Jon
We have been in contact before. Several yrs. ago. I remember the name.
I have several pic's of the Cox family line, his obit & her funeral card. Also & article about there a wedding anv.
I've also found both of them's death certificates.
Janice Parrish has shared some of her pics with me, giving me a few of Fred & Hallie.
Some of my things, I started with, were my grandmothers, she was the dau of Mary's sister, Nettie Smothers.
I've got alot on there mother Elizabeth Freasel/Frees line, but never have been able to get beond there father Henry Frees.
I had asumed that that Ezra being a Rev. at the church, brought them in contact with children in need, that lead them into those they took in. They must have loved children, to take in others when they had a family of there own.
Other than a few census, I've found nothing on there children.
I'm willing to share.
E-mail me at loiswallace@charter.net