Matilda (Kaufman) Fox (abt. 1814 - 1884)

Born about 1814 in Bavaria, Germany

Wife of Abraham Fox — married 1833 in Bavaria [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 10 Apr 1884 at about age 70 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

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Biography

Matilda (Kaufman) Fox was born in Bavaria around 1814.

She married Rabbi Abraham Fox. Their children included 7 sons and 2 daughters [from Abraham's obituary he outlived son Alexander, leaving 6 sons and 2 daughters when he passed in 1891):

1. Jonas Fox b. 1836, d. 1919 in Birmingham, Alabama
2. Solomon Fox b. 1838 Marseilles, France, d.1922 Detroit, Michigan)
3. Elizabeth Fox b. 1839
4. Alexander Fox b. 1841 Bavaria, d. 20 March 1886 Cincinnati, Ohio
5. Samuel David Fox b. 10 Mar 1842 in Axlinger Bavaria, Germany, d.1917
6. Simon (b. 6 Nov 1846 Germany, d. 2 May 1913 Cleveland, Ohio)^[1]
7. Julia (Fox) Bing b. 6 Nov 1846 Algiers, Africa, d. 25 Mar 1915 Cincinnati, Ohio^[2]
8. Michl Fox b. 8 Aug 1850 France, d. 6 Dec 1916 Sullivan, Illinois
9. Julius Harry Fox b. 1857, d. 25 July 1942 Cincinnati, Ohio, m. Flora Medcalf^[3]

Matilda died at age 70 in 1884 at 409 Court St., Cincinnati, and was buried in Walnut Hills United Jewish Cemetery, Evanston, Hamilton County, Ohio.^[4]

Obituary in The Cincinnati Enquirer 13 Apr 1884 (Sunday): "FOX – Matilda, wife of Abram Fox, at 3 A.M. Friday, in her 70th year. Funeral Sunday, April 18th, at 3 P.M. sharp, from her son-in-law’s residence, No. 409 West Court street. No flowers."^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X845-RFN : 8 December 2014), Abraham Fox in entry for Simon Fox, 02 May 1913; citing Cleveland. Cuyahoga, Ohio, reference fn 26712; FHL microfilm 1,953,647.
2. ↑ "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8XG-788 : 8 December 2014), Abraham Fox in entry for Julia Bing, 25 Mar 1915; citing Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, reference fn 15615; FHL microfilm 1,983,343.
3. ↑ Obituary for Julius H. Fox in the Cincinnati Enquirer 26 Jul 1942 https://www.newspapers.com/image/100466115/?terms=julius%2Bfox
4. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SS-KBYC : 15 March 2016), Matilda Fox, 1884; Burial, Evanston, Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America, Walnut Hills United Jewish Cemetery; citing record ID 154549603, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
5. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/image/31364588/?terms=Matilda%2BFox

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCLK-4CX : 13 December 2017), Matilda Fox in entry for Abraham Fox, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M62Z-BTZ : 12 April 2016), Matilda Fox in household of Abraham Fox, Ohio, United States; citing p. 11, family 104, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,710.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8M1-QKV : 15 September 2017), Matildia Fox in household of Abraham Fox, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 164, sheet 460A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1027; FHL microfilm 1,255,027.