John Dix
John Dix
Died 1870
Aged 74
Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales
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9. Article or reference in The Handbook of Texas online
10. Howard Association and Yellow Fever in The Handbook of Texas Online
11. Receipt signed by John Dix
Provenance: Mrs. Willie Lee Biggio Jones and Rebecca Lee Jones
12. Obituary
Death of Hon. John Dix
Hon. John Dix expired at his residence in this city, at 12 1/2 o’clock, Tuesday morning, January 18th, 1870. We believe his disease was typhoid pneumonia. His remains were interred in the City Cemetery, Tuesday, at 5 P.M. His funeral was numerously attended. In the procession were the scholars of the different Sunday schools of the city, under the supervision of their teachers. Rev. Mr. Sproul was the officiating clergyman.
John Dix was born in Littleton, Mass., in 1796; commenced going to sea at the age of 16 years, and served on board a privateer in the war with England, in 1812; was engaged in cutting the English brig Don Cossack out of a California port; was wrecked on the island of New Zealand, in the South Pacific Ocean, while trading between there and the Sandwich Island, in 1825 afterwards married and settled in Washtenaw county, Michigan, where a place yet bears his name; in February, 1834, landed in Texas, at Matagorda, and settled in Washington county; served in the campaign against Bexar in the fall of 1835, as a private soldier; in 1849 moved to Corpus Christi.
His political ideas were not in accordance with our own, but we are free to accord him honesty of purpose. He was of that peculiar temperament that knew no compromise or halfway ground. If he meant Union He meant it all over, and no argument of opposition could change him. In the recent war his sympathies were with the Union. Since the surrender he has held both Federal and State offices, and at the time; of his death was Chief Justice of Nueces county.
Mr. Dix was a member of the Presbyterian church and, we believe, the first man who organized a Sunday school in this city. He was a man of remarkable physical and mental vigor, and up to the time of his final illness, bid fair for many years yet.
The grave now claims the mortal part for its own. His spirit has gone to the God who gave it. Here we can bury all differences, and heartily wish –“Peace to his ashes.â€
Source: Corpus Christi Advertiser, copied by Daily Ranchero, Brownsville, Texas. January 29, 1870, p. 3, col. 2
Research by: Msgr. Michael A. Howell
Transcription by: Geraldine D. McGloin, Nueces County Historical Commission