Benjamin
J COX Family (more here of his family)It says in the family Bible that Benjamin J COX was born 23 Dec 1773. According to his daughter, Elizabeth Cox EBERLY, he was a native of Virginia. He married Mary HUGHES, a daughter of Thomas HUGHES, Jr, 19 Feb 1795 in Harrison Co VA. In 1796 or 1801 (depending on what sourceyou read) they were recorded as early settlers in Kanawha Co VA which would later become Jackson Co WV.
Benjamin and Mary COX next showed up in Ohio 5 children richer in time for the birth of Elizabeth in 1806 in Greene County near Yellow Springs. A year later they were found in Logan Co. OH where the next four children were born. Benjamin, a one-eyed man, served as a scout in the War of 1812. After the War, the family moved to evacuated Ft. Findlay in Hancock Co. OH by 1816 where Lydia was born. Their only neighbors were friendly Wyandot Indians for the next five years. Part of the family eventually settled in Wood Co. OH for a number of years, there are still Cox descendants of Benjamin Cox in living Northwest Ohio today. Benjamin was a pioneer, hunter, trapper, farmer and innkeeper as he made a life for his family moving from (West) Virginia to northwest Ohio.
He was in Wood County OH in the autumn of 1845 for a court case. According to a Wood County history books, he moved to Indiana "where he died at an advanced age" which according to the family Bible was 8 Jan 1846. I am attempting to fill in a lot of blanks and share information found in the process of searching for the ancestors and descendants of Benjamin J COX.
Benjamin
J COX Family (more here of his family)
If you are interested in the ancestors of Mary Hughes, who married Benjamin Cox in 1795, there is a book published by Heritage Press:
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Now let's return to our regularly scheduled program........
It is not known who are the parents of Benjamin Cox or where he spent his boyhood, but there is no doubt in my mind that he surely was comfortable in the woods and I would speculate he may have been raised on the frontier.
It may be proven someday that Abner COX Sr of Virginia is Benjamin's
father. There is also a COX family that can be found in the New Jersey area
in the earlier 1700s that is very intriguing, not to mention the Isaac,
Gabriel and Friend COX families. Here is a bit of information about these
other Cox families.
Abner & Joseph Cox- Ben's Brothers?
Cousins?
A Table of Abner, Joseph and Benjamin Coxes
and others
A Quaker Cox Family of New Jersey
Isaac, Gabriel and Friend Cox
There are a number of as yet unrelated Cox families in the old Northwest area and several of them are mentioned in the following links, thanks to other interested researchers. Here are a few of those families, with some information that they have provided about the family, and email links so that you can contact them.
Ephraim Cox- 1807 Rowan Co. NC- 1882
IN ???
George Cox of Preble county Ohio
1820-1898
The following links offer some vital statistics of early Cox people in Ohio. If you can add to this, or would like your email or snail mail address included, so that someone could contact you, please let me know.
Early Cox
Settlers of Southwest Ohio
1820 Ohio Census of Cox head of
households as well as some other early Coxes in Ohio, as the list grows,
with links to intersted reasearchers.
Early Cox Marriages in Ohio , hopefully a listing that will grow, with links
to intersted reasearchers.
Cox Taxpayers in 1812 in Ohio , from a book listing Ohio Taxpayers at Elmer's
Library.
History and Genealogy Links on the Internet
Newsgroups, EMail List and Cox Heritage
Info
Mentions of Coxes in early Ohio
Newspapers , includes Coxes and a few
other names that seemed of interest at the time.
In case you have had enough of Coxes, here are some other surnames in
the family
Dad's Side Ahnentafel Chart Cox, Jones,
Deselms, Faries, Underwood, Lewis, Sams, Hughes, Wright, Law, Lewis. Places
include Ohio, Wales, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina,
and Virginia.
Mom's Side Ahnentafel Chart Boyd,
Calvin, Carus, Smith, Stuart, Bullard, Pelton, Bell, Canrin, Weaver, Patton,
Garrison, Bentley, Nicholls and Caldwell. Places include Ohio, Michigan,
Canada, New York, New England, Ireland, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
These are links to some sites that could keep you exploring for awhile. There are also a few old maps including a link that enables you to make your own map. I hope this will provide a lot of information from many sources. (It won't beat a trip to a library or Family History Center, but as my daddy says, it will keep you out of the pool hall. Have fun!
American History Primary Resources
The Bill of Rights (the transcription, National Archives site)
Constitution of the United States of America (the transcription, National Archives site)
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Declaration of Independance (the transcription, National Archives site)
Elmer's Genealogy Library- Visit Ohio in Madison Florida!!
Family History Library Catalogue
GenForum- a great place to post and view surname queries
Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants (West Virginia)
Hancock County, Ohio Genweb site
The Granddaddy of all Map Links
Library of Virginia Digital Collections
Local History & Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress
Michigan 1870 Census Index- search online
Ohio Counties-GenWeb Selection Table
Tiger Map- (create a map from here)
West Virginia Counties-GenWeb Selection Table
Other Cox Families and Cox Links
Here are some links to other Cox families and Cox info that is available to you on line. Let your cousins know if you find your family on these pages!
Nicholas Cox and Benjamin Cox whose family was found from Delaware to New Jersey for in 1700s and 1800s- Jeff Cox's website.
Abraham Cox of MD about 1751 to Washington Co PA to Berkely Co WVA to OH, IA, IL and out west.
Phillip and Isaac Cox in 1600s NJ to (W)Virginia 1700-1800s. Paul includes Cox cemetery on Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio.
Michael Cox, Sr. 1700 likely born before 1740 in Hamburg Germany, and who certainly died 1815, Fayette Co. Pennsylvania.
And another Cox Connection that will lead you to more.
Or see all the Cox links at rootweb.
Last but not least (and temporarily down the last time I checked) is The Cox Coop Library, developed by Andi Wise from the ongoing contributions of many Cox researchers.
Another resource that may lead to some other interested researchers in your Cox Family
Besides posting your query everywhere you can think of- such as the Genweb and rootsweb sites of all counties where you have found traces of your family.
In addition to posting your query everywhere you can think of- such as the Genweb and rootsweb sites of all counties where you have found traces of your family, another resource for COX researchers to consider is a written newsletter published periodically by Janet Damm called COX HERITAGE. Since not all family researchers are on the Internet, this offers another possibility to contact others searching your family. Janet had an email address which was jdamm@mail.wsu.edu. Google brough the following link to the website for Cox Heritage Newsletter
All additions, corrections, subtractions are welcome. There is more info about some of these families, if you are interested. Or just drop a note and say hi! This site changes from time to time. There is no end to additions or corrections.
Barbara Cox
barbaracox at comcast dot net if
you know what I mean
Other notes: Lois, who is a descendant of Abner (bca 1744) Cox sr through Abner's son Abner jr., has found mention of an Abner Cox in Oldtown MD on a Tax list for 1783. So that has widened the search that has been centered on old Virginia, to about twenty miles to the north. Have looked through some filmed records of 1784-6 and not found the first mention of Cox. In a film of 1781-1784, there may be a mention of a Michael Co(?y?) on page 312, regarding land. I can't make anything helpful from it, but that is the closest thing to a Cox that I have found in that place/time. Since Allegany county MD was formed from Washington co in 1789 it might be worth a little look see there... Unfortunately there are no Allegany co MD returns for the 1790 census. This is old news but maybe one of you will follow up on it and come up with something new.... I hope you will let me know.... maybe it would encourage me to dig a little further....
Spring, 2006. A new possibility in the form of DNA testing has presented itself. It never occurred to me until recently to have my Dad take the test for the Cox line, but of course! Now if we could find someone who is a descendant of Abner Cox sr's son's Abner Cox Jr or Joseph Cox, and there is some kind of match, OR NOT, we would have learned something. In fact if there is any Cox match OR NOT it could give us some clues of possible areas to research OR NOT. A main link to an interesting website, regardless of your surname is http://www.familytreedna.com. If you are looking specifically for the link to the Cox DNA group the link is http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cox DNA Study
September 2007- Time has passed. We lost Dad last summer, the last Cox of his generation among my Grandpa Cox's three children and their spouses. He would be the first to tell you that he lived a good GOOD life. A year later though I cannot help but think of him and miss him quite often. To say that he was a soldier from World War II with the character of duty and responsibility that people of his generation wore, does not address the greater loss of him as a father to me and my sibs, and a person of great curiosity and interest in so many things. In this year there has still not been a DNA match offering a closer clue, although about 50 more Cox men have taken the DNA swab, someday though, I will make more headway on our COX branch of the family. This year I have been working on the Underwood branch of the family. Jane Underwood married Joseph COX in Wood County Ohio in 1838. I have come to understand that although the Underwood facts that I had previously found are correct, that my notion of the possible relationships was probably wrong. Untangling that web is my present line of search and I will update that portion of these pages as time permits.
Last updated: 22 September 2007