> Source: ALCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Al-Coffee Co. Bios (Mixson) > > > > Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Mixson, William C. September 2 1834 - living in 1893 > ************************************************ > Copyright. All rights reserved. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm > ************************************************ > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 16, 2004, 3:34 am > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > WILLIAM C. MIXSON, a prominent farmer of Beat No. 12, was born in Monroe > county, Ga., September 2, 1834. He is a son of William and Julia (Harris) > Mixson, natives of North Carolina, in which state they were reared and where > they married. They removed to Georgia about 1832, and in 1853 removed to Coffee > county, Ala., settling on an improvement where Mr. Mixson died in October 9, > 1830. His widow is still living, at the age of about eighty years. Both were > Methodists from their youth up. Mr. Mixson was a farmer, a wagon maker, a > blacksmith, etc. He was a hard-working, industrious and prosperous man. His > father, Elijah Mixson, died when the former was a child, was of English descent > and was probably a native of North Carolina. Grandfather Harris died in North > Carolina. William C. Mixson was the third of five sons and seven daughters. Four > of the sons were in the late war, viz.: William C.; Barzilli H., who served from > 1862 in the western army, in the Fifty-third Alabama; Henry J., who was a > sergeant in the Fifty-fourth infantry and in the Western army from 1861 to the > close of the war. He was captured at Island No. 10, was imprisoned at Camp > Douglas until the fall of 1862, and rejoined his company when exchanged; John. > E., was in the Fifty-third Alabama mounted infantry all through the war. William > C. Mixson was elected justice of the peace in 1858, was re-elected in 1862, and > resigned in January, 1863, to join company G, Fifty-seventh Alabama infantry as > lieutenant, but commanded his company most of the time, spending his first part > of his service on the coast, at Mobile, Pensacola, Pollard, etc. He then joined > the western army at Demopolis and fought at Resaca, on to the Atlanta and > Jonesboro, back toward Nashville, but in northern Alabama he was taken sick and > sent to the hospital at Montgomery, and rejoined his regiment at Corinth after > the retreat from Nashville. He then went to North Carolina and fought at > Kingston and Bentonville and surrendered with Johnston. He was neither wounded > nor captured daring the war. After the war he resumed farming and has ever since > lived on his present farm, eight miles northeast of Clintonville, where he has a > fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres, all acquired by his own efforts, > upon which he raises his own supplies, corn, cotton, etc. He is considered one > of the best farmers in the county. While his early education was somewhat > limited, yet by his contact with the world he has acquired a great deat of > practical experience and is a man of rare common sense and sound judgment. While > not an active politician he is yet active in the support of his party, He is a > member of Clintonville lodge, No. 188, F. & A. M., and is lecturer of Pea River > farmers' alliance. He and his wife have been Methodists from their youth up. In > 1891 he was instrumental in establishing Tabernacle post-office at his house and > he is the postmaster. Mr. Mixson was married January 19, 1860, to Miss Martha E. > Law, daughter of Capt. Isaiah T. Law. Mrs. Mixson was born September 18, 1846, > and has twelve children living. Captain Isaiah T. Law, is one of the pioneer > farmers and one of the most esteemed citizens of Coffee county. He was born in > Sumter district, S. C., in 1820; he is a son of Isaiah and Margaret (Washburn) > Law, the former a native of Sumter district, born in 1784, the latter born in > Rutherford county, N. C., in 1786. Mrs. Law died in South Carolina when Captain > Law was eight years old. Isaiah Law married again, and in 1832 moved to Houston > county, Ga., and afterward to Macon county, where he died in 1840. He was a man > of more than ordinary ability and was for some years associate justice of the > inferior court of Macon county. His father, George Law, was a native of Ireland. > Gabriel Washburn was propably a native of England and died in Rutherford county, > N. C., at an advanced age. Mrs. Law was born in Williamsburg district, S. C., in > 1821, is the mother of ten children and is still living. In 1849 Captain Law > came to Coffee county and a few years afterward settled on his present farm six > miles north of Clintonville, where he owns 775 acres of land in two tracts. He > was a justice of the peace nine years from 1850; was tax assessor and collector > during 1852 and 1853, and was county commissioner three years, 1872-73-74. No > case tried before him was ever appealed to the circuit court. He performed > faithful service during the war of the rebellion, first as lieutenant, of > company F. Fortieth Tennessee, and as captain after the regiment was > re-organized. He was taken prisoner first at Island No. 10, and served a time on > Johnson's Island, and he was afterward captured when Vicksburg surrendered to > General Grant. He was paroled and exchanged and rejoined his company. Before > Atlanta he was again taken prisoner and was again taken to Johnson's Island, > where he was kept until June 16, 1865, and reached home June 27. He has been a > Mason since 1854 and is now a member of Clintonville lodge, No. 188. Both he and > his wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, for many > years, and stand deservedly high in the estimation of their neighbors and > friends. On the first day of August, 1892, Mr. Mixson was elected to represent > Coffee county in the state legislature of Alabama. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 676-677 > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 5.9 Kb > >