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CALHOUN COUNTY MICHIGAN CALHOUN COUNTY
Whenever he was a candidate for office, notwithstanding he was an earnest partisan, he received many votes from the opposite party, showing that he had great popular strength outside of the membership of his own political faith.
During the war Dr. Cox volunteered his service as a surgeon, and in response to a call from Gov. Blair, spent several weeks in Virginia caring for the sick and wounded after the battle of Petersburg.
In the Masonic order. Dr. Cox held a foremost position in the State, having been master of the lodge in this city, a Knight Templar, high priest of the Royal Arch chapter, and grand master of the Council of Royal and Select Masons.
For many years he held the position of vestryman in St. Thomas Church, having been strongly attached to the doctrines of the Christian faith as held by the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The deceased was twice married. His first wife was Esther Ann Stark-. weather, to whom he was married Sept. 2, 1840, and was the first adult person buried in Oakhill Cemetery.
On the first of May, 1845, he was married to Miss Sarah Adams, of Pennfield, with whom he lived most happily, and who survives him. Three children were born to him. one by the first wife, a daughter who died at the age of eight years, and two by his second wife, who died in infancy.
Three sisters of Dr. Cox survive him, Mrs. Dr. S. S. French, who has been confined to her room for the past year by illness; Mrs. T. C. Gardner of Port Huron; and Mrs. 31. H. Joy of this city.
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