[or-roots] Gidion Cox and his ancestry and siblings.

Tue May 26 18:03:26 PDT 2009

Perhaps some of you interested in the Cox families know Frances Cox  
Griffin, who spent many years researching her Cox family and put  
together a book of the results, which she has given to many in her  
family.  A copy is also in the Genealogical Forum of Oregon in  
Portland and some other libraries in Oregon.  Frances,  87, now lives  
in Salem, not far from the Bethany Cemetery in which Gidion and other  
family members are buried and which is on land donated by one of his  
brothers, Peter.

According to Frances, Gideon is the son of Joseph Cox and Mary  
Surgenor Pope.  (Some think her name was Mary Surgenor, but Frances  
has convinced me that she is correct.)  Joseph was born in Grayson  
Co., VA.  He and Mary moved to Knox Co., KY and eventually wound up in  
Bartholomew Co., IN.  Here is just a small amount of info Frances has  
on the family, including he children of Joseph and Mary:

Thomas Cox, born in Grayson Co., VA  in 1791.  Married Martha Cox.   
Had a store in IL, and in 1846 along with a son and sons-in law loaded  
up 13 wagons and headed for Oregon, where he established the first  
store in Salem.  He had a place out on Ankeny Hill area south of Salem  
which is now the site of the Ankeny vineyard and winery.

Joseph Cox b 1792 in Grayson Co, VA.  Married Polly Rains He was in IL  
with Thomas at one point, Frances could find no record of him after  
that.

William Cox b 1794 in Grayson Co. VA.  Married Elsie St John in Knox  
Co., KY.  He died in Platte Co., MO.  Some of his sons came to OR.

Jacob Cox b 1793 or 4 in Grayson Co., VA (possibly a twin of  
William?).  Married Jane Gatliff in Knox Co., KY.

John Cox (Frances' and my ancestor) b 1795 in Grayson Co., VA.   
Married Sarah Stanfield in Jackson Co., IN.  One of John and Sarah's  
children,   their son Samuel Stanfield Cox, married Harriet Cox; while  
another, a daughter Diana Coffey Cox, married Harriet's brother  
Solomon Cox.  Samuel and Harriet were Frances' great grandparents.   
Diana and Solomon were my gg-grandparents.  John died in Johnson Co.,  
MO.  the two younger couples both came to Oregon.  Samuel and Harriet  
settled in the Bethany area near Silverton and are buried in the  
Bethany Cemetery.  Solomon and Diana settled on what is now called Cox  
Butte, west of Junction City, OR, where my brother Larry lives on what  
was part of their Donation Land Claim.

Jesse Cox b ca 1800 in Knox Co., KY, d in Dolphin Co., KS.  Married  
Polly Parker, daughter of John Parker and Lydia Ruddick.  In between  
they were in Benton Co., AR, where they had the Elkhorn Tavern.

Permilla Cox (also called Milley or Amelia) b 1799 in Knox Co., KY.   
Wed three times, buried in Salem, OR.

Peter Jackson Cox b 1802 in KY.  Married Jane Raines in Jackson Co.,  
IN, and also two later marriages.  Came with his brother Gidion in  
1846 and also settled in the Silverton area.  Donated land for the  
Bethany Cemetery.

Gidion Smith Cox b 1806 in KY, buried in Bethany Cemetery.  Married  
Sarah Coffinberry

James Cox b 1810 in Knox Co. KY.  Married Mary Juliatha Parker (sister  
of Polly Parker).  James & Juliatha came to Oregon in 1864, James  
dying soon after arriving at the home near Silverton of their daughter  
Mary and her husband Almond Shibley

Elias Cox b 1812 in KY.  Married Mary ann Conner, and they stayed in  
Bartholomew Co., IN.

Frances is a wealth of information on all of these families and their  
descendants, in case any of this is new or interesting to any of you.

By the way, the siblings Harriet and Solomon Cox who married John's  
kids, are the children of Solomon T. Cox and Mary Norris.  Solomon T.  
was son of Jesse Cox and Margery Cox.  Jesse was the son of Solomon  
Cox and Ruth Cox; Margery was the daughter of William Cox and Juliatha  
Carr, and her brother Joseph is the one listed above who married Mary  
Surgenor Pope!

Moreover, the Solomon who married Ruth Cox is a brother of the William  
Cox who married Juliatha Carr.  And the patriarch of this whole  
tangled mess William Cox, a Quaker in DE who married Catherine Kinkey  
of MD.  I had the delightful experience of exploring, with the  
grandson of the current owner,  the wonderful old house in DE that  
William and Catherine had built in the early 1700's.  (I created my  
own spreadsheet version of a family tree to try to illustrate all  
these Cox interconnections.)

Greetings to all of you Cox relatives!   I would love to learn how  
this information in Frances' book matches up with your research.  Marj  
(Mikkelsen) Enneking, Portland, OR

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