Cox Family Goderich Ontario

My sister Chris and I just returned from Goderich, Ontario. It was a very interesting journey. We found grandparents, great grandparents and great great grandparents in the Maitland Cemetery and also much information on the Cox and McLean Families. We also had the opportunity to visit the original homestead site of Samuel Cox and his father James and visited with the present owners. The Archives and museums up there are loaded with helpful information and the people were wonderful. It is a beautiful area. We were saddened to learn that the home in town in which Samuel and Catherine moved into after leaving the farm was destroyed in a tornado on August 21, 2011..... exactly two years to the date of our visit. It was a Heritage Home (similar to our historic homes). The city has well documented records of the house and previous owners. A brand new home is going up on the site. Many homes were destroyed in this storm.... something not expected in this area of Canada. I am going to attach a document to this email ... some of it from my brother David's research and also my mother's (Catherine Margaret Cox Hansen) recollections. I think there are some errors in her naming of the siblings of our grandfather Amos David Cox.... who was the youngest of the 12 Cox Children.

Would like to hear from you or some of the Cox family for whom you are doing research. While we were in some of the archives.... Goderich, Sarnia, Sombra, Wyoming Ontario.... we did notice some incorrect information and we did try to help the archivists with the correct information. I am also sending the family picture along with some other pictures to the people who helped us with some of our research.

Laura Hansen Dahle Granddaughter of Amos David Cox and great granddaughter to Samuel and Catherine McLean Cox

Family Photograph of Samuel and Catherine McLean Cox Family

Photo stamped R. R. Sallows ..... a well known Goderich Ontario photographer.

This copy of the photograph was made by Laura Hansen Dahle, August 2013, granddaughter of Amos David and Jennie Maud McLagan Cox

Samuel (03 Aug1827 - 18 Apr 1889) and Catherine McLean Cox (18 Mar 1834 - 04 Jan 1916) homesteaded land in Goderich township, Ontario, Canada. Other members of their family also moved to this area from Ireland which is documented in a reference book: Huron County: The 1890 Farmers Directory, REF 971.322 HUR in the Goderich city Library (2013)

The members of the Samuel Cox Family (according to documents obtained by my brother David Hansen include the following:

Samuel and Catherine McLean Cox (married 18 Oct 1855), both buried in the Maitland Cemetery in Goderich

Mary Jane Cox (30 Jul 1854 - 12 Nov 1940)

Samuel James Cox (08 Aug 1856 - 10 Aug 1883)

Edward John Cox (28 Dec 1857 -14 Sep 1946) Buried in Rapid City, SD, Spouse Sara Malissia Elliott

Elizabeth Catherine (Eliza) Cox (28 Feb 1860 - 10 June 1937), Spouse Thomas H. Welch

William Murray (Will) Cox (16 May 1862 - 28 Sep 1938) Buried in Rapid City, SD, spouse Dessie E. O. Carns

Robert Burke (Burke) Cox ( 29 Dec 1863 - 18 Nov 1935) spouse Minnie Hilburn

Thomas Wilson (Wilson) Cox ( 27 Mar 1866 - 05 Mar 1931) spouse Mary Parker

George Miller Shaw Cox (31 Jan 1868 - 19 Jan 1933) spouse Ethel Deans

Matilda Ann (Tillie) Cox ( 08 Apr 1870 -22 Oct 1940) spouse William P. Westby

Norris Alexander Cox (22 Jan 1872 - 18 Jul 1936) spouse Hattie Loyer

Albert Kennedy Cox (11 Jul 1874 - ?) spouse Ella Jamison

Amos David Cox (10 Oct 1876 - 17 Oct 1922) died in Chicago Illinois, buried in Goderich Ontario spouse Jenny Maud McLagan (married 24 Jun 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, buried with Amos David Cox in Maitland Cemetery, Goderich Ontario) died in June of 1962, cremains buried in 1964

The photo would have been taken before the year 1883 when Samuel James Cox died in a railroad accident.

According to notes left by my mother Catherine Margaret Cox Hansen, the family members in the photograph are as follows:

Back row from left to right: Samuel James, Edward, Robert Burke, Will Middle row from left to right Wilson Matilda, Grandma Cox (Catherine McLean), Grandpa Samuel Cox, Mary Jane Bottom row left to right, George, Albert, Amos David, Eliza and Norris.

I do not think these all match up according to the birth information.

Looking at the birthdays, I believe the bottom row to be Albert, George,Amos David, Matilda and Norris . I would be interested in finding more information on this photo if possible.

I also would be interested in any additional information that anyone with ties to the family could share with us. My sister Christine and I visited Ontario Canada in late August, 2013 in search of our mother’s family. We were pleased to find some very helpful people and information on this trip, our first to this area. Our mother Catherine Cox Hansen talked very fondly of her trips to Canada with her family and also the sadness of the loss of her father Amos David Cox in 1922 when she was only 10 years old. I have a number of photographs, some still unidentified that I would be interested in sharing.