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George Cox (Maysville, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1791-03-01 d. 1881-09-21

Maysville, Kentucky, merchant. London, England native. Son of John Cox and Mary Cowell Cox. Married to Ann Hopkinson Cox in Lexington, Kentucky, on April 10, 1819. Father of Alice Ann Cox, Caroline Cox, William H. Cox, Lissant Cox, Lucy Maria Cox, Joseph H. Cox, Horatio M. Cox, and Albert G. Cox. Married to Mary Caroline Dimmitt Cox in Mason County on November 12, 1854. Learned the merchant trade with his father in Mr. Marsh's hosiery shop in London from 1800 to 1817. Merchant in Maysville from 1819. Merchant with William H. Cox as George Cox & Son in Maysville in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Maysville in 1850. Merchant in Maysville in 1860. Employed his son, Lissant Cox, as a clerk in Maysville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 32A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 325.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 2, p. 420A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, 1796-1946, Film #000281843, p. 50.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, 1851-1864, Film #000281844, p. 280.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Film no. 994048: Marshall, Martin, Mason, Meade: Mason County Deaths, 1852-1914, p. 11, p. 457 of microfilm.

Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago and Philadelphia: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 85-86.

Find A Grave, "George Cox (1791-1881)," Memorial #23699873, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23699873# (accessed December 16, 2018).

Citation

Cox, George. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212731 (November 12, 2026).

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