History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . having been born in Yorkshire, and wasbrought by her parents to America when a small child of three years. To thisunion were born three children, among them being the immediate subject ofthis sketch. All the children were born while the family lived in Cincinnati,where the father was a gardener and florist and also interested in fruit grow-ing. He was also a landscape gardener of no mean ability and it was he wholaid out Spring Grove cemetery on the north side of Cincinnati. Later heremoved to a place near Chicago,
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . having been born in Yorkshire, and wasbrought by her parents to America when a small child of three years. To thisunion were born three children, among them being the immediate subject ofthis sketch. All the children were born while the family lived in Cincinnati,where the father was a gardener and florist and also interested in fruit grow-ing. He was also a landscape gardener of no mean ability and it was he wholaid out Spring Grove cemetery on the north side of Cincinnati. Later heremoved to a place near Chicago, but only stayed there three years when hecame to Marion county, this state, and located his family about three milessouth of the city of Indianapolis. There his death occurred in 1866, at thetime the subject of this sketch was fourteen years old. Young as he was,Alfred Cox assumed his position as man of the family and, under theguidance of a wise mother, carried on the business his father had left. Themother lived a widow for a good many years, passing away in 1892. In Oc-. MR. AND MRS. ALFRED COX HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 8oi tober, 1882, the subject, together with his mother and her brothers and sis-ters, purchased an eighty-acre tract in the southeast portion of Lincoln town-ship, Hendricks county, and there resided for some time. Later on, however,the subject purchased the interests of the others and held the land under hisown title. When the family purchased the tract in question, there were buttwelve acres cleared of timber and fit for cultivation. The subject has clearedthe balance of it and set out a large orchard numbering some two thousandtrees. These are mostly apple, but there are a few specimens of pears andcherries. He also carries on general farming on a tract of one hundred andsixty acres which he owns and which lays partly in Lincoln and partly inWashington townships. He also owns a farm of two hundred and five acresnorth of Clermont, Marion county. In his ea
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