STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
134 Van Buren St.
Chicago
Page 124
(Deceased)
After nearly six thousand years, the latter clause of the nineteenth verse of the ninth chapter of Genesis has found a beautiful exemplification in the life of the late Jackson Cox. He was a native of Scott county, Illinois, and was born near Oxville, August 3, 1843. There was but little, save hard labor, connected with his early life, and on August 8, 1867, he was married to Miss Rheulina Bunch. To them fifteen children were born, six of whom have long since passed through "the valley and the shadow." Five died in infancy, and Ida Drucilla died September 1, 1900. The nine living are: Irene E., James, Edward, Ezra A., George N., Leonard T., Mary J., Viola A. And Almon D.
Jackson Cox was an honest, upright industrious citizen, and among the people whom he knew and with whom he associated numbered his friends by the score. He was a hard working, economical man and managed to accumulate considerable property, and at the time of his death owned a good farm in the neighborhood of Oxville. For years he has been suffering from heart trouble. In September, 1902, his condition became serious and he gradually sank lower and lower until his death, December 11. The funeral was conducted from his late home, December 12, Rev. A. W. Murray of Winchester, officiating.
Mr. Cox was a Primitive Baptist; had lived an unpretentious, yet good life, and in answering the summons, "come up higher," closed a successful career and took from Scott county one of its land marks and its pioneers.