Nell Fry (Smith) Cox (1892 - 1989)

Born 6 Nov 1892 in Carter County, Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Melvin Cox Sr — married 13 Aug 1910 (to about 1938) in Carter, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Mar 1989 at age 96 in Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Nell was born in 1892 in Carter County, Tennessee.^[1] She was the daughter of John Smith and Olive Traver.

She married Joseph Cox Sr on August 13, 1910 in Carter County, Tennessee.^[2] He already had a daughter, Nora who sometimes lived with them and sometimes with her grandmother and uncles.

Nell and Joe had eleven children together:

1. Nathan Wade (1911-1970) named after his grandfather^[3]
2. Harry (1913-1981)
3. John (1915-2003}
4. Charlie (1917-1972)
5. Joe, Jr. (1920-2014)
6. Carl (1922-2000)
7. Rosetta (1923-2003) she had 10 children of her own
8. Living Cox
9. Herbert (1928-2009)
10. Fred (1932-2004)
11. Freeman Cox

They divorced sometime between 1935 and 1940.

She passed away on March 18, 1989^[4] and is buried in Crumley Cemetery in Bluff City, Tennessee.^[5]

Birth Date and Location

1900 Census - Sept 1892, Tennessee^[1]

1910 Census -

Social Security Death Index - 6 Nov 1892^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSZB-X9T : accessed 17 April 2019), Nelly F Smith in household of Johnie ? Smith, Civil District 12, Carter, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 137, sheet 2A, family 23, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,560.
2. ↑ Tennessee Marriage Records on Ancestry
3. ↑ "Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2H5-6MS7 : 17 March 2018), Nillie Cox in entry for Nathan Cox, 1911.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYL3-JJX : 20 May 2014), Nellie Cox, 18 Mar 1989; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #80374639

• "Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2H5-6MS7 : 17 March 2018), Nillie Cox in entry for Nathan Cox, 1911.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNRH-GNH : accessed 17 April 2019), Nellie F Cox in household of Joseph M Cox, Civil District 3, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; citing ED 159, sheet 3B, line 70, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1766; FHL microfilm 1,821,766.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP7N-N33 : accessed 17 April 2019), Nellie F Cox in household of Joe M Cox, District 03, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 3, sheet 5A, line 30, family 81, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2281; FHL microfilm 2,342,015.
• "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9N-H38G : 10 January 2019), Nell Smith in entry for John Isaac Cox and Edna Mae Buchanan, 03 Jul 1937; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Bristol, , Virginia, United States, certificate 14199, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4Z1-8S7 : 14 March 2018), Nellie F Cox, Civil District 3, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 82-3, sheet 12B, line 46, family 189, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3937.
• "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1M-JPXP : 10 January 2019), Nellie Smith in entry for Herbert Hoover Gordon Cox and Arizona Nell Potts, 24 Dec 1946; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Bristol, , Virginia, United States, certificate 42522, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
• "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9F-T8Q2 : 10 January 2019), Nellie Frye Smith in entry for Fred Frank Cox and Elsie Gertrude Peters Dayton, 11 Apr 1958; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Bristol, , Virginia, United States, certificate 7141, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.