Naomi DeSelms Cox's 1936 Diary ©

Farm Life in Plain Township, Wood county, Ohio, continued

Naomi Esther DeSelms Cox born in Ohio October 19, 1855.  She is 80 years old as 1936 begins.

She married John Hughes Cox in Wood Co OH 27 April 1879.  She referred to him in the diary as "Pa". The early years of their marriage, (pre diary years) they lived in Perrysburg, on the farm of his parents Joseph and Jane Rebecca Underwood Cox. After the death of the parents they moved to Plain township on Hannah Road, where they lived by 1911. In the spring of 1918 she and "Pa" moved into the town of Bowling Green to 627 Wallace Avenue. They still owned the farm and son Jason and his family lived there and worked the farm, Pa frequently helping. In 1922 Naomi and Pa  moved back to a  Plain township farm next to where the Thompson's farmed and lived. Their near neighbors included Ernest and Elnora McConnell and their children James, Fannie, John, Walter and Russell. The Thompson household consisted of Earl and Maggie and their grown son Norman. By the 1930 census the old Hannah Road neighbors (now called Union Hill Rd), where their son Jason lived, included Bradleys: Wayne, Ortha, son Bobby, and Father George (died in 1931); Frank and Emma Self, Jesse (the sexton of Union Hill cem.) and Jennie Box; the 3 Smith households: Frank, Carrie and Byron; Ralph, Mabel, George and Anne; Dan, Minnie, Clyde and Grace, Harve and Inda Everett and their daughter Vinnie and son in law William F "Frank" Wammes nearby, though Harve passed away in 1930. In 1934 Kenneth and his wife Mildred Cole Wenig began to farm at Ma and Pa's old homeplace and they did a fine job of it. Mildred's mother is the sister of Jim Ewing who is Ethel Cox's husband.

                       ***Note the links to findagrave, and other web sites that may be of interest. Italics indicate my added notes.***

There are five"Virtual Cemeteries" on findagrave related to these diaries. Click here for those mentioned in the 1935 Diary the Virtual cemetery named 1933-1938.  That consists of the last five years of the diary, and of Naomi's life, who died June 22, 1938. 

To view other years, change the year in the url, like this: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbaracox/naomi_1917.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbaracox/naomi_1927.html

etc, back to 1911 which is the first diary we have of Naomi DeSelms Cox at  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbaracox/naomi_1911.html

Up to the last diary entries which will be March 1938.

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