Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1898 — Death of Mrs. Jennie Cox. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs. Jennie Cox.

A telegram received here Saturday announced the death, that day, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, of Mrs. Jennie Cox, wife of Edgar L. Cox, and that the funeral would be held at that place, on Sunday. The deceased’s maiden name was Miller. She was about 31 years old, and being early left an orphan, she was given a home by her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Chilcote. She was a teacher in the Rensselaer schools for several years, resigning in the spring of 1896, on account of sickness, and which sickness later developed into consumption,' and which in spite of all that the best medical skill as well as a residence in the salubrious climate of New Mexico, could do finally caused her death. She married Edgar L. Cox, also of Rensselaer, ht the home of her sister, in Chicago, Sunday, May 3, 1896. Together they went to Colorado and later to New Mexico, towards the end of the” following October. Her husband and all her nearest surviving family relatives, namely her sisters Edith and Mary Miller and her brother Dr. Albion Miller, were with her when she died. ’ She did not leave any children. She was, during the later years of her residence here, a faithful member of and zealous worker in the Rensselaer Christian church.