TITLE: Mary Jane Burns Nix

SOURCE:  Keowee Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  Mary L. Cawthon

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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NIX, Mary Jane
Mrs. Nix Passes at Cross Roads. Mrs. Mary Jane Burns Nix, 68, of the 
Cross Roads community near Westminster, died at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Geneva Brown Sunday morning. She had been in declining 
health several years and seriously ill three weeks. Mrs. Nix was a 
lifelong resident of Oconee County, a daughter of the late Thomas and 
Emma Patterson Burns. She was a member of the Return Baptist church 
and a member of the WMS of the church. Surviving besides her husband 
are 6 sons, Thomas Nix of Westminster, David and Joseph Nix, both of 
Seneca, Stephen Nix of Greenville, Clifton and James Nix, both of 
Seneca; 3 daughters, Mrs. Geneva Brown, Mrs. Della Little of 
Westminster and Miss Ruth Nix all of Westminster; 4 brothers, Lum 
Burns of Townville, Dewey, Joe, and Wayne Burns, all of Seneca; 2 
sisters, Mrs. Dora Burns of Townville, and Mrs. Rosie Nix of Seneca; 
23 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were 
conducted at Return Baptist Church Monday by the Rev. S. T. Dickson, 
the Rev. M. J. Stansell and the Rev. Claude Landreth. Burial was in 
the adjoining cemetery. Grandsons were pallbearers. Sandifer Funeral 
Home was in charge. (Mrs. Mary Jane Burns Nix died on April 20, 1958). 
Contributed by Mary L. Cawthon, cawthoni@bellsouth.net

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