Name: Rachel Hixon Notation 1
Parents: _____ Hixon and _____ _____ Notation 2
Birth: 10 Oct 1803
Birth Location: Kentucky, United States Notation 2
Death: 14 Aug 1833
Death Location: Vigo County, Indiana, United States
Spouse: Joseph Robert Little McCoskey Source 1 & 2
Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1822 Source 2
Marriage Location: Vigo County, Indiana, United States Source 1 & 2
Children: William H. McCoskey, Nancy Lillian McCoskey (Sparks) Notation 3, Levi M. McCoskey, John Little McCoskey Notaton 3 & 4
Rachel Hixon's relationship to Carol in the family tree: Paternal side 3x Great-Grandmother
Sources:
Source 1. Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019; "Joseph Mccoskey and Rachel Hickson", Vigo County, Indiana, United States.
Source 2. Indiana, Vigo County Marriages; "Joseph McCoskey & Rachel Hickson", 17 Sep 1822, Vigo County, Indiana, United States.
Citations:
Citation 1. Family Search One World Tree; "Rachel Hixson", 1806 - 14 Aug 1833 [ LHFQ-49H ].
Citation 2. "History of Vigo County", 1891; "WILLIAM H. McCOSKEY", pp. 833-4.
Citation 2. "History of Vigo and Parke Counties, Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources", 1880; "WILLIAM HIXON", pp. 339-40.
Citation 4. "Vermillion County, Indiana History & Families", 1990; "WILLIAM HIXON, SR.", p. 164.
Carol A. Wells-Perlaky's Notations:
Notation 1: Her maiden name has been shared/spelt as Hickson or Hixson. I went with the Hixon spelling used by William G. Hixon based upon Notation 2.
Notation 2: Many people have her father as Elijah Hixon/Hixson and base this upon his Revolutionary War Soldier Pension application, in Ohio, where a daughter named Rachel Hixon is mentioned in this application. At the time of Elijah Hixon'2 application, Joseph Robert Little McCoskey and Rachel Hixon were married and living in Vigo County, Indiana. Another resource, an autobiographical sketch of William G. Hixon published in 1880, shares the account of how he and his two sisters, Rachel and Margaret, were brought by their father [unnamed] to Knox County, Indiana and placed with a relative [unnamed] there due to the death of their mother [unnamed] shortly after Margaret's birth, so about 1806. The father is said to leave Knox County area shortly thereafter and never returned. William G. Hixon took over caring for his sisters when he finished his apprenticeship and they went to Vigo County, Indiana then William G. Hixon went to Parke County, Indiana. In a later publication, in 1990, this autobiographical sketch is reshared however with an addition, from someone else, naming Elijah Hixson as William's father [citing the application mentioned earlier]. Ages of the children often attributed to Elijah Hixson also raises questions on top of one Rachel, said to be his daughter, beng married and living in Indiana at the time of his pension application, where in it he states an unmarried daughter, named Rachel, is living in his household in Ohio [yet Margaret, who is younger than Rachel, isn't?] then compounded with William G. Hixon's account about him and his sisters being brought to Indiana, from Kentucky, due to death of their mother. In William G. Hixon's account, he does not mention having a[n older] brother named Timothy, nor as to having any other siblings outside of the two younger sisters who were taken with him from Kentucky to Knox County, Indiana by their father.
Notation 3: Share DNA matches with this person's known descendants.
Notation 4: Known ancestor of Carol on paternal side of her family tree.
Original Publish Date: 11 Apr 2025 by Carol A. Wells-Perlaky
