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William Bennie Mixon memorial and marker inscription, Mixon Cemetery
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The source
Excerpt
Marker (shared MIXON stone, read from the 2006 photograph): WILLIAM BENNIE MIXON — DEC. 15, 1884 — MAY 18, 1962 — AGE, 77 YRS. 5 MOS. 3 DAYS. … The picture may dim, but memory is ever bright.
What this record proves
Accepted claims citing this source at confirmed or supported: a source of this tier is a lead, so a claim here is supported only because tier 1–2 evidence it cites alongside this source states it.
| Claim | Person | States | Status | Tier | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
claim:william-bennie-mixon:birth:1 | William Bennie Mixon | birth · December 15, 1884 | supported | 2 · official transcript | accepted |
claim:william-bennie-mixon:death:1 | William Bennie Mixon | death · May 18, 1962 · Pike County, Mississippi | supported | 2 · official transcript | accepted |
claim:william-bennie-mixon:spouse-of:1 | William Bennie Mixon | spouse-of Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon | supported | 2 · official transcript | accepted |
What it does not prove
Claims citing this source at reconstructed, conditional or needs-verification, or demoted on review (downgraded): the source is a lead or partial corroboration for these, not proof.
| Claim | Person | States | Status | Tier | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
claim:william-bennie-mixon:parent-of:1 | William Bennie Mixon | parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. | reconstructed | 2 · official transcript | accepted |
claim:myrtis-blanche-brabham:parent-of:1 | Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon | parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. | reconstructed | 2 · official transcript | accepted |
claim:james-jt-mixon:parent-of:1 | James T. “J.T.” Mixon | parent-of William Bennie Mixon (hypothesis) | conditional | 3 · compiled genealogy | accepted |
claim:mary-parlee-travis:parent-of:1 | Mary Parlee Travis | parent-of William Bennie Mixon (hypothesis) | conditional | 3 · compiled genealogy | accepted |
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
Related claims
claim:james-jt-mixon:parent-of:1— James T. “J.T.” Mixon: parent-of William Bennie Mixon (hypothesis) conditionalclaim:mary-parlee-travis:parent-of:1— Mary Parlee Travis: parent-of William Bennie Mixon (hypothesis) conditionalclaim:william-bennie-mixon:associated-with:1— William Bennie Mixon: associated-with Ann Hurst Brabham (lead) needs-verificationclaim:william-bennie-mixon:sibling-of:1— William Bennie Mixon: sibling-of A.Z. “Alvin” Mixon reconstructedclaim:william-bennie-mixon:sibling-of:2— William Bennie Mixon: sibling-of M.J. “Millard” Mixon reconstructedclaim:william-bennie-mixon:sibling-of:3— William Bennie Mixon: sibling-of Eda Mixon Wilson reconstructedclaim:william-bennie-mixon:parent-of:1— William Bennie Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructedclaim:myrtis-blanche-brabham:parent-of:1— Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructedclaim: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
Related claims
claim:tynes-mixon-sr:birth:1— Tynes Emery Mixon Sr.: birth · February 11, 1906 supportedclaim:william-bennie-mixon:parent-of:1— William Bennie Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructedclaim:myrtis-blanche-brabham:parent-of:1— Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon: parent-of Tynes Emery Mixon Sr. reconstructed
Conflicts touching these claims
Two lifespans were recorded for the same ancestor: 1884–1962 (William Bennie Mixon, corrected workbook) and 1878–1949 (the earlier William Benjamin Mixon identification).
- Resolution
- resolved — The corrected workbook supersedes the earlier identification, the Mixon Cemetery index independently corroborates 1884–1962, and the shared granite marker in the family cemetery — read from the 2006 photograph on his memorial in 2026 — states “DEC. 15, 1884 — MAY 18, 1962” outright with an age line that checks both dates, a third corroboration. The 1878–1949 pair is retained as rejected for the ledger.
Claims in conflict
claim:william-bennie-mixon:birth:1— William Bennie Mixon: birth · December 15, 1884 supported preferredclaim:william-bennie-mixon:death:1— William Bennie Mixon: death · May 18, 1962 · Pike County, Mississippi supportedclaim:william-bennie-mixon:birth:2— William Bennie Mixon: birth · 1878 needs-verification rejectedclaim:william-bennie-mixon:death:2— William Bennie Mixon: death · 1949 needs-verification rejected
Evidence tier and review status
This source is tier 3 · compiled genealogy — proves? No: a lead, not proof. A claim’s tier is the best tier among all its sources, so a claim listed here may sit at a stronger tier than this source when it also cites a stronger record.
| Claim tier | Status | Review | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 · official transcript | reconstructed | accepted | 2 |
| 2 · official transcript | supported | accepted | 3 |
| 3 · compiled genealogy | conditional | accepted | 2 |
People, branch and canvas
Each person a citing claim is about, with their profile and their card on the interactive tree.
- William Bennie Mixon (canvas)
- Myrtis Blanche Brabham Mixon (canvas)
- James T. “J.T.” Mixon (canvas)
- Mary Parlee Travis (canvas)
- Mixon and DeCuir chapter — a branch chapter for people these claims are about · chapter reviewed
- Open the tree on William Bennie Mixon — the canvas with the first cited person selected and their evidence open
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