I posted earlier that I had found a transcription of Edward Nixon's obituary. Since then, I found out that the Ohio Historical Society has a microfilm archive of the Spirit of Democracy. I was able to get the film on inter-library loan and find the original paper. I've included a picture of the whole page first. The obituary is in the fourth column, about half way down. I've also included a blow-up of the obituary.
Roll: 25121
Transcription:
Died, at the residence of his son-in-law, Calvin Butter, in West Hendricks Tp, Shelby County, Ind., March 3d, 1889, Mr. Edward W. Nixon. He was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, near Shelbyville, on March 4th. Mr. Nixon was born in Washington County, Pa., on Sept. 1st, 1798, and moved to Ohio in 1843, and settled near New Castle, Monroe County, where he lived till 1881, when he moved to Shelby County, Indiana, where he lived with his sons and daughter. He has been a member of the M. E. Church for the last forty-five years. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.
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Climbing the Family Tree
People and Places
Unresolved Questions
Microfilms I want to look at
- Gasper Harshamn's Will FHL US/CAN Film 861066
- Joseph Eddy Martin genealogical collection--Films 1425357-1425359 (all)
- Marriages: Nancy Nixon to John Ensley, 1871 & Nancy Ensley to Joseph Sindledecker 1879-- Film 0940297 V. 1-2
- Cora Vanaman's Death, Aug 18, 1952--Film: 1984253 Digital GS: 4258121 Image: 1555
- Cora Nixon's Marriage, 1884--Film: 853808 Digital GS: 4130827 Image: 00195
About the Author
I am the grandson of Sarah and Eddy Martin. I have just started to get my feet wet in family history research and decided to keep my notes in a blog format.
While most of the information about people found here are already well-known within my family and on sites like familysearch.org, the original sources from which that information comes is not always clear. My goal here is to gather as many original sources as possible on ancestors that are already known. As I learn more about them, they become more than just names on an old piece of paper. Who knows, I may even stumble on a new find every now and then.
I hope this blog becomes useful to more than just myself. If you have information that is relevant here or to request information from me please contact me at joshua1ix (at) hotmail (dot) com
While most of the information about people found here are already well-known within my family and on sites like familysearch.org, the original sources from which that information comes is not always clear. My goal here is to gather as many original sources as possible on ancestors that are already known. As I learn more about them, they become more than just names on an old piece of paper. Who knows, I may even stumble on a new find every now and then.
I hope this blog becomes useful to more than just myself. If you have information that is relevant here or to request information from me please contact me at joshua1ix (at) hotmail (dot) com
A note about the Scribd boxes
Scribd is a very cool site and the ipaper boxes are great for quickly looking at posted documents, but the resolution isn't the greatest. It's just barely good enough to be legible. If, however, you click on the "More" tab and download the file you get a much better copy.
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