1 Born near Valletta or Vittoriosa, Malta Protectorate, Kingdom of Sicily; son of Margaret Kinsey and William Nixon. 2 Married Harriet Rushton, 1827. 3 Baptized in England, 1841. 4 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Tremont; settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1842. 5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852. 6 Lived at Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory, 1852–1859. 7 Settled at Wanship, Summit County, Utah Territory, 1859. 8 Died at Willow Creek, Bonneville County, Idaho. 9 (See Document 2.4)
Stephen Nixon
27 March 1807 — 5 March 1893
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 127 (1846), Stephen Nixon, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. “Nixon,” Deseret News, Mar. 25, 1893, 32.
[2] Phoebe Sessions Thomason, “Life History of Stephen Nixon,” from “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Nov. 2014), Stephen A. Nixon KWV3-J8F . “Baptisms Performed by the Reverend D. P. Cosseratt,” Malta Family History, accessed Nov. 2014, http://website.lineone.net/~stephaniebidmead/baptism.htm, accessed Dec. 2014).
[3] Thomason, “Life History of Stephen Nixon,” n.p. “Family Tree,” database, Stephen A. Nixon. Harriet Rushton Nixon died in 1846. See “Family Tree,” database, Harriet Rushton KWV3-J8X .
[4] Ibid.
[5] Thomason, “Life History of Stephen Nixon,” n.p. “Nixon,” 32.
[6] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Nov. 2014), Stephen Nixon.
[7] Thomason, “Life History of Stephen Nixon,” n.p. Edward W. Tullidge, Tullidge’s Histories (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor, 1889), 2:126. Thomason’s biographical sketch notes that while Nixon lived at Provo, “he married Mary Paine, but for some reason the marriage was not successful.” Mary Paine was probably the wife mentioned in Document 2.4. (Lucy Meserve Smith, “Historical Sketches of my Great Grandfathers,” 1889, microfilm, CHL.)
[8] Thomason, “Life History of Stephen Nixon,” n.p. Tullidge, Histories, 2:126–127. 1870 U.S. census, Wanship, Summit Co., Utah Territory, p. 135B, Samuel [sic] Nixon; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1612. 1880 U.S. census, Wanship, Summit Co., Utah Territory, p. 22B, Stephen Nixon; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1338. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014).
[9] “Nixon,” 32. Thomason, “Life History of Stephen Nixon,” n.p.