Bio: Dr. Thomas N. Nix, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Dr. Thomas N. Nix, the subject of this sketch, was born in Georgia in 1851.  
In 1858 he with his parents moved to Columbia County, Ark., where his parents 
now reside.  Being remote from school he was reared with but little education, 
but at the age of majority, being determined to work out for himself a practical 
education, he applied himself so well that he was admitted as teacher into the 
public schools of his State, spending three years in this work.  He then gave 
his attention to the science of dentistry.  After some time devoted to the study 
of this science, he began practice as early as 187- and this calling has since 
received his attention.  He has been associated with some bright lights in his 
profession, and has acquired for himself a name among the professional men of 
North Louisiana, and as a dentist is certainly very skillful, and a master of 
his profession.  He has resided in this locality sufficiently long to win a host 
of friends, and to build up about him a large and appreciative practice.  He was 
married to Miss Alice Warren, October 27, 1880.  Mrs. Nix is a member of the 
Protestant Methodist Church, Dr. Nix, of the Missionary Baptist Church, and they 
are liberal supporters of these churches.  Dr. Nix is one of fifteen children born 
to Larkin Nix, whose birth occurred in ----- County, Ga., in 1813.  Larkin Nix has 
lived a quiet farmer's life.  He was in the Indian War of 1836, and he killed and 
scalped a large Indian, who helped to murder and scalp his brother, William Nix and 
family.  He volunteered, went into the Southern Army of the late Civil War, and was 
flag bearer for his company.  He has one son, Henry Nix, who gave up his life for 
the lost cause.  John Nix, the father of Larkin Nix, was born in Edgefield, S. C., 
in the year 1761.  He was large enough to be cuffed about and abused by the tories 
in Washington's day.  He was an active participant in the early Indian war, especially 
the War of 1812, under Gen. Floyd.  In 1858 he moved to Columbia County, Ark., with his 
son Larkin Nix, where he died in 1868, at the advanced age of one hundred and seven years.  
Dr. Nix'' father aged seventy-seven, and mother, aged seventy, are still living out their 
Christian lives on the old homestead in Columbia County, Ark., where they settled in 1858.  
Dr. Nix has recently embarked in a mercantile venture, doing business with C. B. -----, 
Broadway, N. Y.  He has efficient men to run this business and will continue the practice 
of his profession.

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