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Loxley Family Section
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The Loxley Family
John Edward Loxley was born in London Ontario Canada on Feb. 25, 1841. He moved to Michigan as a young man and on Dec. 21, 1863 in Saginaw married Mary Jeanette Cameron who was born April 7, 1843 in East Pembroke, Now York. They had three children, Fred born Jan. 18, 1871, Leonore born April 21, 1872 and Ted born Dec. 27, 1879.

Army records show that Mr. Loxley was enrolled on Dec. 15,1863 and mustered into service Dec. 24, 1863 as a second class private, Company T, First Regiment Michigan Engineers and Mechanics. He was wounded in battle and honorably discharged as a First Class Private July 3, 1865 at Harper U.S. General Hospital Detroit Mich. on a surgeons certificate of disability. By virtue of this service in the Civil War he became a U.S. citizen.

Upon discharge he entered the lumber business where at one point he had charge of all the horses used by his company in this operation. His love of horses and horse trading endured throughout his life.

Virgin timber was rapidly disappearing from Michigan and around 1880 he was given a contract by the Bradley Ramsey Lumber Co. to start lumbering operations in the virtually untouched pine forests of the south. Eventually his operations at various times covered Western Florida, Alabama and as far west as Texas. A number of factors, not the least of which was the mild climate, made the contract a very lucrative one and he was soon able to start his own business. His operation was fully integrated for in addition to cutting trees he also owned his own sawmills and built railroads to move the logs from, one to the other.

During one period he was operating in south western Alabama and constructed a line from Mobile to the logging operation. This was ' about 1890 - 1895. The railroad was mostly one track but included a siding in order that eastbound and westbound trains could pass. Eventually some business came into being in this area and became the town of Loxley.

Leonore Loxley eventually moved to Oregon where she married and, upon his retirement was joined by her father and mother. Mary Loxley died in Hillsborough, Oregon May 14 1916 and John Loxley at the same place July 28, 1919.

History
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History
John Loxley came to this area at the turn of the century (1900) to establish a lumber camp that included a commissary and a sawmill. A large number of men came with him, then stayed to settle and marry here. John Loxley is considered the founder of Loxley. There was a small village named Bennet here when Mr. Loxley arrived.

In 1920 the businesses in Loxley were an egg store, grocery store, two general merchandise stores, a train depot, drug store, telegraph office, land office, repair garage, post office, bank, hotel, butcher shop, orange packing shed, cement block plant, a blacksmith, a feed and lumber store. The main road was Highway 90; it was not paved then. Walter "Pop" Hammond had a grocery in the George Marinos building.

The only church in town was the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church having blown down in the 1916 hurricane. Everyone went to the Methodist Church. The Episcopal Church was considered "out in the woods" as it was located northwest of town.

The railroad was first opened on May 5, 1906. The only roads were the wagon roads to Bay Minette. The railroad was called the Fort Morgan Line, as it originally intended to go that far.

The present post office was officially opened in 1906 by Octavia Sauer. She was the official postmistress and depot agent combined.

The grammar school was built in 1925.

After the timber had been cut Mr. Loxley returned to Chicago. Real estate men tried to sell the land for $.25 an acre, but people declined rather than pay taxes on it.

The Town of Loxley incorporated in March, 1957.

In the 1870s Fred Loxley moved his sawmill operation from Michigan and set up of what we now term Loxley. There were many mills In the area of South Baldwin and the entire area of Baldwin. By 1900 when the L & N Railroad come through much of the area had been cutover and Baldwin had its start as farm land and a prosperous farming community at this time. Loxley today Is surrounded by beautiful grazing cattle land, pecan groves and forming. Like all of our communities It started with the simple cabins and grew into the fine comfortable self-sufficient farmsteads such as the Bill house.

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