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Francis Marion Cox

Born 4 Jul 1858 in Summers County, West Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Son of Joseph Z Cox and Frances (James) Cox

Brother of Orpha (Cox) Minner, Reuben Edmund Cox and Infant Cox

Husband of Mary Louise (Bailey) Cox — married 1885 in Mercer, West Virginia

Descendants

Father of Joseph Cox, Claude Howery Cox, [private daughter (1880s - unknown)], Nettie Cox, Myrtle Cox, Francis Marion Cox Jr, Mary Louise Cox, [private daughter (1890s - 1970s)] and Alvah C Cox

Died 4 Dec 1913 at age 55 in Coeburn, Wise, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Francis was born in 1858. He was the son of Joseph Cox and Frances Mary Ann James.

Francis and Mary Louise Baily married in 1885 in West Virginia. The couple had ten children. Second son, Joseph, died at 7 months, daughters Nettie, Myrtle and Mary died young, third son Francis died at 5 years, and fourth son, Alvah was killed at age 15 in a mine accident.

Francis Marion Cox worked as a foreman for the coal mines.

1910 lived in Lipps, Wise County, Virginia. Francis passed away in 1913 in Coeburn, Virginia. Francis was buried in Bluefield, West Virginia.

Burial: Bailey Cemetery
Mercer County, West Virginia, USA

Sources

Year: 1860; Census Place: My Division, Mercer, Virginia; Roll: M653_1362; Page: 465; Family History Library Film: 805362

Year: 1900; Census Place: North Fork, McDowell, West Virginia; Page: 28; Enumeration District: 0074; FHL microfilm: 1241764. 1900 United States Federal Census for Claude H Cox 16:46, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

1910 United States Federal Census; Gender, Name, Birth, Residence Detail:Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Lipps, Wise, Virginia; Roll: T624_1652; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0133; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1375665.

Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Deaths, 1912-2014. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. 17:58, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Francis Marion 'Frank' Cox on Find A Grave: Memorial #22681385 18:46, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Record Abstracts

1900 U.S. census, North Fork, McDowell, West Virginia
F M Cox 49, Jul 1850, West Virginia, mine foreman
Mary L Cox 40
Claude H Cox 12
Orpha Cox 11
Sarah Cox 1

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Francis by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:

Jeffrey Cox : Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup I-Y77495, FTDNA kit #B84054

It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Francis:

~12.50% ~12.50% De Anna Overcast : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A163097 [compare], Ancestry member dgover52
~12.50% ~12.50% Mary Rodefer : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A477712 [compare]
~6.25% ~12.50% Shawnee Overcast : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A487052 [compare], Ancestry member dgover52
~3.12% Elwood Cox : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T866493 [compare], FTDNA kit #536160 + Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch NS7497585 [compare]
~1.56% ~6.25% Jamie Barrett : AncestryDNA
~1.56% Jeffrey Cox : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A674486 [compare], FTDNA kit #B84054 + Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch WZ2695431 [compare]