Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Dix, Matthew 1831 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Matthew Dix, farmer, P. O. Verona, is a native of Berkshire, England, born May 
4, 1831, son of Charles and Martha Dix, of England. He is the fifth of a 
family of eight children, and was raised and educated in England. He came to 
the United States in 1856, in the vessel "Amazon", being six weeks on the 
passage. He came immediately to Illinois and settled in Kendall County, where 
he engaged in farming for eight years; came to Grundy County in the spring of 
1865. Here he located in Section 22, of Vienna Township, where he owns a farm 
of 160 acres of well-improved land, and resides one and one-half miles 
northwest from Verona; the land is valued at $50 per acre. Mr. Dix was married 
in Kendall County, September 21, 1864, to Miss Gertrude Cody, daughter of 
Thomas and Harriet Cody, born in Oneida County, N. Y., July 8, 1843. They have 
a family of seven children, three of whom are dead - Freddy L., born in Grundy 
County December 26, 1868; Lewis M., December 24, 1870, died of diphtheria 
December 22, 1880; Clara A., born November 2, 1872; Mina G., January 20, 1876, 
died June 12, 1877; Sadie E., born February 3, 1878; and Effie J., born August 
27, 1879. George T., Mr. Dix's eldest son, born January 21, 1865, drowned by 
falling into a tub of water in October, 1866. They are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Verona.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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