Joshua Everett Mizell

(b. 12/11/1801, d. 2/20/1891)

Generation 6

Married: Letitia R. Paxton on January 27, 1835

Children:
Jackson Mizell (b. 5/13/1836, d. 1919)
James Mizell (b. 9/11/1838, d. 10/05/1842)
Everett Mizell (b. 9/28/1841, d. 4/27/1863) Civil War
Catherine Mizell (b. 1/29/1844, d. 1888)
Martha Mizell (b. 1/29/1844, d. 1936)
Lucy Mizell (b. 11/27/1849, d. 8/07/1938)
William Mizell (b. 6/21/1852, d. 2/12/1930)
Joseph Paxton Mizell (b. 6/21/1852, d. 12/24/1930)
Charlton Mizell (b. 4/04/1858, d. 2/19/1859)
Jessie Mizell (b. 12/20/1859, d. 8/15/1860)

More about JOSHUA EVERETT MIZELL

Born Camden County Georgia 1801

Joshua Everett Mizell is the grandson of Charlton Mizell (see Generation 4, Person #12, b. 1727) and the son of Charlton Mizell (Generation 5, Person #34, b. 1773) and Mary Blount.

Joshua Everett was born in Camden County in southeast Georgia on December 11, 1801. He was the third of eight children born to Charlton and Mary. He grew up on a plantation in a family that owned slaves.

Marriage 1835

Joshua Everett married Letitia R. Paxton on January 27, 1835. Letitia was born October 2, 1815 in Camden Co. Georgia, the daughter of Martha McLeske and Joseph Paxton. When they were married, he was 33 and she was 19.

Joshua and Letitia lived on Bailey branch near the Satilla River, and had a large plantation and a number of slaves. In the 1840s and 1850s, they were prominent citizens in Camden County, Georgia.

Joshua and Letitia had ten children born between 1836 and 1859. Twin girls Catherine and Martha were born in January 1844 and another set of twins, this time boys, William and Joseph, were born in June 1852.

There was certainly sorrow in the family, as the second child James died at age 4, and the ninth (Charlton) and tenth (Jesse) children died before their first birthdays. And their third child Everett, born 1841, died in the Civil War in 1863 at the age of 22.

In 1854, when Charlton County Georgia was formed out of Camden County, Joshua’s plantation was placed in the new county and he was named as one of the original commissioners to help organize the County Government.

Joshua Everett Mizell died February 20, 1891 in his 89th year. His wife Letitia lived to October 26, 1893, dying at the ripe old age of 78. They both were buried in the family cemetery on the original family plantation.