Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Death of In. J. H. Cox Cham After Long Illness. [ARTICLE]

Death of In. J. H. Cox Cham After Long Illness.

Mrs. J. H. Cox, widow of J. H. Cox, died at 8 o’clock this Saturday moning, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. J. Dexter, of Union township. Her husband died April 2, 1911. in Rensselaer. Mrs. Cox wefct to Kansas several months ago and visited relatives -*n that ststy and Oklahoma until five weeks ago, when she returned to this county. She was very poorly when she arrived here and her decline has been rapid since that time until death came at tbs hour stated. ■[Her sop, George, who had been with hia parents most of the time in their declining years, arrived from Pawnee, Oikla., Friday night, .and was on his way to the bedside of his mother when death took place. Mrs. Cox was 77 years of age on May 11th. She leaves five children, viz: Mrs. Ella E. Howaday, of Plainfield; Mrs. Mary J. Dexter, of Union township; Z. A .Oox, of Rensselaef, and Edgar L. and George, op Oklahoma. . ?... ■ The funeral will be held Monday at 11 o’clock at the Christian church in Rensselaer and burial will be made in Weßton cemetery by the side of the graye of her husband.