From the Banks of the Dan


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Philip Cox, (1740-1807) and wife, Elizabeth, purchased land beside the Dan River, in Caswell County, North Carolina. Their children were Philip, Anney, John, Lucy, Susannah, Rachel, Elizabeth, Lewis, Mary, Reuben, and Gabriel. Each succeeding chapter deals with a direct descendant from Philip Cox, from Reuben Cox, Lewis Cox, Joseph H. Cox to Alexander Cox (1839-1915). Alexander was born in Williamson County, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Sanders in 1856. They moved to Missouri, then to Kansas. He married Amelia Ragains in 1871. Descendants lived mostly in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.







Kentucky Ancestors


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National Union Catalog


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Reynolds Co, MO


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(From the Preface) “The author has attempted to show how the original five counties in 1812 were divided and sub-divided until, by 1862, 114 counties had emerged. Reynolds County at one time, at least in part, has been a portion of seven counties; Ste. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau, Washington, Wayne, Madison, Ripley, and Shannon.”