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Maries County Courier: Mrs. Peter Brock of Grove Dale was in town last week visiting her mother "Aunt Eliza Kinney". [Rolla News Era, Phelps Co, MO, July 18, 1885]
Home in 1880: Maries Co, Dry Creek Twp, MO #100
Cox, M. Eliza, w/f 59, W/D NC NC NC
(Living next door in house #99, is son, Nick and Susan Cox, son of Eliza)
1874 Index to Deeds, Maries Co, MO "Marriage Contract" Roberson, Stephen - Cox, Eliza 1-15-1874 (Book J)
1874: Roberson, Stephen and Mrs. Eliza Cox married on 15 Jan 1874 by William Krone, Probate Judge (Marriage Index, Book A, Maries Co, MO 1868-1881)
Home in 1860: Maries Co, Dry Creek Twp, MO #480 Kenny, John, 41, farmer, Scotland
Kenny, Eliza, female, 41, NC
n were children of Eliza and Nicholas Cox Sr. Census taker showed them all under "Kenney")
Home in 1850: District 72, Pulaski, MO Nicholas S Cox 34 male TN
Eliza Cox 34 female NC
Amon B K D Cox 6/12 male MO ("Bully Christopher")
History of Maries Co, MO by Everett M. King: Nicholas (Bully) Cox Senior, died near Lebanon before the Civil War while on the road to Texas. The family completed the trip and stayed about a year, after which they returned to this county, bought their old place back with the same gold that had been paid them when they sold it two years before, and thereafter made this county their home.
Nicholas' wife was Elizabeth Bilyeu, who was born in Georgia (Federal Census shows born in North Carolina) September 1, 1821, and died here June 15, 1887. The mother of either Nicholas Cox Senior or of his wife, was a part-blood Cherokee. Elizabeth Bilyeu's father died in Tennessee and her mother later married a man named Everett, by whom she was the mother of a daughter, Susan, who was later the wife of Thomas Doyel. The family later came to this county, and it is known that Mrs. Cox's father was related to the Bilyeu and Hughes families already here, but the degree of relationship is not known.
After the death of her first husband Mrs. Cox married J. M. Kinney, and, later, Stephen Roberson, but no children were born of either marriage. The six children born of her first marriage and living to maturity were:
1821 |
September 1, 1821
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North Carolina, United States
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1837 |
December 9, 1837
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Marion County, Tennessee, United States
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1838 |
April 5, 1838
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Hardeman County, Tennessee, United States
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1842 |
1842
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Tennessee, United States
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1843 |
March 5, 1843
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Tennessee, United States
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1845 |
1845
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Tennessee, United States
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1849 |
November 14, 1849
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Vienna, Maries County, Missouri, United States
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1852 |
1852
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Maries County, Missouri, United States
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