Goins | Dixon Family Tree
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Margaret Elizabeth Cavanagh1918 - 2016 Great-Grandmother
Edna E Hughes1893 - 1963 2x Great-GrandmotherEdna E Hughes
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- Born in McBain, Missaukee County, MI on July 3, 1893
- Race listed as Mulatto in the 1910, 1920 US Federal Census Records
- In 1910, at age 16, she was employed as a housekeeper for a private family
- Married Howard Cavanagh in Cadillac, Wexford County, MI when she was 22 years old and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Marion
- At age 28, her husband, Howard drowned at a 4th of July family picnic leaving her and her two young daughters
- Less than a year after her husband’s death, on May 20, 1922, she married Vincent Barton, a railroad worker and recent widow and father to his young son.
- She passed away in September 1963, at age 70 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado
Edna with Friend 
Edna with sister Frances 
Enda and Frances with their Aunt Lizzy 
Enda Hughes 
Minnie Etta Hathaway with Daughters 
Margaret with her Mother Edna 
Edna with Sherla, Karol and baby Dexter 
Enda and Granddaughter Sherla 
Enda with Grandsonson’s Dennis and Dexter 
Enda & Vincent Barton with Granddaughter Karol 
Margaret and Tom Burgman’s Wedding 
Edna Hughes Cavanagh 
Enda and Vincent with Son-in-law Tom 
Grandma Edna, Dexter, Aunt Pearl and Margaret at Dexter’s Wedding 
Minnie Etta Hathaway1870 - 1932 3x Great-GrandmotherMini Etta Hathaway
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- Born in Seymour, Jackson, County Indiana on September 26, 1870
- In 1880 at age 9, she and her siblings attended the Lynn Street Colored School (still standing).
- In 1888, at age 18, she married Franklin Pierce Hughes in Berrien County, MI.
- Over a span of 15 years, she and Frank had 7 children including a baby boy who was born prematurely in 1908 and did not live.
- In both the 1910 and 1920 US Census Records she and her children are listed as Mulatto.
- She passed away on January 28, 1932, at age 61 in Missaukee County from Diabetes Mellitus, a condition that according to death record, she had for 10 years. She is buried in Mount View Cemetery in McBain, Missaukee County, MI.
Frank, Minnie Etta and Children in front of their Log Home
Minnie Etta with her granddaughter’s Mary, Ethel and Margaret (on lap)
Minnie on her front porch
Minnie in her wheelchair
Minnie with her daughter’s Frances, Edna, Evelyn and Pearl
Alfred Hathaway "Mulatto"1826 - ? 4x Great-Grandfather
Charlotte Goens "Mulatto"1842 - 1907 4x Great-Grandmother- George Goins "Mulatto"1810 - 1860? 5x Great-Grandfather
- Nancy Dixon "Mulatto"1822- ? 5x Great-Grandmother
- Alexander Dixon (Black)1786 - 1871 6x Great-Grandfather
Margaret A ________1795 - (Bef. 1870) 6x Great-Grandmother