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Dix, D. H. K. (b. 1828)
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The History of Upshur County West Virginia
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by W. B. Cutright
Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907

Page 436

D. H. K. DIX. I am the fourth son of Isaac Dix, and my mother was
the daughter of Philip Reger, Esq.

I was born and reared on a farm, now owned by Daniel Webster Dix,
two and one-half miles below the town of Buckhannon, Upshur County,
West Virginia, January 24, 1828.

My early privileges were few. I had the advantage of the schools of
that day, which were very limited and inferior and these were in
the winter months. When I was nineteen years old, I took fifteen
months schooling in the Western Virginia Academy at Clarksburg. I
taught two terms of school in the winters of 1849 and 1850.

I was admitted into the West Virginia Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, June 7, 1850. I have been, now (1906)
in the ministry fifty-eight years.

I was united in matrimony with Miss America Young, the eldest
daughter of John D. Young of Kanawha County, Virginia, now West
Virginia. She is of an old family of the Kanawha Valley.

We have been living together fifty-three years.

We have three children buried, two sons and one daughter. We have
two living, one son and one daughter.

I have filled many responsible positions in the church, notably:
Ten years Presiding Elder; four years Member of the Board of
Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. My life has been a
strenuous one. I have been four years a member of the State Senate
of West Virginia, from 1865 to 1869. I was one of the Committee to
Codify the laws of West Virginia in 1868. I have lived to see my
native state rise from its infancy to its grand proportions at this
date, 1906, and feel a just pride in her success. Now that my life
work is nearly done, and I am almost eighty years old, I have no
regrets that I should have chosen a different course in life. I
wish to leave this statement to others that I believe I was in the
line of duty, and so I have a peaceful mind.

I believe that to be just and to deal justly was the right thing to
do, and I have realized it to be so.

Now with good wishes to all, hoping that others may take courage to
"deal justly, love mercy and humbly with Thy God."

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(wife of D. H. K. Dix)
Register of Deaths, Upshur County, WV (Page 228)
FULL-NAME: America Dix
DEATH-DATE: January 7, 1910
AGE-AT-DEATH: 76y-3m-20d
DEATH-PLACE: Buckhannon
OCCUPATION: Hosuewife
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cancer

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