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Amos Cox



Birth26 March 1821Owego, Tioga, New York, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Amos Cox (1821-1898), memorial #69640154.

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), p.117, n.10.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p.69.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Amos Cox, folder "Second 100, schedules, 1848" (#62), image 4, line 51.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 417-418, FHL microfilm 183373.

    Springville Independent, "A Good Man Gone.," 29 June 1898, p. 4, column 5.

Death12 July 1898Shenandoah, Page, Iowa, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Amos Cox (1821-1898), memorial #69640154.

    Various Iowa Counties, Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992 (Iowa: County Clerk Offices), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Amos Cox,12 July 1898; citing Shenandoah, Page, Iowa, United States; Page County, Iowa, Clerk of the District Court; image 465 of 612, entry 17, FHL microfilm 1035295.

    Selected Pension Application Files Relating to the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-48 (Washington DC: NARA), database with images, FamilySearch, Amos Cox, can no. 556, bundle no. 2, citing Bureau of Pensions, Washington D. C., FHL microfilm 480135, images 38-162.

BurialRose Hill Cemetery, Shenandoah, Page, Iowa, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Amos Cox (1821-1898), memorial #69640154.

    Various Iowa Counties, Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992 (Iowa: County Clerk Offices), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Amos Cox,12 July 1898; citing Shenandoah, Page, Iowa, United States; Page County, Iowa, Clerk of the District Court; image 465 of 612, entry 17, FHL microfilm 1035295.

FatherJonathan Upham Cox
MotherLucinda Blood

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   • Philena Morley
Married19 June 1841Hancock County, Illinois, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Amos Cox and Philena Morley, ID: KWVL-RLH and ID: KWVL-RLX.

    County offices, Illinois, Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Amos Cox and Philena Morley (19 June 1841); citing Hancock County, Illinois, County Clerk, “Marriage certificates no.1-899, 1829-1844,” image 1298, FHL microfilm 1532140 and “Marriage register, vols. A1-A2, 1829-1857,” image 51, FHL microfilm 954177.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 69.

    Springville Independent, "A Good Man Gone.," 29 June 1898, p. 6, column 5.

          Children:
               Amelia Caroline Cox
               Charles Thomas Cox
               Philena Loenza Cox
               Rosetta Evelyn Cox
               Edward Amos Cox


   • Mary Jane Zolman
Married1 April 1895Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States
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    Iowa County Clerks, Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934 (Iowa: County Courthouses), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Amos Cox and Mary J. Boyd (1 April 1895); citing Page County, Iowa, Clerk of the District Court, “v. 7-8, 1893-1898,” image 250, FHL microfilm 1035212.

    Springville Independent, "A Good Man Gone.," 29 June 1898, p. 6, column 5.


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• 1841Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1850Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
• 1860Fisher Twp., Fremont, Iowa, United States

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• 1860 Population CensusFisher Township, Fremont, IowaExtractImage
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• 1880 Population CensusFisher Township, Fremont, IowaExtractImage

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