Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

510 BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENUES
Camp run, on Spoon river, where his desire to do what was right
brought him hosts of customers and won him many friends. In 1858
Mrs. Cox died. Of her eight children, seven are living and four residents
of this county. A few years !ater Mr. Cox transferred the mill
to W. K., the present operator. The olcl gentleman married a second
time, his wife dying in 1880. For eight years his own health has
shon7n si ns of failure, so that now the great olcl pioneer miller of Indian
Cree % is only a shaclom of the strong Inan whom the pioneers and
old settlers line~v so well. W. K. Cox 'esiclecl with his parents until
1850, when he became a cattle-buyer. Some yeays later he resumed
farming, and prior to the war took charge of his father's mill. In
I860 lle married Miss J. E. Miller, born in 1842 in Hocking county,
O., and came to this count,y with her parents in 1844. For twelve
years after this marriage Mr. Cox continued milling, but owing to the
radical change in machinery he discontinued this industry, and has
since devoted his attention to stock growing and agriculture. Of six
children born to Mr. ancl Mrs. Cox, five are 11ving-Mrs. Broclrmay, of
Duncan; Orrin W., deceased; Plessie E., Mrs. E. Miller, of Essex;
Nettie M., Mrs. I,. Brockway ; Harley G. and Herman C. In politics
Mr. Cox is Republican, and liberal in all ideas.
Nalon Cog died at his home, near Spoon river, July, 1883. IIe
was born in 1826 ; married Ruth Ratcliff in 1854; moved to Indiana in
1~67, and to Starlr county in 1S71.
Xrs. May E. (Graves) Cbx, born in Essex township in 1845, died
June 24, 1881. She married Simon Cox in March, 1865.
I. P. C'aTpenter, who died here December 1, 1879, came from East
Newfield, Me., in 1856.
Mks. flannah Dizon, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Rains) Cox,
was born in Ross county, O., in 1535. Her parents clied there, and
soon after she accompanied her brother to this county, where she marriect
Samuel Dixon, in 1852, and took up her residence on section 24,
Essex.
Sar~~uel Dixon was born in Jackson county, O., in 1830. IIe was
the son of Lernuel and Itosanna (Graves) Dixon, with whom he resided
until twenty-one years of age, when the family came to dtarlr county.
Here he marriecl Miss Cox, ancl at once entered on farm life for himself,
in which he was industriously engaged until February 16, 1865,
when he enlisted at Peoria, and at once went into the field. While in
the service he contractecl such diseases-from hardship anct fatigue as to
warrant him a furlough. While en route home he sank to rest at BIic11-
igan City, Indiana. His remains were taken home, and as related in
the history of Wyoming cemetery, rest in this county. Of their three
children, Maria is Mrs. J. I\IcCorkle. of Wyoming; Martha J. is cleceased,
ancl Lemuel is a resident of Essex. This family has played an
excellent part in the progress of Essex for over thirty years.
"Aunt" Rosw12~~a Dixon, one of the pioneers of the Wyoming district,
died at Peoria in September, 1885.
Philip li: Eurhnrt, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Ritz) Earhart,
was born in Lancaster county, Pa., November 18, 1830. Elis parents
were natives of Pennsylvania, where his father was engaged in farm-