Biography of William Goodwyn Nixon, MD, Hale, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/bullock/bios/wgnixon.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Barbara Walker Winge ==================================================================== February 2002 WILLIAM GOODWYN NIXON William Goodwyn Nixon, of Uniontown, Alabama, was born in Holmes county, Mississippi, December 20, 1834. His father, Dr. J. D. Nixon, formerly from Petersburg, Virginia, a graduate of Transylvania Medical College, Lexington, Kentucky, moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1839, and shortly afterwards settled near Lowndesboro, Alabama, where the subject of this sketch received his elementary education. He was sent from there to Howard College, at Marion, in the same State, and remaining there, but a short while was sent to Mr. Zion College, Winnsboro, South Carolina, where he received his education under the teachings of the educators who composed the excellent faculty in the years 1850 to 1852... He is a communicant in the Prostestant Episcopal Church, and has been married twice... Ref: Stone, R. French, BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, pp. 662-663. The following was added by Carolyn Golowka, 1850 US Census, Lowndes County, page 163B, Dwelling #938, Family #938 Nixon, John D., age 39, male, a physician, value real estate $6060, born in MS Nixon, Mary T., age 36, female, born in SC Augustine, Martha T., age 19, female, born in SC Nixon, William G., age 16, male, born in MS, attended school within the year Nixon, George, age 17, male, born in MS, attended school within the year Nixon, Mary, age 12, female, born in MS, attended school within the year Summerlin, Redin, age 30, male, overseer, born in SC