Unusual name Plesiz appears on his wife's headstone[1], spelled 'Pleas' on his daughter's death certificate[2].
Sources
↑ Find a Grave, database and images, Find A Grave: Memorial #86445471, citing Prairie Point Cemetery, Bazette, Navarro County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by historylover4ever (contributor 46636400). Includes image of headstone showing years of birth and death, inscribed "Ida 1880 - 1931 Wife of J.D. Jones Plesiz Cox W.D. Sessions Our Mother."
↑ "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K392-R1R : 20 February 2021), Vera Debbie Cantrell, 22 Jan 1948; citing certificate number 3772, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,218,830. Parents Pleas Cox and Ida Jackson. Informant WR Cantrell.
"Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8B-34ZN : 22 December 2016), W. P. Cox and Ida Jackson, 17 Aug 1898; citing , Limestone, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm 986,084.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3P5-1M3 : accessed 15 April 2021), William Cox, Justice Precinct 3 (north part) Kerens town, Navarro, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 102, sheet 9B, family 151, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,662. Born Texas Jul 1876. Married 1899.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with W P by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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