Mrs. Martha Cragun Cox, daughter of one of the early pioneers of southern Utah, died last Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Francis Bunker, in Salt Lake City, following a lingering illness.
Mrs. Cox was born March 3, 1852, at Millcreek, and lived there until 11 years of age, coming to Dixie with her parents in 1863. She was one of the first school teachers here, becoming engaged in that career when she was seventeen years old, and since that time has taught between 45 and 50 years.
After her marriage to Isaiah Cox in the endowment house in Salt Lake, she moved to Overton, Nevada, and a few years later to Bunkerville. She was a third wife and assisted in the support of her family by school teaching in practically every community in which she lived. In 1900, at the call of President A. W. Ivins, she went to Old Mexico with a party from Bunkerville, and remained there for seven or eight years.
She secured her education largely through her own efforts and principally by summer school courses, graduated from the University of Utah. Throughout her life she was an active worker in the church, and has one of the largest genealogical records of any member of the organization.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Rose Bunker, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Francis Bunker, Salt Lake, and two sons, Edward Cox of Salt Lake, and Frank L. Cox of St. George. Four children have preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Sunday in the Emigration ward. Speakers included President Ivins and Joseph Christensen, president of the genealogical society of Utah. Musical numbers were furnished by Salt Lake temple workers and the Relief Society choir of the Salt Lake 30th ward.
Mrs. Cox was born March 3, 1852, at Millcreek, and lived there until 11 years of age, coming to Dixie with her parents in 1863. She was one of the first school teachers here, becoming engaged in that career when she was seventeen years old, and since that time has taught between 45 and 50 years.
After her marriage to Isaiah Cox in the endowment house in Salt Lake, she moved to Overton, Nevada, and a few years later to Bunkerville. She was a third wife and assisted in the support of her family by school teaching in practically every community in which she lived. In 1900, at the call of President A. W. Ivins, she went to Old Mexico with a party from Bunkerville, and remained there for seven or eight years.
She secured her education largely through her own efforts and principally by summer school courses, graduated from the University of Utah. Throughout her life she was an active worker in the church, and has one of the largest genealogical records of any member of the organization.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Rose Bunker, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Francis Bunker, Salt Lake, and two sons, Edward Cox of Salt Lake, and Frank L. Cox of St. George. Four children have preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Sunday in the Emigration ward. Speakers included President Ivins and Joseph Christensen, president of the genealogical society of Utah. Musical numbers were furnished by Salt Lake temple workers and the Relief Society choir of the Salt Lake 30th ward.
Mrs. Martha Cragun Cox, daughter of one of the early pioneers of southern Utah, died last Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Francis Bunker, in Salt Lake City, following a lingering illness.
Mrs. Cox was born March 3, 1852, at Millcreek, and lived there until 11 years of age, coming to Dixie with her parents in 1863. She was one of the first school teachers here, becoming engaged in that career when she was seventeen years old, and since that time has taught between 45 and 50 years.
After her marriage to Isaiah Cox in the endowment house in Salt Lake, she moved to Overton, Nevada, and a few years later to Bunkerville. She was a third wife and assisted in the support of her family by school teaching in practically every community in which she lived. In 1900, at the call of President A. W. Ivins, she went to Old Mexico with a party from Bunkerville, and remained there for seven or eight years.
She secured her education largely through her own efforts and principally by summer school courses, graduated from the University of Utah. Throughout her life she was an active worker in the church, and has one of the largest genealogical records of any member of the organization.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Rose Bunker, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Francis Bunker, Salt Lake, and two sons, Edward Cox of Salt Lake, and Frank L. Cox of St. George. Four children have preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Sunday in the Emigration ward. Speakers included President Ivins and Joseph Christensen, president of the genealogical society of Utah. Musical numbers were furnished by Salt Lake temple workers and the Relief Society choir of the Salt Lake 30th ward.
Mrs. Cox was born March 3, 1852, at Millcreek, and lived there until 11 years of age, coming to Dixie with her parents in 1863. She was one of the first school teachers here, becoming engaged in that career when she was seventeen years old, and since that time has taught between 45 and 50 years.
After her marriage to Isaiah Cox in the endowment house in Salt Lake, she moved to Overton, Nevada, and a few years later to Bunkerville. She was a third wife and assisted in the support of her family by school teaching in practically every community in which she lived. In 1900, at the call of President A. W. Ivins, she went to Old Mexico with a party from Bunkerville, and remained there for seven or eight years.
She secured her education largely through her own efforts and principally by summer school courses, graduated from the University of Utah. Throughout her life she was an active worker in the church, and has one of the largest genealogical records of any member of the organization.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Rose Bunker, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Francis Bunker, Salt Lake, and two sons, Edward Cox of Salt Lake, and Frank L. Cox of St. George. Four children have preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Sunday in the Emigration ward. Speakers included President Ivins and Joseph Christensen, president of the genealogical society of Utah. Musical numbers were furnished by Salt Lake temple workers and the Relief Society choir of the Salt Lake 30th ward.
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