Eliza Lenora (Etter) Cox (1927)

COX, ETTER, DUFF, REIGLE

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/30/2007 at 15:50:10

Winterset Madisonian – January 27, 1927
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Mrs. Charles Cox, a resident of Douglas township, died last Saturday evening, January 22nd, about 9 o’clock at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines. Mrs. Cox had a stroke of paralysis on November 4th, and has been in poor health since then. She was taken to the hospital in Des Moines the 5th of January, but her condition did not improve.

Mrs. Cox was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eller, but due to the death of her mother when she was two years of age, made her home with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Duff. She was married to Mr. Cox in 1896, and he and four children survive her. She has lived in this county a number of years, and has many friends.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. Z. Allen at the United Presbyterian church, Tuesday morning, at 10:30 o’clock. Burial was mad in the McDonald, or United Brethren cemetery, in Jefferson township. More details of her life may be found in the mortuary column.
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Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
January 27, 1927

Lenora E. Cox

Eliza Lenora Cox, only child of Richard P. and Katherine Etter was born in Harrison county, Missouri, September 18th 1879 and departed this life January 22nd, 1927 at the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines at the age of 47 years, 4 months and 4 days.

Her mother passed away when she was only two years of age and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Duff, raised her. She was united in marriage to Charles A. Cox on February 27th, 1896 and to this union four children were born, three sons and one daughter; Richard Lee and Oscar of Earlham, Wilma Joan Reigle of Chicago and Wallace at home. Besides the four children, she leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, aged father, two half-sisters, one grandchild and a host of other relatives and friends.

The greater part of her life has been spent in Madison county with the exception of two years which she and her family spent on a farm near Linneus, Missouri.

Nora was a patient sufferer during her last illness. Her one wish while in the hospital was to be at home with her loved ones. She was a kind and loving wife and mother and held high esteem in the hearts of all who knew and loved her.

Funeral services were held at the United Presbyterian church of Winterset, Tuesday morning January 25th, at 10:30 conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. Z. Allen. Interment was made in the North Branch United Brethren cemetery.

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