OBITUARY H. A. Nix, 79, Dies on Farm At Carrollton On the Carrollton farm where he was born and where his grandfather settled in 1846, Harrison A. Nix, scion of two of Dallas County's first settlers, died a working farmer at 79 Friday. The short, gray-mustached old farmer, grandson of the founder of the county's first Baptist church and a fixture in the Carrollton community, walked agilely to his sheep barns about 100 yards from the farmhouse Friday morning to check up on his flock. Relatives alarmed when he did not return, set up a search. A son discovered his body shortly before 11 a.m. He was the victim of a heart attack. Funeral services will be held in the First Baptist Church at Carrollton Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Mr. Nix was the grandson of John Nix, who settled the family farm three miles from Carrollton in 1846. It was a Peters Colony grant, and the land has never been owned by another family. Mr. Nix's maternal grandfather, the Rev. Elder David Myers, who came to Dallas County from Kentucky in 1845, formed the Union Baptist Church in 1846 with five members, three of them members of his family. It was Baptistdom's first church in the country. A stead, pleasant man with a reputation for sticking close to home, Mr. Nix worked actively on the farm until the hour of his death. He attended the funeral of a brother-in-law, James Miller, in Carrollton only last Sunday. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and of the Woodmen of the World. He will be buried in the family plot in old Keenan Cemetery at Farmers Branch where his father and grandfather lie. Will Squibb, H. D. Boswell, Marion Good, Rex Good, Kenneth  Handley and Wade Fyke will be pallbearers. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Miller Nix; a daughter, Mrs. Fannie Davis, and a son, David Nix, of Carrollton; two granddaughters, Mrs. M. J. Easterwood and Mrs. Maurine Davis of Dallas; and four sisters, Mrs. Homer B. Fisher of Dallas, Mrs. Peter Handley of Garland, Mrs. Edgar Southerland of Sulphur, Okla., and Mrs. T. M. Moore of Cisco. The Dallas Morning News - January 10, 1942 Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

 

NIX MINNIE E. 1866 - 1954 HARRISON - 1862 - 1942 Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., Texas

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