FOX BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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FOX, Samuel - b: 1879 Vernon Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 759
residence: Bogard Twp

Samuel Fox, a well-known and successful stockman and farmer of Bogard 
township, is a native Missourian. He was born in Vernon County, September 11, 
1879, a son of John and Mary (Donaldson) Fox. John Fox was a native of Virginia 
and settled in Vernon County, Missouri, about 1866. He now resides at Eldorado 
Springs, Missouri. To John and Mary (Donaldson) Fox were born the following 
children: Lee lives in Kansas; Charles, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Harve, Corder, 
Missouri; Edward, a soldier in the United States Army, having enlisted in 
September, 1917, and after a period of training at Camp Funston, Kansas, he was 
sent to France in the spring of 1918; Ivan, in West Virginia, in United States 
service; and Dewey, who resides on the home place, and Mrs. Mary Rix, now 
deceased. Samuel Fox was educated in the public schools and remained at home 
with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age. He has been engaged in 
farming and stock raising all his life and has resided on his present place in 
Bogard township, which was the old Thomas McClung homestead. It is a valuable 
farm of one hundred seventy acres, one mile north of Urich. The place is well 
improved with a splendid two-story frame residence of eight rooms which was 
built in 1915. Mr. Fox is quite extensively engaged in the stock business and 
besides raising cattle and hogs he has a reputation of being one of the leading 
Shropshire sheep raisers of Henry County. He has a herd of sixty-seven of this 
breed of sheep and is one of the successful sheep men of this section. Mr. Fox was 
married in August, 1905, to Miss Bessie McClung, a daughter of Thomas and 
Lizzie (McCoy) McClung. The father is now deceased, and the mother resides at 
Urich, Missouri. They were the parents of the following children: Minnie; Wallace, 
a soldier in the United States Army; and Bessie, wife of Samuel Fox, the subject 
of this sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. Fox have been born two children, Ruth and Thomas. 
The Fox family are prominent in the community and numbered. among Henry 
County's progressive and enterprising citizens. 

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