Shiloh School
1919
James Darlington Mixson and his twelve children.
Wilbur 2nd row on right
Come mid-January no decision or action was made by the board, and the matter teachers was left with the superintendent to adjust. Come March Mr. H.H. Harrell, trustee of the Shiloh school, requested the teacher’s salary be increased by $5 a month to $85. It was approved.
In the summer of 1919 James Darlington Mixson or JD as he was called, gave a dinner party in honor of his son Wilbur (my grandfather) and Charlie White, both who had recently returned from the War. Rosalie Anderson described the event in her memoirs:
In 1919 Mr. Mixson gave a dinner for Wilbur and Charley White, a man that was a friend of Wilbur’s in the army. Mr. Mixson had twelve children: Job, Gilbert, Lula, Viola and Estelle were by his first wife. She was Lois Smith. She died when one of them was a baby. Then he married Mary Reeves. She was the mother of seven children. Alice, Henry, Wilbur, Bessie, Lois, Charley, and Maxie. I went to the dinner with Ella Mixson and her family. While the cousins were in the parlor kissing Wilbur, (I almost ran across the room and kissed him too) but we just looked at each other and I turned and went out of the room. He soon followed me out on the porch and asked me to eat dinner with him. I said yes, and from then on he called me his “sweetheart” and came over to see me once a week.