Sons of Jessee Mixon #702
John Jehu Mixon #1775,  continued

In testimony whereof I: Millard. Fillmore, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made patent and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed Given under my hand at the City of Washington the first day of May in the year of our Lord. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and of the independence of the United States the seventy sixth. (Recorded Volume 1, page 278)

 

An Act of Congress passed September 28, 1850, allowed Bounty Land to veterans of the War of 1812. John Mixon, Sr., made application for Bounty Land dated Jul 2, 1852, in which he states he is sixty years of age, a resident of the town of Augusta, that he is the same John Mixon who was a private in a Company of Mounted Riflemen commanded by Capt. John Bond in the 13th Regiment of the Militia commanded by Col. George H. Nixon, deceased. He volunteered in Marion County, MS, about December 1814 and was honorably discharged in same county about March 1815, as would appear by the Muster Roll of the Company, his discharge had been lost by time or accident. John Bond made affidavit stating John Mixon was the John Mixon in his Company of Mounted Riflemen during the War of 1812. John Bond signed the affidavit with a cross mark as his eyesight was defective due to age, and affidavit was dated Jul 2, 1852. Company Pay Roll for 3rd January to 2nd Apr 1815 (roll not dated) shows John Mixon served during that time. Term of service charged-3 months; pay per month $8.00; amount of pay $60.00. Company Muster Roll for 3rd January 1815, when rendezvoused, to 2nd Apr 1815; roll dated Marion County Court House, Mississippi Territory, 31 May 1815; date of enlistment, 3rd January 1815; for time enlisted, 3 months; present; 1 horse. Warrant No. 77,119 for 40 acres of Bounty Land was issued to him which he used to enter: SE¼ SE¼ Sec 21 T4N R11W 40.00 acres on December 31, 1852.

 

Original Tract Land entries, Perry County, Mississippi, page 32:

 

SE¼ NE¼: NE¼ SE¼ Sec 22 T3N R11W 79.78 acres .12½₡ $9.97 John Mixon, Sr. Sep, 19, 1854 Receipt No. 9705

 

SE¼ SE¼: W½ SE¼ SW¼ NE¼ Sec 22 T3N R11W 239.58 acres .12½ $29.95 John Mixon, Sr. Nov , 5, 1854 Receipt No. 11324-11329 (Corrected Jun 21, 1897)

 

Evidently these two entries were totaled in the second entry. This 239.56 acre tract with the Military Warrant 40 acres, and the 40.05 acres in Section 28 add. up to the 320 acres he was said to have had at the time of his death. It was on this larger tract of land John had a grist mill built. There was also a small sawmill and a cotton gin nearby.

 

John Mixon was a jailor at the Augusta jail when James Copeland was a prisoner there. When John took supper to Copeland one evening, Copeland was waiting with a large plank or two by four to hit John. Copeland missed John's head, but hit his foot and broke it, leaving John crippled. As Copeland was beating John, Rebecca took her shoe and hit Copeland about the head and made him let John alone. Copeland ran down the stairs and escaped. He was later captured by Hamp Nickles, where Leaf River enters Tallahala Creek. Copeland was hanged on a gallows and buried across the street at Augusta, Mississippi. Cousin Biddie McAdory has said the gallows was still there when she was a youngster, and she would pass it on the way to school.

 

Before his death, Mr. Mixon sold his bounty grant to pay off his debts. He had applied for another grant which was given his widow after his death. Mr. and Mrs. Mixon had 11 children, 8 of them sons, all 8 sons went to the Confederate Army and only three returned home.

 

In 1857, Rebecca Mixon filed application for the 120 acres Bounty Land granted to John Mixon after his death in 1855, which warrant was returned and cancelled. John Slade, a brother to Rebecca, signed an affidavit saying Rebecca Mixon had been the legal wife of John Mixon, and she was still a widow. Two other men signed affidavits as to the time of year John Mixon had died Warrant No. 95032 was issued to Rebecca Mixon for the 120 acres in 1858.

 

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