1836
South Carolina

After John Mixon arrived in James Town Virginia in 1650 the Mixon lineage slowly spread southward through North Carolina into South Carolina where John Mixon was recorded in 1753 as receiving a land grant from King George of England:

George the Second, by the Grace of God...

 A Plantation or Tract of Land containing one hundred and fifty acres Situate lying and being in Graven County butting and bounding to the northwest by Peedee River north east on Col. Henry Foxes Land Southeast on Joseph Jolly’s Land Southwest on Vacant Land.

The area in which John Mixon’s land resided in Graven County  became Barnwell County in 1797. In the years leading up to the revolutionary war additional land grants in South Carolina were issued by King George to  John, Willian and Michael Mixon. The Mixon clan flourished  in South Carolina with the rich farming land along the river and surrounding lands being particularly good for growing cotton, tobacco and corn and, with the forced labor of slaves, was quite profitable.

Of interest to my story is the family of John C. Mixon, son of John Mixon who received the land grant from King George. John Mixson was a prominent landowner in Barnwell County and with his wife Mary had nine children: five sons and four daughters. In 1836 the oldest son, William, was 43 years old and had nine children of his own and was a prominent citizen of Barnwell County in his own right and had assumed management of his father’s farm. The other four sons, Archibald Kirkland age 39, James Joyce age 31, Edward Miles age 28, and the youngest Charles Jones age 25 were all married and had families of their own. The eldest daughter Lavoice married Robert Kirkland of another prominent family in the area. The daughter Susan Elziabeth was married to Josiah E. Brown, and the daughter Mary Hanson had recently married James Darlington of the Darlington family which the South Carlonia Darlington County was named after.  The youngest daughter Experience, age 21 married John J. Fogler.