"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND
 BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY 
& CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MADISON TWP.
PAGE 352

JOHN B. COX, deceased, was born November 12, 1829, in Morgan County, Ind., and
here made his home until the day of his death, which occurred October 11, 1865.  He was
reared as a farmer, and educated at the public schools and at Franklin College, in Johnson
County, Ind.  September 20, 1853, he was married in his native county to Harriet Landers,
daughter of the Hon. William Landers, an early settler of Morgan County, and had born to
him three children--Florence C., Emma S. and Ida B.,  all of whom were still living at the 
time of his death.  Mr. Cox was one of the most extensive farmers and stock-dealers in
Morgan County, and was one of the firm of Fee, Conduitt & Cox, wholesale dry goods
merchants of Indianapolis.  He was a cheerful and honorable man, a liberal and consistent
Christian, a devoted, active and prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Upon his death-bed he appropriated $1,000 to be expended in annual payments toward
supporting the circuit minister in charge of the church to which he and his family belong-
ed.  He was also a prominent Mason, by the rites and ceremonies of which order his 
funeral and burial services were conducted.  He left an extensive property, most of which
had been acquired by his own industry.   The three little girls, under the care and guid-
ance of a Christian mother, have grown to womanhood.  Two of them--Mrs. J. L. Mat-
thews and Mrs. C. H. Sheets--reside at Mooresville (at which place Mrs. Cox has
lived since 1869), and the other Mrs. Dr. Stuckey, in the city of Indianapolis.

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