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Missing Puzzle Pieces
What city and county in Indiana was Francis Marion Nicoles born?

Who has Nellie Beach Dix's diary? [Mary Vernon Sproles has Nellie's scrapbook.  Is there also a diary?]

Was is the date of Philo's marriage to Elizabeth Hayes?
What is the day and month in 1961, of Philo's death?
Where is he buried?


Where were Albert Sidney Dix and Isadora Nicoles married on June 18, 1888?  The met in Brewton Alabama and had their first child, Nelle, there.  There is no record of their marriage in Escambia County Alabama in 1888 Escambia County, "Records Online"/"Vitals"/"Marriage Records" for the years 1879-1892  .
Nellie Beach's Bible lists Decatur as thier place of marriage.  The  AFD and NBD family Bible  has the entry:

"Albert S. Dix was married to Isidore J. Nicoles at Decatur Ala. June 18 1888".

We know of no connections in Decatur at that time.


Who is the unknown man (second from left) in the "Four Dix Brothers" photo below?

L. Daniel Dix, (Unknown), Philo Dix, Thomas Murrell Dix.
(Based on our best guesses and other photos with names.)

Photo Submitted by Alice Newman Shannon

The logical assumption would be Paul Finch Dix, but this does not look like any of the other photos of him nor does it look like other images of Allie.  Could this be Dimple's husband, James Hall?
 
 


Do you know any of these guys?  Looks like W.W.II era.
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman

The following photographs are from Lyn Simonton.  See if you recognize the people, locations, approximate dates, makes of or models of automobiles. Text within quotation marks are captions written the photos.  The file name is at the beginning of each description, e.g.  "u-0001.jpg" [Notes within brackets are my musings.  RDW]

u-0001.jpg Studio portrait of a mother and 3-4 year old daughter.  On the matte is embossed, “Edgar O. Hurd,  Forsyth GA”

u-0004.jpg Toddler.  Ornate porch rail.  Older girl in background. No date or location.
 

u-0007.jpg “On board the ‘Miami’ en route to Cape Florida, March 1925.  Granny Dix & friend.”.  Who’s the friend? Velma?
 
 

u-0008.jpg Granny Dix and friend  sitting in front of coconut palms on same trip as in u-0007.jpg above.
 
 

u-0009.jpg “Both pictures were good.  This is the one I did not think would take.  March 1925.”  Same trip as in u-0007.jpg.
 
 

u-0010.jpg “Thursday, March 19th, 1925, Miami Beach, Fla.  ‘Uncle John’ “.  [Who was Uncle John?  Same trip as above.]
 
 

u-0011.jpg “Miami Fla., March 1925”.  We know this is Granny Dix. Just included it with other photos of same trip.


 
 

u-0012.jpg “July 19,1918, Franklin Tenn.  For Eleanor.  The Kodak was so close to ‘Billy’ that he looks like a big-headed horse.”   Granny Dix & friend in a horse-drawn buggy.
 
 

u-0013.jpg WWI soldier in uniform and woman in front of Model T. [The Model T Ford was produced from 1909 until 1927.  The Model A Ford  automobile as manufactured from 1928 through 1931.]
 
 

u-0014.jpg Two young women sitting on bumper of car (horizontal bar on grill).
 
 

u-0015.jpg Two (different) young women sitting on bumper of (different) car (grill of car has vertical bar)
 
 






u-0018.jpg Granny Dix, man in white straw hat (skimmer), Woman, and WWI soldier, all standing on a wooden bridge.
 
 

u-0019.jpg Same two couples as in u-0018 but in different outfits.  Did the widow Dix have gentlemen callers?
 
 

u-0020.jpg WWI soldier, young girl, and 2 boys with caps on Model T.  “??? Learre???, Charles ????lon, Nov.1917”.

u-0022.jpg “Eleanor Dix, Granny Dix, Nelljie Smith & 2 soldiers.” [Pretty sure this is at 12 Marshall St. Soldier on the right looks like the one in u-0020.jpg]

u-0017.jpg “June 9th, 1918” Woman & WWI soldier sitting on porch/steps of 12 Marshall St., Montgomery AL
 
 
 

u-0023.jpg Two younger couples on a porch with Granny Dix in a rocking chair. 
[The house address is “104” (just to the left of the man sitting next to Granny Dix).  Frances Chapman has a  letter from “Velma” to Lois Dix in Atlanta with a return address of  104 Marshall St. written in 1933.  Also see the next three photos at the same house.  I found this house in the “100” block of Marshall St.  ]
 
 

u-0006.jpg WWI soldier and woman on steps of house with double columns with stone bases.  [104 Marshall St.]
 
 

u-0021.jpg WWI Soldier, woman, Granny Dix on steps of house with stone bases [104 Marshall St.].  Toddler girl on porch. On rear:  ”??ard Smith, Co. D, 146 Infantry, Camp Sheridan, Jan. 1918.  Left for Camp Lee, Petersburg VA. May 21, 1918.”
 
 

u-0035.jpg “Easter Sunday, 1930”, Granny Dix and  friends in front of large block masonry house.
[104 Marshall St.]

u-0025.jpg Man & woman, both with white hats, sitting on the ground.  “In the park, Feb. 1919.”
 
 

u-0026.jpg Old man in chair with bookcase behind.
 
 

u-0028.jpg Two women in swim suits at water’s edge,  “Now put this in the fire.  Feb. 1919”
 



u-0029.jpg Young woman sitting on porch



 

u-0032.jpg Man with baby – both asleep.  “He sure makes a fine baby sitter.”  Is this Chiles Harris?  Aubrey Dismukes Sr.?
 
 


u-0016.jpg Two adolescent girls standing.



u-0033.jpg Young woman on bridge or porch rail.



 


u-0034.jpg Same young woman as in u-0033.  both could be at Jasmine Hill Gardens, north of Montgomery.



 
 

u-0036.jpg 7x4 studio portrait of ?2 year old girl.  signed by “Stanley Paulger, 22”, Montgomery photographer.  [From other photos by this photographer, I have deduced that the two digit number following his name, that the numbers are the last two digits of the year the photo was made.  What girl would have been about 2 years old in 1922, Audrey Dismukes?] Yes, Audrey.

Notes on Stanley Paulger, Photographer 

I was viewing your website because it came up under a google search for Stanley Paulger.  I am a genealogist in Michigan who is currently doing genealogy for a lady who just today sent me information on her grandfather Stanley Paulger.
Will Allie Dix was the page the picture was on.
I thought maybe you would like to know just a little bit about the photographer in case it helps.  Stanley Paulger left home at 14 or 15, somehow removed to Ohio and became a photographer's apprentice.  Then he removed to Montgomery and worked for Tressler's Studio where he met and Married Hazel Sondley.

Anyway the name of the studio was Tressler's.
Good luck,
Ginger Metcalf-Dingus
Oscoda, MI
 

Duane Schoonover
dschoonover@earthlink.net
 

 
Dix Descendants Discrepancies Solved

Our available information on Hattie Lillis "Dimple" (Dix) Hall gives two of her children as being born only 3 months apart:
William A.Hall,  09/30/1901 ; and Dorothy 01/01/1902

[The year of William A. Hall's birth was1900 per Mike Lyon, husband of Caroline Harriette Hall, daughter of Richard hall Sr., Dimple's baby (11th child).]  Thanks to Ed Sproles Jr. for providing the information.


1880-1889 - ASD, President of William and Emona Austin College:
This is either a typo or possibly some overlapping, depending on where the college was located. AFD moved from Winchester TN to Stevenson AL in July of 1880, then back to Union Springs AL in July, 1883.  I can only assume that William and Emona Austin College was located in Stevenson, and that they stayed there only one year.  Perhaps the 1880-1889 dates refer to the dates of  William and Emona Austin College?   So far, searches for "Emona" have turned up nothing.

[ I found out that the name of the school was actually "William and Emma Austin College" and that it was in Stevenson.  No mention of the Dixes there yet, but I'm back on the trail. RDW]

http://www.iltrails.org/jefferson/medical/drdharendale.html
http://www.reynoldsrecords.com/alabama/jackson_history.html
http://www.c-zone.net/autrey/aqwc102.htm


When did AFD & family move to Montgomery?
Our information says that Dollie joined 1st Baptist Church in 1896 [age ~ 25]; her parents in November 1897. It seems unlikely that Dollie would move to Montgomery a year before her parents, OR, that AFD & NBD wouldn't join the church immediately upon arriving in town.  Since we don't have month and day with Dollie's affiliation, perhaps it's yet another case of inexact records and/or foggy memory.

[ The Montgomery City Directoriey for 1896 is missing, but in 1897,shows that not only was Dollie living in Montgomery, but Lell, Paul and Philo as well.  AFD doesn't appear in the directory until 1898.  We can only assume that the older kids had moved to the big city a year or so before being followed by their parents.  RDW]