My mother's maiden name was Nix. My great grandfather was Jim Nix and he married a woman from Tishomingo County named Silona Tatum. Jim Nix was born in 1870 in Alabama or Georgia. The census records records in Pontotoc County list Alabama one time and Georgia the next. I have a copy of his death certificate and it list his place of birth as Alabama. Jim's father was supposedly a man named Gaylord or Gorlord. I have not been able to find either name listed anywhere. I do know that Jim Nix moved his family to Texas at one time because of relatives out there but his wife was a very unhappy person living so far from her family that they moved back to Pontotoc and stayed ther until their deaths. Both returned to Tishomingo County to be buried. They are buried next to several children that died at or sometime after birth. Her cousin, uncle, Henry and her grandparents Jonathan and Mary are also buried there. Her parents are not and neither is Jim Nix's parents. I have found what I believe to be either his sister or a very close relative named Rosie Clemintine Nix Searcy in the Tishomingo County Mississippi Records. The children of this Rosie Nix Searcy and my great grandfather Jim Nix have several repeating names. Among those are Rosie, Claud, Clyde, John, Oscar, and William. Jims's middle name was supposedly Irvin. The entire Nix family supposedly moved around quite alot. Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. I know my great Aunt Amie and her sisters eventually wound up staying in Texas. If anyone has heard of a Gaylord or Gorlord Nix could you please let me know.Silona was Daniel Tatum's neice, who was from Monroe County and the daughter of William B. Tatum born in rutherford County Tennessee. Anything anyone finds out would be grately appreciated. Thanks, Sungja Collins