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Note: from Heritage Quest:
COX CHARLES E 30 M W IA KS WABAUNSEE MISSION CRK 1900
COX CHARLES E 49 M W IA KS WABAUNSEE PLUMB TWP 1920
from the Eskridge Star, Thursday, Feb.21, 1895:
Sunflower district: Mr. C.E. Cox took an extended trip through south eastern Kansas lately to seek his fortune. It goes without saying that he found it and brought it back in a sack.
from the Eskridge Star, March 18, 1897:
Sunflower Leaves --- Charlie Cox is not satisfied with building the regulation fire in the morning but he must need start a conflagration.
from the Eskridge Star, April 22, 1897:
Sunflower Leaves --- Charlie Cox is kept busy putting up Page wire.
from the Eskridge Star, Nov. 11, 1897:
Sunflower District --- C.E. Cox started last Friday for the Panhandle country on a business trip.
from the Eskridge Star, Nov.18, 1897:
Pleasant Hill --- Charles Cox returned last Friday from Texas where he had been with a load of cattle for Andrew Pringle.
from the Eskridge Star, Dec.22, 1898:
North Harveyville Items --- Chas. Cox accompanied a shipment of cattle belonging to A. Pringle to Texas the 12th.
from the Eskridge Star, Nov.9, 1899:
Pleasant Hill --- Charley Cox has leased his father's farm and will occupy the same in the near future.
from the Wabaunsee County Tribune, January 20, 1905:
District 30 and Vicinity --- Chas. and John Cox and families visited Ed Cox's Tuesday.
from the Wabaunsee County Tribune, March 15, 1907:
District 30 --- Chas. Cox visited his father, Aaron Cox, Monday night.
from the Wabaunsee County Tribune, March 26, 1908:
Mr. A. Nixon who recently sold his farm to C.E. Cox, decided that he would much prefer to pass his remaining days on the old home place, and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Cox came to an agreement agreeable to both. Mr. Cox then bought the Samuel Catherman farm. We are glad to note that Charley is with us again.
from the Alma Signal-Enterprise, Dec.28, 1944:
Harveyville --- Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cox and daughter of Wichita, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Porter of Auburn, Mary Droege of Winfield, Kathaleen and Doris Droege of Topeka spent Christmas with their parents, C.E. Cox's and Earl Droege's.
from the Harveyville Monitor, Thursday, March 6, 1952:
Funeral services for Charles Emery Cox are being held this afternoon, (Thursday) at 2:30 o'clock at the Harveyville Methodist Church. Mr. Cox's death occurred at his home in Harveyville early Tuesday morning, March 4, after an illness of several weeks.
The services are being conducted by Rev. J.R. Williams of Topeka, with apppropriate piano music being furnished by Mrs. W.C. Kopp.
The pallbearers are: Wm. Davenport, Philip Garinger, Enos Fouts, Carrol Smith, Carl Walton, and Ralph Chatham. He was laid to rest in the Harveyville Cemetery.
Charles Emory Cox, who had reached the age of 81, passed away at his home in Harveyville Tuesday. He was born Nov. 5, 1870, in Iowa and had been a resident of the Harveyville community most of his life. He was a retired gardener and trucker and a member of Wilmington Grange.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Blanche Cox of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Droege, Kinsley, Kansas; Mrs. Robert H. Gleason, Topeka; and Mrs. Hazel Porter, Auburn; two sons, Emery A. Cox, Leavenworth; and Clarence M. Cox, Wichita; two brothers, Ed N. Cox, Manhattan, and Raymond Cox, California; a half-brother, Aaron Cox, Des Moines, Iowa; and a half-sister, Miss Mildred Cox, Topeka; nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
The family requested no flowers be sent and all contributions to be made to the Youngman Memorial.
The Carey Funeral home of Burlingame was in charge of arrangements.
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