Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Oliver Perry Cox    
                Born: Aug-  -1836           1,2
                Died: 1912                  2
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  3,4
             Resided:                      at Coxs Mills, Gilmer Co, WV  5
              Census: 1900                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
          Occupation: 1900                 merchant  1
              Father: Philip Cox   (1800 - 1876) 
              Mother: Susan Kniseley   (1803 -     ) 
                Wife: Sarah E. Kniseley   6  
             Married: ca 1859               1
                Born: Jul-  -1837           1,2
                Died: 1901                  2
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  7,6
              Census: 1900                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: George Heckert Cox      
                Born: Dec- 8-1861          in Coxs Mills, Gilmer Co, WV  8,4,9
                Died: Feb-14-1922          in Burnet Co, TX  8,4
              Buried:                      in Old Burnet Cemetery, Burnet, Burnet Co, TX  4
              Census: 1880                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
             Resided: (settled)            in Texas  10
           M Child 2: Franz Ellsworth Cox      
                Born: Oct- 6-1863          in Coxs Mills, Gilmer Co, WV  4,9
                Died: Jul-15-1939          in San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX  4
              Buried:                      in San Fernando Cemetery #3 (aka Roselawn), San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX  4
             Resided:                      in San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX  4
             Resided: formerly             in Robstown, Nueces Co, TX  4
             Resided: from Nov 1911        in Millett, LaSalle Co, TX  4
             Resided: until Nov 1911       in Gilmer Co, WV  4
              Census: 1880                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
                Wife: Sallie Agnes Speirs  b. Oct-22-1860  d. Sep- 9-1941  
           F Child 3: Sarah S. Cox      
                Born: ca 1867               9
              Census: 1880                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
           M Child 4: Isaac Perry Cox      
       Also known as: Perry Cox 8,6
                Born: Feb-  -1871          in Gilmer Co, WV  4,2,11
                Died: Feb- 9-1938          in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  2,4
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  7,4
              Census: 1880                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
          Occupation:                      photographer, undertaker, furniture dealer  12
                Wife: Rosa E. Powell  b. 1874  d. 1938  
       Also known as: Rose 13,8
             Married: May-24-1896          in Gilmer Co, WV  14
           M Child 5: Ira Dale Cox      
                Born: Apr-30-1873          in Coxs Mills, Gilmer Co, WV  15,16,1,17
                Died: Mar-10-1958          in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  16,15
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  16,15
             Resided:                      in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  16
              Census: 1930, 1940           in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1920                 in Wichita Falls, Wichita Co, TX  
              Census: 1910                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1880, 1900           in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
          Occupation:                      farmer, oil & gas producer  15,16,18
          Occupation: 1900                 salesman  1
                Wife: Dora Alice Pritchard  b. Mar- 2-1876  d. Feb-21-1912  
             Married: Apr-30-1905          in Ritchie Co, WV  19
           M Child 6: Roy Cox      
                Born: ca 1879               9
              Census: 1880                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  

Sources:
(1) 1900 Census, Gilmer County, WV (Troy District). 
(2) Headstone (year only) 
(3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995, Name on headstone:  O. P. Cox. 
(4) Findagrave.com. 
(5) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 332. 
(6) Goldenseal Magazine, West Virginia Cultural Center, www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/culture/goldensl.html, Winter 1996, p. 26. 
(7) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(8) Headstone. 
(9) 1880 Census, Gilmer County, WV (Troy District) 
(10) Goldenseal Magazine, West Virginia Cultural Center, www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/culture/goldensl.html, Winter 1996, p. 27. 
(11) Gilmer County Marriage Records, Glenville, WV. 
(12) Goldenseal Magazine, West Virginia Cultural Center, www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/culture/goldensl.html, Winter 1996, p. 30. 
(13) Goldenseal Magazine, West Virginia Cultural Center, www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/culture/goldensl.html, Winter 1996, p. 28. 
(14) Gilmer County Marriage Records, Glenville, WV, Identified as Isaac P. Cox, 25, b. & res. in Gilmer Co; and Rosa E. 
Powell, 22, b. Marion Co.  Married May 24 1896. MR p. 55. 
(15) Obituary. 
(16) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) 
(17) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(18) Goldenseal Magazine, West Virginia Cultural Center, www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/culture/goldensl.html, Winter 1996, p. 31. 
(19) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as Ira 
D. Cox, 32, of Gilmer Co; and Dora A. Pritchard, 28, b. Ritchie Co, res. Doddridge Co.  Married Apr 30 
1905. 







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