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DNA Updates

  • No DNA matches with common ancestors for the past two weeks.

Coxes of Cox Creek Footnotes

35. The Filson Club History Quarterly, XI, p. 129. – The Quarterly has been digitized and is available online at the Club’s website. It does include a pdf list of all articles published in each volume. This particular reference happens to be incorrect. The correct citation is The Filson Club History Quarterly, volume 2, p. 129. This article by John D Wickliffe of Bardstown is titled “Pioneer Stations in Nelson County”. The source of this article was a Colonel W D Huston (1818-1895), who supposedly was a descendant of the Polk family. The article mentions that Cox’s Station was the first station established in Nelson County in 1775 and the Polk Station was the second. There was a contingent of 17 people who made the first trip down the Ohio to establish a land holding.

James Hughes, A Report of the Causes determined by the late Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky and by the Court of Appeals (1803), Lexington, pp. 183-189. This reference can be found at Hathitrust. These pages are contained in the report associated with the appeal of Carter v Oldham (May 1800). This case was originally held in Chancery Court regarding a land dispute dating back to 1780. The report contains information from multiple depositions describing when Isaac Cox, Thomas Polke and others came to Nelson County and made improvements to the land. Thomas Polke’s deposition is on page 188. Several deposers mentioned that Isaac Cox and company were in Nelson County making land improvements in the spring of 1776.

36. Temple Bodley, History of Kentucky, “Fleming’s Journal” (1928), I, p. 322. This book can be found on Hathitrust. This citation refers to quoted passages from Colonel William Fleming’s Journal as he traveled across Kentucky. In January 1783, Col Fleming visited Cox’s Station and interacted with Col. Isaac Cox.

AI Tasks

None this week.

Error Resolution

Per Ancestry’s Tree CheckerThis Week2 Weeks Ago
Total Errors50135024
Potential Duplicates513511
No Documentation40794091
Other Errors421422
  • AS, a descendant of the Bunnell line, needs references. There is very little on this cousin except a mention in his father’s obituary for him and his two brothers.
  • RC, a DNA match from the Fielden line, needs references. Was able to update him and other family members with several doucments.
  • RH, husband of a distant cousin, needs records. As it turns out, the distant cousin was the stepdaughter of a distant cousin and should be deleted. I was able to update some facts for members of the family.
  • RM, a distant cousin, has a birth date after the attached mother died. After a little investigation, this cousin and her sister were attributed to the wrong wife of their father. It is unclear how exactly this error was made.
  • LB, a distant cousin, needs sources. I happened to go to high school with this cousin. Found several sources to shore up her record and found some interesting information on her siblings.
  • JG, a distant cousin who is a DNA match, needs sources. I found a marriage record for her and other records for some of her family members.

Goals and progress
Beginning of Week: 28,009 people
End of Week: 28,025 people
Change = +14 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