Daniel Franklin Cox

Cox Family Line
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William Cox John Cox Daniel Root Cox John Nelson Cox Daniel Franklin Cox Marvin Luther Cox Ronald J Cox Sean Marvin Cox

		John Nelson Cox	(family)
Daniel Franklin Cox
		Parthenia Elizabeth Janes

Spouse

Katherine Arnetta Harris (family)

16 May 1909

Haskell Co., Oklahoma

Data

Birth

30 Mar 1893

Poteau, Leflore Co., Oklahoma

Death

20 Jul 1935

Kinta, Haskell Co., Oklahoma

Burial

San Bois Cemetery, Kinta, Haskell County, Oklahoma

Notes

Daniel Franklin Cox died during the Dust Bowl, just about 3 months after the largest blizzards of the era on Black Sunday (April 14, 1935). Speculation regarding his cause of death has run the gamut of drunken stupor, to suicide, to murder. What is generally agreed upon is that he was hit by a train, and that he was in debt, but how that came to be is not publicly known. Close family, that might have known something of the matter, has generally avoided discussing the subject. After his death, the family emigrated to California. There is reported to have been a problem with alcoholism among the Cox men generally, and this is no less true for Daniel Franklin Cox than it was for others. (Teetotalers among the Cox men have tended to long outlive their less sober relatives.)

Sources

• Inez LaRue Cox/Letter to Berniece

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  Headstone of Daniel Franklin Cox.

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  United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Oklahoma, Haskell County; A-V, page 902 of 3942

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  1900 U.S. Census - Red Oak, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, page 28 of 42

• 1910 U.S. Census - Beaver, Haskell, Oklahoma, Page 30 of 48

  1910 U.S. Census - Beaver, Haskell, Oklahoma, Page 30 of 48

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  1920 U.S. Census - , Haskell, Oklahoma, Page 284 of 1150

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  1930 U.S. Census - 0002, Beaver, Haskell, Oklahoma, Page 7 of 16