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Show FORMER DIXIE COUPLE OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING Manti, Aug. 13. The golden wedding wed-ding of De Laun Mills Cox and Susan Brown Cox, was celebrated here August Aug-ust 8. Mr. and Mrs. Cox were married in St. George temple, August 8, 1877. They are both pioneers. Mr. Cox was born at Manti, Utah, March 27, 1850. When the call was made for volunteers to settle what was then called the Muddy, Mr. Cox's father, Orville S. Cox, volunteered and De Laun who was then six years old, went with him. Later on, Mr. Le Laun Cox went to Washington, Washington county, and there worked work-ed in the cotton mill for two years. He then went to Orderville for 12 years. Mrs. Susan Brown Cox was with him while at Orderville. From Orderville the Cox family moved to Hinckley, where they lived for four years, then came to Manti. Mr. Cox was a mechanic, tending to the machinery while working in the cotton mill and while in the Order. While in Orderville he was a second counselor in the Y. M. M. I. A. and choir leader of the Sunday school for four years. He has always been active ac-tive in Church work. Mr. Cox is the father of 22 children, 13 by his first wife. Charlotte Kelsev. who died in 1917, and nine by his second wife, Susan Brown Cox; also 71 grandchildren grand-children eight great-grandchildren. Susan Brown Cox was born in St. George, April 18, 1862. Her father was a pioneer of Manti, who was called cal-led to settle St. George. Mrs. Cox's grandfather, James P. Brown, was one of the Mormon Battalion. While at Orderville, Susan B. Cox spun and wove cloth, also helped to raise silk worms. Mrs. Cox was secretary for a time of the Y. L. M. I. A. what was then known as the Retrenchment society. She has been an active Relief Society worker all her life. Mrs. Susan B. Cox is the mother of nine children, eight of whom are still living. She has 38 living grandchildren. Dcscrct News. |