Troy Preston Cox
1888 - 1969 (81 years)
Generation: 1
1. Troy Preston Cox was born on 8 Sep 1888 in Carroll County, Virginia; died on 26 Dec 1969 in Shoshone, Lincoln County, Idaho; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Gooding, Gooding County, Idaho. Other Events:
- Occupation: Gooding City water superintendent and street commissioner
- _MILT: World War I. American Expeditionary Force in France.
Notes:
Troy Preston Cox
Gooding – Troy Preston Cox, 81, Gooding, died Friday noon at a Shoshone nursing home.
He was born Sept. 8, 1888, at Carrol County, Va. He attended schools in Virginia moving to Idaho in 1909 where he worked for Senator Gooding on his ranch, and also drove a stagecoach in Oregon. He entered the U.S. Army during World War I serving with the American expeditionary force in France. He married Elsie O. Jones Sept. 27, 1919, I Carrol County. They moved back to Gooding that year and Mr. Cox worked for the city of Gooding as water superintendent and street commissioner until retiring in 1946. He built the Evergreen Motel in 1959. Mrs. Cox died in 1965. He was a member of the Gooding United Methodist Church, the American Legion, the Gooding Elks Lodge and the Gooding Moose Lodge.
Survivors include a son, Carl W. Cox, Boise; two daughters, Mrs. Ila Daniels, Gooding, and Mrs. Don (June) Faubion, Boise; a brother, Claron Cox, Woodland, Va.; a sister, Mrs. Leona Coble, Fayetteville, N.C., and several grandchildren.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Thompson Chapel in Gooding by the Rev. Edmond Stanton of the Gooding United Methodist Church. Interment will be at Elmwood in Gooding.
Friends may call all day today and until time of services Monday at Thompson Chapel.
The Idaho Statesman, Boise, Idaho. Sunday, 28 December 1969.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109985519/troy-preston-coxTroy married Clara Nighswonger on 23 Nov 1916 in Gooding County, Idaho. Clara (daughter of William Peter Nighswonger and Anna Cloadine Parker) was born on 18 Oct 1889 in Viola, Sedgwick County, Kansas; died on 10 Jan 1917 in Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho; was buried on 11 Jan 1917 in Elmwood Cemetery, Gooding, Gooding County, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]