Inez LaRue Cox/Letter to Berniece

Transcript of a handwritten letter from Inez LaRue Cox (daughter of William Roy Cox) to her cousin Fleeta Berniece Cox.

No date given as to when the letter was written or received. Spelling, punctuation and grammar is as written (near as I can make out) There appears to be a front page missing, possibly with personal letter information to Berniece, the letter ends abruptly, so again a closing page may be missing. Letter contents:

Transcribers notes styled like this.

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Wister, Okla. Leflour county
Poteau, Okla. – Leflour County

Dog Creek is between McCurtain, OK and Fanshaw, Okla
(over near the SanBois Mt.)

Daddy was born in Fanshaw

March 21, 1895 Indian Territory

Doyle was buried at Hick’s Chapel cemetery near Fanshaw
(I can remember someone saying the reason Uncle Luther was so nervous and such a wanderer was that grandma Cox was pregnant with Uncle Luther when Doyle died & in her grief she would walk the fields for hours & Doyle lasted for a few days being 2 when he died.)

Aunt Battie’s Mother was Barton (kin someway to Uncle Mort Wilson.

I’ll see Robert Kasiner when I can and find out about this and Bessie if he knows

Grandma’s name was Parthenia Elizabeth Janes and Mom says her mother’s name was Elydia, but doesn’t know what else.

Mom doesn’t know what Grandpa’s first wife’s name was, but though she was buried around WEster. I’ll try to find out.

I talked to Stanley Wilson. He said Aunt Battie’s Grandparent’s were Moses and Martha Barton. They and his folks and the Cox folks followed the railroad out of the Carolinsa to Alabama & then on this way. His cousin is putting a “tree” together and she found her information at Japer, Ala.

Also, Strutt Powell (which is around about kin to the Coxes said his mother spoken often when she was alive) of Aunt Jenny Cox, but didn’t know who she was. Could that have been Aunt Battie’s Mother’s name? (inserted later – No, could it have been Grandpa’s sister?) Mother didn’t know.

I’m writing spasmodically, but I just talked to Alice. Aunt Batties Mother’s name was Polly Ann Barton.

Aunt Battie was born July 8, 1887 near Fanshaw. Polly Ann died somewhere around 1890 because Bessie was younger than Aunt Battie. Aunt Battie was 4 when her Mom died. Bessie was 13 then she died. (inserted later Mom says this is wrong) Grandma and grandpa must have been married around 1891 or 92 as Uncle Dan was born in 93 wasn’t he?

=later= Alice called back – she found Polly Ann was born Sept. 1870, Died 1890

Aunt Beatrice and Frank Kasiner were married at Stigler, IT. Nov 27, 1914

Later. I talked to Robert – I’ll just write what he said which contradicts some of the first information I got.
He is right because he & Aunt Battie talked about such things. He took her to her Mother’s grave once which was a private cemetery on her grandpa Barton’s land near Fanshaw. Polly Ann died fall of 1890. Jim Price (a cousin) and Bessie were buried there. Later the main cemetery was moved or started
Close to a church called Hicks Chapel (near Fanshaw.
Grandma & Granpa were married 1 yr after Polly died – which was fall of 1891.

Grandma Janes folks came from Harrison Co., Ark. & moved to a community near Fanshaw (inserted or Red Oak) called Bengal. Some of her folks live in Whitesboro, Okla. There’s a Dr. Bob Janes at Sparks Hospital in Ft Smith that is a distant relative.

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Transcribed July 12, 2012 by Susan Cox
Wife of Ronald J Cox – son of Marvin Luther Cox