Elizabeth Jane (Jones) Nixon (1845 - 1929)

Born 8 Jun 1845 in West Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Nixon — married 15 Mar 1863 in Sandusky Baptist Church, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania

Wife of Emmett E Swartzwelder — married 4 May 1879 in Pittsburgh (Sharpsburg)

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1929 at age 84 in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States

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Eliza Jane Jones (1845-1929)

Obituary

Mrs. Eliza Nixon, Invalid 16 Years, Dies at Age of 84

Had Made Home in Alton for Period of 40 Years

Mrs. Eliza J. Nixon, widow of Joseph Nixon, died at 4 pm Saturday at the age of 84 years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ida Lessner, 1206 Highland Avenue.

For the last 16 years Mrs. Nixon had been a patient invalid. She was suffering from sciatic rheumatism. Her death, however, resulted from infirmities of age. Grief at the death last January of a devoted son, William J Nixon, who had made his home with her, brought on a general decline. Her final illness set in five weeks ago.

Devoted to Home

Despite her invalidism, Mrs Nixon was devoted to her own home, and it was not until the death of her son, William last January that she consented to leave it and make her home with her daughter Mrs. Lessner.

Realizing that Mrs. Nixon continued to suffer the effects of her bereavement in the death of her son, Mrs. Lessner and her brother John Nixon, arranged early in June to take their mother back to her old home, Sharpsburg, PA, for a brief visit with relatives and old friends in hope the change in scene would benefit her.

The trip was made by automobile in easy stages and return to the scenes of her girlhood life was thoroughly enjoyed by Mrs. Nixon. Unfortunately she was taken ill and the visit had to be cut short. On her return she failed to rally her strength. An old heart ailment and attendant complications manifested itself, and a steady decline set in which culminated in her death Saturday.

Lived here 40 years

Mrs. Nixon was born in Allegheny, PA, June 8, 1845, but had been a resident of Alton for virtually 40 years, having come here in 1890. She was a member of the Upper Alton Baptist Church and was active in its affairs until invalidism confined her to her home.

Besides her children, Mrs. Lessner and John Nixon, she leaves three grandchildren, Mrs. Albert Weinbrinton of Belleville, Mrs. Floyd Cress and William J Nixon of Alton; also three great grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be at 2:30 pm Tuesday from the Streeper funeral home to Oakwood cemetery. The Rev Dr. A.A. Hobson will officiate.

Alton Evening Telegraph, Monday July 22, 1929.

Bev Bauser of the Illinois Gen Web site sent me this obituary in 2012.

Sources

• Eliza (Jones) Nixon - State of Illinois Death Certificate - July 20, 1929. The index record of this certificate is available at: "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N3PZ-J3G : accessed 16 May 2014), Eliza Jane Nixon, 20 Jul 1929; citing Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1643317.

• "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MJH6-VWM : accessed 16 May 2014), Eliza Nixson, Wood River, Madison, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 20A, family 425, NARA microfilm publication T625, FHL microfilm 1820390.

• Elizabeth Nixon - Affidavit Listing Her Children with Joseph Nixon - 1918. Source: Eliza Nixon - Civil War Veteran's Pension Application as the Widow of Joseph Nixon. Civil War Widow's Pension Application, No. 511.106, Filed on 7 January 1918. Elizabeth (Jones) Nixon listed her children with Joseph Nixon in this January 1918 document in her application for pension benefits as the widow of Civil War veteran, Joseph Nixon. This is the only reference I have ever seen to Elmira Nixon, who died at the age of 11 months in 1866.

• "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MK6L-75P : accessed 16 May 2014), Elizabeth J Nixon, Wood River, Madison, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 69, sheet 9A, family 202, NARA microfilm publication T624, FHL microfilm 1374323.

• "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MS4N-MQ5 : accessed 16 May 2014), Eliza J Nixon, Alton Township Alton city Ward 7, Madison, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 15B, family 297, NARA microfilm publication T623, FHL microfilm 1240325.

• Estate of John H. Jones (died intestate on 2 January 1878). Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Estate Records - final estate partition records filed on November 1899. This partition report from the estate of John H. Jones shows the Jones family in November of 1899. Elizabeth (Ballou) Jones, the widow of John H. Jones, was living in Alton, Illinois. Three of their children (Elmira, A.B. and Eliza) were still living. Their oldest child, Rebecca, had died in February of 1889.

• "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW6F-MB2 : accessed 16 May 2014), Eliza Noxon in household of E Fwartzwelder, O'Hara, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 73B, NARA microfilm publication T9.

• Emmett E. Swartzwelder and Eliza (Jones) Nixon - Marriage Record - 1879. Source: Eliza Nixon - Civil War Veteran's Pension Application as the Widow of Joseph Nixon. Civil War Widow's Pension Application, No. 511.106, Filed on 3 April 1891. In this affidavit from Eliza (Jones) Nixon's Civil War widow's pension application, Eliza states that she married Emmett Swartzwelder on May 4, 1879 in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. This is supported by the fact that Emmett and Eliza are listed as being married in the 1880 Census.

• "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZLQ-XL2 : accessed 16 May 2014), Elizabeth Nixon in household of Joseph Nixon, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 50, family 371, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552791.

• Joseph Nixon and Eliza Jones - Marriage Record - 1863. Source: Eliza Nixon - Civil War Veteran's Pension Application as the Widow of Joseph Nixon. Civil War Widow's Pension Application, No. 511.106, Filed on 3 April 1891. This is from Eliza (Jones) Nixon's Civil War widow's pension application, in which she states that she married Joseph Nixon on March 15, 1863 in a ceremony officiated by the Reverend A.K. Bell, who was the pastor of the (Sandusky Street) Baptist Church of Allegheny.

• "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCLP-Q8N : accessed 16 May 2014), Eliza Jones in household of J H Jones, Salisbury Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. 177, household ID 1284, NARA microfilm publication M653; FHL microfilm 805008.

• "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M44X-MTG : accessed 16 May 2014), Eliza Jones in household of John H Jones, Lower St. Clair, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 730, NARA microfilm publication M432.