Husband: Cecil Claude Cox
Born: Feb-25-1919 in New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV 1,2
Died: May- 4-1945 at sea, off Okinawa, Japan 3,4,2
Buried: at sea, off Okinawa, Japan 3
Occupation: defense worker, Hinton, WV 5
Military: FC3C, U.S. Navy, USS LSM 190, World War II (killed in action) 6
Father: Jacob Martiney Cox
Mother: Emma Blanche Willis
Wife: Helen Eliza Ingram
Born: Oct- 3-1921 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 5,7 Died: Dec-13-1990 in Canton, Stark Co, OH 5,7 Buried: in South Fork Bapt Church Cem, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV 7 Resided: in Canton, Stark Co, OH 8,5 Father: Simon Peter Ingram Mother: Ruby Alma Hart Other spouse 2
F Child 1: Living
M Child 2: Living
M Child 3: Living
Sources: (1) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, BR Bk 4, p. 34. (2) West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives Database, http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/wvvetmem.html. (3) Immediate family. (4) West Union Herald-Record, 5/26/1998, p. 13 - Article by VFW Post 3408. (5) Obituary. (6) West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives Database, http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/wvvetmem.html, Cecil Cox's widow was informed by letter that his ship, the USS LSM 190, was sunk 30 miles off the coast of Okinawa. The website www.navsource.org states that the LSM 190(R) was launched on Sep 21 1944, commissioned on Nov 23 1944, and participated in the Okinawa Gunto Campaign Mar 26 to May 4 1944. The ship was hit and sunk by a Japanese Kamikaze plane off Okinawa, 4 May 1945, while on radar picket duty. , http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/06/06190.htm. (7) Headstone. (8) Obituary of mother. www.doddridgecountyroots.com Name Index