Preparing for the Next Crop
Farmers Branch, Tex., Dec 2. - The farmers having begun in earnest plowing for the 1898 crop. Mr. Howard Cox started three disk sulkeys yesterday morning on the John Fields farm, and after about one hour's plowing he discovered that his pocketbook containing $115, which was in his hip pocket was gone, whereupon he stopped the plows and put six men to work with hoes digging and raking over the fresh plowed ground in search of his lost treasure. They unearthed it about noon to-day.

The Dallas Morning News - December 3. 1897
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

HOWARD COX DIES AT SON'S HOME.

Funeral Service Will Be Held Today,
Followed by Burial in Webb Cemetery.

Howard Cox, 78 years old, a retired farmer, died yesterday at the home of his son, M. W. Cox, eleven miles north of Dallas. Funeral service, conducted by the Rev. O. F. Sensabaugh, will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The burial will be in the Webb Cemetery. Mr. Cox was one of the early settlers in the county, and for many years he was a prominent farmer and stock raiser. The following children survive him: M. W., T. J., J. J. and J. H. Cox, Mrs. T. D. Elliott, Mrs. A. H. Daniels, Mrs. J. T. Lively, Miss Fannie Cox and Miss Elizabeth Cox.

The Dallas Morning News - April 2, 1916, Section 4, Page 2
[Note from transcriber: J. H. Cox should be I. H. Cox.]



Howard Cox Dead

Howard Cox, 78 years old and pioneer citizen of Dallas county, died last Saturday at the Cox home some fourteen miles north of Dallas and was buried Sunday afternoon in Webb Cemetery. He is survived by several sons and daughters.

The pallbearers were S. M. Dennis, Jim Dennis, F. F. Taylor, W. I. Ford, H. Taliaferro and D. A. Russell.

Carrollton Chronicle - Vol. XII Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas, Friday, April 7, 1916 Number 26