The Wixom family settled in Fulton township on a farm.

The evidence

• “He was born February 15, 1835, and was one of a family of nine children born to Robert and Charity (Barrett) Wixom, both natives of New York state, and of German lineage. They settled in Fulton township, Rock county, in 1850, on a farm which the father improved and where the family had their home. He was also a carpenter by trade and built many barns throughout Rock county.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 378 / book p. 872

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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