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The image below shows land areas known to have been owned by James Darlington Mixson

(1848) and passed on to some of his children.  Also shown are areas said to have been

dwelling areas and burial area for Charles Jones Mixson (1811). According to Jimmy 

Mixson (James Darlington Mixson (1929) the burial area for Charles Jones contains he,

his wife Mary, a baby and some slaves.

The numbers below key to the numbers on the image.

1 - This general area is said to have been the

location  of Charles Jones Mixson's first cabin.

2 - The homestead of James Darlington Mixson (1848)

3 - The homestead of Alice Gertrude (Mixson) Bell (1888).

4 - "Uncle Job's" corner. (Job Spurgeon Mixson (1882))

5 - Charles Jones Mixson's final homestead is said to 

have been located in this field area, now called the 

"Forsyth  Field". The two areas indicated appear suitable 

for a homestead and are pretty much in an area described 

by a local amateur  historian as that of the homestead.

6 - According to Jimmy Mixson the Charles Jones burial 

area is somewhere along this tree line. He visited it as 

a boy. He states the markers were either wood or rocks.

7 - If one stands at the above possible homestead areas 

and looks to the south, there is an area of trees and 

palmetto that could well have been a burial area, 

overlooking the homestead.

8 - The Pardee homestead. Was this where Henry Willis

and Esther Leona (Mixson) (1876) Pardee lived? 

(She's a daughter of Archibald Riley Mixson (1852),

a son of Charles Jones Mixson.)

That the case, could this have been the homestead of

"Archie"? A g-granddaughter tells me was buried nearby.

9 - The James Gilbert (1874) and Onnie Lee (Smoak)

(1883) Mixson homestead.

10 - The homestead of Edwin Levi (1842) and

Susan Elizabeth (Mixson) (1841) Smith.

Susan Elizabeth was a daughter of Charles Jones Mixson.