Biography of Andrew F. Cox, pages 727.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.
 
Andrew F. Cox was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1833, the fifth of nine 
children of Jacob and Jane (Denman) Cox, natives of Pennsylvania, his father 
of German and his mother of Scotch descent.  Jacob Cox died March 15, 1885.  
His golden wedding was celebrated Dec. 5, 1874, and the following April his 
wife died.  Our subject remained with his father till manhood.  In 1854 he 
came to Indiana and taught school in Miami County, one winter; then returned 
home, and after a brief stay came to De Kalb County, and March 18, 1856, was 
married to B.A. Helwig, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Garsnage) Helwig.  The 
first year after their marriage they lived in Noble County, Ind., then moved 
to Steuben County, and bought twenty acres of unimproved land, which he 
improved, and subsequently sold and bought fifty acres in the same township 
where he lived till March 28, 1882, when he came to De Kalb County, and 
bought eighty acres of improved land in Richland Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Cox 
have a family of three children---Sarah L, Belle O., and George Elmer.  Mr. 
Cox is a member of the Baptist, and his wife of the Evangelical Lutheran 
church.  In politics he affiliates with the Democratic party.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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