Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Nix, I. R. 1841 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. I. R. NIX, physician and surgeon and general merchant of Deatsville, was
born in Wetumpka, Elmore county, in 1841, the son of J. M. B. and Mary E. Young
Nix, who were born in Ogelthorpe county, Ga., in 1818 and 1832 respectively.
John M. B. Nix came to Alabama with his parents, when a young man, and settled
in what is now Elmore county, and when Dr. Nix was a little boy his father
removed to Tallassee, Ala., and later to Birmingham, where he engaged in the
business of a marble dealer and speculator. He was a master Mason, and a notary
public for many years. He was the son of Joseph Nix, a native of Georgia, from
which state he came to what is now Elmore county, where he died, His wife died
in Coosa county. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, was a planter all his life and
had a large family. The mother of Dr. Nix is now living with her children at the
advanced age of sixty years. Dr. Nix is the third of five sons, three of whom
were in the late war, one of them was a lieutenant and all of them excellent
soldiers. He received a good education principally at Marion and the state
university. In 1862 he enlisted in company B, Thirty-first Alabama infantry, and
fought gallantly through the Georgia campaigns, and at Jonesboro he was severely
wounded, which incapacitated him for further duty, during which time he was at
home. He rejoined his command after six months and remained with it until the
close of the war. After the close of hostilities, he took a commercial course at
New Orleans, and then read medicine with Dr. D. C. Keller, in Talladega county,
and in 1872 graduated from the South Carolina medical college. He practiced in
Coosa county a short time and then removed to Birmingham as contract doctor for
a number of the mines there. At Birmingham he was also timekeeper for the
Alabama Great Southern railroad. In 1888 he located at Deatsville, where he has
an extensive practice, and also runs a general store. He is a member of the
County Medical society, master of the exchequer of the K. P.'s, No. 105, and a
member of Deatsville lodge, No. 475, F. & A. M. In 1874 he was married to Carrie
E., daughter of Adam and Mary L. Whetstone, natives respectively of North and
South Carolina, but were early settlers of Autauga county, where Mrs. Nix was
born. Mr. and Mrs. Whetstone now reside in Deatsville. Mr. Whetstone has been a
farmer and served all through the late war. Dr. Nix and wife are Missionary
Baptists.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 942-943
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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