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Show Funeral Services Held Here Saturday . For Henderson Cox Funeral services were held in the St. George stake Tabernacle Saturday, Sat-urday, Feb. 8, at 2 p. m., for Hen-J Hen-J derson Cox, 70, who died at the f family home at 5:20 a.m., Friday Fri-day of complications following ' eight years suffering from arteri-1 arteri-1 osclerosis. He has been bedfast i since early November. Bishop James Andrus presided , at the services and Counselor i Grant Whitehead conducted the program. Mae A. Pace was organist. organ-ist. There was a large attendance of relatives and friends, and a lav-' lav-' ish display of floral offerings. The music program included vocal solos, "Oh, It is Wonderful" and "Whispering Hope", by Alice Cannon and Ruth Miles, with Mae A. Pace at the piano; and two numbers by the West ward Ladies' chorus, "My Creed", and "I Shall Not Pass Again This Way", with I (Continued on page eight) Henderson Cox (Continued from first page) Ruth Winsor, Edna McAllister, Florence Prince, Marie Meeks, Luzene McAllister, Anna Cox, Dorothy McAllister, LaPrele Snow j and Harriet Cox, Mrs. Nammie jPearce accompanying. Speakers Pay Tribute Speakers were W. W. McArthur, George H. Lytle and Levi N. Harmon. All paid tribute to the honesty of the deceased, and told of their long friendship and associ- I ation with him and his family. Mr. McArthur referred to the life work of Mr. Cox, farming, freighting, freight-ing, cattle raising, mining, blacksmith black-smith and mail driving, and of his I many courtesies to his passengers, when people traveled with the mail. Brief closing remarks were made by counselor Whitehead. Prayers were by James McArthur and George F. Whitehead and the grave in the city cemetery was dedicated by Isaiah Cox, brother of the deceased. Henderson Cox was born in St. George April 20, 1870, a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth Stout Cox. His first teacher was his father's wife, Martha Cragun Cox, who was recognized for many years as an efficient teacher, Later he attended public schools for brief periods. He was also amply trained in self-sustaining labor, and went on his own responsibility early in life as boys generally do in pioneering new country. He was 11 when his father moved to the Muddy Valley mission in Nevada. Ne-vada. The mail at that time was carried on horseback, and during the years they lived at Overton, Henderson rode the route under his father's contract from Overton to Cane Springs, Nevada, making two or three trips each week. At other times he farmed and freighted. May 24, 1894, he married Emma Hunt in the St. George Temple. She was a daughter of Isaac and Partha Ann Barney Hunt of St. George. Her father was a prominent promi-nent stone mason of early days, helping with the Tabernacle, Temple and with many early j Learns Blacksmithing ! homes. After their marriage, Henderson Cox worked for a year in the Mt. Trumbull saw mill, then returned re-turned to St. George until 1898 when he moved with his small family to the mining town of White Hills, Arizona, where he learned the blacksmith and machinist ma-chinist trades. Returning to St. George in 1903, he set up his own blacksmith shop which he operated oper-ated until 1928, when he accepted a mail driving contract between St. George and Enterprise. Surviving besides his widow are six sons: attorney LeRoy H. Cox, Elden W. Cox, Hyrum H. Cox and Rulon B. Cox, St. George; Marion Cox, Providence, Utah; Robert Cox, Burbank, California: three daughters, Mrs. Robert S. Mur-phey, Mur-phey, Los Angeles, Mrs. Elloyd Burton, Burbank; Mrs. Edward Slade, Demming, New Mexico, 17 grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters; Isaiah Cox, Warren Cox, and Frank L. Cox, St. George; Jed Cox, Los Angeles; Charles Cox and Jody Cox, Hurricane; Hurri-cane; David Cox, Ogden, Luther Cox, Colorado, Mary E. Lee, Misha Black, Sadie Stout and Evelyn Bunker, all of Salt Lake City |