The Bourland and Nix families were torn apart by differing ideologies during the Civil War. ..Col. James Bourland posted a $1,000 bounty for N.T. Nix since he was a known Union sympathizer and had deserted Captains Thompson’s-Roberts’ Jack County militia on April 1, 1864. Nix’s wife, Paulina Bourland, was the neice of Col. Bourland who had adopted her 10 younger siblings when their parents died in 1852. Col. Bourland was financially responsible for he 10 minor children, but only 5 of the 10 children lived in Bourland's home.
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Most of Dr. N.T. Nix’s brothers of Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas were officers in the Confederate Army, so both Paulina and Newton were estranged from their families. ..N.T. Nix moved his family in 1858 to Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas since it was a hotbed of Union sympathiziers.
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N.T. Nix left Texas for Quincy, Adams County, Illinois when he learned about the $1,000 bounty on his head. ..Paulina followed with six children: one was her youngest 12-yr-old brother and one was a nursing 4-month-old baby. They settled in Emporia, Kansas. When Paulina died in 1872 in Arkansas City, Cowley Co, Kansas, N.T. remarried and moved to Choctaw, Okla Co. OK. Their daughter married 1892 in St. Luke's Methodist Church in downtown OKC, that is still there.
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I thought the Boomer-Sooners may be interested in Newton Thomas Nix after the Civil War era.
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Boomer Colony
1882 forays into Oklahoma Territory
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"An Emporian, N.T. Nix of Dave Payne's Lieutenants was arrested nearly every time Payne was, judged, and was active in the fight. ..Boomers waged war against the cattle barons, who pastured their livestock in Oklahoma under the wink of several officials. ..Nix was also chosen treasurer of the Boomer Colony, because ‘no one could doubt his integrity’."
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per "Dave Payne, The Boomer," Emporia News, Jan 5, 1882.
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“Dr. Newton T. Nix, father’s eldest brother, was with Payne in several of his raids into Oklahoma, and went to Washington D.C. as a Boomer representative to get legislators to open the territory to settlement. .He made The Run in 1889 and secured a claim in the neighborhood of Choctaw [Oklahoma Territory, now Oklahoma County, OK]. Being a physician and deeply religious, he was the ‘good angel’ of his community, most of whom forgot to remunerate him. .There were several ‘Jumpers’ on his land, and some of them even threatened his life. One of these had a child desperately ill. One night when weather threatened the child, the mother sent for Dr. Nix. .He came and stayed until the child was out of danger. .On his way home, a cold rain drenched his clothing and he contracted pneumonia from which he died a few days later.”
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per Minnie (Nix) Dean Remmers (b-1875) of Oklahoma City. ...Sent by Christine Haw of Kaufman, Tx
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NIX, Newton Thomas Nix (1831 Obion TN-1896 Choctaw, O.T., now Ok Co OK), physician; m-Paulina Bourland
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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