Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Dix, Oliver 1822 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Oliver Dix, farmer, P. O. Nettle Creek, was born in Oneida County, N. Y., 
January 5, 1822; he was the only child of Ara and Lydia (Richards) Dix; his 
father was born in Pittsfield County, Conn., July 14, 1793, and was the son of 
Charles Dix, also a native of Connecticut, and who married a Miss Wells. The 
Dix family were of Welsh descent. Mr. Ara Dix was married, December 31, 1816, 
and died September 4, 1826, in Vernon, Oneida Co., N. Y. Our subject's mother 
was born in Litchfield, Conn., June, 1792, and died September 19, 1881. Mr. 
Ara Dix emigrated from Connecticut to Oneida County, N. Y., about the year 
1808; he was a tanner and currier. Our subject was about four years old when 
his father died, and he still lived with his mother until he was fourteen. She 
had married some time previously, John E. Waterman, and they came out and 
settled in Lisbon, Kendall Co., Ill. Mr. Dix stayed with them until he was of 
age, when he started and worked for himself; he came to this township in 1845, 
having purchased land here in the spring of 1843, for about $12 per acre; he 
also bought 160 acres for $300. In the fall of 1844, he entered eighty acres 
of Government land, on which he still resides, having built on it during the 
summer of 1845. February 2, 1848, he married Lydia, daughter of Thomas and 
Sarah (Brownell) Wing. She was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y.; her father, 
Thomas WING, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., April 27, 1789, and died in 
1856, in Kendall County; he married Sarah Brownell, July 29, 1810, who was 
born January 15, 1792, in Rensselaer County, N. Y., and who died March 4, 
1827, in Chautauqua County. Mr. Thomas Wing came to Kendall County, Ill., 
about the year 1845. Our subject's wife died December 23, 1857. By her he had 
two children - Ara W. and Orville E. Ara W. resides on Section 9, this 
township, and Orville lives near Cresent City, Iroquois Co., Ill.; January 5, 
1860, he married Louisa McKinzee, born in Alleghany County, Md., daughter of 
William and Ann S. (Spellman) McKinzee, natives of the same State. Mr. 
McKinzee was born February 2, 1798, and died March 25, 1874; his wife died 
April 1, 1874. They removed to Shelby County, Ind., in 1838, where they lived 
till the fall of 1851, when they came and settled in La Salle County, Ill., 
where they resided for three years, afterward removing to the town of Manlius, 
Ill., and finally coming to this township in 1865, where they both died. They 
were the parents of five girls, all living and married - Mary A., wife of S. 
A. Summers, of Iowa; Louisa (Mrs. Dix); Susanna M., wife of J. W. Small, of 
Iowa; Harriet, wife of James Ashton, of this county, and Nancy, wife of Peter 
Eckersley, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Dix have five children - Lydia B., 
William, Ettie M., Susan L. and George R. Lydia B. is now the wife of John W. 
Johnson, of this county. Mr. Dix taught school for three terms in Kendall 
County, Ill.; he was elected Justice of the Peace about 1849; he owns 700 
acres of land; he is Republican in politics.

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

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