Minister John Willis Burton Cox

1825 - 1899  (73 years)

• Name	John Willis Burton Cox
  Title	Minister
  Nickname	Burt
  Born	19 Dec 1825	Rutherford County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Apr 1899	Mercer County, Missouri
  Buried	Laughlin Cemetery, Mercer County, Missouri
  Person ID	I616	Thompson
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2012

  
  

  Father	Arthur Willison Cox,   b. 25 Nov 1784, Baltimore, Maryland ,   d. 24 Jul 1865, Mercer, Mercer County, Missouri  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Susannah M Laughlin,   b. 10 Jan 1787, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia ,   d. 29 Jul 1862, Mercer County, Missouri  (Age 75 years)
  Married	17 Dec 1807	Washington, Virginia
  Family ID	F224	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Jane Rockhold,   b. 26 May 1838, Carroll, Carroll County, Missouri ,   d. 30 May 1925, Mercer County, Missouri  (Age 87 years)
  Married	23 Oct 1856	Mercer County, Missouri
  Notes	Soon after they were married Bert and Mary took a baby boy by the name of Sam B. Baker to rear. Bert and Mary also took to rear Tom Qualls and Tobe Molen. Married: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Mary Jane Rockhold Name: Mary Jane Rockhold Gender: Female Birth Place: MO Birth Year: 1838 Spouse Name: John Willis Cox Spouse Birth Place: TN Spouse Birth Year: 1825 Marriage Year: 1856 Marriage State: MO Number Pages: 1
  Children	1. Jarett Madison Cox,   b. 27 Jul 1857, Mercer, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 31 Jul 1938  (Age 81 years) + 2. Nancy Ann Cox,   b. 05 Jan 1859, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 03 Feb 1937, Rawlins County, Kansas  (Age 78 years)   3. Elurysey Eleanor Cox,   b. 21 Nov 1860, Mercer, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 30 Aug 1913  (Age 52 years)   4. Lloyd Porter Cox,   b. 03 Sep 1862, Mercer, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 17 Oct 1932  (Age 69 years) + 5. Jasper Alexander Cox,   b. 17 Oct 1864, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 29 Jan 1919  (Age 54 years) + 6. Elizabeth Jane Cox,   b. 20 Apr 1866, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 20 Nov 1898  (Age 32 years) + 7. Mary Viola Madora Cox,   b. 18 Mar 1869, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 16 Jul 1934, Mercer County, Missouri  (Age 65 years) + 8. Thomas Willis Cox,   b. 1872,   d. 04 Sep 1960  (Age 88 years)   9. Tipton Burton Cox,   b. 1876, Mercer, Mercer County, Missouri ,   d. 12 Jan 1880  (Age 4 years)
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2012
  Family ID	F214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		John Willis Burton Cox John Willis Burton Cox
  		John Willis Burton Cox Family Front: Reverend John Willis Burton Cox, Virgil Brown and Mary Jane (Rockhold) Cox. Back: Eleanor Cox, Elizabeth Jane (Cox) Brown and Mary Viola Cox.

  
  

  Documents		1880 United States Federal Census Record - Sommerset, Mercer County, Missouri - Page 15
  		1860 United States Federal Census Record - Somerset, Mercer County, Missouri - Page 102

  
  

  Headstones

  John Willis Burton Cox Tombstone J.W.B. Cox Died April 24, 1899 Aged 73Y. 4M. 5D. Husband of M.J. Cox

  
  

  Histories

  John Willis Burton Cox Family Mercer County Pioneer Traces Vol I, Page 213, Wyona (Ivan) Cox

  
  

• Notes

  1860 Census on file. Tombstone reads "JWB Cox died Apr. 24 1899 aged 73y 4m 5d". Also found notes stating John W B Cox was born in Kentucky. He was licensed to preach in 1873 and ordained into the Baptist Church in 1875. Obit: Obituary J.W.B. Cox was born December 19th, 1826, and departed this life April 24 at 6 o'clock, 1899, aged 73 years, 4 month and 6 days. He was born in the state of Tennessee, and at the age of 11 years moved to Jackson Co., MO with his father and mother and seven brothers and sisters, he being the seventh. James the oldes, Jarret T. Mary Ann, Hugh P., Elisabeth Jane, Sarah C., Margaret E. and J.W.B. Cox are the names of the family of Wilson and Susannah Cox and they have all passed away except Margaret, who is only waiting for her lord to call her home. At the age of 17 J.W.B. Cox moved to Mercer Co., where he made his home until God called him away. He joined the Baptist Church in the year of 1871, was licensed to preach the gospel in 1873 and was ordained about 1875. He was married to Mary Jane Rockhold in the year of 1856. He has left his companion 4 boys and 3 girls and 15 grandchildren. Two of his children had gone on before to a better land, one in infancy and the other, Elizabeth J. Brown, who has preceeded him about 5 months, and died so happy in Jesus and having her friends stand around her bed and her **ther hold her Bible open so she could look on its sacred pages to the last. But how soon does a generation pass away? J.W.B. Cox was loved by all. He was a minister of the Gospel in word and deed. No one ever came to him for aid but what he would help them. He was a Good Samaritan to all, his house was open to receive the orphans and he was a father to them all. How sadly he will be missed by al and especially at home when they gather around the dear old family altar at night, oh, then, how he will be missed! Yet his works will follow him for how can we ever forget who have heard his kind exhortations and warnings and prayers. His sufferings were very great during his illness of nine days but he shouted and praised God all day the day he took sick. He said from the first day of his sickness that he would not get well and he has gone to his erernal rest. The funeral sermon was preached by J.R.Nordyke and J.D.Houston from Job 14:1 to a large concourse of people. Weary toiler thy work all done And they soul into glory gone, Eternal life with its crown now won, God giveth the rest. Rest from all sorrows and watching and fears, Rest from all possible sighing and tears, Rest through God's endless wonderful years, At home with the blest.