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Col. Geo. R. Nixon
Taken from "Mississiooi as a Province, Territory and State? B. J. P. Claiborne
"Officers of Mississippi Regiment, Militia under Col* George R. Nixon,
Mt. Vernon, December 1913. (Page 32U/
?Robert Twilley, John Lowry, Parmenas Briscoe, Samuel Batchelor, G. Y. Glassburn, Caotains. These troops wer? chiefly from Claiborne and Amite Counties, and the officers were young men of high character. Col. Nixon greatly distinguished himself duriri2 the w-^r and st^od high in +-he con-?f'id^'ncfi of Gon?ri1 J^r'kso?-'. He wo<? "nbse~u.or?tly r>p'oointed Brir?. Gen. and died at Pearlington, Hancock Countv, Mississippi."
(page 328) "By this tine General Claiborne chiefly through the agency of Col. George H, Nixon, a very gallaiitt officer, George S. Gaines, Jd>hn Pichlyn and Simon Favipe, of Hancock County, Mississippi had secured not only the neutrality but tbe cooper*ati^n ?f the Cbocta?rs."
Rus Villia'nstench^~? in Natchitoches, in documenting ^e county reco?^s of Marion	Mi^si^sij^i (Columbia) '?v*ov:s in hie recthat Gen.
Nix^n \ras 1st Clerk of County in Marion County.
General Nixon is buried in the Pearlington Cemetery, together with his daughter, Eliza Julia Seal and Betina Nixon White,pboth daughers of Gen Nixon and his wife Rebecca.
From the Southern Luminary, "General Nixon was born in Virginia. He wa3 l?6 when he died August 19, lS2i(..
From "History of Mississippi", Page 3M, taken from Dept of Archives in Jackson, a verifax copy. "Nixon, George J., Colonel of Militia, distinguished in the Creek war was born in Vir -inia and living some years in S. C. removed thence in lqT9 to the 'lic-issi^p. u ^rritory. rr? was a Lt.
C;l. corri .. "n'T the ''"'?itia ?f ^ '?our.ty.	the creek v?r, when he
w?s elected by Governor Holm?", i" October 1?I3? to command a battalion organized for d?lty in the field. It is said of him in Picket?s History of Alabama. Durinr the creek war, Col. Nixon, at the head of a considerable force, scoured the swamps of the Perdido and other screams and frequently killedand captured Indians. After he nad accomplisned alx he couid, he marcned to t.ie head of the Perdido, where he divided his command, sending Maj. -villian Peacocx, with the troops of the 39th (Uol. John ?Villiams1 Regimen ) to the Boatyard on Lake Tensaw, while he marched the remainder of his command to Ft. Claiborne. he was an excellent officer ana served in the war until its conclusion. rie '-ras a memoer of the 1st State Legislature in i^ij.7 and was armomted Uol. of the ftn Regiment ( a^ian and Hancocc^' m the sajne year. He died in Pearlington in lcJ2U. He was a iar?e ana fine looking mnn, with fair complexion ana was very Dooular.
Mrs. orawfora nas in her oossession thermofaxed copies of the oaoers of
Rebecca Nixon wherein she applied for a pension on two occasions, in these
papers, mention was made that Gen. Nixon was wounded in the arm and it was amputated.
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