Re: Manson Cox, any info at all
COX
Posted By: Nina2295@aol.com (email) In Response To: Manson Cox, any info at all (Natalie Garrison)
Date: 7/6/2004 at 20:48:34
Hi...do you have this info?
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY - UDELL TOWNSHIP, PG 520-529
1878 APPANOOSE COUNTY HISTORY BOOK
1989 REPRINT
Cox, Manson, miller, Unionville; born in East Tennessee in 1817; his parents both died
when he was a small boy; lived with a cousin, Wm. Cheeney, a resident of Jefferson Co.,
Tenn., until he was 7 or 8 years of age; after that had no particular abiding place, and was
under the control of no one in particular; never attended school. He married Miss
Elizabeth Loyd Oct. 11, 1839; she was born in Jefferson Co., Tenn., in 1819; in 1847, they
went to Alabama; remained there on winter, and came to Appanoose Co., Iowa, in the spring of 1848, where he now owns 125 acres of land, valued at $20 per acre; they havefour children - John C., Mary E., Margaret and Van. Greenbacker; Mr. and Mrs. Coxhave been members of the M. E. Church for thirty-five years. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., No. 119, Unionville. Mr. Cox had but $4.50 when he landed in Appanoose Co.,
and although he has been very unfortunate, having a great deal of sickness in his family,
having lost four out of eight children, has a good farm, well improved, and a plenty for a
comfortable livelihood during his natural life.
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