Tynes Emery Mixon memorial and shared tomb inscription, Saint Peter’s Cemetery, New Iberia

Open questions touching these claims

• Eugenie DeCuir Mixon's parentage is now named by a tier-2 source, but only through a married style: her father's obituary of 27 April 1933 names his and Louise Landry's three daughters, one of them “Mrs. Tynes Mixon”. What remains is Eugenie's own birth or baptismal entry naming both parents, that identification at certificate grade, and the Landry bridge: through which Landry is Nanette Landry a cousin of Michael's mother?

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  Louisiana Secretary of State vital-records index (births more than 100 years old) for Decuir, Eugenie, 1908, and the Saint Peter's, New Iberia baptismal register (Diocese of Lafayette archives): either should name both parents and would take the parentage claims from supported to a direct statement. Then the Iberia Parish Clerk of Court's marriage licence of April 1903, which names both parties' parents, and the death index entries for Decuir, Louise, 1927 and Decuir, Frank, 1933 — the latter also settles the 1880-against-1879 birth-date conflict. For the Landry bridge: Louise Landry's memorial names her parents as Albert Landry (1850–1905) and Eugenie Comeaux Landry and her brothers Leon Joseph (1883–1959), Edmond Norbet (1886–1949) and Paul Tillhou (1888–1958), so a John Albert “Al” Landry would sit among those brothers' children; trace that deceased generation in the 1910 and 1920 census before treating Nanette as a cousin through the Landrys. No search is run for either living Landry.

  Subjects

  • Eugenie DeCuir Mixon (canvas)
  • Frank George DeCuir (canvas)
  • Louise Landry (canvas)
  • Nanette Landry (canvas)
  • John Albert “Al” Landry (canvas)

  Related claims

  • claim:frank-george-decuir:parent-of:1 — Frank George DeCuir: parent-of Eugenie DeCuir Mixon supported
  • claim:louise-landry:parent-of:1 — Louise Landry: parent-of Eugenie DeCuir Mixon supported
  • claim:frank-george-decuir:spouse-of:1 — Frank George DeCuir: spouse-of Louise Landry confirmed
  • claim:frank-george-decuir:birth:1 — Frank George DeCuir: birth · September 15, 1880 supported
  • claim:frank-george-decuir:death:1 — Frank George DeCuir: death · April 24, 1933 supported
  • claim:frank-george-decuir:marriage:1 — Frank George DeCuir: marriage · April 16, 1903 supported
  • claim:louise-landry:birth:1 — Louise Landry: birth · 1885 reconstructed
  • claim:louise-landry:death:1 — Louise Landry: death · November 22, 1927 confirmed
  • claim:louise-landry:associated-with:1 — Louise Landry: associated-with John Albert “Al” Landry (lead) needs-verification
  • claim:john-al-landry:parent-of:1 — John Albert “Al” Landry: parent-of Nanette Landry needs-verification
  • claim:eugenie-decuir-mixon:birth:1 — Eugenie DeCuir Mixon: birth · December 23, 1908 supported

• 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?

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  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.

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  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

• When and where did Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. and Eugenie DeCuir marry? Their first child was born in New Orleans in March 1931 and no opened source dates the marriage. The one compiled lead found is the Mixsonian compilation's “About 1930, he m. Eugenie Elois DeCuier”, which cites a 1930 New Orleans census entry for Tynes: a tier-3 lead for this question, not an event.

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  Iberia Parish and Orleans Parish marriage indexes for 1928–1931 (Clerk of Court; FamilySearch Louisiana parish marriages, sign-in), then the 1930 Orleans Parish census schedule. Their own obituaries would help as well: The Daily Iberian of 16–18 March 1981 and 15–17 January 1984, on Iberia Parish Library microfilm, should give the death places, the burials and probably Tynes's parents and birthplace. The couple itself is already proved by the 1950 schedule and their children's obituaries, so a negative search changes nothing.

  Subjects

  • Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. (canvas)
  • Eugenie DeCuir Mixon (canvas)

  Related claims

  • claim:tynes-mixon-sr:spouse-of:1 — Tynes Emery Mixon Sr.: spouse-of Eugenie DeCuir Mixon confirmed
  • claim:fg-boogie-mixon:birth:1 — F.G. “Boogie” Mixon Sr.: birth · March 4, 1931 · New Orleans, Louisiana confirmed

• How do John Edwin Mixon's sibling group (children of Millard F. Mixon and Milberry Elizabeth Cook), the Foster/Carruth family in the Mixon Cemetery, and William Hilton Mixon connect to William Bennie Mixon's direct line?

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  The one new observation of 2026-10-08 is a generation, not a link: Millard Fillmore Mixon (1857–1914), whom the compiled sources give as John Edwin's father, and James T. Mixon (1859–1937) are of one generation and share one family cemetery with their families. The 1860 and 1870 Amite County census images at MSGenWeb would show whether they were brothers, which would make John Edwin's group William Bennie's first cousins — a lead, not a claim, until a record states the relationship. Also compare the parents named in the FamilySearch record for John Edwin Mixon with J.T. Mixon's and William Bennie's households in the 1880 and 1900 Amite County census; for William Hilton, find a census household listing him with Tynes Sr. and their parents; the Foster/Carruth entries stay an associated network unless a record names a Mixon relationship.

  Subjects

  • John Edwin Mixon (canvas)
  • Frank Leslie Mixon (canvas)
  • Minnie Myrtis Mixon (canvas)
  • Henry Lewis Foster (canvas)
  • Myra Lucretia Carruth Foster (canvas)
  • William Hilton Mixon (canvas)

  Related claims

  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:associated-with:2 — William Bennie Mixon: associated-with John Edwin Mixon (lead) conditional
  • claim:william-bennie-mixon:associated-with:3 — William Bennie Mixon: associated-with Henry Lewis Foster (lead) conditional
  • claim:john-edwin-mixon:sibling-of:1 — John Edwin Mixon: sibling-of Frank Leslie Mixon supported
  • claim:john-edwin-mixon:sibling-of:2 — John Edwin Mixon: sibling-of Minnie Myrtis Mixon supported
  • claim:henry-lewis-foster:spouse-of:1 — Henry Lewis Foster: spouse-of Myra Lucretia Carruth Foster supported
  • claim:tynes-mixon-sr:sibling-of:1 — Tynes Emery Mixon Sr.: sibling-of William Hilton Mixon supported

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