George Rufus Cox (1811 - 1902)

Born 2 Jun 1811 in North Carolina, United States

Husband of Malinda Jane (Findley) Cox — married 23 Jul 1835 in Lumpkin Co, Georgia, USA

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1902 at age 91 in Sulphur Springs, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Cox Cemetery Sulphur Springs Montgomery County Arkansas, USA

Many people had settled Northern Georgia and good farming land had become more scarce. So wagon trains of Georgians moved on west. George Rufus Cox, who was born in 1811 in North Carolina and migrated to Georgia, married Malinda Findley, thought to be living in Lumpkin County, Georgia. George and Malinda, along with perhaps the Shedds, Royals, Riders and Jefferys, according one researcher, left Georgia in 1848 and moved to Arkansas. Their descendants married into more than one Big Fork family.^[1]

Sources

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M87B-FPJ : 18 March 2020), George R Cox in entry for David Wohunt, 1860. Big Fork Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States
• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWD2-XYD : 11 January 2020), George R. Cox and Malinda Findley, July 23, 1835, in Lumpkin, Georgia
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWH5-VJS
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8597284

1. ↑ http://bigforkark.blogspot.com/2010/04/cox-shedd-royal-rider-head-and-jeffery.html

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1684683&id=I77477645
• http://bigforkark.blogspot.com/2010/04/cox-shedd-royal-rider-head-and-jeffery.html