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2025 Week 48

30 Sunday Nov 2025

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With a long holiday ahead of me, I’m digging into who Benjamin Cox was as a person. This requires me to incorporate the history of the places where he lived and how he might have contributed.

First order of business was to map out where Benjamin resided throughout his life. He was born in Hampshire County, Virginia about 1757. Since this is pre-Revolutionary War Era, the Colonies were expanding and counties were being organized. To keep up with the rapidly changing boundaries of these government units, I found a really cool website that includes interactive maps of the states: Maps of US. I whole-heartedly recommend you check it out if you are exploring how boundaries changed over time.

My second task was to reread Evelyn C. Adams’ “The Coxes of Cox’s Creek, Kentucky”. Mrs. Adams provided footnotes for her article on the Cox family which led to some additional references I had not considered. She mentioned that Benjamin and his brothers often served in various capacities in the community when they were residing in Yohogania County. As luck would have it, the Minute Book of the Virginia Court held for Yohogania County, 1776-1780 is available digitally on FamilySearch.org. I am sure I will reference it often, especially while researching the next generation of Coxes.

There was mention that a Benjamin Cox served on a jury in May 1778. It is not clear if this was my Benjamin Cox or his older cousin. If it was my Benjamin, this would support a birth of 1757 or earlier, not 1765 as family lore would suggest.

Taking into account the boundary changes during this time period, a full text search of FamilySearch for Washington County, Pennsylvania, did not produce any documentation for Benjamin prior to 1780. Jefferson County, Virginia/Kentucky after 1776 was nearly as fruitless with one deed transfer. A search of Nelson County, however, was quite bountiful. One of the earliest documents was from a tithable tax list from 1787.

References identified in Kester’s The Other Polks included manuscripts and papers in the Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston collection, a descendant of Benjamin and Sarah. Unfortunately, those do not appear to be digitized at this time so a trip to Louisville to visit the Filson Club is now on the genealogy bucket list.

On some of the genealogy groups, I’ve been hearing about NotebookLM, a Google AI application. Since I am currently in a writing phase, I thought I’d try it out and see if it is something I want to maybe use. I’m not sure I want to go back and rewrite everything I have already put together, but maybe it can wordsmith things a bit better going forward.

I keep a folder for each set of grandparents on my computer. In it are copies of vital records, census records, draft cards, newspaper clippings, and tombstone photos. One thing I haven’t been including in these folders are excerpts from books. I keep the books elsewhere. To try out NotebookLM, I started a new notebook and uploaded all the documents from my grandparents’ folder. The app initially spit out a one paragraph summary of what I had uploaded, hitting some highlights. I then tried out some of the other features the application boasts in the Studio.

  • Flashcards – This tool created a series of flashcards with facts about my grandparents such as where was Edeine born, etc. Not necessarily a useful feature for genealogy, but possibly would be for other subject matter. This might be useful for a student studying for an exam.
  • Mind Map – This tool broke the main topic into a handful of subtopics and continued to drill down within each layer to more detail. This might be useful for organizing facts into categories for later presentation.
  • Audio Overview – This is a narrative with commentary breaking down the subject matter in the the source documents. In this case, my grandparents lives. It incorporated current events at the time and gave color to what might be otherwise a boring stack of documents. There is a limit of three of these that can be generated each day.
  • Reports – This tool can generate several kinds of reports depending on the angle you want to project. Do I want to focus on my grandfather or my grandmother? Do I want a summary or a blog post? Lots of options here.

I thought the audio overview was rather cool. It brought some perspective to events of my grandparents’ lives. The fact that they married young at the end of the Great Depression. Their first child died after only a few weeks. My grandfather escaped with his life from a coal mine explosion. A discussion as to why he might have needed to do coal mining in addition to farming. The financial impact of having a large family. My grandmother’s resiliency of being a young widow with a passel of children to support.

Initially I didn’t include birth certificates for all of their children. I still don’t have anything in the source stack for my aunt who is still living. The written reports are riddled with errors, but at least those can be manually fixed if I were to use those reports in any way. You are limited to 100 notebooks and each notebook is limited to 50 source documents that can be included. The test runs I did used about half that. I’m curious to try out the Infographic and the Slide Deck, but those features were not active today. I am likely to utilize this set of tools to enhance my biographical writings, but I will continue to do the writing myself.

3 Error hints to resolve. The last available update: I have 4926 errors in the tree–368 possible duplicates, 4102 with no documents, 456 other errors.

  • A distant cousin with no sources attached. Found her with her parents in the 1860 Census.
  • Another distant cousin with no sources attached. I probably won’t find anything for this individual since he likely just graduated from high school.
  • Last is a stepson of a distant cousin. I was able to find a birth record for him.

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 the week ahead.
264 years ago – birth of Therese Lefebre (6th ggm)
230 years ago – marriage of Martha Smith (5th ggm) and Reuben Staton (5th ggf)
182 years ago – marriage of Oliver McCullough (3rd ggf) and his first wife Eliza Grimsley
133 years ago – marriage George W Winkler (3rd ggf) and his second wife Katie Bean
88 years ago – death of Samuel T DeMoss (2nd ggf)
10 years ago – death of Dorothy Cardinal Keller (gm)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,007 people
End of Week: 27,008 people
Change = +1 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Write the biographies of the family of Benjamin and Sarah Piety Cox.
  • Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have.
  • 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

2025 Week 47

23 Sunday Nov 2025

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Getting started on the writing phase always is a struggle for me. Ideally I should get all these details down as I find them, then do edits when I finish a family. Maybe I’ll take that approach when I work on the family of Isaac Cox and Susannah Tomlinson, Benjamin’s parents.

I like to include a transcription of a document or two with each family if I find one I think is interesting or contains a lot of information that is relevant to the family. I added Benjamin’s Last Will and Testament this week. I may also add Sarah’s to illustrate that sometimes the widows have these documents too.

My focus right now is putting together the migratory details of Benjamin as a very young man. This information will also be useful in trying to determine the timeline for vital statistics for both Benjamin and Sarah, as actual documentation recording their births and their marriage have been elusive to date.

Polk Family and Kinsmen written by WH Polk in 1912 states Benjamin and Sarah were married ca. 1783. This data point appears to be based on their eldest child’s date of birth. The family genealogy also states that Ben was sixteen and Sarah fourteen when this event occurred.1 That would mean he was born ca. 1767 and she ca. 1769. There are concerns with these estimated dates as I mentioned back in Week 21 of this year.

One thing that was evident from the research is that the Cox family was rather prosperous and held a substantial amount of land. This includes Benjamin. According to the Certificate Book of the Virginia Land Commission, which was transcribed in the Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society in 1923, Isaac paid the state rate for 1000 acres of land in Kentucky on Benjamin’s behalf in 1779.2 Under the laws of Virginia at the time, an individual must be of the legal age of twenty-one to purchase land. It’s not clear if someone could purchase land on behalf of a minor and then relinquish it when the child reached their majority. I would think that was not allowed, but I do not positively know. Assuming the law was in play, then Benjamin would have had to be at least twenty one in 1779, making his year of birth no later than 1758.

The 1810 and 1820 US Census was not much help in pinpointing the dates of birth for Benjamin and Sarah. The oldest category for men and women was “over 45”. At a minimum, both of them would have been born prior to 1765 using this information. Sarah, having outlived her husband, was head of household in 1830 and she was listed as between 60 and 69. That would give her a birth year between 1761 and 1770. Since her parents were not married until 1763, a safe bet for her date of birth would be between 1765 and 1768.

All of this circumstantial evidence pretty much debunks the statement of lore that Benjamin was sixteen at his time of marriage. Sarah could have been fourteen, but maybe she was a year or two older than that. We will likely never know for certain.

Tree Ratings are back! I have 3 errors from this week to resolve. I have 4928 errors in the tree–366 possible duplicates, 4106 with no documents, 456 other errors.

  • The first is a mother in law of a distant cousin. Since I am pruning my tree a bit and not including the inlaws, she will be deleted.
  • Number two is a spouse of a distant cousin without documentation. Took a little digging to find something, but Arkansas Voter Registration records came through.
  • Lastly, a distant cousin needs some documentation. Unfortunately, it would seem that he is a tween since his parents were married in 2012. He was named in his grandmother’s obituary which was published online. Ancestry will not recognize a web link as a “record”.

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 the week ahead.
371 years ago – birth of Jacques Cardinal (8th ggf)
347 years ago – marriage of Mary Mason (9th ggm) and John Norton (9th ggf)
343 years ago – marriage of Louise Arrivee (8th ggm) and Jacques Cardinal (8th ggf)
302 years ago – birth of Benjamin Bonnell (7th ggf)
219 years ago – marriage of Francoise Crely (5th ggm) and Joseph Cardinal (5th ggf)
165 years ago – marriage of Sarah Catt (3rd ggm) and Joseph E. Cardinal (3rd ggf)
136 years ago – marriage of Anna Gravel ( 2nd ggm) and James S. Cardinal (2nd ggf)
107 years ago – birth of Lillian E. Fielden (gm)
72 years ago – death of Mathias Keller (2nd ggf)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,009 people
End of Week: 27,007 people
Change = -2 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Write the biographies of the family of Benjamin and Sarah Piety Cox.
  • Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have.
  • 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

  1. Polk, WH, Polk Family and Kinsmen, The Bradley and Gilbert Co, Louisville, KY, 1912, page 366, Ancestry.com. ↩︎
  2. Certificate Book of the Virginia Land Commission 1779-80, Register, Kentucky State Historical Society, volume 21, number 63, pages 302-303, http://www.jstor.org. ↩︎

2025 Week 46

16 Sunday Nov 2025

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There is a light at the end of the tunnel as I am researching the youngest child of Ben and Sarah Piety Cox–Finetta. I’ve already done a little research on her and her family back in Week 23 when I was researching older sister Sarah (aka Sally). Finetta married Elbridge Arnold and they moved to the Kansas City, Missouri area. Their home, Woodneath, is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Information on the children of Finetta and Elbridge was at times hard to come by. Sarah, Mollie and Mariana all married. Benjamin disappeared after the 1850 census. Nettie was living with Mollie’s family and is listed as having lung disease in the 1880 census. Susan appears in the 1870 census, but has not been found in the 1880 census.

A land deed record dated 1874, after the death of their mother, names Sarah and husband, Susan, Nettie and Mollie. A Susan Arnold is listed as a creditor in multiple probate reports well into the 1880s. Without knowing how many Arnold families were in the Clay County area, it is difficult to know if this is the same Susan Arnold or possibly a cousin. Since Elbridge’s father died in Clay County, Missouri, it is possible that one or more siblings also relocated.

Can’t find the newspaper you want on the subscription sites? Google it! Some states, like Missouri, have digital collections that are available for free. I found the following information on that site.

A mention in the Liberty Tribune published January 13, 1882, stated that J(ohn) P(eter) Stowers buried a child on January 10th and his wife (Mariana Arnold) was buried the previous week.

Catching up on my library research and access to the restricted files on FamilySearch, I started with Benjamin F Cox, son of Jonathan P and Rachel Cox, who was born in 1819. Using Full Text Search, I immediately found the History of Mariah Creek Church which mentioned Benjamin F. It provided his year of death and the name of his wife, Patsy Shepherd. I have to wonder, though, if the author of the church history was confusing this Benjamin (b. 1819) with his uncle (b. 1804). The elder Benjamin married an Elizabeth Shepherd in 1834. 1834 would have been too early for the younger Benjamin to marry–he would have been 15 years old. Of course, Patsy was usually associated with Patricia or Martha as a nickname.

Interestingly enough, I was also looking for Benjamin F Cox, brother to Jonathan Piety Cox. Benjamin was assigned as guardian for his grandchildren Virgil and Elizabeth Farmer in 1868 after the death of their father Amos. He terminated the guardianship in 1874 when the money ran out, however, the children continued to live with him and his wife Lucinda until the children reached adulthood. Nothing after 1861 was found for Sarah Cox Farmer, Benjamin’s daughter and the children’s mother.

I had hoped to find documentation of Benjamin’s death in 1887, however, I was not able to locate anything. The latest recorded deed which mentioned Benjamin and wife Lucinda was recorded in 1886. After that, there was a deed recorded in 1893 that names Lucy Cox, unmarried, Carrie and Virgil Farmer, John and Caroline Cox, and Lizzie Berry, unmarried. This would be consistent with the living heirs of Benjamin. This would also give credence to the fact that Albert was no longer living and had no known descendants in 1893.

With that, I believe I have concluded the research portion of the family of Benjamin and Sarah Piety Cox. I can now move to editing and writing. This is actually my favorite part of my project as the people start to come to life. My first task will be to merge duplicate event records and standardize place names. Then I will generate the rough draft and start filling in the blanks and citing references. With the long Thanksgiving weekend right around the corner, I should be able to complete this step fairly quickly…at least that is my hope.

Tree Ratings are back! I have 3 errors from this week to resolve. I have 4947 errors in the tree–374 possible duplicates, 4115 with no documents, 458 other errors.

  • The spouse of a distant cousin has no sources attached. However, he has several hints which have cleared this error.
  • A distant cousin Jean was eleven at the time a child attached to him was born. Based on the information in the 1860 census, the children in question are probably his brother’s children who were living with Jean and his wife.
  • The last error for this week is another spouse of a distant cousin. As it turns out the cousin also was lacking sources. Cleaned up both at the same time.

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 the week ahead.
353 years ago – marriage of Jeanne Lemarche-Beaudry (8th ggm) and Jacques Duguay (8th ggf)
325 yeas ago – death of Jean Lemarche-Beaudry Duguay (8th ggm)
262 years ago – death of Nathaniel Bonnell (7th ggf)
250 years ago – birth of Mary Overlin (6th ggm)
238 years ago – marriage of James Shields (6th ggf) and his 2nd wife Nancy Brown
198 years ago – marriage of Letitia Casey (4th ggm) and William Fielden (4th ggf)
196 years ago – death of John Keirsey (6th ggf)
155 years ago – birth of Anna Gravel (2nd ggm)
110 years ago – marriage of Ethel Thompson (ggm) and August Cardinal (ggf)
101 years ago – death of Emma Nagele Keller (2nd ggm)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 26,997 people
End of Week: 27,009 people
Change = +12 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Write the biographies of the family of Benjamin and Sarah Piety Cox.
  • Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have.
  • 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

2025 Week 45

09 Sunday Nov 2025

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If you recall back in Week 34, I had an overview of the many Benjamin Coxes there were in this family. I’m now deep-diving into Benjamin #2 from that list.

I’ve exhausted what I can easily find on Ancestry for Benjamin. In searching on FamilySearch from home, the vast majority of documents pertain to deed transactions in Shelby County, KY on the inherited property from his father. There are restrictions on Knox County, IN documents in FamilySearch; I will need to put that on my to do list for next Saturday when I am at the library. I really want to find something indicating that he died in 1887. He did file for a father’s pension in 1885 for his son Virgil who died in the Civil War.

Not much is known about Ben’s first wife, Elizabeth Shepherd. She died about 1845. Together they had four children.

Ben’s second wife, Lucinda, was the widow of Leonard Williams and together they had four daughters. Ben and Lucy did not have any children together. An obituary for Lucy stated she was 87 at the time of her death in 1898.

Ben and Lizzie’s oldest child, Sarah, married Amos Farmer and they had two children. By 1870, the children were living with Ben and Lucy, so it is not clear what happened to Sarah and Amos. Their son Virgil was born in late 1861. Amos served in the Civil War, however, he was reported as a deserter in October 1862. I will need to check the guardianship and probate records at the library to see if any further details might surface.

Sarah and Amos’s son Virgil was the center of a supposed scandal in July 1895, according to the local newspapers.1 Supposedly Virgil disappeared, leaving his wife and children to fend for themselves, and a pile of debt to deal with. His wife Carrie apparently filed desertion charges against him. The rumor was that he took off with his ex-wife. It was never disclosed where he went or what he did. The rumor was discounted in that the ex-wife was happily at home in Linton with her current husband. Virgil did return, he resigned from his position as deputy sheriff, and apparently he and Carrie sorted things out as they were listed in the same household in 1900.

Ben and Lizzie’s oldest son, Albert, is quite the conundrum. He appears in the 1850 census with the blended family, but he is not present in 1860. Granted he would be about 23 and possibly on his own. Some researchers have attributed him to an Albert Cox who married Caroline Sprinkle in 1867 in Warrick County. Albert who resided in Warrick County is more likely to be the son of William Cox and Rachel Underwood who migrated to Pike County, Indiana from North Carolina. This assignment would be more logical since Pike County borders Warrick County.

Without any proof linking Knox County Albert to Warrick County Albert, I will refrain from assuming they are the same person.

Third child Virgil joined the 51st Indiana Infantry Regiment in 1861. He became ill in Missouri and died of disease after only serving a few months. He is buried in the national cemetery in St Louis. His father Ben filed for a survivor’s pension in 1885.

The youngest of Ben and Lizzie’s children was John Shepherd Cox. He too served in the 51st Indiana Infantry Regiment. After returning from the war, he married Caroline House and they raised at least four children. The family resided in Labette County, Kansas, for several years before returning to Knox County. At some point prior to 1900 it would seem that John and Caroline divorced. Nothing was reported in the papers, but maybe something will turn up in the court records. An account of the 50th wedding anniversary celebration for Caroline’s parents in 1894 gives the impression that they were still married at that time.2 It is also possible that they merely separated and did not obtain a formal divorce.

Tree Ratings are back! I have 3 from this week to resolve. I have 4950 errors in the tree–374 possible duplicates, 4119 with no documents, 457 other errors.

  • A distant cousin with no documentation. Found him in the 1950 census and put a first name to his father.
  • A father-in-law of a great granduncle with a logic error associated to him. Since his is not a blood relative or married to one, I have removed him and his wife.
  • The last is the spouse of a distant cousin with no sources.

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 the week ahead.
343 years ago – marriage of Anna Shepard (9th ggm) and Daniel Quincy (9th ggf)
236 years ago – death of Margaret Moore Short (7th ggm)
227 years ago – death of Benjamin Bonnell (7th ggf)
205 years ago – marriage of Phillip Catt (7th ggf) and his second wife Sally Kimmons
202 years ago – birth of Oliver McCullough (3rd ggf)
192 years ago – birth of Henry V Gravel (3rd ggf)
131 years ago – death of John W Fielden (3rd ggf)
109 years ago – marriage of Magdelena Kaiser (ggm) and Emmett Keller (ggf)
107 years ago – death of Arely Fielden (2nd ggf)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 26,965 people
End of Week: 26,997 people
Change = +32 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Follow up on several items for the family of Benjamin Cox and Elizabeth Shepherd.
  • Research the family of Finetta Cox and Eldridge Arnold.
  • 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

  1. The Western Sun, 5 Jul 1895, page 1, newspapers.com. ↩︎
  2. The Western Sun, 23 Mar 1894, page 4, newspapers.com ↩︎

2025 Week 44

02 Sunday Nov 2025

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This week I am finishing up the off-spring of John C Cox and his wife Eliza. First up is their son Benjamin Harrison Cox. Benjamin served in the ministry, as did several others in his family. When his sister died, he became guardian for her son Oliver. Census records from 1900-1920 all state he was widowed, and Kester mentions a wife named Elizabeth Reeser. A marriage record was found from 1885 for Benjamin and Bettie Reasor. Her life was cut short just four years later.

It should be noted that Benjamin was referred to as “Elder B.H. Cox” in most newspaper mentions. This is a good reminder to try different naming variations when doing searches for individuals.

Julia Cox, the ninth child of John and Eliza, married Dr. Samuel Smith. They resided in Frankfort, Kentucky. She died in 1885, leaving behind three children. The youngest has been unidentified by name, as far as I can tell. Samuel died in 1892.

Margaret Cox was married to James McDonald and they had one son, James B. He only lived to be eighteen and it is unclear how or why he died, as it was before recording deaths was mandatory. After her husband died in 1905, Maggie lived with her brother Benjamin in the home of their nephew. Her death was rather tragic and indirectly caused that of Benjamin. While sitting by the fire in January, a cinder from the fire escaped the grate and caught her dress on fire. Benjamin and their nephew worked to get the fire out, but she was burned severely. Benjamin had a heart attack shortly after the incident due to all the stress and excitement. Maggie died a few days later due to her injuries.

The youngest of the Cox siblings, Fannie, has been a bit of a challenge to completely document. She married Landon Coleman and they had three sons. Around 1880 or 1881, Landon was involved in some sort of incident which left him disabled and apparently addled to some extent. Fannie received a payout for half of the value of his insurance policy with the Royal Templars of Temperance. Landon was then placed in some sort of institution while Fannie and the boys went to live with her family in Middletown. In 1884, it was reported that Landon returned to Frankfort, hale and hearty, and Fannie also returned. Shortly thereafter, Landon relocated to Shelby County to work in the confectionery business, but no mention of Fannie and the boys was made. Fannie is mentioned as residing in Kansas City in 1891 in her mother’s obituary. Their son Willis was living there in 1900 with his family. He worked for the railroad. Fannie was not listed with the family which would hint that she might be deceased. Landon is living with Fannie’s brother Benjamin in 1900, identifying as a widow in the census.

The Royal Templars of Temperance was a fraternal organization founded in 1870 in Buffalo, New York. Its members attempted to close saloons on Sundays and advocated abstinence. Its members practiced rituals borrowed from Freemasonry.

https://www.viennapedia.org/organizations/royal-templars-of-temperance

Some researchers have attributed a death to a Frances Coleman in Howard County, Indiana in 1896 to Fannie, but that seems a bit far fetched without something more substantial placing her there. Also, I have not seen any documentation calling her “Frances”. At this time, I’ll opt to list her death as after 1891.

Tree Ratings are back! I have 3 from this week to resolve. I have 4949 errors in the tree–372 possible duplicates, 4117 with no documents, 460 other errors.

  • Here’s a new one I haven’t come across before. Both parents were too young to have had a child when the daughter was born. This would indicate that either the parents birth dates are incorrect or the child’s. It could also mean that she wasn’t their child, but a foster child of some sort. As it turns out, she was listed as a “daughter” in the 1920 census, but she carried a different last name, than either of the two parents. At any rate, she is not a blood relation. Based on the criteria I have set for my database, she will be removed.
  • The second person needing an error cleared will be difficult to clear. Web links are not considered sources by the Tree Checker. This distant cousin is still in her teens. I will need to revisit this one at another time.
  • The last error needing cleared also appears to be rather difficult this week. The known residence location, Oklahoma, doesn’t have much available online for marriages or births and nothing was populating from the newspapers. I may need to revisit this one as well.

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 the week ahead.
253 years ago – marriage of John McCullough (5th ggf) and his first wife Margaret Peters
228 years ago – marriage of Margaret McLees (5th ggm) and Isaac Lowe (5th ggf)
207 years ago – birth of James Denis Cardinal (4th ggf)
70 years ago – death of Samuel T. DeMoss Sr (gf)
43 years ago – death of Frank Fielden (ggf)
28 years ago – death Samuel T. DeMoss Jr (RIP Dad. Miss you.)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 26,947 people
End of Week: 26,965 people
Change = +18 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Return to Knox County and start reviewing the family of Benjamin Cox and Elizabeth Shepherd.
  • 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