Eli Cox

COX, WELLS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/19/2004 at 19:26:09

Eli Cox, Union twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 5; P.O. Winterset; born in Clinton county, Ohio, August 28, 1825; came to this county March 17, 1856; April 1, 1856, he entered 120 acres of land, and it was the last entered in the township; he erected a saw-mill, and did a large amount of sawing, and bought up about 1,100 acres of land; he has held offices of town trustee, school director and county supervisor; he married Mary Wells in 1846; she was born in Indiana; has twelve children: John, George, Ruth, Henry, Amos, Milton, Alfred, Anna, Amanda, Martha, Mary and Ellen.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 607