Rix/Eddins/Helton/Pullen
Hello there,
I have found five families who often travelled together and intermarried. They are Eddins, Heltons, Freemans, Pullens, and Rixes. Below is pertinent information for this forum. I have listed sources for the data when possible, but all data should be considered suspect unless you have proved it yourself. A question mark means that I have not proved the data but consider it probably true. I welcome corrections and additions.
Good hunting!
1 Edmund RIX OR RIES ?
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Spouse: Jane MNU
Children: Henry James (~1820-~1865)
Sarah (~1823-)
William ?
1.1 Henry James RIX
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Birth: bet1820 & 1825, KY
Death: abt 1865, AL
1. In the 1840 US Census for AL, H. J. Rix is living in an unnamed township in Tallapoosa County. In the household are one male 15 - 20 (Henry) and one female 15 - 20 (Ann Susannah). Neighbors include Rogers, Morris, Parker, R. Freeman, Price, McCulluoch, Smith, Martin, Moore, Kitchens, McLister. On the next page are P. R. Eddins, Coleman, Hightower, J. A. Eddings, Knight, and John Davis and S. Ward.
2. Haven't found them yet in 1850.
3. In the 1860 US Census for AL, Henry J. Rice is living in Realtown P.O., Western Division, Tallapoosa County, AL. He is 36, a farmer, born KY, $200, $300. Also in the household are Susan, 36, born AL, Zylpha, 16, Henry, 13, Mary B., 11, Nancy C., 8, Thomas E., 6, William T., 2, and Peter Eddens, 16 (A.S.'s nephew; also shows elsewhere. See below). All born AL. Next door is Edmon Rice, 67 (probably Henry’s father). Other neighbors: Freeman, McKissock, Sumers, Haywood, Evins,Strength, Wilkie, Harris, Williams.
4. Henry James died around 1865.
Spouse: Ann Susannah EDDINS
Birth: 1823, AL?
Father: James A (Allen? Aaron?) EDDINS (1792-1858)
Mother: Nancy Ann HENDRICKS (~1796->1880)
Marr: 31 Oct 1839, Tallapoosa, AL
Children: Louisa Zylpha ? (~1843-) (May be two separate people. Zylpha Eddins is A. S.'s grandmother)
Henry James (~1850-)
Mary Box (1852-) (No Eddins connection)
Nancy C. (~1854-) (After A. S.'s mother)
Simion Thomas ?? (~1858-) (May be two different people. Blakely has a son Simion) William T. (~1863-)
Alabama (~1865-) (Maybe Alabama Easter?)
Hiram Lewis Blakely (Hiram and Blakely are Eddins names)
1. In the 1870 US Census for AL, Susan Rix is at Walnut Hill P.O., Eufala, Tallapoosa County, AL. She is 47, born AL, Keeping house. Also in the household, and all born AL, are Louisa, 27 (Zylpha?), asst. housekeeper, James, 20, farm laborer, Mary 18, looks like asst. farmer laborer, Nancy, 16, Simion, 12, William, 7, and Alabama, 5. Neighbors include Wells, Johnston, Johnson, Rogers, Boyd, Jackson Weldon, Frank Freeman.
3. In the 1880 US Census for AL, Susan Rix is living in District 68, Tallahassee, Elmore County, AL. She is 57, born AL, parents born SC, at home. Also in the household is Louisa, 35, crippled, Nancy, 23, works in cotton mill, and Alabama, 16, works in cotton mill. The girls’ father was born in KY, mother in AL. Susan and Louisa cannot read or write. Neighbors are Vines, Chancelor, Howard, Davis, Simmons, Rodgers, Lowry.
1.1.1 Louisa Zylpha ? RIX
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Birth: abt 1843, AL
1.1.2 Henry James RIX
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Birth: abt 1850, AL
1.1.3 Mary Box RIX
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Birth: 1852 - 1854
Spouse: William Bailey NEWMAN
1.1.4 Nancy C. RIX
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Birth: abt 1854, AL
1.1.5 Simion Thomas ?? RIX
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Birth: abt 1858, AL
1.1.6 William T. RIX
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Birth: abt 1863, AL
1.1.7 Alabama RIX
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Birth: abt 1865, AL
1. Easter Alabama??
1.1.8 Hiram Lewis Blakely RIX
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Birthdate???
1.2 Sarah RIX
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Birth: abt 1823, Kentucky
1. Between 20 and 30 in the 1840 US Census for AL.
2. In the 1850 US Census for AL, Sarah Eddins is 27, a farmer, lives next door to the Loveladys. Also in household are John W. Eddins, 8, and Peter R., 6. Peter Eddins, Sr. is not in household.
3. Looks like Sarah is a sister to Henry James Rix, who married Anne Susannah, Peter Eddins’s sister. This is just a guess, but they live next to each other in the 1840 US Census. And they live just a few doors from Roda Freeman, whose children married Heltons, Pullens, and Eddinses.
Spouse: Peter R. EDDINS
Birth: 1818, SC
Death: ca 1848, Tallapoosa, AL
Father: James A (Allen?) EDDINS (1792-1858)
Mother: Nancy Ann HENDRICKS (~1796->1880)
Marr: 20 May 1839, Tallapoosa, AL
Children: John W. (~1842-)
Peter R. (~1844-)
1.2.1 John W. EDDINS
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Birth: abt 1842, AL
1.2.2 Peter R. EDDINS
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Birth: abt 1844, AL
1. In the 1850 US Census for AL, Peter R. Eddins is 6, living with mother Sarah and brother John W., Lives next door to Hiram and Nancy Lovelady. In the Lovelady’s houehold are William, 20, and Elizabeth J., 16.
2. In the 1860 US Census for AL Peter R. Eddings is listed in the household of James F. Eddings. He is 16, no job listed, born AL, has $100. Also in the household are Ann, 64, and Ann M. 17 (either James’s wife or sister). Next door are William Lovelady, 29, a farmer, and wife Elizabeth, 31, born SC.
3. Peter R. Eddins served in Company E. of the First Battalion Alabama Artillery in the Confederate Army. Rank on entering was private, on discharge was private.
1.3 William ? RIX OR RIES
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1. William Rees married Lucy Pullen on November 10, 1843, in Tallapoosa County, AL. He is probably a Rix who married a Pullen, but I haven't found them in 1850 yet.
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Re: Rix/Eddins/Helton/Pullen
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