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Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
November 18, 1880
COLONEL JOHN FOX
J. M. FOX -- This wide-awake and affable merchant at Delphi [present-day Maloy] settled here in 1869. He sold a
valuable farm in west Benton township to engage in merchandise at Delphi, where he succeeded Mr. RUSH as merchant and
postmaster in July, 1880. Mr. FOX has a first-class stock of dry goods, groceries, boots, and shoes, crockery, etc. He
is very popular where ever he is known which accounts for his big custom. He is a Republican.
Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
January 24, 1895
OBITUARY.
Colonel FOX had taken up land near the site of Maloy in 1868. Born in 1830 (sic) in Harrison County, Missouri, he grew to manhood
there. At the start of the War Between the States, he joined the Union Army in Missouri, probably the 25th Missouri Infantry.
He survived the siege at Vicksburg and marched with SHERMAN to the sea. He was proud of his military record and enjoyed
recounting tales of some of the hardest battles of the War. Probably his chief characteristic was love of his country -
patriotism. He was a Seventh-Day Adventist and a Mason. NOTE: Col. FOX died on January 21, 1895.
Lavina FOX, his wife, was born April 6, 1834, and died at the age of 63 years, 5 months and 7 days on September 13, 1897.
They were interred at Platte River Cemetery.
Fox Store and Home, Maloy, 1882
SOURCE: Maloy Centennial Book, p. 9
Transcriptions and notes by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2010
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