"HISTORY of Widner Township Knox County, Ind.
Written by the Senior Class of Freelandville High School as a project in English Composition under the supervision of the principal of the school and instructor in Senior English, R. R. Miller, 1926 pg. 17.
"In 1820, the brothers Johnathan and Gabriel Cox, arrived from Kentucky. Johnathan was a member of the Baptist Church. He was a man of some education and filled the offices of Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner and also represented the County of Knox in the state Legislature. He was a professor of religion and as he grew in years, he more closely followed the Master. His death was caused by a fall from a wagon, while returning from church. The brother Gabriel lived for a few years in that first little church on the banks of Maria Creek. While living in that little church Austin Cox was born; he grew to young manhood, went through the Civil War, came home to live in Freelandville where he was Postmaster for some years. Gabriel Cox died at middle age, leaving a widow and eleven children..."
Emerine Cox is full sibling of the others, her birth occurring a full 9 months past Gabriel Cox only marriage. Contributor: Lonnie fink (46988519)
Written by the Senior Class of Freelandville High School as a project in English Composition under the supervision of the principal of the school and instructor in Senior English, R. R. Miller, 1926 pg. 17.
"In 1820, the brothers Johnathan and Gabriel Cox, arrived from Kentucky. Johnathan was a member of the Baptist Church. He was a man of some education and filled the offices of Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner and also represented the County of Knox in the state Legislature. He was a professor of religion and as he grew in years, he more closely followed the Master. His death was caused by a fall from a wagon, while returning from church. The brother Gabriel lived for a few years in that first little church on the banks of Maria Creek. While living in that little church Austin Cox was born; he grew to young manhood, went through the Civil War, came home to live in Freelandville where he was Postmaster for some years. Gabriel Cox died at middle age, leaving a widow and eleven children..."
Emerine Cox is full sibling of the others, her birth occurring a full 9 months past Gabriel Cox only marriage. Contributor: Lonnie fink (46988519)
"HISTORY of Widner Township Knox County, Ind.
Written by the Senior Class of Freelandville High School as a project in English Composition under the supervision of the principal of the school and instructor in Senior English, R. R. Miller, 1926 pg. 17.
"In 1820, the brothers Johnathan and Gabriel Cox, arrived from Kentucky. Johnathan was a member of the Baptist Church. He was a man of some education and filled the offices of Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner and also represented the County of Knox in the state Legislature. He was a professor of religion and as he grew in years, he more closely followed the Master. His death was caused by a fall from a wagon, while returning from church. The brother Gabriel lived for a few years in that first little church on the banks of Maria Creek. While living in that little church Austin Cox was born; he grew to young manhood, went through the Civil War, came home to live in Freelandville where he was Postmaster for some years. Gabriel Cox died at middle age, leaving a widow and eleven children..."
Emerine Cox is full sibling of the others, her birth occurring a full 9 months past Gabriel Cox only marriage. Contributor: Lonnie fink (46988519)
Written by the Senior Class of Freelandville High School as a project in English Composition under the supervision of the principal of the school and instructor in Senior English, R. R. Miller, 1926 pg. 17.
"In 1820, the brothers Johnathan and Gabriel Cox, arrived from Kentucky. Johnathan was a member of the Baptist Church. He was a man of some education and filled the offices of Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner and also represented the County of Knox in the state Legislature. He was a professor of religion and as he grew in years, he more closely followed the Master. His death was caused by a fall from a wagon, while returning from church. The brother Gabriel lived for a few years in that first little church on the banks of Maria Creek. While living in that little church Austin Cox was born; he grew to young manhood, went through the Civil War, came home to live in Freelandville where he was Postmaster for some years. Gabriel Cox died at middle age, leaving a widow and eleven children..."
Emerine Cox is full sibling of the others, her birth occurring a full 9 months past Gabriel Cox only marriage. Contributor: Lonnie fink (46988519)
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