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Mykonos, Greece

So, I took another week off from my blog. This time my husband and I went on a cruise in Greece with friends. I didn’t take my laptop, but I did get some genealogy done during our At Sea Days, albeit very little was done on my family tree. My husband showed some interest in his maternal grandmother’s family roots. We didn’t really know all that much about her family. Growing up, the adults had been rather tight-lipped about the family’s origins. We actually learned quite a bit with very little effort. Some of the highlights included:

  • his grandmother had an older half-brother
  • his grandmother had a younger brother who was killed in an automobile accident at age 31
  • we found the Dawes Census Card linking his family to the Chickasaw Tribe on his grandfather’s side of the family.

I’ll work on his tree a little at a time. I have a lot to do on my own.

When I left off on my own tree, I was working on the children of Harvey Innes Cox and Mary Nicholson. I was down to the last two children–Andrew and Rachel.

Andrew Campbell Cox has been rather difficult to flesh out. He married Minnie Burton in 1897 in Labette County, Kansas. The 1900 census includes an infant daughter, possibly named Iris. A short newspaper blurb later that year, states Minnie Cox was grieving the loss of her young child. There were several legal notices naming Andrew published in local papers a few years later regarding Minnie’s family. The last evidence of Andrew was in his father’s 1912 obituary saying Andrew was in Paris, Texas. No mention of him has been located after that time. Several researchers claim he died in Anchorage, Alaska in 1934, however, no documentation supporting this fact has been located. He was not mentioned in his brother Henry’s obituary in 1929.

Rachel Cox wasn’t nearly as difficult to research, but her husband Otis Morrow was rather elusive by 1910. The 1910 census states that Rachel was married, however, Otis was not in the household. She had four children which lived to adulthood.

Tree Ratings are back! I have 3 errors from last week and 3 from this week to resolve. I have 5055 errors in the tree–372 possible duplicates, 4182 with no documents, 501 other errors.

  • The three from last week all needed sources attached. Two were spouses of distant cousins and the third was a 5th cousin.
  • The first error this week was for an unattached person from the 1840s. I simply deleted her.
  • The second was a little harder to clean up. A Mary Polk listed as the daughter of General Thomas Polk had no sources attached. Ancestry also claimed she was her sister Margaret. Both sisters were mentioned in Polk Family and Kinsmen, however, little information about Mary/Polly was specifically provided. It did mention that she married a Daniel Brown and they had three children who died young.
  • The third was a spouse of a distant cousin who did not have a first name in my tree.

This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines from last week and the week ahead.
309 years ago – death of John Norton (9th ggf)
274 years ago – birth of Jane Wilson (5th ggm)
266 years ago – birth of James Ireland (6th ggf)
263 years ago – birth of Elizabeth Pea (5th ggm)
262 years ago – death of Jacques Cardinal (7th ggf)
250 years ago – death of Elizabeth Quincy Smith (7th ggm)
238 years ago – birth of John S Cawood (4th ggf)
210 years ago – death of Daniel McLeese (6th ggf)
182 years ago – marriage of James Fielden (5th ggf) and his 2nd wife Jemima Neal
162 years ago – death of Isaac Catt (4th ggf)
157 years ago – birth of Mathias Keller (2nd ggf)
150 years ago – birth of Sarah Butler (2nd ggm)
148 years ago – marriage of Rebecca Coppock (2nd ggm) and Calvin Mattox (2nd ggf)
135 years ago – marriage of Mathias Keller (2nd ggf) and Emma Nagele (2nd ggm)
131 years ago – birth of Emmett Keller (ggf)
124 years ago – death of Richard Bennett (3rd ggf)
76 years ago – marriage of Blanche Cox DeMoss (ggm) and her second husband Coen Robertson
67 years ago – death of Emmett Keller (ggf)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,029 people
End of Week: 27,053 people
Change = +24 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Continue focus on Jonathan P. Cox and family – Finetta Ann Cox
  • Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have
  • Continue data mining on Ben Cox and Sarah Piety
  • Confirm the data from Polk Family and Kinsmen has been added for this family and page numbers are noted for easier citation adding
  • Review Coxes of Cox Creek