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History of Lawrence, ORANGE, and Washington Counties, Indiana
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers - Chicago, 1884

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           MRS. ELIZABETH COX, Widow of WILLIAM COX, residing near Paoli,
        was born in Orange County, N. C., November 19, 1816. When six years
        old she came with her parents, JOEL and REBECCA (THOMPSON) CLOUD,
        to Orange County, Ind., where her home has ever since been, and
        where her parents afterward died.  MRS. COX attended school at what
        is known as "Hogs’ Defeat,” in the primitive log schoolhouse of her
        day.  On March 10, 1836, she married WILLIAM COX, a native of this
        county, born in 1813.  MR. COX was a son of JOSEPH and MARY (LINES)
        COX, who came from Tennessee to Indiana in 1810, and a short time
        afterward to Orange County. He was reared in his native county and
        educated in the common schools of the time.  When a young man he
        chose farming for his avocation, and this with milling, constituted
        his life’s occupation. In early times he built a “horse-mill,” and
        being the only one for several miles around was well patronized.
        The death of MR. COX occurred in November, 1857, but his widow
        still survives him and resides on the old homestead. They were the
        parents of eleven children and reared them all to manhood and to
        womanhood. The following are their names in the order of their
        birth: JOHN, dead; MARTHA, dead; JOEL, MARY, REBECCA, dead; ANNIE,
        dead; WILLIAM and JOSEPH.  The old place now owned by MRS. COX,
        WILLIAM and JOSEPH, consists of 160 acres, to which they have added
        98 more, and have a saw-mill on the place.  JOHN, the eldest son,
        served in the late war in Company K, Fourteenth Regiment Indiana
        Volunteers, but died at Cheat Mountain, from exposure.

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