Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

LEONARD J. COX, a native of Franklin County, was born June 10, 1830, and
is the youngest of seven children of Jacob and Mary (Fenwick) Cox, natives
of Lexington, Ky., and Big Spring, Woodford County.  His grandfather,
Benjamin Cox, came from Virginia, and was a merchant in Lexington previous
to 1790, as our subject's father, Jacob, was born in 1790, in that city.
His maternal grandfather, Cornelius Fenwick, a native of St. Mary's County,
Md., was a sailor in the United States Navy, and was once a prisoner of
the French.  He died in Franklin County at the age of ninety-four.  Jacob
Cox, the father, settled in Franklin County about 1800, and died in 1878.
He was a colonel in the State militia.  Leonard J. Cox was reared on a
farm, was educated in the common schools, and has always been a farmer. He
spent eight years in Texas in his early life as a cow boy.  He married,
September 7, 1854, Sophronia, a daughter of E. H. and Mary W. (Steffee)
Stedman, natives of Massachusetts and Georgetown, Ky.  E. H. Stedman came
to Franklin County in 1834, succeeding Amos Kendall in the paper-mills of
Stedmanville, Ky., and operated them until 1874, but great losses by fire,
floods and the panic of 1873, had a tendency to break him after
accumulating a fortune.  He was born November 11, 1808, and died March 25,
1885.  He for many years furnished the State authorities with paper.  Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard J. Cox have eight children living: Lewis L., L. J., Jr.,
E. E., Mary Belle, Jacob L., Cornelius, Daisy and Nellie G.  The farm of
Mrs. Mary Cox, on which she resides, contains 450 acres.  Mr. Cox has been
a Mason since 1871.

Cox Fenwick Steffee Stedman
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Lexington-Fayette-KY Woodford-KY Georgetown-Scott-KY St._Mary-MD TX MA

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