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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 114 Has served as president of the Y. M. M, I. A. is now one ol the presidents of the Forty-eighth Quorum of Seventies. Was married in Manti Janury 12, 1873, to Elizabeth A., daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Johnson, born in Manti, January They have two children: Francis M., Jr., born 11), 1855. in Arizona August 15, 1877, and Mary Y., born in Manti July 21, 1880. in 181)7. and the Elders' Quorum, and (QOX, FREDERICK W., SIC, farmer, of Manti, son of (Whiting), born in Windom, Foliage county, Ohio, November 0, 183(J. In 1852 the family came to Manti, crossing the plains in an oxtrain, Capt. Brown's company. After the arrival of the family here our subject worked on the farm until he grew up, when he secured a farm of his own and also engaged in lumbering in the neighboring canyons. During the Indian wars he was a Captain, took his part with the others and was in five different engagements, in one of which Warren S. Snow, Orson Taylor and John Frantsen were wounded. April 8, 18G2, he went back to the Missouri river with John Murdock after emigrants, returning in October. Mr. ('ox was a policeman a number of years and a member of the City Council two years. He has always been active in church work, and for 15 years was one of the Presidents of the 48th Quorum of Seventies. Mr. Cox married two wives. First, Lucy Their children Allen, granddaughter of Isaac Morley. are Frederick W., Marion A., Arthur, Ermina, Olive A., Rosalind and Louis S. Second wife, Lucy A., daughter Their children are of Jos. W. and Iiebecca Coolidge. Howard L., Bruce E., Rebecca E., Alvira and Roy. Mr. Cox is one of the representative citizens of Manti and is well liked by tin- people he has lived with 45 years. \ Frederick W. and Emeline /QoX, GEORGE BYRON, farmer of Manti, is a son of Frederick W. and Jemima (Losee) Cox, born in Pottawataniie county, la., November 17, 184!>. In 1852 the family came in an ox train across the plains and located in Manti, where George was raised to farm work. When lie grew up he secured a farm of his own, and now \ |
