Bio: James M. Mixon, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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James M. Mixon, planter, Cotton Valley, La.  This name is not unfamiliar 
to those in the vicinity of Cotton Valley as well as those in the county, 
for he who bears it is numbered among the highly respected citizens of the 
community.  He was born in Louisiana, and with his parents located in Claiborne 
Parish, when but a child, growing to manhood in that parish.  Early in life he 
went to Texas, followed trading in stock, remained in that State and Indian 
Territory until in 1887, when he returned to Claiborne Parish.  He immediately 
engaged with A. K. Clingman as a traveling salesman in the nursery business, and 
bought the farm where he now lives in the fall of 1888.  He was married to Miss 
Pinkie Loyd of Lincoln Parish, and the fruit of this union has been on child, Cortez.  
His father, Thomas Mixon, was a native of Mississippi, and a son of J. Miquel Mixon, 
who was a native of Scotland.  Mr. Mixon is a successful, enterprising citizen, and 
one of the thoroughgoing, prosperous agriculturists of this parish.  The improvements 
on his place are of a good order and kept in neat condition.