Chloie (Smith) Nixon's Diaries

Chloie (Smith) Nixon was the daughter of Cassius Emerson Smith and Clara Elizabeth Hunt. Chloie was born on December 24, 1884, in Huntington Co., Indiana. She died on July 3, 1976, in Cadillac, Wexford Co., Michigan.

Chloie was first married to Jesse J. Holly with whom she had four children, three of whom survived to adulthood. Jesse J. Holly died in 1910 and Chloie remarried to Frank Harlan Nixon in 1912. Chloie and Frank had six children, all of whom survived to adulthood.

From about 1889 until shortly before her death she lived in Cherry Grove Township, Wexford County, Michigan. Her parents owned the farm located at the northwest corner of the intersection of S 29 Road and E 46 Road in Cherry Grove. It is unclear where she lived during her first marriage. When the census was recorded in 1910, she and her Holly children were living with her parents, her husband Jesse J. Holly having died in March of that year. After marrying Frank Nixon in 1912, she lived in the "little house" at 9648 S 29 Road. After Frank's parents died, Frank and Chloie moved into the "big house" at 9672 S 29 Road, a couple hundred feet south of the "little house." Both houses were on the Nixon farm, now recognized as a Centennial Farm because it has been in the same family for more than 100 years.

During Chloie's lifetime she kept quite a few diaries. As transcripts or scanned images of the diaries become available, they will be placed here for people to download.