Biography of Clarence Jennings Nix
Clarence Jennings was the forth of four sons of Miles Jennings and Sarah Elizabeth Freeman to be registered in the WW I draft, and another grandson of Jennings Nix and his second wife Temperance (Tempy) Poole Ellison. He was born Leonard, Fannin County, after his family reached Texas. Leonard is located North of Floyd just across the Hunt County line. Clarence married Lillian Carter, and they had four sons; Lowery, Merle, Corbin, and Leotus. It is possible that some or all of these may be living. The research on this family is not complete. But then genealogy is never complete, is it? Family history gives him credit for providing the bootleg whiskey for the locals but I have no proof. That's proof as in source data, not the kind in a mason jar.
Clarence reported his age as 21 when he reported on 18 Aug. 1896 to the draft board. And he was married to Lillian Carter, the mother to be of four sons; Lowery, Merle, Corbin, and Leotus who died as a child. He did not list any children on his 5 June 1918 card, but it appears that at least one son Lowery, and maybe also Merle was born by that time.
Clarence died in 1959 and is buried in the cemetery at Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma. Also his mother Sarah Elizabeth Freeman is buried there. She died in 1953. His father Miles died in 1922 and is buried at the Goodnight cemetery in Goodnight, Armstrong County, very near where they first stopped at Floyd, Hunt County, Texas. I do not understand the Oklahoma connection, more research is required.
Information submitted by his relative, Dalton Nix.