George W. Cox
The prospect was not pleasing but the outlook discouraging to the wanders from the east, who entered the young county of Whitley as early as the year 1830. Its whole surface was covered with forest and to make matters worse almost its entire area was more or less marshy. This meant not only years and years of hard work but the dreadful “chills and fever” arising from the malarious climate, which in the years to come was destined to slay prematurely many a brave man and woman. Among those who came in and faced this dreary prospect at the period mentioned, was a young man of Ohio birth1, but descended from Pennsylvania parents. He entered a small tract of land in Columbia Township, which at that time was unpromising enough, but in the course of time he whipped it into shape and as he prospered bought more and more land, until at the close of his career he owned a fine estate of four hundred and eighty acres. Before leaving his native home at Springfield, Ohio, he had married Mary E. Roberts, by whom he had eleven children, all still living but one.
George W. Cox, one of the younger children was born in Columbia Township, Whitley County Indiana, April 11, 1885. After his father’s death, he and his brother inherited the land, of which the homestead, consisting of two hundred acres is now occupied by himself. He carries on general farming but makes a specialty of feeding stock for market, usually having about fifty head of horses on hand for this purpose. He also raises sheep, and the Cox Bros., who together own the family estate of four hundred acres, do a great deal of trading, buying, feeding and selling various kinds of live stock. He made many improvements on his place, which include eight hundred rods of tile ditching besides fencing.
After reaching his majority, Mr. Cox married Myrtle J. Pugh, daughter of a farmer living in the southern part of the state. The family are members of the Lutheran Church and in politics Mr. Cox usually votes independently.
--Source: Kaler, S.P. and R.H. Maring. History of Whitley County Indiana. B.F. Bowen & Co., pg. 693-694, 1907.
1. John Cox married Mary E. Roberts, and they were the parents of George W. Cox, who is the namesake of his paternal grandfather. Grandfather and grandson are both buried at Eberhard Lutheran Cemetery.
The prospect was not pleasing but the outlook discouraging to the wanders from the east, who entered the young county of Whitley as early as the year 1830. Its whole surface was covered with forest and to make matters worse almost its entire area was more or less marshy. This meant not only years and years of hard work but the dreadful “chills and fever” arising from the malarious climate, which in the years to come was destined to slay prematurely many a brave man and woman. Among those who came in and faced this dreary prospect at the period mentioned, was a young man of Ohio birth1, but descended from Pennsylvania parents. He entered a small tract of land in Columbia Township, which at that time was unpromising enough, but in the course of time he whipped it into shape and as he prospered bought more and more land, until at the close of his career he owned a fine estate of four hundred and eighty acres. Before leaving his native home at Springfield, Ohio, he had married Mary E. Roberts, by whom he had eleven children, all still living but one.
George W. Cox, one of the younger children was born in Columbia Township, Whitley County Indiana, April 11, 1885. After his father’s death, he and his brother inherited the land, of which the homestead, consisting of two hundred acres is now occupied by himself. He carries on general farming but makes a specialty of feeding stock for market, usually having about fifty head of horses on hand for this purpose. He also raises sheep, and the Cox Bros., who together own the family estate of four hundred acres, do a great deal of trading, buying, feeding and selling various kinds of live stock. He made many improvements on his place, which include eight hundred rods of tile ditching besides fencing.
After reaching his majority, Mr. Cox married Myrtle J. Pugh, daughter of a farmer living in the southern part of the state. The family are members of the Lutheran Church and in politics Mr. Cox usually votes independently.
--Source: Kaler, S.P. and R.H. Maring. History of Whitley County Indiana. B.F. Bowen & Co., pg. 693-694, 1907.
1. John Cox married Mary E. Roberts, and they were the parents of George W. Cox, who is the namesake of his paternal grandfather. Grandfather and grandson are both buried at Eberhard Lutheran Cemetery.
George W. Cox
The prospect was not pleasing but the outlook discouraging to the wanders from the east, who entered the young county of Whitley as early as the year 1830. Its whole surface was covered with forest and to make matters worse almost its entire area was more or less marshy. This meant not only years and years of hard work but the dreadful “chills and fever” arising from the malarious climate, which in the years to come was destined to slay prematurely many a brave man and woman. Among those who came in and faced this dreary prospect at the period mentioned, was a young man of Ohio birth1, but descended from Pennsylvania parents. He entered a small tract of land in Columbia Township, which at that time was unpromising enough, but in the course of time he whipped it into shape and as he prospered bought more and more land, until at the close of his career he owned a fine estate of four hundred and eighty acres. Before leaving his native home at Springfield, Ohio, he had married Mary E. Roberts, by whom he had eleven children, all still living but one.
George W. Cox, one of the younger children was born in Columbia Township, Whitley County Indiana, April 11, 1885. After his father’s death, he and his brother inherited the land, of which the homestead, consisting of two hundred acres is now occupied by himself. He carries on general farming but makes a specialty of feeding stock for market, usually having about fifty head of horses on hand for this purpose. He also raises sheep, and the Cox Bros., who together own the family estate of four hundred acres, do a great deal of trading, buying, feeding and selling various kinds of live stock. He made many improvements on his place, which include eight hundred rods of tile ditching besides fencing.
After reaching his majority, Mr. Cox married Myrtle J. Pugh, daughter of a farmer living in the southern part of the state. The family are members of the Lutheran Church and in politics Mr. Cox usually votes independently.
--Source: Kaler, S.P. and R.H. Maring. History of Whitley County Indiana. B.F. Bowen & Co., pg. 693-694, 1907.
1. John Cox married Mary E. Roberts, and they were the parents of George W. Cox, who is the namesake of his paternal grandfather. Grandfather and grandson are both buried at Eberhard Lutheran Cemetery.
The prospect was not pleasing but the outlook discouraging to the wanders from the east, who entered the young county of Whitley as early as the year 1830. Its whole surface was covered with forest and to make matters worse almost its entire area was more or less marshy. This meant not only years and years of hard work but the dreadful “chills and fever” arising from the malarious climate, which in the years to come was destined to slay prematurely many a brave man and woman. Among those who came in and faced this dreary prospect at the period mentioned, was a young man of Ohio birth1, but descended from Pennsylvania parents. He entered a small tract of land in Columbia Township, which at that time was unpromising enough, but in the course of time he whipped it into shape and as he prospered bought more and more land, until at the close of his career he owned a fine estate of four hundred and eighty acres. Before leaving his native home at Springfield, Ohio, he had married Mary E. Roberts, by whom he had eleven children, all still living but one.
George W. Cox, one of the younger children was born in Columbia Township, Whitley County Indiana, April 11, 1885. After his father’s death, he and his brother inherited the land, of which the homestead, consisting of two hundred acres is now occupied by himself. He carries on general farming but makes a specialty of feeding stock for market, usually having about fifty head of horses on hand for this purpose. He also raises sheep, and the Cox Bros., who together own the family estate of four hundred acres, do a great deal of trading, buying, feeding and selling various kinds of live stock. He made many improvements on his place, which include eight hundred rods of tile ditching besides fencing.
After reaching his majority, Mr. Cox married Myrtle J. Pugh, daughter of a farmer living in the southern part of the state. The family are members of the Lutheran Church and in politics Mr. Cox usually votes independently.
--Source: Kaler, S.P. and R.H. Maring. History of Whitley County Indiana. B.F. Bowen & Co., pg. 693-694, 1907.
1. John Cox married Mary E. Roberts, and they were the parents of George W. Cox, who is the namesake of his paternal grandfather. Grandfather and grandson are both buried at Eberhard Lutheran Cemetery.
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