Hi Guys, I think I may have cracked the case on Elizabeth Hixon today. I've just updated George's website to allow for the new information. Well, I know I found her death, and I possibly found her in the 1930 census as well. She died in California! Who'd have thunk! This breaks open a whole new direction that I've never seen before in Hixon research. She's child #1 for anyone interested. http://lindatrent.homestead.com/GeoFHixon.html The problem with the 1930 census though is that Eliza Jane's birth year would be off by 7, that's not the end of the world, but it is a fact none-the-less. But note that her husband and she are recorded as the same age and that he first married at the age of 34 and she at the age of 17. That allows for her to have been previously married to an unknown Slagle as some Hixon researcher has claimed. Wow! And to think only a few years back this wall was so solid I couldn't even peek over it. That just shows that people should never give up. Thanks again, Linda.

Hey Linda, You do know about the California Death Index (CADI), don't you? They have a lot of good information online about those who died in California, from about 1900 to about 1950. If only all my relatives died in California... Wait, I might not have ended up here in Colorado that I love so well. :) - Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Trent" <linda_trent@att.net> To: <ohgallia@rootsweb.com> Cc: <OHLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: [OHLAWREN] Elizabeth Hixon d/o George F. Hixon > Hi Guys, > > I think I may have cracked the case on Elizabeth Hixon today. I've just > updated George's website to allow for the new information. Well, I know I > found her death, and I possibly found her in the 1930 census as well. She > died in California! Who'd have thunk! This breaks open a whole new > direction that I've never seen before in Hixon research. She's child #1 > for > anyone interested. http://lindatrent.homestead.com/GeoFHixon.html > > The problem with the 1930 census though is that Eliza Jane's birth year > would be off by 7, that's not the end of the world, but it is a fact > none-the-less. But note that her husband and she are recorded as the same > age and that he first married at the age of 34 and she at the age of 17. > That allows for her to have been previously married to an unknown Slagle > as > some Hixon researcher has claimed. > > Wow! And to think only a few years back this wall was so solid I couldn't > even peek over it. That just shows that people should never give up. > > Thanks again, > > Linda. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Guys, A cousin of mine has asked me if I can find out what WWII regiment his uncle was with. Apparently he lived in Gallia County at the time, was married in Lawrence, and lived in Lawrence County after the war. His father was Loren Hixon (the base-ball player). James F. enlisted in Huntington on October 4, 1943. We've already googled him, and we found him in the the NARA AAD site http://tinyurl.com/mkjll2 (National Army Records Administration or something like that), and in Ancestry.com, but so far no regiment number was given. The person we're looking for is James F. Hixon, and he died in Huntington (probably at a hospital) on Sept. 29, 1989, so I'm assuming that his death record would be in Cabell County? According to my cousin James F. was living in Coal Grove at the time. I'm hoping that either the Huntington, Lawrence and/or Gallia County paper will have an obituary that would give his WWII info. Basically what we're interested in is was James F. Hixon present during the D-Day landing? But to determine that we really need his regiment. It is very possible that he may have been with a tank division. This is really important to me because this cousin is doing me a HUGE favor, and I really owe him on this one. :-) Oh yes, James is also buried in Lawrence County. Does anyone have access to anything that might tell a regiment number? The link above also gives his military ID #. Thanks, Linda Trent linda_trent@att.net