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I started this week’s research with a DNA match! A 5th cousin through Gabriel and Nancy Cox. He was actually already in my tree and I just needed to connect his data. Yay! While I was at it, since he was part of my Cox branch, I checked his shared matches with me and was able to identify another distant cousin from the same line. Now if I could just find a match from the Friend Cox –> Benjamin Cox line, I’d be ecstatic!

I’m still at odds regarding the Benjamin Cox who served in the Revolutionary War in North Carolina being the son of Friend Cox. As I have demonstrated within the family itself, Benjamin was a fairly common name during this time period. In many of the older writings, the various Benjamins have been confused within the family.

I also have to question his wife Rachel’s maiden name. Some researchers have provided Reed as her family name. There is a marriage record from 1807 in Norfolk, Virginia between a Benjamin Cox and a Rachel Reed. That same Rachel is listed as a head of household in Norfolk, Virginia in 1820, implying that she was a widow at that time. This marriage does not fit with other information available about the family.

Their son Jesse’s death record in Kentucky1 states he was born in 1779 in South Carolina. The 1850 Census2 claims he was born in North Carolina and the 1860 Census3 claims South Carolina. Regardless, based on this information, Benjamin and Rachel would have been married prior to 1779. Jesse married Mary Waugh or Wagle in 1803 in Madison County, Kentucky.4 By 1810 they had three young sons.5 In 1830 Jesse and his wife Mary had five sons and three daughters in their household.6

Mary Wagle was the daughter of John and Jemima Todd Wagle. In 1947, Louis Ansel Duermyer compiled The John Wagle Genealogy which is available on Ancestry. I am currently in the process of verifying and supplementing the information contained within that document. It could take a few weeks to get all of the information into my database. My hope, slim as it might be, is that one of Mary and Jesse’s descendants is a DNA match for me, confirming that the Dayton, Ohio Benjamin is one of my Coxes. Today I started working on Greenberry Cox, their second son.

Error resolution. The last available update: I have 5019 errors in the tree–515 possible duplicates, 4057 with no documents, 447 other errors.

  • First error requires a source be added.
  • A 5th cousin requires a source be added. She was named in her grandfather’s obituary in 2011.
  • The 2nd wife of a distant cousin needs sources. I have narrowed down when they married but cannot locate a record of the marriage.

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,334 people
End of Week: 27,403 people
Change = +69 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Continue research on Isaac Cox, “The Immigrant” and his wife Susannah Tomlinson.
  • Review Coxes of Cox Creek
  • Run newspaper search, especially for articles recounting local history
  • Review the Cox package of information from Sweden
  • Look for documents in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky
  1. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1222/images/KYVR_994033-0458?pId=1270499 ↩︎
  2. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4192501_00524?pId=17330463 ↩︎
  3. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4230644_00187?pId=39102108 ↩︎
  4. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61372/images/TH-1-10012-36967-61?pId=1770094 ↩︎
  5. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7613/images/4433398_00210?pId=689338 ↩︎
  6. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/4410761_00286?pId=1877401 ↩︎