This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COX, MONTRAY, WILSON, PETTIGREW, GATLIFFE, DUNCAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GMB.2ACE/642.1 Message Board Post: Here is some "stuff" that may or may not help. Annals of Platte County, 1897 Feb. 13, 1869- Jacob Cox died. T. H. TALBOTT administered. Bond $25,000. (One of the highest I have seen in the book) He was born in TN, removed to Indiana and th ence to Platte, settling near settling near New Market. He married four times: 1st, a GATLIFFE; 2. a DUNCAN; 3d, Susan PETTIGREW; and 4th, Sept. 18, 1856, Mellisa WILSON, who still lives. Children by his first wife (GATLIFFE): James, Sallie, Cyrene, John, Emily, Samantha (2nd wife). Henry, Henrietta (3rd wife). By 4th wife (WILSON) Oliver S. Cox Speed S. Cox, m'd Julia WILLIAMS, dr. of Bud. Katie Cox, m'd Jan. 23, 1882, A. Ben Siler, son of Elias. Looking at the Siler family, it appears his name was Andrew Ben or Andrew Benjamin. I believe it to be the latter. Perhaps Melissa and Katie were "known as" these names. Your letter may indicate she was married to WIlliam Wilson and he addressed her as mother and them addressed them both. Remember, some of his info came from family members and is only as good as it's source. There is another entry on Jacob in Nov, 1861. He was one of a number of New Market residents who were apprehended by soldiers from Ft. Leavenworth under orders of General Hunter, due to their southern sympathies. With the soldiers came "red-legs" and thieves to help themselves to horses, carraiges and any other valuables they could carry away. The military permitted the outlaws to steal without hindrance. The prisoners were kept on parole for 2 weeks and then discharged. Addendum of the Annals of Platte County: Angelina Cox, nee Montray, fell dead of apoplexy May 13, 1899. She was the widow of Leroy Cox of New Market. She has a daughter, Mrs. Copeland and brothers John and George Montray of OK. Taken from Pleasant Ridge Cementery COX- Jacob b. 2-29-1796 d. 2-13-1867 Jacob Presley, son of J. and M., b. 11-21-1863, d. 1-16-1870 Melissa Wilson, b. 6-6-1836, d. 1-24-1913, dau. of Azariah Speed Smith, 1859-1941 Under another page is info on Cox cementery which states it is north of Pleasant Ridge. Two different people transcibed the info so the first was probably improperly included. It is basically the same info. It does add: COX: Hellen Mar, wife of Jacob Cox, d. 11-11-1840, aged 65 years, 3 months, 1 day. (It is believed that she was the mother of Jacob Cox and the wife of an earlier Jacob Cox, probably the father of the Jacob buried here. It also states that Jacob Cox had 11 children. (the one with 4 wives.) This cementery, at the time of print, was owned my Jacobs granddaughter, Catherine Cox McAdow and her husband Sam McAdow. I only include their names as it is printed in public records. ============================================ Ok, you got that. Now to make things real confusing, I found this in "History of Buchanan County, 1881". 1048 BIOGRAPHICAL. B. F. HIGDON, farmer, section 28, postoffice Wallace, was born in Ohio, September 9, 1827. He received a good education, and followed teaching school for some time, then learned the carpenter trade, after which he engaged in the grocery business, continuing for four years. He then read law, and, in due time, was admitted to the bar, and practiced sixteen years. He married, in 1848, Miss Minnie J. Demarree, a native of Indiana, by whom he had three children : Eaber, Lewis F., Anna E. Of these, two survive. His wife died in 1856. In 1857, he was married to Nancy Ash-craft, by whom he had one child, Evan. They separated in 1860. He. was divorced from her on account of desertion. He then, in 1862, married Elizabeth Andrews, a native of Missouri. They had one child, .Mary E. This wife died .in 1872. September 16, 1876, he married Mrs. Mahala Cox, with whom he has lived happily, and is well satisfied with his condition in life. He is a member of the .Methodist Episcopal Church. He s! erved one year, during the civil war, in Company I, Twenty-fifth Illinois Regiment. He then came home, and recruited a company in the Missouri State Militia, under Colonel Denny. He commanded this company, serving one year. Had three horses shot under him, but he received no wounds- His wife was born in Todd County, Kentucky, February 20, 1816. She was raised on a farm. Her education-was very limited. She was first married to Guilford Montray, January 5, 1836. He was a native of Kentucky, born November 17, 1814. By this marriage they had seven children : John W., born April 22, 1837 : William R., born March 23, 1839, died May 18, 1867 ; George M., born December 20, 1840; Louisa E., born October 23, 1842, died January 14, 1874; Angeline, born August 28, 1844; Meret Y., born September 11, 1846, died January 20, 1854; Mary B., born November 28, 1848. Her husband died February 21, 1852. She then married Jacob B. Cox, July 11, 1852. From this union were born two children : Jacob A., born March 4, 1853, being the day Franklin Pierce was inaugurated President of the United States ; and Mahala A., born July 15, 1855. She was divorced from Jacob B. Cox., on account of poligamy. She then, in 1869, married Hugh Mathews, a native of Iowa. In less than one year she discovered that he had a wife in Iowa, and she discarded him. September 16, 1876, she married B. F. Higdon, with whom she has since continued to live very happily. She has a lifetime dower in fifty-six acres of land, which is well improved, and in gopd state of cultivation, and provided with a good house and barn. She is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. L Geesh, I just found out my new scanner will let me copy and paste after scanning from a book. Thank goodness. Anyway, I would have to think the Jacob Cox are one in the same and with the poligamy mentioned above, some did not know of or did not speak of his marraige to Mahala. She seemed to have a problem with that. It appears though to me that it does not give Mahalas maiden name as it shows her first marraige was to a Montray. I will let you figure it out! Chuck