Research Overview

1.) The name of Mixter appears in the 1814 Baltimore City Directory.

Ezra Mixter is listed as having a shop in Mechanics Alley, Old Town Baltimore.

His occupation, Cordwainery.

Cordwainery is just another name for a worker in leather or possibly shoe-making.

When the War of 1812 broke out, Ezra signed up with Capt. William Bezeau of the 26th Regiment United States Army.

This regiment was one of the regiments that met the British General Ross at North Point!

After the fighting, he enlisted in the regulars until 1815.

He was discharged at Philadelphia on the 23rd day of March, 1815.

His Army record describes him as: Age: 27 years, Height: 5'6", Eyes: dark, Hair: dark, Complexion: light, Occupation: Shoemaker.

A land warrant was given to him for his service, Land Warrant 9437.

Notification was sent to him in Baltimore on April 1st, 1817.

In 1818, he traveled to Somerset Co., Pennsylvania to a Federal Land Office.

On April 1,1818, he sold his land warrant of 160 Acres in the Illinois Territory for $160.

2.) Another Mixter shows up in the 1830 Federal Census.

Ann Jane Mixter living in Baltimore City.

She was living with an older female between 40 and 60.

In 1832, Ann Jane married an Ulus Calame and apparently left the city.

3.) In 1841, another Mixter appears in the Baltimore American paper.

A marriage announcements "An Amanda Mixter married a John Cockeran in the city."

She is also listed in the 1850 census along with her husband John.

These are the only Mixters I have been able to come up with in my years of searching.

I can not tell you what references I have not searched but I have all the references I have search.

Possible connections to Columbus Mixter:

1.) Columbus' oldest daughter's name was Eliza "Ann" (Mixter) Glover!

2.) His second daughter's name was Martha "Jane"(Mixter) McCauley!

3.) His fourth daughter's name was "Amanda" Ellen (Mixter) Burger!

4.) I was told personally by the wife of Joseph Slicer Mixter, Louisa, that the sons of Columbus used to walk to the "Highlandtown" section of the city to visit a relative!

5.) All three of the ministers that married Ann Jane (Mixter) Calame, Amanda (Mixter) Cockeran, and Columbus Mixter were connected to the Methodist Protestant Church.

The M.P.Church was a breakaway from the M.E Church.

6.) If these woman were his sisters and were married at the age of 16 years, their birth dates would be:

Ann Jane Mixter .b 1816

Amanda Mixter b.1825.

Columbus was born in 1826!!

I am still very interested in the origin of the Mixter name in Maryland and would be positively delighted with any help in finding the parents of Columbus Mixter, the progenitor of this Mixter family of Maryland.

I hope this little bit of information on my family will stir up the curiosity of other members of this family to look up some family information or public information that might shed some light on Columbus' early life.

Thank you all for taking the time to read my notes.

-Arthur H. 'Otts' Mixter