margaret Ferguson - b. Apr 14, 1889 Perry Co., MS, d. 1959 Jacksonville, Fla, m. Nov 21, 1917 to James E. Lyons. She was a nurse at Camp Shelby, MS, World War I.

§8199 Terrell Elizabeth Ferguson - b. Apr 23, 1891 Perry Co., MS, d. Jul 27, 1969, m. Sep 22, 1917 to Ira Bertrand Cochran

§8200 Mary Rebecca Ferguson - b. Aug 31, 1895 Perry Co., MS, d. Apr 15, 1966, m. (1) Preston Charles Brown.

8201 Henry Bertrand Ferguson - b. Jan 23, 1896, d. Jan 11, 1973, bur. Ferguson Cemetery, Perry County, MS, m. 1923 to Myrtis Ora Mixon ( see #1938). Children listed under Myrtis Ora Mixon #1938

8202 Ripley Stewart Ferguson - b. Mar 15, 1898 Perry Co., MS, d. Feb17, 1959, bur. Ferguson Cemetery, Perry County, MS, unmarried, unmarried. He was a soldier in World War I.

8203 Robert Randolph Ferguson, Jr. - b. Dec 28, 1898 Perry Co., MS, d. Oct 9, 1918, bur. Ferguson Cemetery, Perry County, MS, soldier in World War I, d. Oct 9, 1918, in Battle of the Argonne Forest, France with the 38th Inf. Div.

 

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