Cox, George bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 910, Vermont Township
Geo. Cox, farmer, etc., sec. 18; P. O., Vermont; was born in Guernsey Co., O., in 1847; his father, Thomas Cox, settled in McDonough Co. in pioneer times; George was brought up on a farm; in 1868 he purchased his present farm. In 1867 he married Nancy Craigo, by whom he has three children, - Granville, Maud and Edna.