Person:Thomas Nix (7)

THOMAS ALEXANDER NIX, and Elizabeth Gassaway: A SHORT HISTORY

 They were married in Pickens District, South Carolina shortly before the family moved to Alabama, They were young, 16 and 19.  I have found  one reference to the family with  two sons John T, and Janes F.,  They are listed in the Gene files collected by the LDS which only gives their birth years.    

They are listed in the 1850 SC census for Pickens County, South Carolina, Western Division; as T. Alexander Knix, 19; Elizabeth Knix, 16. They are also shown in the 1860 census, Alabama, Blount County, P.O. Summit, Western Division as; Thomas NIX, 26 male, born SC Milley E, 26 female, Born SC John T, 4 born Ala James F., 2, born Ala I think that all the ages, except for Elizabeth's on this census are in error. Thomas should be 29 and John T. greater than five. The Alabama 1855 census has this family with one son which would be John, and born before 1855.

Next door is a family that appears to be that of her father, and his second family. Elizabeth's mother Curtis Cosby died in South Carolina, and William remarried and moved to Blount County. These children would be half brothers and sisters to Elizabeth. This was a faint census record and I am not sure of all the names.

Family #246 William W. Gassaway, 59, Ludina,female, 31, Namon C. male 16, b SC Sarnhell, 11, female, b SC John H, 8, male, b Ala Mary M. 6, female, b Ala Wilkins(?), 4, male, Ala, Rucheal, j 3 Female, Ala Nosuna, T, 8/12, female, Ala

If we use the ages of these children then William arrived in Alabama between 1849 and 1853, and maybe before Jennings. Both purchased property in Murphree Valley. If we follow the current Murphee Valley Road from Walnut Grove South East toward Oneonta, William Gassaway owned 120 acres before reaching Ellison Cross Road,

Notes from Karen B <karenb@evcom.net>, She found in the 1850 SC census for Pickens County, Western Division; T. Alexander Knix, 19; Elizabeth Knix, 16.

X-From_: jcrogers@home.com Thu Oct 18 23:06:17 2001 From: "Jeannie Rogers" <jcrogers@home.com> To: "'Dalton J. Nix'" <daltonn@HiWAAY.net> Subject: RE: Tomas Alexander NIX and Elizabeth Gassaway Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:09:32 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal

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Thomas Nix & Millie Elizabeth Gasaway � Author:�Elizabeth Mintz Date:�22 Dec 2001 2:25 AM GMT � Classification:�Query Post�Reply�| Mark�Unread�| Report�Abuse �Print�Message I am looking for information on the family of Thomas Nix who married Millie Elizabeth Gasaway and had 2 sons named John and James. They were in Alabama, it is rumored that they moved to Arkansas. Post�Reply�| Mark�Unread�| Report�Abuse �Print�Message

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William Jennings Nix � Author:�Elizabeth Mintz Date:�12 Mar 2002 6:50 AM GMT � Classification:�Query I am looking for more information on the family of William Jennings Nix. His father was listed as Thomas Nix of Alabama and his mother was a Gasaway. He married Martha Elizabeth Moore, and his children are believed to be Wilie Agnes, James M.. Josie Myrtle, Ora Sue, Librum, Dora Letty. Re: William Jennings Nix � Author:�Elizabeth Mintz Date:�13 Mar 2002 6:25 PM GMT � Classification:�Query Regarding the previous post, William was listed as living in Conway County, AR on the 1880 census. He was buried in Wolf's cemetary in Conway County.

Nix, Thomas � View Image Online � State: Alabama Year: 1860 � County: Blount Roll: M653_2 � Township: Western Division Page: 985 � Image: 343 � �

NIX, THOMAS Land Office: CAMDEN Sequence #: Document Number: 7717 Total Acres: 160 Misc. Doc. Nr.: 1387 Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: January 09, 1896 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 12 Stat. 392 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: May 20, 1862 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Homestead Entry Original Legal Land Description:

Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 SWSW 5TH PM No 2S 31W 28 2 SESE 5TH PM No 2S 31W 29 3 NENE 5TH PM No 2S 31W 32 4 NWNW 5TH PM No 2S 31W 33

NIX, THOMAS Land Office: DARDANELLE Sequence #: Document Number: 7931 Total Acres: 76.9 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: April 05, 1883 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: Yes Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Remarks: MINERVA NIX ISABELLA NIX AND AVA NIX EAST PART IS SOUTH OF RIVER NORTH PART IS NORTH OF RIVER Legal Land Description:

Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 E1/2SE 5TH PM Yes 4N 20W 32 2 N1/2SE 5TH PM Yes 4N 20W 32

1860 census, Alabama, Blount County, P.O. Summit, Western Division, image 49 of 74, 19th day of June, 1860, page #49,

Family #347 Thomas NIX, 26 male Farmer, 1150, S. C. Milley E, 26 female, Ala John T, 4 born Ala James F., 2, born Alabama note that Millie was recorded as born in Ala, but we know that to be wrong. She was born in South Carolina., and married in South Carolina

Family #346 William W. Gassaway, 59, 400, 800, S. C. Ludina,female, 31, F, S. C. Namon C. male 16, b SC Sarnhell, 11, female, b SC John H, 8, male, b Ala Mary M. 6, female, b Ala Wilkins(?), 4, male, Ala, Rucheal, 3 Female, Al Nosuna, T, 8/12, female, Al

This is the earliest birth in Alabama, that I have found within the family , John H. born in 1852 in Alabama,

May your Ancestor's Migration Pattern be listed here!

Name Lifespan Where Born William Jennings NIX 1856-1918 AL Additional Notes Migration Steps Wife, Martha Elizabeth MOORE and children Willie Agnes, James Marion, Lilburn W., Josie Myrtle, Ora Lee, Dora Letty, Cecil Mattie, Mary Velma and Grace Missouri to Conway County, AR in 1880 Researcher: Joann Wear Spore jodonwpore@worldnet.att.net

1870, U.S. Census, Arkansas, Conway County, Unknown Townships Reviewed the first 20 of 217 images, No NIX or GASSAWAY

1855 Blount County, Alabama State Census

Key: Name, Males Under 21, Males Over 21, Females Under 21, Females Over 21, Total The next section (after the second hyphen) records: Insane Within Each County, Insane Sent Abroad, Slaves, and Free Persons of Color.

Nix, Daniel, � 1,1,5,1,8 � 0,0,0,0

Nix, T.M., � 1,1,1,0,3 � 0,0,0,0 This appears to be Thomas Alexander NIX and Elizabeth Gassaway with one male child. That would agree with William Jennings NIX being born abt Jan 1852.

Nix, Tyra, � 2,1,0,2,5 � 0,0,0,0

Nix, William, � 1,1,2,0,4 � 0,0,0,0

Delivered-To: daltonn@knology.net Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:37:48 -0400 Subject: Nix Family Info From: K N Booth <knbooth@bellsouth.net> To: "Dalton J. Nix" <daltonn@knology.net>

Hi Dalton :-) I have pasted your reply to me from the board so I could comment at the sections where I do have info.! Maybe this will help.

That means that Jennings had two sons with with the middle name of Alexander? As far as I can determine, MY William did not have the middle name of Alexander. However, my William did have a son Elijah Alexander Nix (my great grandfather).

Thomas Alexander married Elizabeth Gassaway and is shown living next door in residence #47 and your William was the one refereed to as Knix, William Alexander age 17 living at home. My William WAS living at home with Jennings, Letty, Daniel and Mary; the census record shows a ditto mark for his last name indicating that he shared the last name of Mary - but he wasn't an Alexander - he was William (mine!) the son of Jennings and Letty! See my notes after your section about the 1850 census.

Then the next year he married Elizabeth Littleton, and they all moved to Blount County, Alabama. Then before the 1960 census your William Alexander NIX and Elizabeth (Betsy) Littleton with their young daughter Nancy E. NIX moved back to Pickens County, never to return to Alabama.

William did married Elizabeth "Betsy" Littleton sometime between 1850 and 1852, and did go to Alabama with Jennings and the rest of the family. We know that Nancy Emily Nix was born in Alabama about 1854. I suspect that at least 2 more children were born in Alabama also, Thomas and Asa, but have been unable to prove this to date.

If that is correct what do you know about Thomas Alexander and Elizabeth Gassaway. I have them in the 1855 Blount County Census and the 1960 Alabama census, and I think in the 1870 Arkansas census in Conway county. It also appears that her Father followed them, or maybe came with them to Alabama. I have found land purchased by William W. Gassaway between Altoona and Walnut Grove Alabama. Also he was living next door to Thomas Alexander Nix and Elizabeth in the 1960 census.

What little I know about Thomas Alexander Nix and Elizabeth Gassaway, I have gleaned from my Alexander Family book and the Keowee Courier. Thomas and Elizabeth married 24 May 1849. She was the daughter of W. W. Gassaway. Source: Keowee Courier, issue of 2 June 1849.

Few of those researching Daniel D. Alexander include Lucinda (Letty) as his daughter, and none that I have found show Daniel D and Mary, just prior to their deaths, living in the house with Jennings and Lucinda. That is what raised the question about the middle name being David. I wanted to be sure that I had the correct Daniel D. Alexander.

There is a complete book on the David Daniel Alexander family - which I happen to have I have!!!!!!!!! :-) . It is a HUGE book and can be found at all the libraries in the Pickens/Oconee County area. �Probate Records give us the documentation that Lucinda "Letty" Nix was the daughter of Daniel and Mary Nix, and the wife of Jennings (Jannes, etc.) Nix. Unfortunately, I do not have a hard copy of the document, but I have seen the "real" thing.

PICKENS CO., S.C. ESTATE RECORDS, BOX 22 #264, ESTATE OF DANIEL ALEXANDER. - William Littleton petitioned the court for Letters of Administration of the estate of Daniel Alexander. Dated: 13 Dec 1850. ** Note: Micajah Alexander was appointed administrator of estate.

- Micajah Alexander petitioned the court for order to sell the personal estate of Daniel Alexander, deceased. Granted: 11 Jan. 1851.

- Estate of Daniel Alexander, dated: 2 April 1851. Paid heirs: Janney (sic.) Nix, Emilla (sic.) Field, Tyry Boon, Margaret Hudson, and William Littleton, their share. Paid Thomas Alexander, his account $60, Letty Nix $25, and E. Alexander $2.93.

- Estate of Daniel Alexander and wife, deceased, dated: 20 Jan. 1852. Heirs William Hudson, Tyre Boon, Janens Nix and Micajah Alexander, administrator and heir.

Just a note of interest - I happen to be related to, not only the Nixes from this Alexander line, but also the Hudsons and the Littletons on both my mother's �AND my father's side!!!

KNIX, JENNIGS State: ���SC ���Year: ���1850 County: ���Pickens County ���Record Type: ���Federal Population Schedule Township: ���Western Division ���Page: ���374 Database: ���SC 1850 Federal Census Index Western Division of the district of Pickens South Carolina enumerated by me, on the 27th day of July 1850, Thomas Lee It is not possible to read the page number on the top right corner of the sheet because the sheet is placed so that section of the sheet is cut off. If you view the census at <ancestry.com> It is, however, image #6 of 160 in the Western Division of Pickens District, South Carolina, 1850 Federal Census, 27th day of July 1850. The census index gives the page # as 374, but this sheet is before that, maybe #372 or #373. Line #13, Dwelling #46, Family #47 Jennings Knix, age 50, sex M, Farmer, $600, born Georgia, Line #14 Lucinda, Age 50, F, born Georgia, Line #15, Family #48, David Alexander, age 86 M, none, born Virginia, Line #16, Mary Alexander, age 85, F, born Virginia, Line # 17, William Alexander, age 17, M, born South Carolina,

The census record is a little confusing, but from it we do get Daniel Alexander's "other" name - David. We also have the connection of David Daniel and Mary living with their daughter Lucinda and her husband Jennings.

Under Mary Alexander is listed a William, with a ditto mark to indicate his last name was that of the above person. This confused me for a while, but then a light bulb came on - and set me on the task of proving, that the William listed there was actually William Nix �the son of Jennings and Letty. My William Nix was 17 in 1850 - and he moved to Alabama with his father and mother, where his 1st child was born in 1854!!!

This William was not William Alexander, BUT William Nix - the son of Jennings and Lucinda - MY WILLIAM NIX!

I do have a copy of this record and thought I had posted to the Nix Family Website. I'll check and if not, I'll email you a copy!!!

Other notes from my Alexander book....and verified by me: David Daniel Alexander is buried beside the Shady Grove Road in Pickens Co., SC at the Daniel Alexander Cemetery which is very close to my parents home.

D. A. Alexander died 29 Oct. 1850.

Mary Alexander also buried here. M. A. died 18 December 1851.

D. A. Alexander (Daniel Alexander son of William Alexander) died 11 Oct. 1852.

J. A. deceased 15 Jul. 1846

W. A. (William Alexander son of Daniel and Mary Alexander) deceased 27 Feb. 1845. **Note: his obit. gives death date as 28 Feb 1845. His will was dated: 20 Feb. 1845.

There are numerous fieldstones with no letter here.

Hope this helps!!!!!!!

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�Original�Message:� Re: Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County" � Author:�Elizabeth Nix Date:�22 Dec 2001 GMT � In�Reply�to:�Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County"��by:� Roger Nix We have a Thomas Nix who is rumored to have left Alabama and moved to Arkansas. He was married to Elizabeth Gasaway and had 2 sons, John and James. Ring a bell?

To: "Roger Nix" <nixrk@bellsouth.net> From: "Dalton J. Nix" <daltonn@knology.net> Subject: Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments:

Roger my name is Dalton Nix, from Madison, Alabama. I am answering two messages on the NIX BB at Ancestry.com. Your message is old, almost two years old, and I had read it previously but did not think I knew anything about your Deserted town of NIX Arkansas, Located in Dallas County. Today I was reviewing old messages and I saw a response to your query stating that Thomas Nix, his wife Elizabeth Gassaway and their two sons, John and James moved there from Alabama. I lost that family between the 1860 census and the 1870 Alabama Census. If you know this family, I have their parents and siblings. I have a large amount of information on them until they left Blount County,Alabama, about the start of the Civil War. Please contact me and we can exchange information.

Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County" � Author:�Roger Nix Date:�5 Nov 2001 1:56 AM GMT � Surnames:�Nix � Classification:�Query Post�Reply�| Mark�Unread�| Report�Abuse �Print�Message I'm interested in finding any connection to family members who may have lived in the township of "Nix, Arkansas". My grandmother and grandfather lived a few miles away from the now deserted town of Nix, located roughly between Princeton and Manning Arkansas. Reply to Roger Nix at nixrk@bellsouth.net Thanks Post�Reply�| Mark�Unread�| Report�Abuse �Print�Message

��View replies listed by: Re: Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County" � Author:�Harold Nix Date:�19 Nov 2001 1:51 AM GMT � Classification:�Query Rodger, My line of Nixes are from there. They came there in 1848. Please E-Mail Me at Xindh@AOL.com... Harold Re: Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County" � Author:�Melba Morris Date:�30 Nov 2001 2:26 AM GMT � Classification:�Query My Nix line is from Clark County, which I believe is located near Dallas County. Rigdon Nix, b.1895, m. 1890, d.1915. Father, James Nix, Mother Elizabeth ?. Please email to melbamnm333@wmconnect.com. Thanks. Re: Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County" � Author:�Elizabeth Nix Date:�22 Dec 2001 12:09 AM GMT � Classification:�Query We have a Thomas Nix who is rumored to have left Alabama and moved to Arkansas. He was married to Elizabeth Gasaway and had 2 sons, John and James. Ring a bell? Re: Nix Family Members from "Nix, Arkansas, Dallas County" � Author:�Dalton J. Nix Date:�20 Aug 2003 8:26 PM GMT � Surnames:�Nix, Gassaway, � Classification:�Query Elizabeth; I know that your message is old, almost two years old, but I am answering it any way. I have been searching for Thomas Nix, his Wife Elizabeth Gassaway and their two children for almost that long. I have his and her parents and siblings but I had lost them. They left Blount County, Alabama some time after the 1860 census but before the 1870 census. I think that her Father William W. Gassaway was also with them. Please contact me! I have been looking in Conway County, Arkansas <daltonn@knology.net>

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Could be one of Thomas Alexander's Grandsons??

Thomas Nix 1815-1859

� Author: �Becky Nix Date: �6 Feb 2000 12:00 PM GMT

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Thomas Nix, born South Carolina about 1815, appeared in north Georgia about 1835. He married Nancy Weaver in Lumpkin County, Georgia, in 1839. They had 8 children and Thomas and at least two children reportedly died during a typhoid outbreak in Dawson County, Georgia, (which was formed from Lumpkin). Nancy and some children moved to Gordon County, Georgia, by 1880. One son and one daughter stayed in the Dawson, Hall County area, but a brother, John Lewis (or Luis) and family, as well as a sister, Pallie or Palistine and family, moved on. They have not been found after 1880. We are looking for descendants of these two children and the parents of Thomas. We have much to share.

THIS IS NOT MY THOMAS, BUT IT SHOWS THAT THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE LOST THOMAS.

Name: Lem Pendley

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Delivered-To: knology.net-daltonn@knology.net From: <jj1j2jenkins@cox.net> To: <daltonn@knology.net> Subject: NIX family Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:20:04 -0500

Dalton,

    I was just chekcing the Blount Co., AL site for NIX info and found your name and list of descendants of Elisabeth Gassaway and Thomas M. NIX.  I am the daughter of Jennings D. Wear and Hazel F. Smith - the one living :-}  Would really like to exchange information with you.
    Look forward to hearing from you.

JoAnn Wear Jennings

JoAnn and Jimmy Jenkins

Rodriguez

Name:T. M. Nix Company:B. Unit:12 Alabama Cavalry. Rank - Induction:Private Rank - Discharge:;Private Allegiance:Confederate Notes:Niggens, Batty.

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Database: Civil War Service Records December 27, 2004; 1:38 AM Name:T. M. Nix Company:; B; Unit:12 Alabama Cavalry. Rank - Induction:; Private Rank - Discharge:; ,Private Allegiance:Confederate Notes:Niggens, Batty.

Source Information:

United States National Archives. Civil War Compiled Military Service Records [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-.

12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment

� (x) Hendricks, Thomas Wayman. Cherished letters of Thomas Wayman Hendricks. Comp. by Josie Armstrong McLaughlin. (Birmingham, AL : 1947)

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12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion [Partisan Rangers]

The 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers, was organized with 4 companies before 12 September 1862 and operated in East Tennessee for some months. It was then assigned to the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment in November 1862 while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It then fought at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and in Gen'l James Longstreet's East Tennessee Campaign. The Battalion was involved in several battles beginning with the Atlanta Campaign (May through September, 1864), including the fights at Rome where one company lost 20 casualties in defending a bridge, Atlanta (25 casualties), Campbellton (45 casualties), and Sunshine Church. It was also in the Savannah Campaign (November-December 1864), and the Carolinas Campaign (February-April 1865). It was reconstituted with the original 4 companies before 30 June 1864. Companies "E", "F", and "G" were assigned to the unit in 1864, and it was increased to a regiment and designated the 12th Alabama Cavalry in January 1865.

Field officers: Col. Warren Stone Reese; Lt. Cols. William H. Hundley (Madison); Marcellus Pointer; Majors William H. Hundley (promoted); Albert Gallatin Bennett (St. Clair; resigned, 5 Jan 1863); Augustus John Ingram; and Adjutant W. W. Whorton.

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12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment <http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/alcav.html#12th-Cav>

The nucleus of the 12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (with men recruited from Cherokee, De Kalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, and St. Clair counties) was a battalion recruited by Lt. Col. William H. Hundley of Madison, and Major Albert G. Bennett of St. Clair. This battalion operated in East Tennessee for some months, and it was consolidated with the 1st Alabama while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It fought thus at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and through Gen'l James Longstreet's East Tennessee Campaign. Soon after the latter operations, four companies were added, and the regiment thus formed took the name of the 12th Alabama. Attached to Hagan's Brigade, the regiment took part in the retrograde movement from Dalton, and was engaged in numerous encounters. One of its companies lost 20 k and w while defending a bridge near Rome. At Atlanta, 22 July 1864, Gen'l Joseph Wheeler complimented the regiment on the field, and it lost 25 or 30 men in a hilt to hilt melee with Union Gen'l Stoneman's raiders. At Campbellsville, the 12th repulsed Brownlow's Brigade, losing 45 men. At Averysboro and the attack on Kilpatrick, and other places, the regiment fought until the end. It disbanded the night before the surrender -- about 125 present -- on 25 April 1865.

Field and staff officers: Col. Warren Stone Reese (Montgomery); Lt. Cols. William H. Hundley; Marcellus Pointer (MS; wounded); Majors Albert Gallatin Bennett (resigned, 5 Jan 1863); Augustus John Ingram (Blount; accidentally disabled); and Adjutant R. B. Whorton (resigned, 11 Oct 1862).

Historical resources:

� Bibliography � Other Webpages: Harrison Family [photo, biographical notes, Pvt. Oliver Perry Casey] Pvt. Thomas W. Hendricks [Biographical notes, correspondence]

The Story and Letters of Thomas Wayman Hendricks

Thomas Wayman Hendricks (compiled by Josie Armstrong McLaughlin) - Cherished letters of Thomas Wayman Hendricks. [Birmingham, AL; 1947]

The name Hendricks is Dutch and may be spelled Hendrik, Hendrix, Hendrick. James Hendricks and his wife Jane landed at Jamestown, VA from Holland. The First Generation in America. By the Fourth Generation, Thomas Wayman Hendricks was born Jun 25, 1835, died Feb 8, 1865. He married Dec 18, 1856 to Eliza Jane Deaver(1840-1912). He had children: Benjamin Franklin, Mary, Martha, Eliza , and Thomas.

David Hendricks, the original Hendricks to come to Blount Co. settled in Blountsville, AL in the late eighteen thirites or early forties. He came from Pickens Co. SC, and had a large family. It is the general belief that the early Hendricks were Methodist. They were pious, upright citizens. They were not slave owners, but some of them had a house servant or two.

Thomas Wayman Hendricks is the writer of the Cherished Letters. He had brothers, David Addison (was a Methodist minister), Lemuel Levert (died of fever in the trenches near Murphreesboro, TN during the War), Lihugh (died of TB), James (died in young manhood), and sisters Sarah (died when a baby) and Jane (died when small).

Thomas Wayman Hendricks entered the Civil War on August 19, 1862. He was a volunteer and fought nobly for the Southland until he was killed by the Yankees, Feb 8, 1865. He was a cavalryman in Company B, 12th Alabama Regiment, with his cousin, John David Hendricks as his lieutenant and Mr.Augustus (Gus) Ingram as his captain.

He was in General Wheeler�s Army. He was shot by the Yankees while on scout duty at Pole Cat, South Carolina, near Savannah, GA. He was sent out on scout duty by Sergeant Levi Stephens, who took charge of Lieutenant Hendricks men, when he Hendricks and some of his men were cut off from the main army for a day or two. Mr. George Clowdus, a cousin of Thomas Hendricks� wife, was with him when he was killed and related the incident leading to his death. He said the little scouting party ran into the Yankees before realizing that the Yankees were so near. They ran from the Yankees down a long, sandy road, on each side of which were thick, scrubby, black jack oak trees and bushes, which made taking to the woods difficult. The sandy road slowed the horses terribly, but Thomas� horse was making good progress. Mr. Clowdus� horse was rapidly losing ground when Thomas called back, "Take to the woods George, take to the woods," but his horse would not go through the scrubby oaks, so Mr. Clowdus waved a white handkerchief, but the oncoming Yankees shot him anyway. He lay on the ground until morning, then he crawled down the road a short distance where he found Thomas Hendricks� body. The Yankees had killed him and completely rifled his pockets. Lt. John David Hendricks was terribly hurt over Thomas� death. He said he would never have sent the men out on a scouting expedition if he had been with them.

Jane Deaver Hendricks was a noble, Christian lady. Meek, modest, unassuming, yet strong in purpose, determination and convictions of right, she walked steadily and firmly, under her heavy cross of widowhood, through the dark days of Reconstruction, and the years that followed There were no words of self pity or complaint, rather there was humble submissiveness to God�s will and cheerful following of His further guidance. When on furlough once, Thomas had sold their farm and bargained for another near his father and mother to protect his family, but when he went to close the deal for the farm he wished to buy, the owner decided not to sell. Greatly disappointed, he had to return to the army before locating another desirable farm.

Jane kept the Confederate money for which their farm sold until the war ended, hoping that her husband could come home and select a good farm. When the war ended the money was worthless. Her brothers wanted to give her some land adjoining their land on the Warrior River, which was a part of the Deaver estate. It was on this land near the present town of Locust Fork in Blount county that she reared her family.

Her son Franklin was plowing at nine years of age. He was unusually dependable as he grew up and assumed his duties and responsibilities manfully. He loved his horses and gave them the best of care. Their home was a veritable beehive of industry. Spinning, weaving, sewing and knitting were daily activities, and many yards of cloth came from their loom including double woven counterpanes, coverlets, and blankets. They wove the cloth for nearly all of their clothes. There were many pretty quilts too.

Saturdays were very busy days. There were wooden pails, piggins, trays, churns and floors to be scrubbed with white sand, yards to be swept and baking for Sunday to be done. There was much hard work, too hard for young shoulders, but no shoulders ever carried their loads more courageously, more dutifully, or more willingly than did these four children. Despite their tragic loss and the hard work which was their lot in life, there existed a joyous peace and happiness in their home that was seldom equaled. Many fine people enjoyed the hospitality for which their home was noted.

They were all regular attendants of their church, Cumberland Presbyterian services, as well as the services of other nearby churches. The four children grew into fine, Christian young people, whose friends and associates were numbered with the best people of the county. From among these friends they selected their life companions and established four Christian hom

714 Nix, T.M. B,C Private

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714Nix, T.M. B,C Private; Private

12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion [Partisan Rangers] <http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/alcav.html>

The 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers, was organized with 4 companies before 12 September 1862 and operated in East Tennessee for some months. It was then assigned to the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment in November 1862 while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It then fought at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and in Gen'l James Longstreet's East Tennessee Campaign. The Battalion was involved in several battles beginning with the Atlanta Campaign (May through September, 1864), including the fights at Rome where one company lost 20 casualties in defending a bridge, Atlanta (25 casualties), Campbellton (45 casualties), and Sunshine Church. It was also in the Savannah Campaign (November-December 1864), and the Carolinas Campaign (February-April 1865). It was reconstituted with the original 4 companies before 30 June 1864. Companies "E", "F", and "G" were assigned to the unit in 1864, and it was increased to a regiment and designated the 12th Alabama Cavalry in January 1865.

Field officers: Col. Warren Stone Reese; Lt. Cols. William H. Hundley (Madison); Marcellus Pointer; Majors William H. Hundley (promoted); Albert Gallatin Bennett (St. Clair; resigned, 5 Jan 1863); Augustus John Ingram; and Adjutant W. W. Whorton.

12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment

The nucleus of the 12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (with men recruited from Cherokee, De Kalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, and St. Clair counties) was a battalion recruited by Lt. Col. William H. Hundley of Madison, and Major Albert G. Bennett of St. Clair. This battalion operated in East Tennessee for some months, and it was consolidated with the 1st Alabama while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It fought thus at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and through Gen'l James Longstreet's East Tennessee Campaign. Soon after the latter operations, four companies were added, and the regiment thus formed took the name of the 12th Alabama. Attached to Hagan's Brigade, the regiment took part in the retrograde movement from Dalton, and was engaged in numerous encounters. One of its companies lost 20 k and w while defending a bridge near Rome. At Atlanta, 22 July 1864, Gen'l Joseph Wheeler complimented the regiment on the field, and it lost 25 or 30 men in a hilt to hilt melee with Union Gen'l Stoneman's raiders. At Campbellsville, the 12th repulsed Brownlow's Brigade, losing 45 men. At Averysboro and the attack on Kilpatrick, and other places, the regiment fought until the end. It disbanded the night before the surrender -- about 125 present -- on 25 April 1865.

Field and staff officers: Col. Warren Stone Reese (Montgomery); Lt. Cols. William H. Hundley; Marcellus Pointer (MS; wounded); Majors Albert Gallatin Bennett (resigned, 5 Jan 1863); Augustus John Ingram (Blount; accidentally disabled); and Adjutant R. B. Whorton (resigned, 11 Oct 1862).

Historical resources:

� Bibliography � Other Webpages: Harrison Family [photo, biographical notes, Pvt. Oliver Perry Casey] Pvt. Thomas W. Hendricks [Biographical notes, correspondence]

Twelfth AlabamaCavalry Regiment <http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/alamilor/12thcav.html>

The nucleus of the Twelfth was a battalion recruited by Lieut. Col. Wm. H. Hundley of Madison, and Major Bennett of St. Clair. This (the Twelfth) battalion operated in east Tennessee for some months, and was consolidated with the First Alabama while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It fought thus at Murfreesboro and Chicamauga, and through Longstreet's east Tennessee campaign. Soon after the latter operations, four companies were added, and the regiment thus formed took the name of the Twelfth Alabama. Attached to Hagan's brigade, the regiment took part in the retrograde movement from Dalton, and was engaged in numerous encounters. One of its companies lost 20 killed and wounded while defending a bridge near Rome. At Atlanta, July 22, Gen. Wheeler complimented the regiment on the field, and it lost 25 or 30 men in a hilt to hilt melee with Stoneman's raiders. At Campbellsville, the Twelfth repulsed Brownlow's brigade, losing 45 men. At Averysboro and the attack on Kilpatrick, and other places, the regiment fought till the end. It disbanded the night before the surrender�about 125 present.

Field and Staff

Colonels -- Warren S. Reese of Montgomery.

Lieut. Colonels -- Marcellus Pointer of Mississippi; wounded.

Majors -- A. J. Ingraham of Blount; disabled by accident.

Adjutants -- O. P. Casey of Cherokee; killed at Bentonville. 
The companies were from Jefferson (two), Captains Musgrove, killed at Fayetteville; and W. A. White. From St. Clair, Capt. A. D. Bennett. Jackson, Capt. Wharton. Blount, Capt. Donaldson, resigned, Capt. Weaver, killed at Bentonville. Calhoun, Capt. Scurry. Madison, Capt. Shepherd. Cherokee, Capt. Wm. Lokey, resigned; James Maxwell. State of Georgia, Capt. McKinney. State of' Tennessee, Capt. Saunders; company detached.

12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion Muster rolls: � Printed version (13p.; $1.30 copy fee, plus postage, 3 stamps)

<http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/docs.html>

Miscellaneous Documents Pertaining to Alabama Civil War Regiments

In an effort to make materials available that pertain to Alabama Civil War units, I am manually distributing Alabama muster rolls. (Please note that muster rolls are not service records. A muster roll is only a list of names of unit members, and their ranks; if you need an individual's service records, then you need to contact the National Archives or a private researcher such as Alan Pitts).

The following materials are available, via email. There is no charge for emailed materials; however, if you need a printed copy, sent through the US Postal Service, then I must collect postage and copying fees, as specified below.

Send your request for muster rolls to Ken Jones. By US mail, address: Ken Jones, Dick Smith Library, Box T-0450, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX 76402.

� Emailed copies of the rolls below are free � Electronic formats will generally be Word for documents, and .jpg for photographs � Printed copies require a self-addressed, stamped envelope, plus copy charges as specified [file sizes may vary from that specified, as I add/subtract information, etc.] � Printed copies of muster rolls are printed on both sides of the page. If one-sided prints are needed, postage charges must be doubled � Formats of printed muster rolls: alphabetical lists, generally. Service records are occasionally appended, but only rarely. Ordinarily only name, rank, and unit are included � Availability of muster rolls change as I add material. I have most unit rolls, listed or not; if you don't see what you need, please ask PLEASE LIMIT REQUESTS TO NO MORE THAN TWO ROLLS.

Nix, T.M., enlisted as a private 26 Jul 1862 in Blountsville by W.H. Hundley; on muster roll dated 26 Jul 1862 at Falkville in Morgan County; muster roll from 28 Feb to 30 Apr 1863 reported he enlisted at Blountsville by P.M. Musgrove and reported he transferred to Company K from Company I 28 Feb 1863 and he had no horse; muster roll from 30 Apr to 30 Jun 1864 reported he was sent to Wiggin's Battery 27 May 1863 by order of General Martin; muster roll from 30 Jun to 31 Dec 1864 reported he was sent to Wiggin's Battery 28 May 1863; no further record.

<http://home.hiwaay.net/~bobwonda/files/civilwarcompanies/12thCavB.htm>

Company B, Blount County 12th Alabama Cavalry

This page is a part of Robin Sterling's Blount County, Alabama Web Site site (� 2003, � 2004). If you got to this page by a link from another site, click here to jump to the main Blount County Index.

Information presented here is primarily from the microfilmed Compiled Confederate Service Records with supplementary information from the 1907 Blount County Confederate Census, Blount County Marriage Records, Blount County Cemetery Records Volumes 1 - 3 (2002) by Sterling, 1850 and 1860 Blount County Federal Census, The Heritage of Blount County (1999 edition), the Southern Democrat and The Blount County Journal

Delivered-To: knology.net-daltonn@knology.net From: <jj1j2jenkins@cox.net> To: <daltonn@knology.net> Subject: info from Wanda Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:30:57 -0500

As you remember the 1870 census and forward has had us stumped . . . well now I think we have our answer. Wanda has the following and I agree that it is what we have been looking for.

1870 Mississippi Co., AR Pg 561 #26/ Scott Twp, Pecan Point - Elizabeth NICKS age 36 (should be 41), b SC; William age 14, farmer, b AL (we finally found him); John age 13, farm laborer, b AL; James age 10?, farm laborer, b AL; Sarah age 12, b AL; Rebecca age 7, b AL

Now I think you had seen this but could not figure out the 2 girls, but I am sure this is Elizabeth and William is with her.

1880 Johnson Co., AR Pg 335 #7 Grant - Wood STOVALL age 34, b AL; Sallie (same as Sarah) age 22, b AR; Mallie age 12, b TX; Tilman age 3, b AR; Ora age 9/12, b AR; Eliza NICKS age 53 (should be 51), mother-in-law, b AL

1900 Johnson Co., AR Pg 19 #355/375 Grant Twp - Tillman STOVALL age 20, b AR Oct 1879, Parents b MS/AR; Ora age 18, sister, b AR Dec 1881, Parents b MS/AR; Elizabeth NIX age 76 (should be 71), b May 1824, grandmother, b MO (wrong), Parents b MS/AL (wrong) has had 4 children, 3 living (can't explain this)

I have gone on the Johnson Co., AR website and have ask for someone to look up the marriage of Sarah/Sallie to Wood STOVALL and hope it will tell her maiden name and parent/parents.

So, now we have something to go to work on. Sure hope it leads to some real proof. Have also asked someone to look for death of Elizabeth Nix and possibly an obituary.

Gotta run for now, more when I learn anything new.

JoAnn

JoAnn and Jimmy Jenkins

Name:T. M. Nix Company:B Unit: 12 Alabama Cavalry. Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge:Private Allegiance: Confederate Notes: Niggens, Batty.

THOMAS ALEXANDER- A SHORT HISTORY, 12 NOV 2005

THOMAS ALEXANDER NIX, and Elizabeth Gassaway: A SHORT HISTORY

 They were married in Pickens District, South Carolina shortly before the family moved to Alabama, They were young, 16 and 19.  I have found  one reference to the family with  two sons John T, and James F.,  They are listed in the Gene files collected by the LDS which only gives their birth years.    

They are listed in the 1850 SC census for Pickens County, South Carolina, Western Division; as T. Alexander Knix, 19; Elizabeth Knix, 16. They are also shown in the 1860 census, Alabama, Blount County, P.O. Summit, Western Division as; Thomas NIX, 26 male, born SC Milley E, 26 female, Born SC John T, 4 born Ala James F., 2, born Ala I think that all the ages, except for Elizabeth's on this census are in error. Thomas should be 29 and John T. greater than five. The Alabama 1855 census has this family with one son which would be John, and born before 1855.

Next door is a family that appears to be that of her father, and his second family. Elizabeth's mother Curtis Cosby died in South Carolina, and William remarried and moved to Blount County. These children would be half brothers and sisters to Elizabeth. This was a faint census record and I am not sure of all the names.

Family #246 William W. Gassaway, 59, Ludina,female, 31, Namon C. male 16, b SC Sarnhell, 11, female, b SC John H, 8, male, b Ala Mary M. 6, female, b Ala Wilkins(?), 4, male, Ala, Rucheal, j 3 Female, Ala Nosuna, T, 8/12, female, Ala

If we use the ages of these children then William arrived in Alabama between 1849 and 1853, and maybe before Jennings. Both purchased property in Murphree Valley. If we follow the current Murphee Valley Road from Walnut Grove South East toward Oneonta, William Gassaway owned 120 acres before reaching Ellison Cross Road, John Reeder Ellison owned the forty acres at Ellison Cross Road, and Jennings Nix owned the forty acres South of the crossroads. Certainly Jennings Nix and William Gassaway were acquainted while living in South Carolina, but I have not been able to couple the Nix and Ellison family�s prior to Blount County. Within a few years John Reeder Ellison and Jennings wife both died and Jennings married the widow next door; Temperence (Tempy) Poole Ellison. The next big event was the coming of the War between the States.

This record is for a T.M. NIX, but I viewed the original on the internet and the �M� was actually a fancy �A� with long legs on both ends. Also Thomas�s half brother William L. Ellison also joined this same company on the same day. Blountsville was within walking distance from their home at Ellison Crossroads.

Nix, T.M., enlisted as a private 26 Jul 1862 in Blountsville by W.H. Hundley; on muster roll dated 26 Jul 1862 at Falkville in Morgan County; muster roll from 28 Feb to 30 Apr 1863 reported he enlisted at Blountsville by P.M. Musgrove and reported he transferred to Company K from Company I 28 Feb 1863 and he had no horse; muster roll from 30 Apr to 30 Jun 1864 reported he was sent to Wiggin's Battery 27 May 1863 by order of General Martin; muster roll from 30 Jun to 31 Dec 1864 reported he was sent to Wiggin's Battery 28 May 1863; no further record.

I found one other short record of him alive in camp near Atlanta early 1865. From there the assignment of the unit was to delay General Sherman�s �March to the Sea�. He apparently died in the last two months of the war.

This is a short history of the 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, which was latter enlarged and to regimental size.

The 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers, was organized with 4 companies before 12 September 1862 and operated in East Tennessee for some months. It was then assigned to the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment in November 1862 while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It then fought at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and in Gen'l James Longstreet's East Tennessee Campaign. The Battalion was involved in several battles beginning with the Atlanta Campaign (May through September, 1864), including the fights at Rome where one company lost 20 casualties in defending a bridge, Atlanta (25 casualties), Campbellton (45 casualties), and Sunshine Church. It was also in the Savannah Campaign (November-December 1864), and the Carolinas Campaign (February-April 1865). It was reconstituted with the original 4 companies before 30 June 1864. Companies "E", "F", and "G" were assigned to the unit in 1864, and it was increased to a regiment and designated the 12th Alabama Cavalry in January 1865.

Field officers: Col. Warren Stone Reese; Lt. Cols. William H. Hundley (Madison); Marcellus Pointer; Majors William H. Hundley (promoted); Albert Gallatin Bennett (St. Clair; resigned, 5 Jan 1863); Augustus John Ingram; and Adjutant W. W. Whorton.

12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment

The nucleus of the 12th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (with men recruited from Cherokee, De Kalb, Etowah, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, and St. Clair counties) was a battalion recruited by Lt. Col. William H. Hundley of Madison, and Major Albert G. Bennett of St. Clair. This battalion operated in East Tennessee for some months, and it was consolidated with the 1st Alabama while the army lay at Murfreesboro. It fought thus at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and through Gen'l James Longstreet's East Tennessee Campaign. Soon after the latter operations, four companies were added, and the regiment thus formed took the name of the 12th Alabama. Attached to Hagan's Brigade, the regiment took part in the retrograde movement from Dalton, and was engaged in numerous encounters. One of its companies lost 20 k and w while defending a bridge near Rome. At Atlanta, 22 July 1864, Gen'l Joseph Wheeler complimented the regiment on the field, and it lost 25 or 30 men in a hilt to hilt melee with Union Gen'l Stoneman's raiders. At Campbellsville, the 12th repulsed Brownlow's Brigade, losing 45 men. At Averysboro and the attack on Kilpatrick, and other places, the regiment fought until the end. It disbanded the night before the surrender -- about 125 present -- on 25 April 1865.

Field and staff officers: Col. Warren Stone Reese (Montgomery); Lt. Cols. William H. Hundley; Marcellus Pointer (MS; wounded); Majors Albert Gallatin Bennett (resigned, 5 Jan 1863); Augustus John Ingram (Blount; accidentally disabled); and Adjutant R. B. Whorton (resigned, 11 Oct 1862).

Delivered-To: knology.net-daltonn@knology.net From: Brod1280@aol.com Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:43:40 EST Subject: Gasaway (Gassaway) Family To: daltonn@knology.net

Correction: �Thomas Gasaway was not a half brother to William W., he was a half brother to Henry, a half uncle to William W. Sorry 'bout that!

Looking forward to receiving your�info�on Cosby Curtis / William W. Gassaway. Hopefully, comparing notes and additional research will provide confirmation.

You mentioned Wanda as another Nix researcher. Do you have her tree info as it connects to ours?

Barbara

Delivered-To: knology.net-daltonn@knology.net From: Brod1280@aol.com Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:26:56 EST Subject: William W. Gassaway (Gasaway) To: daltonn@knology.net

Hello Dalton!

First of all, I finally found some notes I had made of a conversation between my mother, Grace Nix and her sister, Cecil Mattie Nix (children of William Jennings). Grandpa William Jennings spoke often of his sister Rebecca - - no mention was made of Sarah. Doesn't mean she didn't exist - just that I don't recall or have any notes on her. So unless Mother and Aunt Cecil had it all wrong, Grandpa William Jennings DID have a sister named Rebecca.

Regarding William W. Gassaway (Gasaway) b. abt. 1802. Do you have any info on his parents? I have received info (if in fact it is�our William W. Gassaway (Gasaway) that he was born in Pickens Co., SC. His father was Henry and his mother Rachel. His father Henry was in Polk Co., TN in 1840 and was 60 - 70 years old in that census. Rachel was in Pickens Co. in 1850 census. He seems to have died in 1857 in Pickens Co. and his heirs are named in court there. There were 15 children named in the Gassaway (Gasaway) Family Book. It also appears that Henry was the son of James Gasaway SR and his wife Rachel. James' second wife was Elizabeth Scruggs and she is the mother of Thomas Gasaway. Therefore Thomas is a half brother of William W. and Thomas was father of Samuel F. Gasaway who died in the Civil War. Samuel F. Gasaway was the father of Thomas Marion Gasaway who was the father of Mattie Cumi Gasaway Huggins born in Dardenelle, AR abt. 1872.��Abt. 1880 they went to McAlister, OK and Thomas Marion died there. Mattie's mother was Mary Bird Gasaway and had family on Petit Jean Mountain, Conway Co., AR and she went back there to raise her children. Dardenelle is in Yell Co., AR, almost next door to Johnson County, AR. The book I mentioned gives very little info on William W. but does say he was b. 1802 in SC. It lists no wife but says he is in the 1830, 1840 and 1850 census of Pickens Co., SC. Two children are also named: Jamima, age 20 in 1850 and Andrew C. age 6 in 1850.

Thomas Marion Gasaway was b. 1840 in Catoosa Co., GA and also lived in Walker Co, GA. This is supposedly very near where the Henry Gasaway was in Polk Co., TN. That corner of GA and AL (I was told) is full of Gasaways and all seem to descend from a James Gasaway who was in the Revolutionary War and got land in AL for his service.

Does any of this match with what you have in your notes?��If it does,�Jean will send me copies of applicable pages from the book and I can send them to you. The material is not on her computer so must be snail mail. No need, of course, if it is not our William W.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Barbara

From: <mailto:daltonn@knology.net>Dalton J. Nix To: <mailto:tnix@rose.net>Nix Family Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: Re: Thomas Alexander Nix, Civil War

Tom, Jennings had one more son to serve for the Confederacy, his name was Thomas Alexander Nix and it took me over two years to track him down. For a very long time I did not know what happened to him. He just disappeared between 1860 and 1870. But I found his wife, his father-in-law and his children in Arkansas. But never any indication that he had died. I had almost given up on the war because I expected him to be in the 28th with his older brothers if he was in the war. So I moved to my mothers family. I was reading a old copy of a document a Bynum lady had prepared, and along the margin someone had written "Cousin Julie Murphree said Thomas died in the War". At that time I did not know Julie Murphree, nor which Thomas, and I did not know for sure which war. But then I found that one of My GG-Grandfathers daughters, named Julie, had married a Murphree so Thomas Alexander would have been her Uncle. So I went back to searching civil war units from Alabama. Another of those initials only entries which can drive one crazy.

Name:T. M. Nix Company:; B; Unit:12 Alabama Cavalry. Rank - Induction:; Private Rank - Discharge:; ,Private Allegiance:Confederate Notes:Niggens, Batty.

Source Information:

United States National Archives. Civil War Compiled Military Service Records [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-.

But I needed a T.A.; After looking at the "M" for a long time I found a small dash across the two middle legs and also noticed that it could be an "A" with very fancy start and ending curls. I have not found any transcription that shows it as T.A. but I am convinced that the private in the 12th Alabama Calvary Company B is my Thomas Alexander. I also found Thomas's step brother William Ellison in this same unit, and they both joined at Blountsville, Alabama which is about 8 to 10 miles from where they were living. The 12th Alabama Cavalry was one of those units that was reorganized several times, and he move between different companies, but I did find him on roster in December 1864 near Atlanta, with a notation that he had no horse. The 12th was assigned to attempting to slow General Sherman's "March to the Sea". They stacked arms in North Carolina in April, so Thomas died in the last four months of the war, attempting to stop the burning of the Georgia and South Carolina Court Houses, and all of those wonderful records.

Hello Dalton! � Yes, this is my Moore family (Martha Elizabeth Moore married William Jennings Nix).� The�original researcher (not the author who is also a distant cousin) �is another cousin��who provided most of this info to the author .� The author also researched the Welch - Thompson - Nix line �that�included �Uncle Tom (Thomas Floyd Nix - son of John T. Nix and Hester Anna Amanda Thompson).� I am doing copy/paste so you can read it.� John T. Nix was a brother of William Jennings Nix. � After 'Uncle Tom' and 'Mary L' divorced, he moved into the cabin on my aunt, Josie Myrtle Nix Wear's property and did farm work for them.� He� then married a woman named May and moved to Lower Oppelo.� May�became very mentally unstable (or was always mentally unstable), believing she was pregnant with 'Uncle Tom's' baby.� She remained pregnant for well over a year then 'had' the child.� The one she produced was a child's baby doll which she dressed in a layette and presented to everyone as the newest addition!� I remember when the older cousins would laugh about her, my mother and aunts would reprimand them and tell them she couldn't help it, that she was quite ill.� That was quite the topic for discussion in the family for some time! � Also, will be sending the Gassaway Family Book pages sometime this week.�

Hester Anna Amanda Thompson, daughter of Mary Jane Forehand and James H. Thompson, born June 8th, 1847, in Georgia. She married James Franklin Welch (1834-c.1880). They were living in the community of Deview, near Augusta in Woodruff County Arkansas, in 1870 with two very young children, a girl named Dianna and a boy named James. On the 4th of March, 1871, their second daughter, Mary Beulah Welch, was born. Three boys shortly followed (W. Dexter Welch, Wiley A. Welch, and Frank Welch), and in January of 1880 Mr. Welch purchased 120 acres of land in Lower Oppelo from Sarah Birge (John Birge had first acquired the land from the government in 1857), and though the family was in Oppelo by that year they were enumerated in Perry County. (Oppelo was originally part of Perry Co. but later part of Perry Co. became part of Conway County).

Unfortunately, Mr. Welch died very soon after the family got to Oppelo. Amanda was left with young children to raise and a farm to run, so on the 29th of September, 1881, Amanda was married to John T. Nix (b. abt 1857) by Justice of the Peace B.F. Grinstead. Amanda�s son, Thomas F. Nix, was born in Oppelo soon after.

Four years later (1885) Amanda was dead, her two eldest children gone and the five younger children turned over to the guardianship of neighbor William H. Cravens.

In 1889 Mary Beulah Welch married the young man next door, James Elonzo (Lonnie) Todd of Oppelo. Beulah and Lonnie had ten children over the next nineteen years.

Beginning in 1894 Beulah and her husband took over the administration of the Welch inheritance, paying the delinnt taxes on the land. Frank Welch had died by 1905, and Dexter married a woman named Cora E. (--) selling their 1/3 interest in the Welch land to Beulah and Lonnie in that year. Wiley married a women named Olena W. (--) and moved to Boone County. They sold his 1/3 interest in the Welch land to Lonnie and Beulah in 1907. Tom Nix married Mary L (--) before 1920, and they lived near Beulah in Oppelo (they later divorced).

Beulah suffered from a non-healing ulcerous wound after a boiling iron pot (washtub) full of lye soap and water overturned on her leg when she was young. Though the wound gave her some pain for the rest of her life it did not prevent her from taking an active part in her church and community. A deeply religious woman, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Oppelo Assembly of God (Pentecostal) Church, first opening her home to weekly services for the community and later helping organize the member donations of lumber and land for the building of the church.

A letter to Beulah, dated November 21, 1919 from a leader of the Assemblies of God Church states (verbatim):

"Hartford Ark, Mrs. Beula Todd Dear sister in Christ Greetings;

     In his dear name I rec. your letter O.K. glad to here from You, 
     but sorry to say no to you i sure wish i could come and be with 
     you over sunday but i don�t see how i can at presant, as we are 
     to begin a meeting Sunday week, and i want to stay here and try 
     to keep things in readiness for the meeting, you all pray for the 
     meeting, as the mines are shut down here and that makes finiance 
     a little short, but thank God he is able, Hallulajah; so we are 
     trusting him, now sister just as soon as i can get a chance i will 
     come and spend a few days with you all, give my love to all the dear 
     sants and pray for us here, 

     now, in regard to the form of deed, i will give it as follows, 
     (The trustees of the Assembley of God, at Oppolo, Ark, and there 
     successers, in Cooperation with the General Council of The Assemblies 
     of God, at Springfield Mo.) in making Your Deed in cooperation with 
     the General Council, it will stop all future troble, so i will close, 
     ans, soon from your Bro, in christ, 
                                        Fayette Romines.

     P.S. the General Council will not own your property but it will be 
     owned by you all there and protected by the Council."

Establishment of the Church in Lower Oppelo was not without some controversy. Early on, a group of troublemakers was determined to disrupt services and frighten the congregation from ever assembling again, but Lonnie Todd was tipped off about the plans and he and some of the other men were waiting in their wagon beds when the hooligans showed up. When confronted by the rifle-bearing congregants the hooded cowards fled.

One of the Welch boys left Arkansas suddenly during the depression. He moved to California, where he settled in the Pasadena area. His family owned several successful restaurants in Southern California.

After her husband Lonnie passed away in 1919, Beulah ran the farm with the help of her son Johnnie Todd, living on another twenty-four years. Beulah passed away the 27th of June, 1943 after increasing disability left her bedfast for months, having outlived six of her ten children and being survived by her brothers Dexter Welch and Tom Nix.

Family Maps of Blount County, Alabama, by Gregory A Boyd, J.D.

Thomas is listed with two parcles of property T11S, R3E Section 3 NWNW, dated 1 March 1858. 40 acres

                Section 4 NE,       dated 1 March 1858,  160 Acres. 

Listed as Thomas M. Nicks

William Nicks Section 4 W1/2SW, dated 1 March 1858 80 Acres

Both indicate that they have additional tracks in Marshall County.

Barabara Rodriguez 54Toad Road #0 Priest River, ID 93956-9628