COX NOTES
COX NOTES
Born 6 May 1797 on Blennerhassett Island, Ohio River near Washington Co., OH; son of WILLIAM COX (family records)
History of Lewis County, KY , by Rev. O.G. Ragan. Jennings & Graham, Cincinnati, OH.p299-300 January Term of Court of 1828 - Peter M. Cox, a regularly ordained minister of the "New Light" Church, was granted license to celebrate the rites of matrimony.
Some years after this Mr. Cox became a little daft in mind, and was attending a meeting and baptizing under the ministry of Elder Hathaway, on the farm now owned by James Hampton, on Henderson's Fork of East Fork. After the candidates had all been baptized, Rev. Cox appeared on the bank of the creek at a place still known as "Hathaway's Hole," where the baptizing occurred, and demanded that Elder Hathaway baptize him. The minister protested, saying, "You have been baptized, Brother Cox." But he said "That John the Baptist at first refused the Savior, but He said suffer it to be so, for it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness, and, Brother Hathaway, you must baptize me."
Hathaway got away from Brother Cox, who was still standing on the creek bank, and seeing that he was not likely to succeed in getting baptized, called out, "If you won't baptize me I will do it myself," and throwing up his hands, made a plunge into the water, and came out on the other side of the creek, much to the amusement of the spectators, some of whom are yet living in the county.
Obituary
"Grandma Clark"
Elizabeth Jane Cox was born near Graham Station, Lewis Co., KY, May 5, 1827. She was the daughter of Peter M. Cox, a pioneer minister of the Christian faith. He went into Indiana as a missionary in 1829, and the next year pressed on to eastern Illinois, and located where the city of Danville now stands.
He died in 1833, leaving his wife and three little children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eldest, alone in the wilderness. Here under the guidance of a wise and loving mother her earlier years were spent.
She was married to James Delay of Danville, July 6, 1843. Her young husband was killed in a sawmill accident June 30, 1846, leaving her a widow at nineteen years of age, with two little children. One died in infancy. Her son, George W. Delay, was killed in Texas, by the falling of a tree April 8, 1888.
She was married to John Clark, a lawyer of Woodford County, Illinois, June 28, 1855. For twenty-two years they made their home in Metamora, the county seat. To them were born eight children, two of whom died in infancy.
The eldest daughter, Mrs. Annabel Livingston, died in Wichita, Kansas, in 1880. The surviving children in the order of their ages are: Eunice Lantis of Kingman, Kansas, John A. Clark of Wichita, M.B. Clark of Severy, Mrs. Hattie Carnahan of Cunningham, Kansas, and Dr. Z.J. Clark, of Ingersoll, Oklahoma. Nineteen grandchildren survive her.
They came to Kansas in 1877, and located on a farm at Sunnydale near Wichita. Her husband died in Wichita in June, 1883. Financial reverses coming about this time, she took up a claim near Cunningham, Kansas, where she resided until coming to Oklahoma to make her home with her youngest son. Here she died May 13, 1905, lacking twelve days of finishing seventy-six years.
She was a woman of high ideals. She was never afraid to condemn the wrong however plausible or to uphold the right as she saw it, however unpopular it might be. Coming as she did of a cultured and educated race, she was a true Christian woman. May her life be an inspiration to those whom her life has influenced.
Her funeral was preached at the Christian church in Ingersoll, Sunday, May 14, by Rev. Murray of Alva. The beautiful flowers, the large and sorrowing crowd proved that "Grandma Clark" had many and true friends in this community.
(Cherokee Messenger, Cherokee, Woods County, Oklahoma. May 19, 1905, Vol. V, No. 44. Also published in The Ingersoll Review, Ingersoll, Oklahoma, Thursday, May 18, 1905, Vol. 5, No. 10.) Grandma Clark was laid to rest in the Driftwood Cemetery Sunday. A large procession followed her remains from Ingersoll, showing that she was held in high esteem by her many old friends, both here and at Ingersoll.
(Last page of Cherokee Messenger, May 19, 1905, Vol. V, No. 44) CARD OF THANKS
The family of Mrs. E.J. Clark desire to thank the friends who so kindly assisted them in caring for their beloved mother.
(The Ingersoll Review, Ingersoll, Oklahoma, Thursday, May 18, 1905, Vol. 5, No. 10.)
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OBITUARY
On Saturday morning, May 13, 1905, Mrs. Clark passed away. She was 77 years, 11 months, and 10 days old. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon and the remains interred in the Driftwood cemetery followed by friends of the family.
(The Ingersoll Review, Ingersoll, Oklahoma, Thursday, May 18, 1905, Vol. 5, No. 10.)
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