PHOTOGRAPHS
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Sandford Cox,
from Cox Newsletter # 15
(I would greatly
appreciate being contacted by anyone who knows the origin
of this picture) |
Unidentified man, from
Cox Newsletter #11
Photo appears to date from 1850s |
I suspect that
the man on the right is the same as the man on the left, based on
resemblances of the nose, mouth, chin and at least general similarity of the
ear and hair; the latter picture seems to date from the 1850s, perhaps about 1855, the time of his marriage
of Sandford Cox (1811-1877) and Charity Davis;
the former picture seems to be of a younger man, perhaps in his late 20s
(i.e. about 1840) |
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The above photograph was
published by Ruth Anna Hicks in Issue 11 of the Cox Clan Newsletter (April
1996), with the indication that the photograph was taken in Concordia,
Kansas and that she suspected the two men were brothers. In Issue 12,
she indicated that no one had provided an identification, but that she
suspected that the couples were David and Pleasant Cox and their wives.
David Fletcher Cox (1840-1928) and his wife Harriet E. (Smith) Cox
(1842-1926), moved to Cloud County, Kansas in 1871, Concordia being
the county seat of Cloud County. They moved to the vicinity of
Wenatchee, Washington after the death of their daughter Lucy in 1900 or
1901. Pleasant Freeland Cox (1844-1920) and his wife Florinda (Smith)
Cox (1846-1924) stayed in Rock Island County, but there seems to have been
visiting back in forth. |
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In 2003, Everett Sturdy of Rancho Palos Verdes, California sent me the picture on the left, showing portraits of
David and Harriet Cox that belonged to his late wife Betty (Bremer) Sturdy,
a great-granddaughter of David and Harriet. Enlargements are shown
below. I appreciate Mr. Sturdy's generosity in sharing the photograph. |
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It appears that Mr. Sturdy's
photograph confirms the identities proposed by Ruth Anna Hicks and clarifies
that David and Harriet are on the right hand side of the original picture,
while Pleasant and Florinda are on the left hand side of the photograph.
I estimate that the original picture was taken about 1900, or not long
before David and Harriet left Kansas. The portraits owned by Mr.
Sturdy presumably date from the 1880s. |
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