When John Wesley Nix was born on 5 January 1863, in Choestoe, Union, Georgia, United States, his father, Archibald Carr Nix, was 20 and his mother, Sarah Ann Elvira Williamson, was 20. He married Mintia Lavada Reece on 25 October 1883, in Choestoe, Union, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870. He died on 13 October 1896, in Choestoe, Union, Georgia, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Choestoe Cemetery, Choestoe, Union, Georgia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
German and Dutch: patronymic from a pet form of Nicholas (German Nikolaus).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Nioclais ‘son of Nicholas’, which was taken by some Limerick families named Woulfe .
German: nickname from Middle High German nickes(e), nixe ‘water sprite’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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