Thomas Cox and Anna Layton

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Husband Thomas Cox ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Jan 1837 - Allegheny Co, PA 4
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           Died: 15 Mar 1907 - ? Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Cox (1806-1891) 2 3 4
         Mother: Hannah Ford (      -      ) 3 4 5

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Wife Anna Layton ^{2 4}

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Children

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1 F Ida M. Cox ⁴

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         Spouse: Frank McClure (      -      ) 4

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2 F Anna C. Cox ⁴

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3 M John W. Cox ^{2 4 6}

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           Born: 27 Dec 1868 - Wilmington Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 2
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           Died: 12 Apr 1961
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         Spouse: Susan E. Foster (1870-1941) 2 4 6
           Marr: 24 Sep 1895 2 6

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Cox

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His first training was in the home and in the excellent schools of his native section. As soon as he had attained the requisite strength, he began working on the home farm for his father, continuing to be employed in this manner until he was twenty-four years of age, when he came to Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. At that time he married and bought a farm of 125 acres. To this tract of land, which was very little improved when he took possession of it, he constantly added everything in his power that would bring it up to his idea of what a model farm should be, until he had 215 acres of most fertile soil, all carefully looked after and brought into the highest state of cultivation. Good, substantial buildings, splendid orchards, wide-reaching meadows, and golden fields of waving grain all showed him to be a farmer who loved his work. He had a shrewd, discriminating eye for good stock, and in his pastures grazed some of the best specimens of high-grade animals. The orchards on his farms were in full bearing and produced about every variety of fruit that could be successfully raised in that latitude.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 505.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 414.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 67.

4 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 506.

5 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 497.

6 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 31.