Posted on: Crawford Co. Il Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/CrawfordObits/10177 Surname: Fox, Wilson, James ------------------------- (Robinson, Illinois newspaper) March 10, 1922 VETERAN WAS CALLED JOHN CHRISTIAN FOX WAS SOLDIER IN CIVIL WAR His end came last Friday He was Eighty-One years of age- He had been married 60 years- Funeral Sunday Afternoon- After a confinement to his home of some weeks, a condition of growing weakness extending over some years, John Christian Fox, a veteran of the Civil War, was called by death on Friday last. He was eighty-one years, one month and twenty five days old. He and his bereaved wife had spent sixty years of happy wedded life mutually enjoying the blessings and discomforts of life without complaint. Comrade Fox was a native of Pennsylvania, from which State he came from to Indiana, from there going as a volunteer to the defense of the Union, serving until the close of the war. With his family he came to Robinson some forty years ago, and had lived here an (sp) honored and respected citizens ever since. Mr. Fox is survived by a wife and six children, who are as follows: Wm. Fox of Cincinnati, Ohio; H.D. Fox, of Riverside, California; H.S. Fox, of Chicago; C.M. Fox, of Dayton, Ind.; Major R. Fox, of this city, and Mrs. Anna Bivins of Davenport, Iowa. H.D. Fox who lives in California, was not able to attend the funeral. During the long residence of Mr. Fox in the city he was esteemed by all who knew him as a good citizen, and by his comrades of the war, he had that esteem which he extended to others who went forth to do or die in that sanguinary conflict. The funeral took place Sunday at 2:00 p.m., from the M.E. Church, of which he had long been a member, conducted by the pastor Rev. McKown, assisted by Rev. White, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and was attended by a large number of friends, who thus testified their esteem for the good man and sympathy for the bereaved family. The remains were conveyed to the old cemetery for interment, escorted by a body of the American Legion. There were in line at the grave an even dozen of the old veterans who conducted the rites of the G.A.R. as the remains were committed to the tomb.