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Kristi's Crypt

•  A Tribute to Tom Mix, Western Movies and Cowboy

   

  A Tribute to Tom Mix and Family History

  • It just wouldn't be my page, if I didn't include a tribute to my maternal great-grandfather's first cousin: Tom Mix, the original Western Movie Star and prototype for John Wayne to personify. Tom Mix was one of the biggest western movie stars between 1920 - 1930, as well as a personal friend of Will Rogers.
  
  
  

  Filmography

  • The Miracle Rider (1934)
    Hidden Gold (1933)
    Terror Trail (1933)
    Rustler's Roundup (1933)
    Flaming Guns (1933)
    My Pal the King (1932)
    Texas Bad Man (1932)
    Justice Rides Again (1932)
    Rider of Death Valley (1932)
    The Last Trail (1927)
    The Great K and A Train Robbery (1926)
    Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
    Dick Turpin (1925)
    Sky High (1922)
    Just Tony (1922)
    Trailin' (1921)
    A Child of the Prairie (1918)
    The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
    Tom Mix and Bill Hart (1915)
    The Man From Texas (1915)
    In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)
    

  Death

  • Tom Mix made a total of 326 silent films and 10 talkies before his untimely death in an automobile accident in 1940. Tom died after ignoring warnings about a gully bridge out due to road work, and the suitcase did its evil work.
    a weird accident; his head was crushed by a suitcase that flew out of the backseat in the middle of the desert!
    
    The suitcase that killed him is in Dewey, OK, and his death site is near Florence, AZ.
    Tom Mix Death Site: The gully into which his 1937 Cord plunged has been renamed Tom Mix Wash. SouthEast of Phoenix, AZ. on Hwy. 79 S., after signs noting "Ironwood Tree" and "Saguaro Cactus" -- may be marked US 89 between Florence and Oracle Junction.

    Roadside America

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  An excerpt from Roadside America

  • The Tom Mix Comes Home Museum in Driftwood, PA, off of Hwy 555, is not in town (which doesn't care about Tom Mix) but out on a rural road where first the pavement ends, then the plumbing. The sign "Welcome To Tom Mix Territory," gives no hint of the miles and miles of rutted road you'll have left to travel.
    
    The big attraction here — for Tom Mix fans — is his birthplace and his boyhood outhouse in Driftwood, PA. The Flaughs, the museum's husband and wife owners,though well-meaning are occasionally desperate for company and are black holes of Mix trivia; you can't escape their well-rehearsed ad-libbing. They will talk to you about every single photo, clipping, and collectable in the small Museum. As you wander around the property, large black flies will attack you.
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  Useless Facts

  • since I am babbling anyway, I can relay this little story about my mom's relatives:
    
    My great grandmother, Bessie Hicks, married Earl Mix, Tom's cousin, leaving her with the newly acquired name of Bessie Hicks Mix.
    And NO, I am not related to Chex Mix.
    
    oh well..whatdoyawant for DuBois, Pennsylvania?
    
    I also have a relative named Jack Horner somewhere on the Ohio border. All I can remember about his family is back when I was around 9 years old, at Christmas, traveling home with my family in an old green 'brady bunch style' station wagon with wood paneling.
    
    The memorable part is sitting in the back of the car with my mother, both of us throwing up in garbage bags all the way back to New Jersey. To this day, my mom swears we both had the flu ....but I_know_it was those damn pink Christmas cookies at the Horner House.I still won't eat a pink cookie!!

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  NAME		BORN	DIED	AGE
  Hicks	Elizabeth Edith	1850	1934	84yrs
  Hicks	James P.	1844	1894	50yrs
  Hicks	Samuel W.	1816	1905	89yrs
  Hicks	Susan	1820	1893	73yrs