MANSON COX

COX, LOYD

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/14/2009 at 20:20:12

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

MANSON COX, miller, Unionville; born in East Tennessee in 1817; his parents both died when he was a small boy; lived with a cousin, Wm. Cheeney, a resident of Jefferson Co., Tenn., until he was 7 or 8 years of age; after that had no particular abiding place, and was under the control of no one in particular; never attended school. He married Miss Elizabeth Loyd, Oct. 11, 1839; she was born in Jefferson Co., Tenn., in 1819. In 1847, they went to Alabama; remained there one winter, and came to Appanoose Co., Iowa, in the spring of 1848, where he now owns 125 acres of land, valued at $20 per acre; they have four children - John C., Mary E., Margaret and Van. Greenbacker; Mr. and MRs. Cox have been members of the M.E. Church for thirty-five years. He is a member of the A.F.&A.M., No. 119, Unionville. Mr. Cox had but $4.50 when he landed in Appanoose Co., and although he has been very unfortunate, having a great deal of sickness in his family, having lost four out of eight children, has a good farm, well improved, and a plenty for a comfortable livelihood during his natural life.