Delaware County, NY Genealogy and History Site

I don't have much on my mother's great-grandparents, Charles Dix and Emmagene Cummings, but I do have this photo of him. --Jennifer Conkling-Donovan

GENERATION ONE Charles Dix (1851) and Emma G. Cummings (1850) lived in the Town of Tompkins and Charles was a farmer. They were the parents of Charles D. Dix (1880) who was born in Walton, NY. After Charles died, Emma later married ?? Townsend. He appears on the grand juror records for Delaware County in 1788 and 1880. In the 1880 list, he is listed as a lumberman in Carpenter's Eddy.

Charles Dix b. 1851, m. ?, d. 1908
Emmagene Cummings b.1850, m. ?, d. 1928
Children:
... Charles D. Dix (1880) married Willis Butler
... Alice M. (1878 - 1968) Weeks Drake married John W. Drake (1876 - 1936). Their children were Ella E. Weeks (1900 - 1983) who married John J. Chase (1896 - 1969), and Everette J. Weeks (1905 - 1985) who married Leona Carpenter (1907 - 1996).
... Jane (1889 - 1971) married Fred W. Heylmun (1883 - 1938). They had no children.
... Nellie G. (1883 - 1858) married Edgar A. Maltby (1877 - 1954) and had 2 children, Jean Maltby (she married Edward F. Timanus) and Herbert Maltby.
... Iva (1891 - 1987) married C. Arthur Fenner and had 4 children, Ruth, Barbara, Ernest and ?

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