 This John Rixey attended local schools and Bethel Academy, then studied law at the University of Virginia.Rixey married Ella B. Barbour (1859-1946), daughter of James Barbour and his wife Fanny Thomas Beckham and granddaughter of John S. Barbour, who had likewise been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 15th congressional district.Their children included Mary Barbour Compton (b.