Mary Elvira Hales Cox 1852-1923

HALES, WATSON, COX, SECHRIST, BLACKBURN, BARTHOLOMEW, BAIRD, MAGORIAN, MURPHY, ELLER, BURTON, PETERSON

Posted By: Charles E. Hales (email)
Date: 10/17/2003 at 17:48:21

MARY ELVIRA HALES COX Mary Elvira, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Watson Hales, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, May 1, 1852, and died at the home of her son Ray Cox in Keosauqua, Iowa, May 16, 1923, at the age of 71 years and 15 days. She came with her parents to Van Buren County, Iowa, in the spring of 1864. On February 8, 1872, she was united in marriage to Alonzo Cox, who died July 4, 1916.
To this union were born eleven children: William Harvey, who died June 28, 1876, aged 10 months, Edward Walter, who was killed in a saw-mill accident April 30, 1904, aged 30 years. The living children are: Rena Sechrist of Pueblo, Colo.; Ray Cox, Tensa Blackburn, Elva Bartholomew, of Keosauqua; Ada Baird, Kansas City, Mo.; Sadie Magorian, Cantril, Ia.; Carrie Murphy, Milton, Ia.; Orin Cox, of Stockport, Ia. and Clo Cox of Keosauqua.
She is also survived by 36 grandchildren and 18 greatgrandchildren. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Cox has made her home with her children.
On Sept. 9, 1922, she left here for Pueblo, Colo., where she visited her daughter Rena, but took sick the last week in December, and her youngest daughter, Carrie, made the trip to Colorado and accompanied her to her home in Milton, where she has been most of the time, until three weeks ago she came to the home of her son Ray, to be near her family doctor and passed peacefully away at 5:30 pm May 16, 1923.
The living brothers and sisters are: John [PD] Hales of Mt Sterling, Thos. Hales of Wichita, Kan.; Mrs. Josie Eller of Harvard, Nebr.; Mrs. Lizzie Burton, of Los Angeles, Cal. One sister Mrs.Sarah Peterson of Aberdeen, S. Dak., preceded her in death May 4, 1923.