Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Cox, Edward Eugene 1931
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The Independent Enterprise 1-15-1931
The Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, January 15, 1931
 
Passing of Beloved Baptist Minister
 
REV. E. E. COX BURIED IN LOS ANGELES
 
Edward Eugene Cox was born in the state of Iowa, Jan. 8th, 1862, where he 
spent his early childhood.  In 1872 he, with his parents, two brothers and two 
sisters moved to Nebraska.  There he pioneered and helped reclaim the 
primitive environment.
 
On April 28th, 1887 at Richland Center, Wisconsin, he was united in marriage 
to Mary Ella Miller.  To this union were born four children, who with the wife 
still survive.  The children are Leonard A. Cox of The Dalles, Oregon, Sherman 
R. Cox, of Portland, Mrs. Henry Weidner of Payette, Idaho and Glenn L. Cox of 
Los Angeles, at whose home he passed away.
 
When a young man he became a member of the Baptist church at Cedar Rapids, 
Nebr., to which faith he has always been true, working unceasingly for the 
kingdom of God, the upbuilding of his communities in which he lived and ever 
ready to help in the betterment of humanity.
 
In the fall of 1903, Mr. and Mrs. Cox and family came to New Plymouth, which 
has since been his home and where he was called to work as Colporter for the 
American Baptist Publication Society, and soon after was ordained to the 
ministry.  In speaking of Mr. Cox and his services, Rev. W. A. Shank, Boise, 
Idaho, Executive secretary for the Idaho Baptist convention, who was so 
closely allied with him said in part;  "It is with deepest sorrow that the 
Baptists of Idaho have learned of the passing of Rev. E. E. Cox.  For nearly 
twenty years Rev. Cox served as colporter missionary in this state.  His work 
took him from Yellowstone Park on the east to Weiser on the west and he worked 
from Utah's line on the south up into the mountains of Central Idaho on the 
north.  There are few communities in this vast area which he did not visit at 
more or less regular intervals in carrying out his work as Colporter.  He was 
responsible for the organization and re-organization of scores of Sunday 
Schools and a number of Baptist churches came into existence through his 
endeavors.  All over Southern Idaho, in towns and villages and in the most 
isolated sections of the mountains, one will find families who have been 
helped spiritually by the ministry of Brother Cox.  Idaho Baptists feel a 
since of great loss in his passing, but rejoice in the great work which he 
did.  He sowed beside all waters, and the seed he sowed will bear fruit for 
generations to come."
 
Although it was know for some time he was failing in health, no one was 
expecting his immediate passing.  He visited at the home of each of his 
children in the fall and in October arrived in California to spend the winter 
at the home of his eldest son.  In some ways it was thought he was improving 
but he was stricken with a hemorrhage of the brain and although everything 
possible way done for him he dropped into a peaceful sleep from which he never 
awakened on this earth and passed away on New Year's day at 2 p. m.   His 
going away has bereaved the wife of her considerate life-long companion, the 
children of an ever thoughtful father, whose presence was an inspiration for 
all that is best.  No sacrifice was too great, for him to make in the 
interests of those he loved and the good he could do.
 
That he was ready to go we can be assured, as he expressed himself many times 
in connection with his illness, that, "Whatever comes, the Lord knows best."  
His only regret being that "My work is not finished."
 
Funeral services were held from Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Los Angeles, 
California on January 3, at 1 P. M. with Rev. J. Howard Adams in charge.  
Boyhood friends who now reside in California acting as pall bearers.
 
He leaves to mourn his loss besides his wife and children, four grandchildren, 
two brothers, three sisters and a host of friends.
 
He was laid to rest in Val Halla Memorial Park, Los Angeles.   Many and 
beautiful were the floral offerings and a number of friends of former years 
were among those who attended him to his final resting place. 
 
Thy day has come, not gone;
Thy sun has risen, not set;
Thy life is now beyond
The reach of death or change,
Not ended -- but begun.
O, noble soul! O, gentle heart!
Hail, and farewell.

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