Feaster-Mixson Reunion
1937
At the Old Feaster House
Almost every year since 1937 the Feaster and the Mixson families have held a family reunion under the old oak tree on the homestead of Mary Telula Mixson Feaster. The photo below was taken at the Mixson/Feaster family reunion in 1937. It includes my dad, Morris, my grandfather Wilbur, my grandmother Rosalie and many of my aunts and uncles. The gathering at the old Feaster house still takes place most every year in front of the old tree. I remember going many a time when I was a child and going into to the old house which was eventually torn down. The old Feaster farmstead is now owned by Mary Telula’s grandson Paul Dixon#FE046. Feaster-Mixson reunions were held there almost every year up to 2020 when the reunion was not held due to the COVID pandemic, and has not been held since. With the passing of JL Feaster#FE008, one of the main coordinators of the event, no one has stepped up to take the role, and the long-standing tradition may have faded into the past as has those in the photo.
Larry Mixon, 2024
1st row left to right
James Darlington "Jimmy" Mixson#922,
Wendell Turner#6834,
Arnold Mixson#919,
Morris Mixson#918,
Harold Fedrick "Fred" FeasterFE099,
James Otis Feaster, Jr.FE098,
Lawrence Richard FeasterFE097,
Carol Joyce, Mary Lucille
Filmer, Gladys Lynette FeasterFE010,
Wesley DixonFE043,
John Alvin DixonFE044,
Marion Feaster,
Jacob Lynn "JL" FeasterFE008,
Betty Dixon YawnFE042
2nd row left to right
Maxie Mixson#846,
Lois Mixson Marsh#845,
Bessie Mixson Turner#844,
Charles Benjamin Mixson#843,
Wilbur Mixson#843,
Alice Mixson Bell#841,
Henry Walkup Mixson#840,
Job Mixson#839,
Julia Estelle Mixson Gladney#838,
Annelle Sikes#11088 ,
Hettie Viola Mixson Ratteree#837,
Mary Telula "Lula" Mixson Feaster#836
(holding baby Charles H. Filner),
James Gilbert Mixson#835
3rd row left to right
Lottie Viola Skykes, Iva Mae Mixsonw846,
Charles Claude Mixson#920,
Mabel Bell Mixsonw843,
Clifford Mixson#921,
Adrian Mixson#916,
Rosalie Anderson Mixsonw842,
Claude Bellh#841,
Elizabeth "Berta" Boulware Mixsonw840,
Sara Mae Bell Mixsonw839,
John "Hal" Harvey Gladneyw838,
Robert Palmer Rattereeh#837,
Jacob "Jake" Feaster,
Elizabeth Feaster DixonFE002
holding baby Anita DixonFE045,
Onnie Lee Smoke Mixsonw835 holding baby Andrew Laverne Anderson#16562, Amber Lee
Mixson Anderson#906.
4th row left to right
Ollie Glen FeasterFE004 holding Ollie Glen
Feaster, Jr.FE148,
Claire Feaster ,
Vera Brown FeasterwFE003,
James Otis FeasterFE003,
Gladys Abraham FeasterwFE001,
Jacob Lynn FeasterFE001,
Royce Mixson#911,
Mary Alice Walker Mixsonw912, Lula Mae Filmer
holding Charles Filmer, Ercel Mixson#912,
Aurice Mixson#913,
Ralph Mixson#915, Harvey Gladneyh#838,
Julie Gladney Hudson, Elmer Hudson,
Agnes Drusilla FeasterFE007,
Mary Telua Mixson Feaster#836,
James Clark Mixson#909,
Andres Anderson.
Note: 'w' reference number prefix means "wife of", 'h' "husband of
See story The Old Home Place by Nadine Dixon
2003
1st row: Grandma (Rosalie) Mixson age 102, ?
2nd row: Morris (Dad) Mixson, ?, ?, Wendal Turner
3rd row: Betty Yawn, Jacob (JL) Feaster, ?, ?,?, ?, Paul Dixon, ?, ?
Grandma was the last of her generation.
2018
Saturday April 13
10 Survivors from the 1937 picture in 2018
Betty Dixon Yawn, Morris Mixson (died 2020),
Jimmy Mixson, J. L. Feaster (died 2024), Wesley Dixon (died
2022),
Glen Feaster, Jr., John Alvin Dixon (died later
that year)
Charles Filmer, Richard Feaster (died 2024), Anita Dixon Beck
(died 2020)