Barbara Elizabethann (Mills) Cox (1929)

COX, MILLS, BALDWIN, ADDY

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 11/27/2006 at 18:02:55

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
January 24, 1929 – page 7

Mrs. John Cox

Barbara Elizabethann Mills was born in Douglas township, Madison county, Iowa, August 17, 1859, and passed from the life the morning of January 16, 1929, aged 69 years. She was the daughter of Enos and Elizabeth Baldwin Mills. She spent all her life in Madison county except seven years of her girlhood in Missouri.

When nineteen years old she united with the Christian church which worshipped in the old stone school house on North creek. She lived and died in quiet faith, trusting her redeemer and Lord, both for this life and that which is to come.

She was the youngest of a family of nine, of whom there is but one survivor, a sister, Rebecca, Mrs. George Cox. Five stepchildren, whom she mothered, live and love her: Mrs. Harriet Addy, of Earlham; Chas. A. and Leroy Cox, of Winterset; Wm. Riley Cox, of Estelville, South Dakota, and Mrs. Beulah Ellen Cox, of Des Moines. Besides these there are many relatives and friends who will look for “Aunt Barbara’s” smiling face when they get to heaven.

The Rev. W. C. Porter conducted the funeral services at the United Presbyterian church, Thursday, January 17th.
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Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
January 7, 1929 – page 1

Death of Mrs. John Cox

Mrs. John Cox passed away at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Cox, on East Buchanan street, Wednesday morning at 2:20 o’clock, at the age of 69 years. Since last February she had suffered from the effects of a paralytic stroke and several weeks ago gave up her home and went to live with her only sister.

She was the daughter of Enos and Elizabeth Baldwin Mills, of Douglas township, and on January 16, 1904, she was united in marriage to John Cox, and became the mother of his five children, who mourn her loss.

The bereaved are, Mrs. Harriett Addy, of Earlham; Mrs. Beulah Cox, of Des Moines; Wm. Riley Cox, of North Dakota, and Charles A. and Roy, both of Winterset, and her sister, Mrs. George Cox.

Funeral services will be conducted today (Thursday) at 1:30 o’clock at the United Presbyterian church, the Rev. W. C. Porter officiating. Burial will be made in the McDonald Cemetery in Jefferson township.