Caldwell County MO Archives History .....DANIEL Z. COX FAMILY OF KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 
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			THE DANIEL Z. COX FAMILY OF KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
	Narrator:  Mrs. Frank Cox, 68, Hamilton

     Mrs. Cox (formerly Emma Orr) is the widow of Frank Cox, son of John F. 
Cox, who was a son of Daniel Z. Cox.  She knows the family history.  Daniel Z. 
Cox (Always insert the Z to separate him from Daniel Cox) was one of the 
earliest settlers in Caldwell county after the Mormons went.  He came from 
Ky.  His wife was Martha Ann Zachary, born in Summit Co. Ky.  At 18, she 
married Daniel Z. Cox and in 1840, the young couple came to Caldwell county.  
There were five children born, three grew up.  One boy was killed by 
lightning.  The other adult son was John Franklin Cox, known as John Cox, who 
committed suicide on Main Street at Hamilton by taking laudanum 1898 age 56.  
He married Caroline Parrick 1868 and they had children:  Frank the husband of 
the narrator, who was killed a few years ago while working in the East Coal 
Mine at Hamilton, Louis a railroad man of Brookfield,  Rosa married a Champ, 
Ella married.
     The third child of Daniel Z. was Mrs. Judson Streeter the mother of Mrs. 
Josie Borden (who wrote of her family in the 1934 series).
     Mr. Cox died 1851 and is buried in the old Brown cemetery.  In 1852, his 
widow married Francis J. Kern and had 5 children.  (The Francis Kern family is 
written up in a separate interview in this series.)  Mrs. Cox, afterwards Mrs. 
Kern died 1899 and lies in Kingston cemetery.  She was a strong member of the 
Protestant Methodist church at Nettleton while living there.
     Interview  Fall 1934.


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