Friday's Photo: Tommie E. L. Bryan Nix - From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark

Robert Robertson and Tommie Etta Bryan Nix and 9 of their 12 children (clockwise) - Bertha (Back with flower on dress), Marshall, Alma, Clarence, Bobbie, Genie, Lula, Fannie, and Henry

Aunt Fannie W is penciled in at the 
top on the back. The photo was probably
hers at one time. Fannie was Tillman
Bryan's sister, Georgia Ann Frances
Bryan, who first married James S.
Pittman, and later married Ezekiel
Wimberly.

Tommie Etta Lizinia Bryan Nix had 105 living descendants when she died in Bienville Parish at age 91. She was the daughter of Tillman Capers Bryan and Mildred Manning Prothro Bryan. Tommie was born in Bienville Parish in 1869. She married Robert Robertson Nix on 25 December 1887, and they had 12 children. Nine of their children are pictured above. Ten of the 12 children were still living when Tommie died. The other two, Marshall and Fannie, lived to adulthood but died in the 1920s.

Both the photograph and the obituary were found in Marguerite Cook Clark’s files. Marguerite’s mother, Maggie, was Tommie’s first cousin.

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25156547/tommie_etta-nix: accessed May 29, 2026), memorial page for Tommie Etta Bryan Nix (23 Dec 1869–9 Aug 1960), Find a Grave Memorial ID 25156547, citing Providence Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by A Footstep In Time (contributor 47345816).

“Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1787–1958,” database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMH-YZFQ : accessed 31 December 2025), entry for Robbert R. Nix and T. E. Bryan, married 25 December 1887.

“Mrs. Tommie Nix Dies at Jamestown,” obituary clipping, no newspaper identified, no date; digital image, from the privately held files of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913–1989), Waynesville, North Carolina. Clipping accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark’s daughter in Alpine, Texas, 28 April 2014, 14 September 2014, and 9–11 November 2016. Used with permission.

Tommie E. L. Bryan Nix, family photograph, no date; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.