Robert Nixon and Mary Sutton

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Husband Robert Nixon ¹

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           Born: 1783 - County Fermanagh, Ireland 1
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           Died: 1850 1
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         Father: Edward Nixon (      -      ) 1
         Mother: [Unk] Bracken (      -      ) 1

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Wife Mary Sutton ¹

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           Born: Abt 1781
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           Died: 1851 1
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         Father: Peter Sutton (      -      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Phoebe Kinnan (      -      ) 3

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   Other Spouse: Sylvanus Ayers (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Edward Nixon ¹

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           Born: 25 Feb 1807 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Phebe Birg Keely (      -      ) 1

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2 M George Nixon ¹

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           Died: Bef 1880
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3 F Mary Nixon ¹

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         Spouse: Rev. Robert White (      -      ) 1

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4 M James Nixon ¹

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           Died: Bef 1880
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         Spouse: Sarah Cummins (      -      ) 1

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5 M Robert Nixon ¹

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Nixon

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He was born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, and migrated to America in 1794, to the vicinity of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and in the next or the following year, removed to the Pigeon Creek settlement, in Washington County. In 1798, he came to Newport, (in what was afterwards Indiana County,) on Black-lick creek, where he clerked in a store for his second cousin, Robert Nixon, who had been a merchant there for some years. He purchased at the first sale some lots in Indiana, and in the following year removed to the county seat. He erected a story and half hewed log building on a lot later occupied by the residence of A. T. Taylor, on the corner of Carpenter's alley and Philadelphia street, a short distance north of the building. In the upper half story he had his general store, and in the lower portion, his residence. The entrance to the store was by means of outside stairs. In 1811 or 1812, he removed to a room in the eastern part of the Sutton hotel, near the Kline house, and conducted his business there, while the stone building was being erected on the later Sutton and Marshall lots, on Philadelphia street. Of the eastern part of this building he was the proprietor, and in it he kept his store. About 1830 or 1831, he changed this portion of the building into a hotel, and conducted it for several years.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 344.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 421.

3 Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1924), Pg 179.