Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....W. H. Nix February 28 1844 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   W. H. NIX - The grandfather of the subject of this mention was William Nix, a
native of Georgia, and for a number of years a resident of Barbour county, where
he died in 1887. His son, D. E. Nix, father of W. H., was born near Atlanta,
Ga., in 1823, married Miss Elizabeth Brooks (nee Thomason), also a native of
Georgia, in 1843, and reared a family of seven children, namely: W. H., Gideon,
Martha, wife of John Justice; John, Joseph, David, Sallie, wife of William
Wilcox; all living but Mrs. Wilcox. Mr. and Mrs. Nix spent the first thirteen
years of their married life in Georgia, moved to Barbour county in 1855, and now
live about three miles west of the town of Clayton. W. H. Nix was born in Cobb
county, Ga., February 28, 1844. He was reared to agricultural pursuits and
received in the common schools an education which, supplemented with a fund of
sound practical judgment, has enabled him to transact successfully the business
of a very active life. In the spring of 1861 he joined the "Barbour Grays," a
military organization which became company A, Fifth Alabama infantry, and served
with the same in the army of Lee during the bloodiest period of the late war.
Among the battles in which he participated were the following: First Manassas,
Yorktown, Seven Pines and Seven days' fight in the vicinity of Richmond, in the
second day of which he received a minie ball wound in the forearm, which
necessitated the amputation of that member just below the elbow. On account of
this disability he was discharged from further service and, returning home, he
at once began organizing a cavalry company, of which he would have been elected
captain had not his parents dissuaded him from again going to the front. After
this he attended school one year, and in 1867, March 1, was united in marriage
to Susan Watkins, daughter of Frank Watkins, who has borne him eleven children,
nine now living, namely : James E., farmer, of Butler county; C. E., druggist at
Dothen, Ala ; Hampden, living at home; Whitfield, principal of Clayton Male
academy; George P., drug clerk with his brother at Dothen, Ala.; Glenn; Lee;
Nattie, and Quinn, the last three still under the parental roof. Since the war,
Mr. Nix has given the greater part of his attention to agricultural pursuits,
besides being connected at different times with various other business ventures.
In 1877 he was elected tax collector of Barbour county, the duties of which
position he discharged in a manner highly satisfactory to all concerned until
the expiration of his second term, in 1885. Mr. Nix owns a fine plantation of
2,000 acres, in the management of which he displays shrewd business sagacity,
and his farming is carried on quite extensively with the latest and most
approved agricultural appliances. As a citizen, Mr. Nix stands high in the
public esteem; he is prominent in religious work as a member of the Methodist
church and Sunday school superintendent, and as a democrat has been active in
the deliberations of his party in Barbour county.
   



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 450


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