Rufus Morgan Fox
1859 - 1944 (84 years)-
Name Rufus Morgan Fox Born 21 Aug 1859 Tennessee [1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Male Census 1880 Chuckey Knobbs, Cocke County, Tennessee Census 1900 Lamar County, Texas Occupation farmer; retail grocer [2] Died 7 Mar 1944 Paris, Lamar County, Texas [1, 2, 4] Buried 8 Mar 1944 Hopewell Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County, Texas [1, 2, 4] Person ID I2041 Gritton Last Modified 31 Mar 2023
Father Rufus Morgan Fox, b. 4 Sep 1826, Tennessee , d. 30 Oct 1859, Tennessee (Age 33 years) Mother Levina "Vina" Kelly, b. 28 Nov 1827, Tennessee , d. 10 May 1903 (Age 75 years) Married 19 Jan 1850 Cocke County, Tennessee [1] Family ID F849 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Jane Fox, b. 21 Dec 1855, Tennessee , d. 13 Mar 1935, Paris, Lamar County, Texas (Age 79 years) Married 27 Nov 1877 Cocke County, Tennessee [5] Children 1. William Josiah Fox, b. 11 Nov 1878, Tennessee , d. 12 May 1935, Paris, Lamar County, Texas (Age 56 years) 2. Nellie G. Fox, b. 15 Oct 1879, Tennessee , d. 15 Nov 1965 (Age 86 years) 3. Clarence Allen Fox, b. 10 Aug 1892, Stone County, Arkansas , d. 3 May 1970, Paris, Lamar County, Texas (Age 77 years) Last Modified 6 Jul 2019 Family ID F853 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Rufus M. Fox
Rufus M. Fox, 205 N. 11th St., retired grocer, died at 6 a.m. Tuesday, at his home. He was 84 years old, having been born Aug. 21, 1959, in Tennessee.
Funeral services were arranged for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the residence, with interment made in the cemetery at Hopewell by Brown-Roden Funeral Home, pallbearers being J.D. Kennedy, Roscoe Dunnam, Bill Gibson, Bill Sutton, Ray Jones and Louis Anderson.
Surviving are three children, Mrs. R.A. Henley here; C.A. Fox, Petty, and Mrs. J.A. Clark, Frisco community. There are 20 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.
The Paris News, paris, Texas, Tuesday, 7 March 1944, page. 5.
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