Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE McAFEE FAMILY IN KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 1865 
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DANIEL COX OF THE BONANZA COMMUNITY N.Y. TOWNSHIP
	Narrator:  J.D. McClelland, 82, Hamilton

     There are several Cox families in Caldwell county, some are unrelated to 
others.  There was a pioneer Daniel Z. Cox who was the grandfather of Mrs. 
Geo. Borden of Hamilton, and then there was another pioneer Daniel Cox of the 
Bonanza country, no relation.
     Daniel Cox was of Mr. McClelland's home district and he knew him well.  
He was born 1820.  He moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa about 1856, and from 
Iowa to Caldwell county 1859 and there he stayed till his death, with the 
exception of the years 1862-5 when he had a photographic and jeweller's shop 
in Chillicothe.
     During the boom days of Bonanza as a watering resort in the early 
eighties, Mr. Cox kept an eating house there.  The old timers in his vicinity 
speak of him as a watch tinkerer and said he rode around quite a bit in that 
work.
     He, his wife and several of his children are buried in the old McClelland 
cemetery west of Bonanza.  His wife Sarah died 1889 of consumption aged 48 
(very common ailment in the 80s).  She was Sarah Cormana, of the same 
neighborhood.  This name is ordinarily pronounced Cormany, despite the 
spelling, and is sometimes even spelled that way by those unacquainted with 
the correct form.  The interviewer has not been able to find any Cox descended 
from this family.  The dead children Frank B., Rosa, Mary, Samuel, Laura, 
Harry, all died under two and a half years, typical of the heavy child 
mortality in the 60s and 70s.
     Interview  1935.


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