Elizabeth Nancy-Wright recalls from oral history that her great grandfather, James Dix, was murdered at his home by an employee.  He was first buried on the homeplace, but later moved to the Kern plot in the Friendship Cemetery, approx. three miles west of Sherman, TX.  His grave is marked.”

James4 Dix (Elizabeth3 Reger, Mary Sarah2 Jackson, John Jackson1 Sr.)15 was born 26 May 1821 in (West) Virginia15, and died 20 November 1894 in Montagone, Texas15.  According to family records James was murdered. He married Rachel Elizabeth Brake15 11 July 1844 in Lewis County, (West) Virginia16, daughter of ISAAC BRAKE and MARY JACKSON.  She was born 04 January 1822 in Lewis County, (West) Virginia17, and died 28 November 1883 in Nicholas County, West Virginia.18

DESCENDANTS OF MARY SARAH JACKSON