COX, William Fowler Calvin

COX, CRAWFORD

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/10/2015 at 07:20:40

Biography ~ William Fowler Calvin Cox

History of Davis County, Iowa
1882.

COX, W. F. C., farmer and stock-raiser, section 24, postoffice Troy, was born in Benton county, Missouri, December 15, 1840. When eight years old he came with his parents to Appanoose county, where his father died in January, 1850. Two years after, the family, he being the eldest of three children, moved to Mahaska county, where his mother married again. They moved to Adair county, Mo., in 1855, and he went to Illinois in 1860.

He followed farming, and when the war commenced he enlisted in Company H, Sixty-eighth Illinois Infantry, which regiment was mustered out in October, 1862. In 1864 he came to Iowa and located on his present farm in 1869, which was then all brush, which he cleared away, making a nice farm of 70 acres.

He was married in Illinois, in June, 1862, to Miss Mary Crawford. They have had eight children: Eva J., Amanda E., Ardilla M., Wm. T., Mary B., Owen, Harrison B. and one deceased, Hiram B. Mr. C. is a man of more than ordinary pluck and energy, and has the respect of everybody. He is a Mason, a member of Troy lodge.

NOTE: William died in 1919, and Mary died in 1938. They were interred at Leon Cemetery.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015