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COX, WILLIAM, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 8, P.O. Rockbridge. The subject of our notice is the fourth child of David and Emma Cox. David was a native Pennsylvania, born in 1810, a farmer by occupation, who there married Emma Dawson, in 1832, a daughter of Wm. Dawson, a farmer of the neighborhood. He moved from his native State of Pennsylvania in the year 1840, settling in Greene County, where he first rented farm property, but subsequently became the owner of real estate. Digressing a little from the subject in hand: Mrs. Cox died during the early infancy of our narrator. Mr. Cox still living and resides in this township. William, whose career we now follow, was born in Greene County, March 14, 1840, following agricultural pursuits from his earliest years. On Jan. 23, 1862, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Stringer, a daughter of William Stringer, one of the pioneers of Greene County, by whom he has one child, Lucy R. Mrs. C. died on the 11th day of May, 1872, and on the 3d day of May, 1874, Mr. Cox was married to Mrs. Mary C. Tucker, a daughter of James Whitlock, and relict of Francis Tucker, by whom he has one child, John A. Mr. C. has become exceedingly prosperous in his vocation by well directed energy and force of character. At the present writing he is the owner of 171 acres of valuable land in this township.