Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Mixson, Barzilli H. October 1 1835 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   BARZILLI H. MIXSON, a prominent planter of Beat No. 9, was born in Monroe
county, Ga., October 1, 1835. He is a son of William and Julia (Harris) Mixson,
natives of Beaufort county, N. C. Mr. Mixson's parents died when he was a boy
and he was in part reared by an uncle, but started out early in life for
himself. He worked in Georgia for a few years and then returned to North
Carolina, where he married, and afterward returned to Georgia, where he followed
blacksmithing till 1853, when he came to Coffee county, settling near Pea river,
in the eastern part of the county. Here he was engaged in farming till his
death, which occurred about 1882, aged about seventy years. He was famous for
his integrity and honesty. He was a liberal supporter of churches and schools
and a hard worker in Sunday schools. His wife was a member of the Methodist
church for many years. His great-grandfather was English, and came to this
country at an early day, and fought through the Revolutionary war. The mother of
B. H. Mixson is still living. She was the only daughter, but had two brothers
who went west many years ago, since when she has never heard anything of them.
Mr. B. H. Mixson is the fourth of ten children. He was reared on the farm and
had a good academic education. At the age of nineteen he began life for himself
as a farm hand, working by the year. In 1858, he married Melinda, daughter of
Isaiah and Rebecca Stokes, the former a native of South Carolina, and the latter
of Georgia, but who came when very young to Alabama, where they spent the rest
of their lives, he dying in 1874, and she in 1885. Mrs. Mixson was born in
Coffee county, and died in 1883, leaving ten children, all of whom are still
living. In 1886, Mr. Mixson married Mrs. Myron Beard, daughter of John W. and
Martha A. Harper, natives of Clarke county, Ga., the former born in 1818; and
the latter in 1819. He came to Coffee county as a pioneer and was one of the
prominent men of the county. Mr. Harper died in 1888, and his wife in 1880. Mrs.
Mixson was born in Georgia, and has had one son by Mr. Beard. In August, 1861,
Mr. Mixson joined company H, Fifty-third Alabama mounted infantry, serving
nearly through the war under Gen. Wheeler, mostly on detached duty. The first
two years he operated in the Tennessee valley, then in the Georgia campaign, and
at Atlanta, where he was cut off from his command. He and a comrade went to the
house of the latter, in west Georgia, where they manufactured a bogus furlough
for Mr. Mixson, and he came home, and, remaining but a short time, returned to
his command, which followed Sherman to the sea. He fought at the battle of
Camden. After the war, he lived some years in Dale county, working very hard,
and accumulating a handsome property. He now has a good farm of eight hundred
acres on Pea river, six miles above Elba. The brothers and sisters of Mr. Mixson
are Mary, deceased wife of Pate Edge; Nancy, wife of George Hayes, of Dale
county; William C.; Jane, widow of Joshua Lee, of Texas; Caroline, died when a
young lady; Josephus; John, Marion, Julia, died young, and Sophia, also deceased.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 675-676


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