Guy Carlton RIX

1802 - 1879  (76 years)

• Name	Guy Carlton RIX  [2, 3]
  	Mr. Rix like most young men was brought up on a farm, and in the ordinary acceptance of that term was not liberally educated, though he supplemented by careful study and voluminous reading and research education which the common schools afforded. To a strongly practical training he added by his own exertions unusual literary culture, acquiring among his other accomplishments an almost irresistible fascination for studying the classics. he had a very retentive memory, and could quote pages of almost all the works of which he was familiar. In his early life he learned the trade of edge-tool making, and proved to be a skillful workman. He taught school nineteen winters, and while teaching in Barnston, Canada, in the winter of 1835, he moved his family there, and after his school closed, he removed to Compton in the same county, and went to work at his trade. The Canadian Rebellion breaking out in the winter of 1836-7, he returned to Littleton, N.H., and after the rebellion was crushed, he returned to Canada and located at king's Croft, in Barnston, and entered into business on his own account. His business here not proving so favorably as he had wished, he returned to the States and located in Rumney, N.H., where he built up a good business, but a financial panic coming on, he met with reverse of fortune, and removed to western Ne York, landing at Hartland, Niagara County, in June, 1844. In the fall of this year removed to Middleport, Oleans County, ten miles away, and in the fall of 1846, he removed to Jeddo, a little village in Orleans County, about five miles from Middleport. Here he did business on his own account till 1851, when he removed to Michigan, locating at Manchester. In 1864, while his son, Guy S., was in the hospital in Washington, with his eg amputated, his wife there taking care of him, Mr. Rix and wife returned to Jeddo especially to care for Guy's children, and remained until 1870, when they returned to Michigan and located in Dowagiac, where their son Thomas resided. Here they remained until death. he was lame from boyhood, caused by his hip being put out of joint, and never being set. My father had weaknesses (and who of us do not possess many), but I am proud to say that he was a kind-hearted man, an exceedingly generous one - a man who never turned the distressed and disconsolate from his door, but prompt to act in their behalf. Although not an open worshiper of the Great Architect of nature - in fact, to the uninitiated he was completely the reverse in some respects, for which I pardon him through extenuating circumstances - yet his heat beat with almost the tenderness my deae mother possessed, and however rough his expressions, by many misjudged I Know he inwardly worshiped the Great Artificer at nature's shrine, and I hope to meet them both in the happy hunting grounds of that undiscovered country from which no traveler returns. [1]
  Birth	14 Dec 1802	Stanstead, Canada   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1850	Living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York   [4]
  Occupation	1850	Blacksmith   [4]
  Census	1860	Living in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan   [6]
  Census	1870	Living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York   [7]
  Fact	Son of Nathaniel Rix and Rebecca Eastman   [1]
  Death	14 Jan 1879	Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan   [1, 3, 5]
  Burial	Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan   [5]
  Person ID	I97162	Main Tree
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2020

  
  

  Family	Martha GATES,   b. 5 Mar 1807, Acworth, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire d. 28 Apr 1892, Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	4 Jan 1826	St. Johnsbury, Vermont   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Caroline RIX,   b. 16 Dec 1826, Littleton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire d. 10 Apr 1896, Albion, Michigan (Age 69 years)  [Birth] + 2. Guy Scoby RIX,   b. 12 Nov 1828, Littleton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire d. 4 Feb 1917, Concord, Merrimack Co., New Hampshire (Age 88 years)  [Birth] + 3. Joel Eastman RIX,   b. 28 Jul 1830, Kirby, Caledonia Co., Vermont d. 3 Dec 1908, Erie County, Ohio (Age 78 years)  [Birth]   4. Joseph RIX,   b. 28 Jun 1832, Waterford, Caledonia Co., Vermont d. Dec 1832 (Age 0 years)  [Birth] + 5. Thomas Gates RIX,   b. 28 Jul 1834, Danville, Vermont d. 1917 (Age 82 years)  [Birth] + 6. John RIX,   b. 4 Jan 1837, Compton, Canada d. 15 Dec 1893, Fort Madison, Lee Co, Iowa (Age 56 years)  [Birth] + 7. Nathaniel RIX,   b. 22 Jan 1839, St. Johnsbury East, Vermont d. 28 Mar 1923, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., Michigan (Age 84 years)  [Birth] + 8. Martha Rebecca RIX,   b. 16 Jan 1841, Barnston, Canada d. 30 Sep 1892, Glenwood, Michigan (Age 51 years)  [Birth] + 9. Benjamin Franklin RIX,   b. 28 Jul 1843, Rumney, New Hampshire d. 24 Apr 1919, Kalamazoo, Michigan (Age 75 years)  [Birth] + 10. Pvt. Charles E. RIX,   b. 28 Apr 1846, Middleport, Niagara Co., New York d. 13 Jan 1879, Mason, Ingham Co., Michigan (Age 32 years)  [Birth]   11. Wilder Pierce RIX,   b. 8 Jun 1848, Jeddo, Orleans Co., New York d. Abt 1857 (Age 8 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F40082	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - 1850 - Blacksmith  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Guy Carlton Rix and Martha Gates Headstone Guy C. Rix and his wife, Martha, daughter of Thomas Gates and Patty Plumley, are buried in the riverside Cemetery in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan. Created by: Judith D Photo added by: Scout

  
  

• Sources

  [S11134] Guy S. Rix, Concord, N.H., History and Genealogy of The Rix Family of America containing Biographical Sketches and Genealogies of both Males and Females, (The Grafton Press). [S5988] Ancestry.com: Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908. [S03384] Charles Otis Gates, Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, (Name: Name: New York: Willis McDonald & Co;;). [S11123] 1850 Census Ridgeway, Orleans County, New York. [S02329] Find A Grave Website. [S11124] 1860 Census Manchester, Washtenaw County, Michigan. [S11125] 1870 Census Ridgeway, Orleans County, New York.