COX, Charles Lee, Sr. 1852 - 1930

COX, PEACOCK, LABAGH, CASE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:27

"The Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger"
Tuesday, December 2, 1930
Page EIGHT, Column 3

Charles Lee COX Sr.

Charles Lee COX Sr., a life time resident of Jefferson county, passed away this morning at 9:30 o'clock at his home, 400 West Kirkwood street, having been confined to his bed since August 1, 1930. He was born February 6, 1852 in Jefferson county and resided in Fairfield for the past twenty years. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home. Interment will take place in Evergreen cemetery.

He is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. Nora Bird COX of Lockridge, Mrs. Bernice PEACOCK of Anamosa, Dr. Hubert L. COX of Canton,Ohio (sic) and Mrs. Lulu A. LaBAGH, C. L. COX Jr. and Mrs. Minnie Mary COX, all of Fairfield. He also leaves one brother, John W. COX of Whitewater, Colo. and three grandchildren and one great grandchild.

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"The Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger"
Friday, December 5, 1930
Page FIVE, Column 1

JUST AMONG

...--Mr. and Mrs. Emmett PEACOCK have returned to their home in Anamosa after being called here by the death of her father, C. L. COX Sr.

--Dr. and Mrs. Hubert L. COX of Canton, Ohio arrived here yesterday being called here by the death of his father, C. L. COX Sr. ...

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"The Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger"
Friday, December 5, 1930
Page EIGHT, Column 6

--Rev. Dale COX and Jack Click of Ottumwa were in the city yesterday attending the funeral of C. L. COX Sr.

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"The Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger"
Monday, December 8, 1930
Page THREE, Column 1

OBITUARY

CHARLES L. COX SR.

Funeral services for C. L. COX Sr., who died at his home here Tuesday morning, December 2, following an illness of several months, were held Thursday afternoon from the home in charge of Dr. U. S. Smith of the Methodist church. Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery. Casket attendants were: Clarence Hague, Thomas W. Hannah, Fred Jericho, Clay Wright, Dan Nelson and Lee Bradshaw.

At the services the following tribute to Mr. COX was read by Ralph Lamson, and old friend:

Charley COX, as we all knew him, has passed on. It was his wish that I should make a few remarks at his funeral. I wish I was born in 1852 at his father's (sic) Charley COX was a good man, good to his family, to his neighbors, to his friends and to any friendless way farer who happened to come his way. Because his home was always open and free to all who came. The reason for this is, that he, his wife and children had that true spirit of old-fashioned hospitality that made every body feel at home, because they were welcome. Charly COX was born in 1852 at his Father's Eli COX's home in the village of Wooster in Jefferson County Iowa, where he spent the most of his life with his own family on the old home place, later on he moved to his present home in Fairfield where we now are. On Tuesday, Dec. 2nd at nine thirty in the morning he peacefully passed on, to "Our Fathers house of many mansions." As it is more specifically described in the 14th chapter of St. John in which Christ kindly said "Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you." Charley COX made no confession of faith in or to any church or creed, to him all men were brothers. He trusted his fellow man and they trusted him and he was worthy of the trust. He believed in God and in Jesus Christ his son as the Saviors of mankind and as the Way Shower of us all so as to live here on Earth, now, in peace and happiness.

I called on Charley a number of times in his last sickness and always found him in a happy peaceful frame of mind, he being conscious and clear minded to the last. As an old friend I have known him for the last 50 or 60 years and in all that time and to the last he always wore that smile of friendly recognition stirred by a kindly heart.

He enjoyed a good joke and was good cheerful company and did his part in developing this community. For 78 years ago when the prairie grass, prairie flowers and prairie chickens held their sway, with scarcely any wagon roads or way of travel, men had to do their part to being about the present modern development and Charley COX did his part in anything progressive, he surely was progressive for within the last two years he visited a son in Ohio and the graphic way in which he described to me the air meet at Cleveland and the manner in which he looked into the future air travel showed his mind was still progressive and fertile, this kept him young and pleasant to meet. He seemed to think and trusted that this modern air travel was good for all mankind, just as we can all implicitly trust in God taking care of us for really all of us are at all times in God's care and by simply trusting like Charley in God's goodness we find the way so we know that all is well and peaceful with Charley COX.

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"The Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger"
Monday, December 8, 1930
Page FIVE, Column 3

PROBATE OF WILL
State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss.

To All Whom It May concern:

Notice is hereby given that an instrument, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of C. L. COX, Sr., Deceased, is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson county, and that Friday, December 19, A. D., 1930 at 9 oclock a.m., it being the 29th day of the November Term, 1930 of said court, has been set for proof and final hearing of same.

Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court this 8th day of December 1930.

(SEAL) C. W. IRELAND,
Clerk of the District Court.
Dec. 8,15.

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Note: Buried in Lot 3rd.176. Wife Anna Maria CASE COX died the following year, in 1931, and is buried with him.