From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 492-493.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


MICHAEL COX

Among the earliest settlers of the upper Ohio valley, was Michael 
Cox, who was born in 1752, and was prominent in this region in the 
days of border warfare.  He died January 14, 1832.  Jeruthea, his 
wife, survived him until October 28, 1863, dying in the nineteenth 
year of her age.  Their son, Abraham Cox, prominent in the next 
generation of the settlement, was born September 20, 1809.   In 1843, 
April 13, he was married to Eliza A. Foster, by whom he had the 
following children: Annie, born February 13, 1844, died April 24, 
1878; Archibald, born July 2, 1845, died January 11, 1851; Wylie, 
born March 20, 1847; Mary, born August 19, 1848, died January 10, 
1851; Elinor, born February 11, 1852; Abraham, born May 19, 1854; 
Jane E., born July 11, 1855; Linda, born January 6, 1857; Zach Cox, 
born June 4, 1858; Susan, born October 31, 1859.  The father died 
August 14, 1889. Zach Cox, the youngest son, is now one of the 
enterprising young men of Liberty district.  He was married May 11, 
1882, to Mary J. Smith, who was born March 21, 1861, to Theodore and 
Sarah (Whit- nah) Smith, the former of whom was born in Maryland, and  
the latter in Berkeley county, Va.  Mrs. Cox's father died in the 
Union army in 1865, and her mother died April 20, 1873.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Cox have two children: Lester W., born March 21, 1883, and Harry V., 
born July 9, 1885.  Mrs. Cox is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church of West Liberty. 


(Linda Fluharty)