Mar. 17, 1891
Feb. 24, 1919
Rounsevell Mortuary records of Lead state that he died at Camp Mills, Hempstead, New York; born in South Dakota; age 28 years; U.S. soldier; father - Edwin Cox, born Ohio; mother - Selma Nelson, born Sweden; died of influenza; funeral at Assembly Hall in Lead on March 2, 1919
Lead Daily Call newspaper, February 24, 1919 -
The war has exacted a double toll from the Cox family of Lead. Word reached here today that Harley Cox had passed away at 2 o'clock this morning at Mineola, Long island, where for some time past he had been suffering from the effects of an attack of influenza. A few months ago Vogle Cox his brother died at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, a victim of influenza and pneumonia. Mrs. Cox accompanied by her daughter, Pearl Cox, recently graduated as a nurse from St. Joseph's training school, left here Friday for Mineola, on receipt of news that her son was critically ill. She failed to reach him in time to see him alive. If she lost not time enroute, she could not have reached New York before 2 o'clock this afternoon and it would be several hours later before she reached Mineola. Harley Cox was as promising a young man as there was in Lead. He was industrioux, intelligent and dependable. For upwards of twelve years, before entering the war service, he had been connected with the Kuester hardware business here and was highly regarded both by the owners and patrons of the store. He was 27 years of age. The family came from Omaha about thirteen years ago, after the father, Ed Cox, who died a year or more ago, had located here. Besides his mother, Harley Cox leaves two sisters, the Misses Pearl and Margaret Cox, and one brother, William Cox, of Lead. The body will be brought here for burial and probably will arrive Thursday or Friday.
Lead Daily Call, Saturday, March 1, 1919, page 1:
BODY OF HARLEY COX ARRIVES
Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon From Assembly Hall – Military Burial
The body of Harley Cox, who died at Mineola, Long island, Monday last, will arrive on the Burlington about 6 o’clock this evening and will be taken to the Rounsevell undertaking establishment. The mother and sister of deceased, Miss Pearl Cox, who arrived in New York a few hours after Harley died, reached here on the Northwestern today.
Tomorrow the body will be taken to the high school Assembly hall, where funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Baptist church, will be conducted at 3 o’clock. The burial will be under the direction of the local military, the Lead company of Home Guards and the discharged soldiers, sailors and marines taking part. The Guards will be under command of Captain Gaulden and the discharged soldiers will be commanded by Lieutenant Fred Gushurst. The G.A.R. and Spanish War Veterans are invited to attend, as well as the citizens of Lead generally.
The pall bearers will be soldiers who have been discharged from the service.
At Assembly hall the services will consist of an instrumental duet by Mrs. C.E. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox, the Baptist choir will render two selections, and Rev. Hupp will speak briefly.
Interment will be made in South Lead cemetery and the body of Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, several months ago will be removed from its present resting place, so that the two brothers may lie side by side.
Lead Daily Call, Monday, March 3, 1919, page 1:
HARLEY COX LAID AT REST
Military Funeral – Services Held at Assembly Hall
With military honors, Harley Cox, who died after a lingering illness at Hampstead, Long Island, in the army service, was laid at rest yesterday afternoon. The services were held in Assembly hall, whose seating capacity was not large enough to hold the crowd that attended. The funeral procession left the Rounsevell undertaking parlors shortly before 3 o’clock and the services which followed at Assembly hall were opened with a selection by the Baptist choir. Mrs. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox offered an effective duet and two selections were contributed by the choir. Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Lead Baptist church spoke briefly but feelingly, taking as his text John 14: 1-3.
The procession to the Municipal cemetery was headed by the Lead company of Home Guards, with Captain Gaulden in command. These were followed by discharged men of navy, with Ensign J.L. Driscoll in command. Upwards of fifty discharged soldiers in uniform, under command of Lieutenant Fred Gushurst, marched ahead of representatives of the G.A.R. and the Spanish War Veterans.
The military services at the cemetery were conducted by the Home Guards, whose bugler sounded taps and by whom a volley was fired over the grave. Hundreds of people gathered along the line of march and many of them followed the funeral procession to the cemetery. It was as an imposing a burial ceremony as has ever been see in Lead and the large attendance was a striking evidence of the esteem in which the young soldier was held in this community.
The body of his brother, Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service several months ago, will be moved from the place where it now rests and will be placed at the side of Harley Cox.
The remains were accompanied from New York by the mother and siSter of deceased and by Private William J. Ryan, sent as a special escort by the commanding officer at Hampstead.
Active Pallbearers
George S. Bruner
William R. Highland
Herbert Lord
George W. Eckridge
Grant W. Frazier
Edward J. Dingle.
Honorary Pallbearers
Sydney H. Lang, Sgt. Of Pallbearers
Harry B. Rowntree
Ray B. Hammond
Theo. Terrier
Chris J. Pupich
Thomas Poro
Sam S. Dangubich
Metar S. Dangubich
John H. Brelsford
Men in Formation
Lt. Fred Gushurst, Commanding
John Bertolero, 1st Sergeant
S. Sgt. 10 Corp.
5 squads or 40 men
Sailors
Ensign J. Lowell Driscoll, Commanding
Six sailors.
Lead Daily Call, Tuesday, March 4, 1919, page 6:
TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF LEAD
Just these few lines to tell you how much your tender and sympathetic ministrations have meant to us. Your thoughtfulness for us. To all the returned soldiers, sailors and marines, to the Home Guards, G.A.R., and the citizens of Lead and vicinity, to the Baptist choir and the pastor, we say to one and all God bless you for the share you have had with us in the death and burial of our son and brother, Harley Cox.
MRS. SELMA COX,
AND CHILDREN.
Feb. 24, 1919
Rounsevell Mortuary records of Lead state that he died at Camp Mills, Hempstead, New York; born in South Dakota; age 28 years; U.S. soldier; father - Edwin Cox, born Ohio; mother - Selma Nelson, born Sweden; died of influenza; funeral at Assembly Hall in Lead on March 2, 1919
Lead Daily Call newspaper, February 24, 1919 -
The war has exacted a double toll from the Cox family of Lead. Word reached here today that Harley Cox had passed away at 2 o'clock this morning at Mineola, Long island, where for some time past he had been suffering from the effects of an attack of influenza. A few months ago Vogle Cox his brother died at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, a victim of influenza and pneumonia. Mrs. Cox accompanied by her daughter, Pearl Cox, recently graduated as a nurse from St. Joseph's training school, left here Friday for Mineola, on receipt of news that her son was critically ill. She failed to reach him in time to see him alive. If she lost not time enroute, she could not have reached New York before 2 o'clock this afternoon and it would be several hours later before she reached Mineola. Harley Cox was as promising a young man as there was in Lead. He was industrioux, intelligent and dependable. For upwards of twelve years, before entering the war service, he had been connected with the Kuester hardware business here and was highly regarded both by the owners and patrons of the store. He was 27 years of age. The family came from Omaha about thirteen years ago, after the father, Ed Cox, who died a year or more ago, had located here. Besides his mother, Harley Cox leaves two sisters, the Misses Pearl and Margaret Cox, and one brother, William Cox, of Lead. The body will be brought here for burial and probably will arrive Thursday or Friday.
Lead Daily Call, Saturday, March 1, 1919, page 1:
BODY OF HARLEY COX ARRIVES
Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon From Assembly Hall – Military Burial
The body of Harley Cox, who died at Mineola, Long island, Monday last, will arrive on the Burlington about 6 o’clock this evening and will be taken to the Rounsevell undertaking establishment. The mother and sister of deceased, Miss Pearl Cox, who arrived in New York a few hours after Harley died, reached here on the Northwestern today.
Tomorrow the body will be taken to the high school Assembly hall, where funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Baptist church, will be conducted at 3 o’clock. The burial will be under the direction of the local military, the Lead company of Home Guards and the discharged soldiers, sailors and marines taking part. The Guards will be under command of Captain Gaulden and the discharged soldiers will be commanded by Lieutenant Fred Gushurst. The G.A.R. and Spanish War Veterans are invited to attend, as well as the citizens of Lead generally.
The pall bearers will be soldiers who have been discharged from the service.
At Assembly hall the services will consist of an instrumental duet by Mrs. C.E. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox, the Baptist choir will render two selections, and Rev. Hupp will speak briefly.
Interment will be made in South Lead cemetery and the body of Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, several months ago will be removed from its present resting place, so that the two brothers may lie side by side.
Lead Daily Call, Monday, March 3, 1919, page 1:
HARLEY COX LAID AT REST
Military Funeral – Services Held at Assembly Hall
With military honors, Harley Cox, who died after a lingering illness at Hampstead, Long Island, in the army service, was laid at rest yesterday afternoon. The services were held in Assembly hall, whose seating capacity was not large enough to hold the crowd that attended. The funeral procession left the Rounsevell undertaking parlors shortly before 3 o’clock and the services which followed at Assembly hall were opened with a selection by the Baptist choir. Mrs. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox offered an effective duet and two selections were contributed by the choir. Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Lead Baptist church spoke briefly but feelingly, taking as his text John 14: 1-3.
The procession to the Municipal cemetery was headed by the Lead company of Home Guards, with Captain Gaulden in command. These were followed by discharged men of navy, with Ensign J.L. Driscoll in command. Upwards of fifty discharged soldiers in uniform, under command of Lieutenant Fred Gushurst, marched ahead of representatives of the G.A.R. and the Spanish War Veterans.
The military services at the cemetery were conducted by the Home Guards, whose bugler sounded taps and by whom a volley was fired over the grave. Hundreds of people gathered along the line of march and many of them followed the funeral procession to the cemetery. It was as an imposing a burial ceremony as has ever been see in Lead and the large attendance was a striking evidence of the esteem in which the young soldier was held in this community.
The body of his brother, Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service several months ago, will be moved from the place where it now rests and will be placed at the side of Harley Cox.
The remains were accompanied from New York by the mother and siSter of deceased and by Private William J. Ryan, sent as a special escort by the commanding officer at Hampstead.
Active Pallbearers
George S. Bruner
William R. Highland
Herbert Lord
George W. Eckridge
Grant W. Frazier
Edward J. Dingle.
Honorary Pallbearers
Sydney H. Lang, Sgt. Of Pallbearers
Harry B. Rowntree
Ray B. Hammond
Theo. Terrier
Chris J. Pupich
Thomas Poro
Sam S. Dangubich
Metar S. Dangubich
John H. Brelsford
Men in Formation
Lt. Fred Gushurst, Commanding
John Bertolero, 1st Sergeant
S. Sgt. 10 Corp.
5 squads or 40 men
Sailors
Ensign J. Lowell Driscoll, Commanding
Six sailors.
Lead Daily Call, Tuesday, March 4, 1919, page 6:
TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF LEAD
Just these few lines to tell you how much your tender and sympathetic ministrations have meant to us. Your thoughtfulness for us. To all the returned soldiers, sailors and marines, to the Home Guards, G.A.R., and the citizens of Lead and vicinity, to the Baptist choir and the pastor, we say to one and all God bless you for the share you have had with us in the death and burial of our son and brother, Harley Cox.
MRS. SELMA COX,
AND CHILDREN.
Mar. 17, 1891
Feb. 24, 1919
Rounsevell Mortuary records of Lead state that he died at Camp Mills, Hempstead, New York; born in South Dakota; age 28 years; U.S. soldier; father - Edwin Cox, born Ohio; mother - Selma Nelson, born Sweden; died of influenza; funeral at Assembly Hall in Lead on March 2, 1919
Lead Daily Call newspaper, February 24, 1919 -
The war has exacted a double toll from the Cox family of Lead. Word reached here today that Harley Cox had passed away at 2 o'clock this morning at Mineola, Long island, where for some time past he had been suffering from the effects of an attack of influenza. A few months ago Vogle Cox his brother died at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, a victim of influenza and pneumonia. Mrs. Cox accompanied by her daughter, Pearl Cox, recently graduated as a nurse from St. Joseph's training school, left here Friday for Mineola, on receipt of news that her son was critically ill. She failed to reach him in time to see him alive. If she lost not time enroute, she could not have reached New York before 2 o'clock this afternoon and it would be several hours later before she reached Mineola. Harley Cox was as promising a young man as there was in Lead. He was industrioux, intelligent and dependable. For upwards of twelve years, before entering the war service, he had been connected with the Kuester hardware business here and was highly regarded both by the owners and patrons of the store. He was 27 years of age. The family came from Omaha about thirteen years ago, after the father, Ed Cox, who died a year or more ago, had located here. Besides his mother, Harley Cox leaves two sisters, the Misses Pearl and Margaret Cox, and one brother, William Cox, of Lead. The body will be brought here for burial and probably will arrive Thursday or Friday.
Lead Daily Call, Saturday, March 1, 1919, page 1:
BODY OF HARLEY COX ARRIVES
Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon From Assembly Hall – Military Burial
The body of Harley Cox, who died at Mineola, Long island, Monday last, will arrive on the Burlington about 6 o’clock this evening and will be taken to the Rounsevell undertaking establishment. The mother and sister of deceased, Miss Pearl Cox, who arrived in New York a few hours after Harley died, reached here on the Northwestern today.
Tomorrow the body will be taken to the high school Assembly hall, where funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Baptist church, will be conducted at 3 o’clock. The burial will be under the direction of the local military, the Lead company of Home Guards and the discharged soldiers, sailors and marines taking part. The Guards will be under command of Captain Gaulden and the discharged soldiers will be commanded by Lieutenant Fred Gushurst. The G.A.R. and Spanish War Veterans are invited to attend, as well as the citizens of Lead generally.
The pall bearers will be soldiers who have been discharged from the service.
At Assembly hall the services will consist of an instrumental duet by Mrs. C.E. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox, the Baptist choir will render two selections, and Rev. Hupp will speak briefly.
Interment will be made in South Lead cemetery and the body of Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, several months ago will be removed from its present resting place, so that the two brothers may lie side by side.
Lead Daily Call, Monday, March 3, 1919, page 1:
HARLEY COX LAID AT REST
Military Funeral – Services Held at Assembly Hall
With military honors, Harley Cox, who died after a lingering illness at Hampstead, Long Island, in the army service, was laid at rest yesterday afternoon. The services were held in Assembly hall, whose seating capacity was not large enough to hold the crowd that attended. The funeral procession left the Rounsevell undertaking parlors shortly before 3 o’clock and the services which followed at Assembly hall were opened with a selection by the Baptist choir. Mrs. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox offered an effective duet and two selections were contributed by the choir. Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Lead Baptist church spoke briefly but feelingly, taking as his text John 14: 1-3.
The procession to the Municipal cemetery was headed by the Lead company of Home Guards, with Captain Gaulden in command. These were followed by discharged men of navy, with Ensign J.L. Driscoll in command. Upwards of fifty discharged soldiers in uniform, under command of Lieutenant Fred Gushurst, marched ahead of representatives of the G.A.R. and the Spanish War Veterans.
The military services at the cemetery were conducted by the Home Guards, whose bugler sounded taps and by whom a volley was fired over the grave. Hundreds of people gathered along the line of march and many of them followed the funeral procession to the cemetery. It was as an imposing a burial ceremony as has ever been see in Lead and the large attendance was a striking evidence of the esteem in which the young soldier was held in this community.
The body of his brother, Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service several months ago, will be moved from the place where it now rests and will be placed at the side of Harley Cox.
The remains were accompanied from New York by the mother and siSter of deceased and by Private William J. Ryan, sent as a special escort by the commanding officer at Hampstead.
Active Pallbearers
George S. Bruner
William R. Highland
Herbert Lord
George W. Eckridge
Grant W. Frazier
Edward J. Dingle.
Honorary Pallbearers
Sydney H. Lang, Sgt. Of Pallbearers
Harry B. Rowntree
Ray B. Hammond
Theo. Terrier
Chris J. Pupich
Thomas Poro
Sam S. Dangubich
Metar S. Dangubich
John H. Brelsford
Men in Formation
Lt. Fred Gushurst, Commanding
John Bertolero, 1st Sergeant
S. Sgt. 10 Corp.
5 squads or 40 men
Sailors
Ensign J. Lowell Driscoll, Commanding
Six sailors.
Lead Daily Call, Tuesday, March 4, 1919, page 6:
TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF LEAD
Just these few lines to tell you how much your tender and sympathetic ministrations have meant to us. Your thoughtfulness for us. To all the returned soldiers, sailors and marines, to the Home Guards, G.A.R., and the citizens of Lead and vicinity, to the Baptist choir and the pastor, we say to one and all God bless you for the share you have had with us in the death and burial of our son and brother, Harley Cox.
MRS. SELMA COX,
AND CHILDREN.
Feb. 24, 1919
Rounsevell Mortuary records of Lead state that he died at Camp Mills, Hempstead, New York; born in South Dakota; age 28 years; U.S. soldier; father - Edwin Cox, born Ohio; mother - Selma Nelson, born Sweden; died of influenza; funeral at Assembly Hall in Lead on March 2, 1919
Lead Daily Call newspaper, February 24, 1919 -
The war has exacted a double toll from the Cox family of Lead. Word reached here today that Harley Cox had passed away at 2 o'clock this morning at Mineola, Long island, where for some time past he had been suffering from the effects of an attack of influenza. A few months ago Vogle Cox his brother died at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, a victim of influenza and pneumonia. Mrs. Cox accompanied by her daughter, Pearl Cox, recently graduated as a nurse from St. Joseph's training school, left here Friday for Mineola, on receipt of news that her son was critically ill. She failed to reach him in time to see him alive. If she lost not time enroute, she could not have reached New York before 2 o'clock this afternoon and it would be several hours later before she reached Mineola. Harley Cox was as promising a young man as there was in Lead. He was industrioux, intelligent and dependable. For upwards of twelve years, before entering the war service, he had been connected with the Kuester hardware business here and was highly regarded both by the owners and patrons of the store. He was 27 years of age. The family came from Omaha about thirteen years ago, after the father, Ed Cox, who died a year or more ago, had located here. Besides his mother, Harley Cox leaves two sisters, the Misses Pearl and Margaret Cox, and one brother, William Cox, of Lead. The body will be brought here for burial and probably will arrive Thursday or Friday.
Lead Daily Call, Saturday, March 1, 1919, page 1:
BODY OF HARLEY COX ARRIVES
Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon From Assembly Hall – Military Burial
The body of Harley Cox, who died at Mineola, Long island, Monday last, will arrive on the Burlington about 6 o’clock this evening and will be taken to the Rounsevell undertaking establishment. The mother and sister of deceased, Miss Pearl Cox, who arrived in New York a few hours after Harley died, reached here on the Northwestern today.
Tomorrow the body will be taken to the high school Assembly hall, where funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Baptist church, will be conducted at 3 o’clock. The burial will be under the direction of the local military, the Lead company of Home Guards and the discharged soldiers, sailors and marines taking part. The Guards will be under command of Captain Gaulden and the discharged soldiers will be commanded by Lieutenant Fred Gushurst. The G.A.R. and Spanish War Veterans are invited to attend, as well as the citizens of Lead generally.
The pall bearers will be soldiers who have been discharged from the service.
At Assembly hall the services will consist of an instrumental duet by Mrs. C.E. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox, the Baptist choir will render two selections, and Rev. Hupp will speak briefly.
Interment will be made in South Lead cemetery and the body of Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, several months ago will be removed from its present resting place, so that the two brothers may lie side by side.
Lead Daily Call, Monday, March 3, 1919, page 1:
HARLEY COX LAID AT REST
Military Funeral – Services Held at Assembly Hall
With military honors, Harley Cox, who died after a lingering illness at Hampstead, Long Island, in the army service, was laid at rest yesterday afternoon. The services were held in Assembly hall, whose seating capacity was not large enough to hold the crowd that attended. The funeral procession left the Rounsevell undertaking parlors shortly before 3 o’clock and the services which followed at Assembly hall were opened with a selection by the Baptist choir. Mrs. Twitchell and Mrs. Mattox offered an effective duet and two selections were contributed by the choir. Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of the Lead Baptist church spoke briefly but feelingly, taking as his text John 14: 1-3.
The procession to the Municipal cemetery was headed by the Lead company of Home Guards, with Captain Gaulden in command. These were followed by discharged men of navy, with Ensign J.L. Driscoll in command. Upwards of fifty discharged soldiers in uniform, under command of Lieutenant Fred Gushurst, marched ahead of representatives of the G.A.R. and the Spanish War Veterans.
The military services at the cemetery were conducted by the Home Guards, whose bugler sounded taps and by whom a volley was fired over the grave. Hundreds of people gathered along the line of march and many of them followed the funeral procession to the cemetery. It was as an imposing a burial ceremony as has ever been see in Lead and the large attendance was a striking evidence of the esteem in which the young soldier was held in this community.
The body of his brother, Voegel Cox, who also died in the army service several months ago, will be moved from the place where it now rests and will be placed at the side of Harley Cox.
The remains were accompanied from New York by the mother and siSter of deceased and by Private William J. Ryan, sent as a special escort by the commanding officer at Hampstead.
Active Pallbearers
George S. Bruner
William R. Highland
Herbert Lord
George W. Eckridge
Grant W. Frazier
Edward J. Dingle.
Honorary Pallbearers
Sydney H. Lang, Sgt. Of Pallbearers
Harry B. Rowntree
Ray B. Hammond
Theo. Terrier
Chris J. Pupich
Thomas Poro
Sam S. Dangubich
Metar S. Dangubich
John H. Brelsford
Men in Formation
Lt. Fred Gushurst, Commanding
John Bertolero, 1st Sergeant
S. Sgt. 10 Corp.
5 squads or 40 men
Sailors
Ensign J. Lowell Driscoll, Commanding
Six sailors.
Lead Daily Call, Tuesday, March 4, 1919, page 6:
TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF LEAD
Just these few lines to tell you how much your tender and sympathetic ministrations have meant to us. Your thoughtfulness for us. To all the returned soldiers, sailors and marines, to the Home Guards, G.A.R., and the citizens of Lead and vicinity, to the Baptist choir and the pastor, we say to one and all God bless you for the share you have had with us in the death and burial of our son and brother, Harley Cox.
MRS. SELMA COX,
AND CHILDREN.
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