George Nixon

1818 - 1854  (35 years)

• Name	George Nixon
  Born	16 Aug 1818	Valenciennes, Nord, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Jan 1854	Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States
  Person ID	I500	Staples-Record
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2015

  
  

  Father	William Nixon,   b. 27 Feb 1785, Leek, Staffordshire, England ,   d. 23 Sep 1857, Amherstburg, Essex,Ontario,Canada  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Margaret Kinsey,   b. 19 Oct 1781, Leek, Staffordshire, England ,   d. Of Amherstberg, Essex, Ontario, Canada
  Married	15 Nov 1803	Leek, Staffordshire, England
  Family ID	F886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances Hart,   b. 9 Feb 1818, Whitgreave, Saint Helens, Staffordshire, England ,   d. 6 Aug 1886, Holden, Millard, Utah Territory, United States  (Age 68 years)
  Married	26 Sep 1839	St. Mary's Parish, Stafford, Staffordshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Charlotte Nixon,   b. 24 Dec 1840, Leek, Staffordshire, England ,   d. 16 Feb 1916, Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States  (Age 75 years)   2. Emma Nixon,   b. Abt 1843, Leek, Staffordshire, England ,   d. 1844, On shipboard, between Liverpool, England and New Orleans, Louisiana  (Age ~ 1 years)   3. Anna Nixon,   b. 1844,   d. Bef 1853, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States  (Age < 9 years)   4. George William Nixon,   b. 26 Sep 1847, Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States ,   d. 5 Dec 1923, Holden, Millard, Utah, United States  (Age 76 years)   5. Fannie Emaline Nixon,   b. 1 Feb 1851, Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States ,   d. 5 May 1902, Ririe, Jefferson, Idaho, United States  (Age 51 years)   6. Stephen Henry Nixon,   b. 12 Feb 1853, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States ,   d. 3 Jan 1910, Holden, Millard, Utah, United States  (Age 56 years)
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2015
  Family ID	F167	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 16 Aug 1818 - Valenciennes, Nord, France Died - 19 Jan 1854 - Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  History of Richard Johnson Contributed By sgreen · 13 January 2015 · Author Unknown Richard Johnson was born 10 June 1819 in Leigh, Worcestershire, England. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Johnson Johnson. His mother’s maiden name being Johnson also. Richard came to Utah with the Captain Horne Company and moved to Pioneer Creek June 15, 1855 along with his two families. He married his first wife, Husseler Bevan, then Frances Hart Nixon after her husband, George Nixon, died. Nixon was buried in Fillmore, Utah. George and Richard were great friends. George asked Richard to promise he would marry Frances if anything should happen to him, this Richard did. George died at the age of 36. In the spring of 1855 Richard and William Stevens, Sr. and their families were sent to Millard County to help with the colonization of that part of Utah. Richard and Frances helped with the construction of Buttermilk Fort. It is now called Holden, Utah. Five other families came in the fall and helped with the Fort. The Fort was 150 feet long and 75 feet wide, facing rooms were made from adobe bricks. The Fort was the home of seven families and a great protection from the Indians. The adobes were made from a strip of clay found nearby. Logs used were brought from the canyon east of the Fort and were taken to Fillmore to be sawed into lumber. The Fort was put together with wooden pegs made from oak which was plentiful nearby. The women and children helped gather the oak and make the wooden pegs. The gateways were on the north and south walls. The Fort was finally finished is 1856. Richard and Frances moved into the Fort with their small children. They lived there until 1867, when it was called a village. Richard and William Stevens, Sr. were called by President Brigham Young to go help with the settlement of Fillmore. Here they found the soil very rocky, they obtained a permit from Brigham Young to start a new settlement a ways from the Fort and called it Holden. Before the first fort was settled they were at Pioneer Creek two miles south of where Holden now is. Their first homes were in dugouts and wagon boxes. This location was chosen because of the spring water they found in the foothills. The pioneers in this section of the state were outstanding in dairying. Their cheese and butter was taken in large quantities to mining camps as far south and west as Pioche, Nevada. Their buttermilk, always sweet and cold, was ever on hand for the thirsty travelers going through; thus being called Buttermilk Fort. Later the name was changed to Cedar Springs because of the cool water coming from the foothills. It was officially given the name of Holden in 1858 in honor an army captain named Holden who had frozen to death on the Scipio Ridge. His daughter was the first child to be born, and then died, in Holden. Richard and Frances twin sons were born and died soon after. Hyrum Johnson, lovingly called Uncle Hite, tells of an incident of his father. Richard owned a pair of oxen he had purchased in Missouri to bring a threshing machine to Utah. They were called Prince and Paddy and were fine animals. Briant Stringham, who was over the church stock in Salt Lake City, visited the Fort and wanted these oxen to help with the work on the building of the Salt Lake Temple. He finally arranged a trade with Richard by giving seven head of cattle for them. This was the beginning of Richard’s cattle herd. Many of the homes in Holden were built of adobe brick and consisted of two rooms covered with a dirt roof. Their pig pens and other corrals were made with logs and cedar posts. Fruit trees were planted and soon produced a great amount of fruit. These were hard working people. They cleared the land of brush and bushes, made roads and fences, homes and a school. As there was no post office Richard made a request for one and asked to be the postmaster, a task he held without pay. This didn’t last too long as the Post Office Department was dissatisfied and soon discontinued the service. Richard was acting as the Fort Postmaster at the time he was appointed postmaster. When the saints moved from the Fort, Richard built his son, Hyrum (Hite) Bevan Johnson a home. Hite Johnson lived to the age of 92 and raised a large family in this home. Richard was a Patriarch, a chorister and a very staunch Mormon. Richard and both of his wives are buried in the Holden Cemetery on the hill east of town. Richard and Francis’s children are sealed to her first husband, George Nixon. Richard died 26 April 1878.