This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nix, Boon, Alexander, Sewell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DS.2ADE/1554 Message Board Post: I am looking for Horatio M. NIX. Not a common NIX name and he does not seem to be a common man. I first met him when he married Lucinda J. Boon 10 June 1861 in Blount County Alabama. She was the daughter of Mary Alexander and Tyre Boon, and the Granddaughter of Mary and Daniel D. Alexander. My ggg-grandmother was also a daughter of Daniel D. Alexander and a younger sister to Mary, her name was Lucinda so it appears that Mary named her daughter after her sister, my ggg-grandmother. In turn it appears that my ggg-grandmother named her first son for her sister's husband Tyre. But I am searching for Horatio. My knowledge of him is spare, but when they married Lucinda was 35 years old and it appears this was her first marriage. So I estimate that Horatio could have been between 20 and 40, born between 1821 and 1841. The Boon and Nix families were all from Pickens area in South Carolina, and can be found on the same census pages in 1830 through 1850, and then in Blount and Etowah Counties in Alabama. I know nothing about Horatio before they married. My second bit of information concerns Horatio two months after his marriage; Nix, Horatio M., enlisted as a private 10 Aug 1862 in Company E by Captain Lewis; on muster roll to 30 Apr 1863; muster roll to 11 Jun 1864 reported he was absent without leave; muster roll from 1 Jul to 31 Aug 1864 reported he deserted 10 Mar 1864; no further record. I have some history on Company E. which shows that they served most of their duty in Alabama, and there was a serious problem, particularly late in the War, with men departing (deserting) as the unit was near their home town. However there is no indication that Horatio ever returned to continue their two month long married life. Lucinda in fact married a second time to Pleasant Sewell on 8 June 1869 in Etowah County, Alabama. And I am searching for any sign of Horatio M. Nix. <daltonn@knology.net>