Daviess County MO Archives History .....LEVI COX FAMILY OF DAVIESS COUNTY 
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THE LEVI COX FAMILY OF DAVIESS COUNTY
	Narrator:  Mrs. Nitha Cox Lay, Hamilton

     Mrs. William Day is the daughter of Sam Cox and Lucy Railsback farmers 
northeast of Hamilton in Daviess county.  Sam Cox was five years old when his 
father and mother, Levi Cox and Sophia his wife, came to Daviess county in a 
covered wagon with their young family.  Sophia (1812-1848) died soon after 
their arrival.  Levi died 1869 aged about 65 years.
     Levi's brother William (1801-1870) settled near by with his wife Lucy.  
It was in the vicinity of Lick Fork church.  Another brother settled near 
Gower in Buchanan county.  William and his wife were the grandparents of Miss 
Sarah Cox who is well known in Hamilton as a charity worker.  Levi had several 
children, one of whom Sallie married George Vokes who came into Caldwell 
county 1870.  Mrs. Julia Vokes Wilson of Hamilton is a daughter and her 
daughter is Bertha Swindler.
     At the death of Levi's wife Sophia in 1848, the Cox relatives in Caldwell 
county, (the Soloman, and J.D. Coxes) came up into Daviess county to the 
funeral and tried to adopt one or more of Levi's motherless children.  One of 
the daughters of Levi did not marry and she preserved this family tradition to 
Sam's family.  It seems to establish the fact that the J.D. Cox family are kin 
to the Levi Cox family of Daviess county.  The J.D. Cox people are bankers at 
Kingston in Caldwell county.  Mrs. Lay's father Sam, married into the 
Railsback family that lived in the Tuggle neighborhood in Daviess county just 
north of the county line near Nettleton.  Consequently the Sam Coxes lived in 
that district.  Nitha Cox, her mother Lucy Railsback, her mother-in-law Mrs. 
Lay all went to school at times in the old log Tuggle school which also served 
as a church on Sundays.  Mrs. Cox had as a teacher John N. Morton, the son of 
a Daviess county farmer Noah Morton, his middle name.  In 1865 after the war, 
he and his brother Cap Morton set up a tin and hardware shop in Hamilton.  
    Some years ago while moving, he found his old school book used in the 
Tuggle school in the 60s and showed to Mrs. Cox, with her good attendance 
record.  Mrs. Lay's teachers at Tuggle were Miss Morrow and George Tuggle, 
then her parents moved to another district.
     The Cox family who settled in Daviess county are mostly buried in Lick 
Fork Cemetery, at least 20 of that name are there.  Mrs. Lay's parents (Sam 
and wife) lie in Highland cemetery at Hamilton while her maternal 
grandparents, David and Martha Railsback are in the Tuggle cemetery.
     The Lays have two daughters, Mrs. Owen Kinne, and Mrs. Jesse Shull, both 
living, as do their parents, on farms.
     Interview  1934. 


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