Mildred
Dixon Harrod
Flat Rock,
Indiana
September
16, 1970
Dear Barbara,
Will take time to tell you I am among the living. I have gone to Vernon, Jennings County, several times and am finding out a lot about the Cox family and also Elizabeth Osborn, first married to Leven Malcolm; second married to Simeon Moore Robinson; and thirdly to Henry W. Dixon January 24, 1843. This last marriage was not in the Bible record of the Osborn family. Henry Dixon was a brother to my great-grandfather, Williamson Dixon, the tailor at Old Paris. When my great-uncle, Harmon Dixon, first told me about the Dixon family he mentioned that Henry Dixon married a sister to Nancy Osborn, wife of Williamson Dixon. This is the first time I have been able to verify this. I also have the Bible listings of Henry Dixon and find Elizabeth died March 18, 1844. Uncle Harmon said she died with tuberculosis. I believe I have found that she had one child by Robinson, named James, who died before August 1844. Her two children by Malcolm were Zarelda and John Leven Malcolm. Monday at Indianapolis found John Leven Malcolm in 1850 census for Montgomery Twp., Jennings County, Indiana, age 16, a harness maker, living in the home of Uriah Stribling, a saddler. I could not find him in 1860 or 1870 census. I did not find Zeralda any place.
From deeds in Jennings County, I believe that John Cox died in 1856 and maybe his wife, Lurania, was dead then. I have sent family sheets to Jackson County to a descendant of Jesse Cox, son of John and Lurania, but have not gotten them back.
Sincerely,
Mildred
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