Susan M. Nixon (1830-1903) (b. French) was born in North Carolina and died in Maryland. She was listed as a piano teacher at the Wilmington Institute in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1860. In 1861, she married Erastus D. Nixon in New Hanover, North Carolina. He worked as a salesman at Geo. R. French & Sons, her father's boot and shoe repair business in Wilmington. By 1870, the couple had moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Nixon's brother, Charles E. French, wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 to order her a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Nixon was a member of the First Baptist Church.

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