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_William COX ________|__
| (1700 - 1752) m 1730
_Toliver M. COX _________|
| (1738 - 1828) m 1790 |
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| |_Martha (Lady Cary) _|__
| (1710 - 1812) m 1730
_John Tolivar COX ___|
| (1803 - 1860) m 1826|
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| |_Frances Honor DAVIDSON _|
| (1770 - ....) m 1790 |
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|--James C. COX
| (1841 - ....)
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|_Mary POWERS ________|
(1799 - 1879) m 1826|
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_William COX ________|__
| (1700 - 1752) m 1730
_Toliver M. COX _________|
| (1738 - 1828) m 1790 |
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| |_Martha (Lady Cary) _|__
| (1710 - 1812) m 1730
_John Tolivar COX ___|
| (1803 - 1860) m 1826|
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| | _____________________|__
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| |_Frances Honor DAVIDSON _|
| (1770 - ....) m 1790 |
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| |_____________________|__
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|--John T. COX
| (1839 - ....)
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|_Mary POWERS ________|
(1799 - 1879) m 1826|
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_William COX ________|
| (1700 - 1752) m 1730|
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_Toliver M. COX _________|
| (1738 - 1828) m 1790 |
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| |_Martha (Lady Cary) _|
| (1710 - 1812) m 1730|
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|--John Tolivar COX
| (1803 - 1860)
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|_Frances Honor DAVIDSON _|
(1770 - ....) m 1790 |
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[99738] He had piercing blue eyes, In his youth his hair was red but as he aged his hair became snow white and was fine as floss silk. His features in spite of his large size were noticeably small. HIs voice was described as like a flute in its softness and purity of tone as he preached and as he sang solos before and after his sermons.
[99740]
An article in the book, California Sketches, says he was converted and joined the Methodist Church after he passed his fiftieth year, but the 1850 Texas census says he was a Methodist Clergyman and 47 years old. He, however, must have been converted shortly before the 1850 census, because he described himself as having earlier been the keeper of a "doggery" and a rough customer. J.C. Simmons says that Cox was "one of the most remarkable men ever connected with our Conference. The early part of his life was spent in the service of sin."
At the April 1853 session of the Methodist Conference he was placed in charge of the Gilroy (or Santa Cruz) and Santa Clara circuit. On July 4, of that year, the first Quarterly Conference was organized in Pleasant Valley, as it was they called--now Gilroy--W. R. Gober, Presiding Elder, and J.T. Cox, preacher in charge. This Quarterly Conference was held in a little shanty occupied by five young men, four of whom were of the Cambellite persuasion. In the fall of that year the first camp meeting to be held in that region was held some six miles east of Watsonville under his leadership.
His preaching style in the gold camps of California is described in the California Sketches book as follows:
"Under his preaching men wept, prayed, repented, believed, and flocked into the Church by scores and hundreds. ... His sagacity and knowledge of human nature were exhibited at on of his camp meetings held at Gilroy, in Santa Clara County. There was a great crowd and a great religious excitement, Father Cox riding its topmost wave, the general of the army of Israel. Seated in the preachers' stand, he was leading in one of the spirited lyrics suited to the occasion, when a young man approached him and said: 'Father Cox, there's a friend of mine out here who wants you to come and pray for him.'
'Where is he?'
' Just out there on the edge of the crowd,' answered the young fellow.
Father Cox followed him to the outskirts of the congregation, where he found a group of rough-looking fellows standing around, with their leggings and huge Spanish spurs, in the center of which a man was seen kneeling, with his face buried between his hands.
'There he is,' said the guide.
'Is he a friend of yours, gentlemen?' asked Father Cox, turning to the expectant group.
'Yes,' answered one on them.
'And you want me to pray for him, do you?' he continued.
'We do,' was the answer
'All right; all of you kneel down, and I'll pray for him.'
They looked at one another in confusion, and then one by one they sheepishly kneeled until all were down.
Father Cox kneeled down by the 'mourner,' and prayed as follows: 'O Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest whether this man is a sincere penitent or not. If he is sincerely sorry for his sins, and is bowing before thee with broken heart and a contrite spirit, have mercy upon him, hear his prayer, and make him they child. But, O Lord, if he is not in earnest, if he is here an emissary of Satan, to make mockery of sacred things, and to hinder thy work, kill him -- KILL HIM, Lord.'
At this point the 'mourner' became frightened, and began to crawl, Father Cox following him on his knees, and continuing his prayer. The terror stricken sinner could stand it no longer, but sprang to his feet and bounded away at full speed, while the kneeling roughs rose and sneaked off abashed and discomfited.
The sequel of this incident should be given. The mock penitent was taken into the Church by Father Cox soon after. He left the camp ground in a state of great alarm on account of his sacrilegious frolic.
'When the old man put his hand on me as I kneeled there in wicked sport, and prayed as he did, it seemed to me that I felt hot flashes from hell rise in my face,' said he; ' right there I became a true penitent.
The man thus strangely converted became a faithful soldier of the cross.
At a camp meeting near the town of Sonoma, in 1858, Father Cox, who was preacher in charge of that circuit, rose to exhort after the venerable Judge Shattuck had preached one of his strong, earnest sermons. The meeting had been going on several days, and the Sonoma sinners had hitherto resisted all appeals and persuasions. The crowd was great, and every eye was fixed upon the old man as he began his exhortation.
'Boys,' he began, in a familiar , kindly way, 'boys, you are treating me badly. I have been with you all the year, and you have always had a kind word and a generous hand for the old man. I love you, and I love your immortal soul. I have entreated you to turn away from your sins, to repent, and come to Christ and be saved. I have preached to you, I have wept over you. You have hardened your hearts, and stiffen your necks, and will not yield. You will be lost! You will go to hell! In the judgement day you will be left without excuse, and boys,' he continued, his mighty chest heaving, his voice quivering, and the tears running down his cheeks, 'boys, I will have to be witness against you. I shall have to testify that I warned, persuaded, and entreated you in vain. I shall have to testify of the proceedings of this Sabbath night, and tell how you turned a deaf ear to the call of your Saviour. I shall have to hear your sentence of condemnation, and see you driven down to hell. My God, the thought is dreadful! Spare me this agony. Don't, O don't force this upon me! Don't compel the old man to be a witness against you in that awful day! Rather,' he continued, 'hear my voice of invitation to-night, and come to Christ, so that instead of being a witness against you in that day, I may be able to present you as my spiritual children, and say: 'Lord Jesus, his the old man and his Sonoma children, all saved, and all ready to join together in a glad hallelujah to the lamb that was slain!'
It was overwhelming. The pathos and power of the speaker was indescribable. There was a 'breakdown' all over the vast congregation, and a rush of penitents to the altar, as one of the stirring camp meeting choruses pealed forth from the full hearts of the faithful. Father Cox's ready wit was equal to any occasion. At a camp meeting in the Bodega hills, in 'opening the doors of the Church, ' he said: "Many souls have been converted, and now I want them to join the Church. When I was a boy, I Iearned that it was best to string my fish as I caught them, lest they should flutter back into the water. I want to string my fish--that is, take all the young converts into the Church, and put them back into the world'--
'You can't catch me!' loudly interrupted a rowdyish-looking fellow who sat on a slab near the rostrum.
'I am not fishing for gar!' retorted Father Cox, casting a contemptuous glance at the fellow, and then went on with his work.
The gar fish is the abomination of all true fishermen--hard to catch, coarse-flavored, bony and nearly worthless when caught. The vulgar fellow became the butt of the camp ground, and soon mounted his mustang and galloped off, amid the derision even of his own sort.
(According to Simmons the following incident occurred in the winter of 1853-54 between Alviso and San Jose, California.) Father Cox had a naturally hot temper, which sometimes flamed forth in a way that was startling. It would have been a bold man who would have tested his physical prowess in a combat. Beside him an ordinary-sized person looked like a pigmy. New San Juan, in Monterey County, he had occasion to cross a swollen stream by means of the water fence above the ford. The fence was flimsy, and Father Cox was heavy. The undertaking was not an easy one at best, and Father Cox's difficulty and annoyance were enhanced by the un-generous and violent abuse and curses of an infidel blacksmith on the opposite side of the stream, who had worked himself into a rage because the immense weight of the old man had broken a rail or two of the fence. The situation was too critical for reply, as the mammoth preacher Cox "cooned his way cautiously and painfully across the rickety bridge, at the imminent risk every moment of tumbling. headlong into the roaring torrent below. Meanwhile the wicked and angry blacksmith kept up a volley of oaths and insulting epithets. The old Adam was waking up in the old preacher. By the time he had reached the shore he was thoroughly mad, and rushing forward he grasped his persecutor and shook him until his breath was nearly out of him, saying: '0, you foul-mouthed villain! If it were not for the fear of my God, I would beat you into a Jelly. '
The blacksmith, a stalwart fellow, was astonished; and when Father Cox let him go, he had a new view of the Church militant. This scene was witnessed by a number of bystanders, who did not fail to report it, and it made the old preacher a hero with the rough fellows of San Juan, who thenceforward flocked to hear his preaching as they did to hear nobody else.
The image of Father Cox that is most vivid to my mind as I close this unpretentious sketch is that which he presented as he stood in the pulpit at Stockton one night, during the Conference session, and sung, ' I am going home to die no more,' his ruddy face aglow, his blue eyes swimming in tears, his white hair glistening in the lamp light. He sleeps on the Bodega hills, amid the oaks and manadroņas, whose branches wave in the breezes of the blue Pacific. He has gone home to die no more.
On one occasion, as told by J.C. Simmons, when Bishop Pierce and Cox both preached, a stranger remarked, "That little man (the Bishop) that preached didn't do much, but when that big fat preacher (Cox) got up, didn't he lay it off!" Simmons also gave reports, with small variations of the way that Cox handled hecklers in the congregation and the encounter with the blacksmith at the fence. Simmons reported that he repeatedly pounded the heckler on the back with a mighty arm as he evoked the wrath of God upon him if he was not true, and that the grip by which he shook the blacksmith was by way of his beard!
[99722] John was likely part Cherokee.
[99725] He must have suffered a stroke or some simular ailment, his physican advised his to give up preaching but he did not. It was said that he suffered much pain that came in waves. At Stockton, Califonia he was carried to church in his chair for some time before his death.
[99727] Macedonia Cemetery was at the Macedonia Methodist Church near Sebastian, Sonoma County, California as show on an 1877 map.
[99729]
John Tolivar Cox took his wife Mary and family along with him to California. Apparently his oldest daughter, Rona, was married and did not go with them. His next oldest daughter, Nancy T., married to Noah McCuistion and their child and also the 4 children of Noah by his first wife were on the trip. The younger children of John and Mary on the trip were Sarah R., age 19; William J., age 15; John T., age 13; James C., age 11; Thomas C., age 8, and Louise E., age 6. They sailed from Texas, likely the port of Galveston, on March 14, 1852, to Aspinwall (now Colon), Panama. They then made their way across the Isthmus of Panama. One record states that in 1852 it took the soldiers of the 4th Regiment of the U.S. Infantry 4 days to make the trip. How long it took families with small children is not known. (The Panama Canal was not built until 1920.)
In 1852, steamers could make the voyage along the west coast from Panama to San Francisco in about 20 days but sailing ships averaged about 70 days, (Recorded times for that year ranged from 45 to 79 days) The cost of the trip on the sailing ships was much cheaper that that for the steamers. The Cox family sailed on the square rigged bark "Emily" on April 18, 1852, reportedly with 300 passengers on board. The "Emily" had left Liverpool, England under the command of Captain Charles Clinch in September of 1851, made a stop at Rio de Janeiro, rounded the cape and made its way up the west coast of South America to Panama. After being boarded by the Cox family she took 60 days of unusually slow progress before finally on June 20th putting in at Manzanillo, about 154 miles south of San Blas, Mexico. She had ran short of food and water. The passengers and crew had to go on limited rations, each person was issued a small daily ration of rice and corn and 3 pints of water. Only limited additional supplies were found in Manzanillo and the "Emily" sailed on. Several passengers died of dysentery before they reached San Blas. At San Blas some passengers were transferred to the bark "Archibald Gracie" on July 28, 1852. The Cox and McCuistion families stayed on the "Emily" which struggled on to the north.
On August 16, the Emily was in deep trouble about 20 miles off of San Diego with very short supplies of food and water. She had 90 passengers on board. On that day the "Emily" had been contacted at sea by Captain C. P. Patterson, U.S.N. of the steamer "Golden Gate," only 11 days out of Panama. Later on the 16th, the "Golden Gate" put into San Diego to leave word that caused the steamer "Ohio" to stand by for the relief of the "Emily." The "Golden Gate" steamed on and arrived in San Francisco on August 18 On August 17th all but 3 of the "Emily's" passengers transferred at the port at San Diego to the steamer "Ohio" under Captain Hilliard. The "Ohio" quickly made the last leg of the voyage to San Francisco, delivering the Cox family there on August 21, 1852. It had taken the family 5 months and 7 days to make the trip from Galveston to San Francisco, over 4 months of the time consumed on the voyage from Panama to San Francisco.
The Cox family was fortunate that they did not transfer while in San Blas to the "Archibald Gracie" under Captain Peters. The "Archibald Gracie" reached San Francisco 20 days after the Cox family had arrived there safely, on September 10, 1852. Seventeen of the passengers which did transfer had died of disease before it reached San Francisco. The "Archibald Gracie" was met at the San Francisco dock by Captain North of the San Francisco Police Department and about 12 of former "Emily" passengers were conveyed to the State Marine Hospital at San Francisco to be treated for fever and starvation.
They were equally as fortunate that they were rescued by the steam ship "Ohio" at San Diego. After they left her, the "Emily" continued on toward San Francisco and was contacted on September 3rd at latitude 32° 16´N, Longitude 128° 30´W by the schooner "Spray," a ship that was 163 days out of Valpariso, Chile under Captain Hall. The "Spray" supplied the "Emily" with water. On September 16 the bark "Pathfinder" had also contacted the "Emily" and learned from the "Emily" that their Captain Charles Clinch, age 50, of London, England died on August 23 and that 10 of the crew were still sick of the scurvy. Command of the "Emily" had been assumed by Captain Lygo. With 3 passengers on board, the "Emily" finally reached San Francisco on September 17th, 30 days later than the Cox Family.
[99732] He is listed with 2 males under age 5, 1 male age 20-30, 1 male age 30-40; 1 female age 5-10, 3 female age 10-15, 1 female age 30-40. They are thought to be John Toliver, age 37; Mary age 36, Rona, age 15; Nancy age 13; Mary Adeline, age 13; Sarah R., age 7; William J., age 4 and John T., age 1. The other male could have been Rona's husband J. H. Lamont/Lambert age 25.
[99734]
John is listed as a Methodist Clergyman with real estate of $1,700, born in S. Carolina and having 3 slaves in the household. It is thought that Nancy T., John's oldest daughter had brought the slaves to the household according to the will of her husband, John Murchison, who died in 1849.
[99736]
Will of John T. Cox, spelling and punctuation per original handwritten document.
In the name of God amen
I John T Cox of the County of San Joaquin and State of California being of sound mind and memory, do make publish and declare my last will and testament in manner following that is to say
1st I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary all my Estate of Every kind both real and personal in the State of California and Elsewhere of which I may die seized or posesing to after paying my funeral expenses and just debts, for her own use and behaaf.
2nd Whereas I have heretofore given to Each of my married children of my Estate what I then considered and intended to be their several Shares of the Same, and I have also given to Each of my minor children to wet James C Cox Thomas C Cox and Louisa E Cox their Several Shares intended at the time to be their full portion, which how is known in their respective names and not claimed by me as part of my present Estate or any Estate I may here after acquire.
3rd I make constitute and appoint my beloved wife Mary the Sole Executrix of this my last will and testament to act without giving any Bond undertaking or security of any kind
4th I hereby revoke and annul all other and former wills by me made in witness whereof I hereunto Set my hand affix my seal at time at the City of Stockton this 30th day April A D 1860
Signature-- John T Cox (seal)
Subscribed by the testator John T Cox in presence of Each of the undersigned the said testator at the time of subscribing to said will declared the same to be his last will and testament, and we in his presence and at his request and in the presence of Each other subscribed our names as witneses
Signature-- C Campbell of Stockton
Signature-- J. C. Westbay of Stockton
Notation on fold at the bottom of the last page, written cross wise
3/ In the Matter of the Estate of
John T. Cox, Deceased
Will
Filed for Probate
June 13 AD 1860
Frank W Shunnick Clerk
By Wm. M Cromwell Dep. Clerk
Filed for Record
Aug 1 AD 1860
Frank W Shunnick Clerk
By Wm. M Cromwell Dep. Clerk
NO. 171
(Book A, Pg. 87)
[99743] He apparently went to investigate San Francisco before moving his family 2 years later, His means of travel is not know.
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[S1227]
Califonia Sketches
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Califonia Sketches
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[S1228]
Census 1850, Texas, Williamson County
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Census 1840, Arkansas, Carroll County
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Califonia, Historical Altas, Sonoma County
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Califonia, San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists
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Census 1840, Arkansas, Carroll County
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Census 1850, Texas, Williamson County
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Cox, John T. will
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_William COX ________|__
| (1700 - 1752) m 1730
_Toliver M. COX _________|
| (1738 - 1828) m 1790 |
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| |_Martha (Lady Cary) _|__
| (1710 - 1812) m 1730
_John Tolivar COX ___|
| (1803 - 1860) m 1826|
| | __
| | |
| | _____________________|__
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| |_Frances Honor DAVIDSON _|
| (1770 - ....) m 1790 |
| | __
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| |_____________________|__
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|--Louisa E. COX
| (1846 - ....)
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| _____________________|__
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| _________________________|
| | |
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|_Mary POWERS ________|
(1799 - 1879) m 1826|
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| _____________________|__
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|_________________________|
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|_____________________|__
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_Isaac W. COX _______|
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| |_________________________|________________________________________
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|--Margie Marie COX
| (1907 - ....)
| ________________________________________
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| _________________________|________________________________________
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| _Henry B. WEBB ______________|
| | m 1878 |
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| | |_________________________|________________________________________
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|_Laura Belle WEBB ___|
(1879 - 1938) |
| _Jacques Marcelin de Ceran SAINT VRAIN _+
| | (1770 - 1818) m 1796
| _Marcellin SAINT VRAIN __|_Marie Felicite DUBREIL ________________
| | (1815 - 1871) m 1849 (1770 - 1845)
|_Maria Felicite SAINT VRAIN _|
(1858 - 1926) m 1878 |
| ________________________________________
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|_Elizabeth Jane MURPHEY _|________________________________________
(.... - 1880) m 1849
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_William COX ________|__
| (1700 - 1752) m 1730
_Toliver M. COX _________|
| (1738 - 1828) m 1790 |
| | __
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| |_Martha (Lady Cary) _|__
| (1710 - 1812) m 1730
_John Tolivar COX ___|
| (1803 - 1860) m 1826|
| | __
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| | _____________________|__
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| |_Frances Honor DAVIDSON _|
| (1770 - ....) m 1790 |
| | __
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| |_____________________|__
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|--Mary Adeline COX
| (1829 - 1896)
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| _____________________|__
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| _________________________|
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|_Mary POWERS ________|
(1799 - 1879) m 1826|
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[96337] She was likely part Cherokee
[96339] After the death of her husband she went back to California. Her funeral was paid for by Charles Calvin Toney, younger brother of Seth Tolliver Toney.
[96341] At this time it is not known whether Seth Toney and Mary Adeline and their first 4 children were on the trip to California via Panama with her father, John Toliver Cox or if Seth took his family to California via the wagon train that he led from Texas. It is possible that Mary and the children went with her father and Seth followed via the overland route. Those first four children, born between 1845 and 1849, were born in Texas while the last 5 children, born between 1854 and 1870 were born in California. It then appears the family made its way to the Gila River region (near Silver City) New Mexico after 1870 where Seth died in 1882; whereupon Mary Adeline went back to California where she died in 1896. Their children show up at different parts of their lives in both northern California and in southern New Mexico and Arizona. More work is needed to unravel their travels and the reasons they moved as they did.
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Toney, William Toliver, Miller #27379
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Toney, William Toliver, Miller #27379
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_Rudy COX ___________|
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|--Mary Jean COX
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| _Floripo SALAZAR ____|
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|_Elenor SALAZAR _____|
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| _Pedro Ygnacio Nabor SALAZAR _+
| | (1808 - ....) m 1835
| _Jose Toribio Francisco SALAZAR _|_Maria de la Asencion VIGIL __
| | (1836 - 1912) (1824 - 1873)
|_Raquel SALAZAR _____|
(1879 - 1958) |
| _Felipe de Jesus MARTIN ______+
| | (1803 - 1874)
|_Maria Teodora MARTINES _________|_Maria Antonia GARCIA ________
(1838 - 1901) (1805 - 1884)
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_William COX ________|__
| (1700 - 1752) m 1730
_Toliver M. COX _________|
| (1738 - 1828) m 1790 |
| | __
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| |_Martha (Lady Cary) _|__
| (1710 - 1812) m 1730
_John Tolivar COX ___|
| (1803 - 1860) m 1826|
| | __
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| | _____________________|__
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| |_Frances Honor DAVIDSON _|
| (1770 - ....) m 1790 |
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| |_____________________|__
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|--Nancy Terrese. COX
| (1827 - 1883)
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| _________________________|
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|_Mary POWERS ________|
(1799 - 1879) m 1826|
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|_________________________|
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|_____________________|__
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