DNA Updates
- PP, a distant cousin through Michael Roderick and Elizabeth Pea. Not too difficult to add to the tree.
- TF and JF are father and son distant cousins through John Wesley Fielden. They had been in my match list for quite a while, but I was stuck on TF because there were three brothers with the same initials. Re-examining JF fixed that problem since I had his mother’s maiden name from his tree.
Coxes of Cox Creek Footnotes
57. Will of Colonel Isaac Cox, office of the county clerk, Bardstown, Kentucky; Will Book, Nelson County, A, pp. 397-402. Colonel Cox’s will is available online at FamilySearch in the Nelson County Will Book, June 1784 to February 1790.1 Pages 397-402 of Will Book A is also available on FamilySearch. It details the financials of his estate as recorded in December 1797 and January 1798. This footnote refers to the discussion of the value of his estate and that it was settled in January 1798. There were unsettled items identified in that court entry.
58. Will Books, Brooke County, West Virginia; and Nelson, Shelby, Bullitt, and Spencer Counties, Kentucky. This reference is tied to a discussion about the evidence supporting that Cox family members were educated members of society. The wills of many Cox family members included furniture and other items that might be owned by educated individuals.
59. Will Book, Nelson County, A, pp. 903-904. This is the settlement of the estate of Isaac Cox Sr. It can be found on FamilySearch.
60. DAR, Lineage Book (1903), entry No. 45969, XLVI, p. 406; The lineage of member 45969 goes through George Cox.
Deed Book Shelby County, D-1, p. 100; Available on FamilySearch, this is an indenture dated 22 Jun 1799 between Susannah Cox and her living children, heirs of Isaac Cox, and Henry Crist for 1480 acres of land.
Deed Books, Nelson County, II, p. 61; Available on FamilySearch, this document clarifies Mary Cox’s rights to her inheritance from her husband due to the omission of the phrase “to her and her heirs forever” in his will. This document was signed by Isaac Jr’s siblings, as well as his mother Susannah, because it impacted the settlements of the estates of father and son. It was dated 15 May 1788, before Mary married William May.
Deed Books, Nelson County, IV, pp. 32, 60. Available on FamilySearch. Additional land transfers involving the heirs of Isaac Cox Sr.
61. Draper MSS, typed copy of 16S280-286, in the Filson Club. I have requested copies from the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Their response time is approximately two to four weeks.
62. Letter from James Cox to Isaac Russell Cox, December 9, 1820, owned by the author (Mrs. Adams). In searching for a possible transcript of this letter, I did find another published manuscript by Evelyn Adams focusing on her Wood ancestors. This article can be found on JSTOR. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything specific regarding the letter in question. This footnote is attached to the mention of David Cox’s death (James’s father). David’s will is available on FamilySearch.
63. Marriage Records, Nelson, Shelby and Bullitt Counties. There are at least a dozen marriage records represented by this footnote.
64. Will Book, Nelson County, A, pp. 980-986; This is the account for the estate sale for Gabriel Cox. It is available on FamilySearch.
Marriage Records, Nelson County. Unspecified marriage records of Gabriel’s children.
65. Will Book, Brooke County, West Virginia, III, pp. 92-94. This is the will of George Cox, available on FamilySearch.
66. Ibid, II, p. 96. This is the will for William McMahon, the first husband of Ann Cox. I actually found it in the Probate Records of Ohio County, (West) Virginia.2
67. Draper MSS, typed copy of 9ZZ96-102 in the Filson Club. I have requested copies from the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Their response time is approximately two to four weeks.
68. Deed Book, Nelson County, I, p. 144. Available on FamilySearch, John Lemen purchased a tract of land from his brother in law Isaac in January 1788.
69. Deed Books, Shelby County, H, pp. 227, 228; K, p. 377. Deeds associated with John Lemen and his wife Polly Cox.
70. Ibid, H, pp. 225, 226, 230, 232, 233; K, p. 372; M, p. 323. Deeds associated with Jonathan Cox and his wife Isabella.
71. Marriage and Land Records, Shelby County. Unspecified documents associated with Benjamin Cox’s family.
72.Edith Wood, Middletown’s Days and Deeds (1946), pp. 60-61, 112-114. This reference is to Benjamin and Sarah Cox and some of their descendants. The noted passages mention the Ballards which daughter Susannah married into. It also discusses their son John Calhoun whose family settled in the Middletown area. The Tharps married into this family and are discussed.
73. The Filson Club History Quarterly, “Thruston Memorial Number,” XXI, No 2, April 1947 The entire April issue of the Quarterly was devoted to articles about Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston.
74. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, XXII, pp. 21, 128. This reference can be found on HathiTrust. It identifies James Cox as a Brigadier general in the War of 1812.
done!
Other items of note
An article on the Kentucky Kindred Genealogy site focuses on the Will of Colonel Isaac Cox from Nelson County. It includes a newspaper article from The Lebanon Enterprise, Lebanon, Kentucky – June 22, 1928.
Error Resolution
| Per Ancestry’s Tree Checker | This Week | Last Week |
| Total Errors | 4851 | 4977 |
| Potential Duplicates | 503 | 505 |
| No Documentation | 4027 | 4054 |
| Other Errors | 321 | 418 |
- MK is the father in law of a distant cousin. I don’t normally maintain extended family of those who marry into the family so I will delete him.
- B is a dangler. I’ll delete her too.
- RP, the husband of a distant cousin, needs sources. I found a marriage record for him and the cousin.
- Revisit Sarah Pea: This is one I came across while traveling. The hints Ancestry is providing for this woman belong to another woman whose parents are a John Pea and Elizabeth.The determinant is the mother’s maiden name. My Sarah Pea’s mother’s maiden name is Catt. The other is Knighton. Clearly different. There is little known about my Sarah Pea. According to Dr. Cary Anderson’s The Catt Family in America, the assignment of Sarah to her parents, John and Elizabeth Catt Pea, was made through process of elimination using various data sources (census records, etc). There were no marriage records for her through 1854 in Knox County. Also, she was not accounted for in her parents’ household in 1830. Since she was born sometime between 1810 and 1820, this could mean she had married but it either was not recorded or it took place somewhere other than Knox County. It could also mean that she was deceased. I will need to address this further when researching the Catts and Peas.
Goals and progress
Beginning of Week: 27,728 people
End of Week: 27,739 people
Change = +10 persons
Tasks for coming week:
- Continue research on Isaac Cox, “The Immigrant” and his wife Susannah Tomlinson.
- 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
- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P35-9QK9?view=explore&keywords=Benjamin%2CCox&lang=en&groupId=TH-1951-20814-30520-80 ↩︎
- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89VT-QHCC?view=explore&keywords=William%20McMahon%2Cwill%2CWill&searchForm=simple&lang=en&groupId=TH-1961-43984-7377-46 ↩︎
