Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....NIXON, WILEY September 15 1816 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
WILEY NIXON, farmer, Mandeville, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Joe and
	Martha (Ward) Nixon, was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., Sept. 15, 
1816.
His father was born in what is now Wilkes county, Ga., about 1775.(This 
territory  was acquired from the Indians in 1773 and Wilkes county was laid 
out in 1777). He was bound out when a boy and learned the carpenters trade; 
when older engaged in farming also, and was a soldier in the war
of 1812. He moved to Coweta county in 1830, settled in the woods and lived in 
a dirt floor log cabin. Mr. Nixon's maternal grandparents, Sam and Eda 
(Hudson) Ward, were among the early settlers of that part of Georgia. Mr. 
Nixon grew to manhood on the farm and attended school at the historic log 
schoolhouse. The first house he lived in the boards were fastened on with 
wooden pins. He came to Coweta county with his father and lived in that county 
until 1874, when he moved and settled on a partly-cleared farm in Carroll 
county, afterward clearing what he wanted. He began life very poor, has worked 
hard on the farm all his life, and although not rich he has a competency and 
is rich in the possession of sincere friends, and the consciousness of a well-
spent life. He owns 600 acres of good land, a farm well-improved and a good 
home in which to spend his declining years. Mr. Nixon was married to Miss 
Elizabeth Fullenlove (born in Coweta county), daughter of Lud and Alsa 
(Freeman) Fullenlove. To them nine children have been born: Weldin I., J. 
Page, Fannie, Rebecca, Meda, Ludwell, Nanna, William and Ada. Mr. Nixon has 
been a member of the masonic fraternity more than forty years, and is regarded 
as one of the most substantial, and is among the most respected of the 
county's citizens.


Additional Comments:
From the book "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, 
published in 1896

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