Janet Brixey

Notes:

Said to have died on 6 Oct 1843 in Pike County, Mississippi. Was said to be the wife of Josh POWELL, whom she married in 1804 in Elbert County, GA; he died after being thrown from a horse.

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POWELL DATA was comkpiled by Frances Powell Otken, McComb, Mississippi.

Josiah Powell, with his wife and seven children moved from Madison County, Georgia to the Mississippi Territory in the late summer of 1817, settling about 5 miles from Summit, Pike County on the east fork of the Tangipahoa River.

JOSIAH POWELL was a First Lieutenant of Captain James Ware's Company of Infantry, 1st (Harris) Regiment, Georgia Militia, War of 1812, served from August 25, 1813 to March 11, 1814. Place of Enlisment not shown. (Ref: U. S. War Department, Adjutant General's Office # 2 055 938)

In the emigration from Georgia, there also came at the same time the Womacks and Stricklands, which would indicate they were long-time friends and neighbors. Colonel Solomon Strickland was from Tyrone County, Ireland, and probably was a neighbor there to Thomas Mackie and perhaps John Brixey. Rachel Mackie Brixey married second Barnaby Strickland, son of Colonel Solomon Strickland and Amy Pace Strickland. These families appear to have stayed together in all their migrations. Family tradition is that John Brixey, husband of Rachel Mackie, was a native of Ireland, and when on a return voyage to his native land, was lost at sea when the ship and all on board went down a short distance off the coast of Georgia. Court records would substantiate this since we find no late records of any kind regarding John Brixey.

Josiah Powell, husband of Janet Brixey, was killed December 28, 1846, by being thrown from a spirited young horse that he had raised. He was en route to Natchez, Mississippi, to purchase supplies, and over the protest of his sons, he insisted on riding the young horse which was frightened by something along the roadside, plunged and rearing, throwing him violently to the ground.

Josiah Powell was a skilled craftsman and cabinet-maker. He made a number of pieces of furniture which are still in the family.

Josiah Powel, (sic) was in Militia District 204 in 1810, Elbert County, Georgia, but when Madison County was formed in 1811, said district fell into Madison County. In one of the early Militia notes, Josiah Powel (named spelled with only one L) gave the year of his birth as 1774. He appears to have lived in that part of Elbert County around Blue Stone Creek, which later became a part of Madison County, Georgia. Land records indicate that Josiah Powel and John Brixey owned adjoining land in Elbert County, Georgia in 1811.

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