Lydia (Garrett) Cox (1762 - 1808)

Born 29 Jul 1762 in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of William Cox — married 15 Jun 1780 (to 1808) in Goshen MM, Chester, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 21 Dec 1808 at age 46 in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Lydia Garrett, the daughter of Thomas Garrett and Hannah Yarnall, was born 29 July 1762, and died 21 December 1808.^[1]

On 15 June 1780, she married William Cox.^[2]

Children

1. Hannah Cox, born 29 April 1781, died 22 February 1841, married Joel Smidley
2. Benjamin Cox, born 12 October 1782, died 27 June 1814, married Sarah Woolman
3. Thomas Cox, died in infancy
4. John Cox of Longwood
5. Abner Cox born 16 May 1788, died 9 May 1842, married Sarah Nicholson
6. Thomas Cox
7. Elizabeth Cox born 20 April 1793
8. Levi Cox, born 8 November 1795, married Susanna Hibbard
9. Jonathan Cox, born 16 March 1799, died 24 April 1820
10. Lydia Cox, born 21 January 1802, married Nathan Garrett
11. William Cox, born 17 April 1805, married Abigail Yarnall

Sources

1. ↑ Ashmead, Henry Graham, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884; Chapter 43, pp. 558, 559, 561. A History of Early Settlers in Edgmont Twp., Delaware County, Pennsylvania., https://archive.org/details/historyofdelawar00ashm/page/558/mode/2up
2. ↑ Cox, Henry Miller, 1854-1916; Cocks, George William, b. 1829. History and genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox family. 1912; Cox, John, 1860-1951. History and genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox family. 1912, The Cox family in America : a history and genealogy of the older branches of the family from the appearance of its first representative in this country in 1610, P. 328, https://archive.org/details/coxfamilyinamer00coxgoog/page/n328/mode/2up?q=Garrett