Samuel Cox
SAMUEL COX OBITUARY
Samuel Cox, son of Eliza and Timothy Cox, was born in Clay County, Illinois on September 30, 1893. He departed this life at his home in LaClede on September 15, 1957 at the age of 63 years, 11 months and 15 days. He spent his boyhood days in Larkinsburg Township in Clay County and at the age of 25 he entered the army and served in the 37 th. Infantry until July 23, 1921 when he was honorable discharged.
He was united in marriage to Miss Mamie Long, September 23, 1922.Besides his loving companion, he leaves to mourn his passing, one brother, Arthur, of Iola and one sister, Mattie Reynolds of Effingham and an only aunt, Cordelia Sanders of Iola.
Interview with John Wilson:
I did a lot of work with Sam see he lived on the Griffith place right after my Dad bought that and I helped him out a lot in fact I helped him build his barn. It's between the two highways now - Interstate 57. Sam and Mamie had a small house there in the bottom, second bottom branch, above high water. He raised a lot of strawberries, he was good on strawberries. Sam was in the Army in 1915 and 16 he was under John J. Pershing and they was trying to run down Pancho Villa down there in Mexico. He said he got so sick and tired of them greasy (these are the exact words spoken, not my opinion) Mexicans that he came back home and re-enlisted for two years up in Alaska. They sent him up to Nome - 40 to 60 degrees below zero, he liked that. And on the way back, he told me, they put him on board ship, brought him back to Seattle, they got in an awful storm, ship got to rocking pretty bad and Sam got sick. The mate came down and said,"Boys, I think we are going to sink!" Sam said, "Let 'er sink!" He was so sick.