Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon memorial and marker inscription, Mixon Cemetery

Open questions touching these claims

• Who were William Bennie Mixon's parents (two compiled sources pair him with J.T. Mixon and Mary Pauline Travis, whose given name is “Mary Parlee” in the family notes and “Mary P” in the marriage index; a handwritten note names his mother as Ann Brabham, née Hurst), were Alvin, Millard and Eda his siblings — their compiled counterparts are Alva Z. (1890–1974), Millard John (1892–1964) and Etta Selena (1880–1957) — and is Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. his and Myrtis Blanche Brabham's son?

  Status

  open

  Next action

  Read the 1900 Amite County census images, which MSGenWeb publishes complete but unindexed, for the Beat around the Mixon Cemetery (about 31.13 N, 90.57 W): a household of J.T. Mixon holding a son “William B., Dec 1884” with Etta, Alva and Millard would settle the parent link and the sibling list as enumerated, and would show whether any “Ann” lived there. Then the 1910 household of William B. with a son Tynes, and the Mississippi death certificates of Myrtis (1949) and William Bennie (1962), each of which names the decedent's parents (request only). On the Ann Hurst note, two negatives of 2026-10-08 hold: no Hurst and no Brabham grave in the 80-row cemetery list, and no Brabham–Hurst marriage in either direction in the Amite index. The one observation worth testing is that Myrtis's own sister Louella E. Brabham (1881–1981) married a Hurst, which may be the origin of a garbled “Ann Brabham, née Hurst”; it is a possibility to test against the census, never a claim, and no person is created to fit the note.

  Subjects

  • William Bennie Mixon (canvas)
  • Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon (canvas)
  • Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. (canvas)
  • James T. “J.T.” Mixon (canvas)
  • Mary Parlee Travis (canvas)
  • Ann Hurst Brabham (canvas)
  • A.Z. “Alvin” Mixon (canvas)
  • M.J. “Millard” Mixon (canvas)
  • Eda Mixon Wilson (canvas)

  Related claims

  • claim:james-jt-mixon:parent-of:1 — James T. “J.T.” Mixon: parent-of William Bennie Mixon (hypothesis) conditional
  • claim:mary-parlee-travis:parent-of:1 — Mary Parlee Travis: parent-of William Bennie Mixon (hypothesis) conditional
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:associated-with:1 — William Bennie Mixon: associated-with Ann Hurst Brabham (lead) needs-verification
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:sibling-of:1 — William Bennie Mixon: sibling-of A.Z. “Alvin” Mixon reconstructed
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:sibling-of:2 — William Bennie Mixon: sibling-of M.J. “Millard” Mixon reconstructed
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:sibling-of:3 — William Bennie Mixon: sibling-of Eda Mixon Wilson reconstructed
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:parent-of:1 — William Bennie Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructed
  • claim:myrtis-blanche-brabham:parent-of:1 — Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructed
  • claim:myrtis-blanche-brabham:death:1 — Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon: death · February 14, 1949 · Pike County, Mississippi supported

• Was Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. (born 11 February 1906) born in Louisiana, as the 1950 census schedule and the Mixsonian compilation say, or in Amite County, Mississippi, as his Find a Grave memorial says? No place is entered on his birth event either way.

  Status

  open

  Next action

  Run the Louisiana Secretary of State vital-records index (births more than 100 years old, so 1906 qualifies) interactively for Mixon, Tynes, 1906; the application rejects automated submissions. A Louisiana entry naming William B. Mixon and Myrtis Brabham as parents would also answer his parentage at record grade. Failing that, the 1910 Amite County census household of William B. Mixon, whose images are online but unindexed. Mississippi had no 1906 birth registration, so a miss in Louisiana does not prove a Mississippi birth; until one of these is read the birthplace is not narrated at all.

  Subjects

  • Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. (canvas)

  Related claims

  • claim:tynes-mixon-sr:birth:1 — Tynes Emery Mixon Sr.: birth · February 11, 1906 supported
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:parent-of:1 — William Bennie Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructed
  • claim:myrtis-blanche-brabham:parent-of:1 — Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructed

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