Living

Notes:

"Fagan Arnold Cox, former chairman of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA), died Feb. 10 (sic). He was 71. After graduating college, Cox spent his entire professional career in the lumber industry....."

Fagan married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDGC-R24
name: John Thomas Cox
death date: 17 Jan 1949
death place: Houston, Harris, Texas
gender: Male
race: White
death age: 51 years 4 months 22 days
estimated birth date:
birth date: 25 Aug 1897
birthplace: Galveston, Texas
marital status: Married
spouse's name:
father's name: John Thomas Cox
father's birthplace: Unknown
mother's name: Elizabeth Fagan
mother's birthplace: Unknown
occupation: President-Cox Lumber
place of residence: Houston, Harris, Texas
cemetery: Glenwood Cemetery
burial place: Houston, Texas
burial date: 19 Jan 1949
additional relatives: X
Informant Mrs. E A Blackburn
film number: 2223118
digital film number: 4031761
image number: 3336
reference number: cn 2196
Collection: John Thomas Cox, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"

(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP One, East Mayfield Town
Enumerated 2 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 168 Sheet 1A
Hemphill Pineland Road
45-8-9
Cox, John T Head M W 22 M Tx Ark Ark Shipping Clerk Lumber Mill
Cox, Della L Wf F W 21 M Tx Tx Tx
Cox, Elizabeth Mother F W 60 Wd Ark Ky Ky

1930 Census
Texas, Harris County, Houston, JP 1, Houston City
Enumerated April 4, 1930
ED 101-107 SD 26 Sheet 10A Stamped 275
Mount Vernon
3402
Cox, John T Head M W 32 m 22 Tx US US Salesman Lumber Co
Cox, Della H Wf F W 31 m 21 Tx Tx Tx
Cox, John T Jr Som M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Cox, Louise Dtr F W 1 S Tx Tx Tx

1940 Census
Texas, Harris County, Houston, JP 1
Enumerated April 2, 1940
SD 8 ED 258-239 Sheet 5B
Mt. Vernon
3402
Cox, John Thomas Head m W 42 m Tx Same House Harris Tx Proprietor Lumber
Cox, Della Louise Wf F W 41 m Tx Same House Harris Tx
Cox, John Thomas Son m W 17 S Tx Same House Harris Tx
Cox, Della Louise Dtr F W 11 S Tx Same House Harris Tx
Cox, Fagan Arnold Son M W 8 S Tx Same House Harris Tx
Arnold, Dolly Mother-in-law F W 66 Wd Tx Same House Harris Tx
Jackson, Clara Servant F Neg 46 Wd Tx Same House Harris Tx

John married Della L. Arnold before 1920. Della (daughter of William Carter Arnold and Dollie Went) was born on 1 May 1898 in Texas; died on 27 Jan 1984 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His tombstone was marked with a Masonic emblem.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K78R-VN1
name: Thomas Griffin Synnott
event: Death
event date: 27 Oct 1967
event place: Houston, Harris, Texas, United States
gender: Male
marital status: Married
occupation Physician Medicine
birth date: 25 Mar 1905
birthplace:Mississippi
father's name: William Lawerence Synnott
mother's name: Mary Elizabeth Griffin
Informant Mrs. Patsy Synnott
certificate number: 73237
film number: 2138820
digital folder number: 005144734
image number: 01389
Collection: Thomas Griffin Synnott, "Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976"

Thomas married Marjorie Louise Sinclair. Marjorie was born on 19 Jun 1908 in Harris County, Texas; died on 3 Aug 2010 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Forest Park (Forest Park Lawndale) Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MARJORIE SINCLAIR WOODS passed away peacefully in her sleep on the evening of Tuesday, 3rd of August 2010. Marjorie was born in June, 1908 to Thomas Albert Sinclair and wife, Mary Ella. She was raised in the Heights, on the Boulevard, where she attended Cooley School, and both Heights High and Reagan High Schools, while later attending and graduating from Texas Christian University in the early 30s.

Her father, Thomas Albert, was the founder and builder of Heights Hospital that stood and served the people of the area on the corner of 19th and Ashland Avenue. This hospital was later torn down, rebuilt again on the same location, still serving the people of the area as "Heights Hospital." Marjorie worked as a nurse at her father's hospital, and later she taught shorthand at a business college "downtown", where she amazingly met and was attracted to a man named Lyndon Johnson, a debating coach/teacher at the school, who, to the relief of her father, was soon off to Washington.

Later she would meet and wed a young doctor who was working at her father's hospital, having two children, Ann and Bill, who grew up in the then new addition of "Garden Oaks", while World War II raged overseas.Marjorie very much enjoyed the game of "Bridge" with her friends, and was quite active in the women's organization of the PEOs her entire life.

Her daughter, Ann Synnott, met and married a young lumberman named Fagan Arnold Cox, having four children, Keith, the eldest, daughter Shari, and sons David and Tom Cox. Keith, living now in Philadelphia with wife Melanie, have three children, son Carter, a student at Vanderbuilt, a daughter Clemens, a student at the University of California in Los Angeles, and the youngest of the three, daughter Calloway , now in high school. Tom Cox and wife Nan have four children, three girls, Katie, Elizabeth, and the youngest, Ann Grace, and son Burrus, who live in Nashville, Tennessee. David Cox and wife Joan live in Houston, continuing the father's lumber business. They have three beautiful children, two boys, Christy, the eldest, Trenton, a student at Lamar, and daughter Margo.These ten new members of the family, the great grandchildren of Marjorie, are the future, earning her the title "Great Mother" to all of those who most dearly love her.

Marjorie is survived as well by son-in-law Conway Hall, a businessman in Houston, married now to Marjorie's daughter Ann. Marjorie also is survived by her brother, Thomas A. Sinclair II and his wife, Lucille of Kerrville, Texas.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six o'clock until eight o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 6th of August, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.The interment service is to be conducted at half past ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 7th of August, at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, 6900 Lawndale Avenue in Houston, where the Rev. Reagan Cocke, Associate Rector, of Church of St. John the Divine is to officiate.In lieu of flowers and customary remembrances, donations may be directed to any charity of one's choice.

Notes:

Virgie Speight's wrote that William was a bookkeeper for Polk and Brooks in Beaumont. In 1916, he returned to Hemphill and became Sabine County Judge in 1920, a position he retained until his death in 1923.

His death certificate, an original copy of which can be viewed on FamilySearch.org, does not list his parents. It indicates the cause of death was a self inflicted gunshot wound, with apparent suicidal intent.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, Jefferson County, JP 6
SD 2 ED 90 Sheet7B
Enumerated 23 April 1910
142-144
Arnold, William C. Hd M W 37 M1 16 Tx Ga Ala Stenographer C
ommercial
Arnold, Dollie Wf F W 36 M1 16 5/5 Tx Miss Ga
Arnold, Edith R Dtr F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Arnold, Winifred C Son M W 14 S Tx Tx Tx
Arnold, Della L Dtr F W 11 S Tx Tx Tx
Arnold, Fannie E Dtr F W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Arnold, I. D. Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Therck, William Boarder m W 35 S Mo US US Lineman Oil Pipeline
Karel, Walter H Boarder M W 28 S WV US US Lineman Oil Pipeline
Lindholm, Axell Boarder m W 40 S Finland Finland Finland 1880 Na Lineman Oil Pipeline

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP One
Enumerated 19 and 20 January 1920
SD 226 ED 168 Sheet 19B
388-410
Arnold, William C Hd M W 48 M Tx Ga Tx Farmer
Arnold, Dollie Wf F W 46 M Tx Miss Ga
Arnold, Winifred C Son M W 22 S Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Arnold, Francis E Dtr F W 19 S Tx Tx Tx
Arnold, I. D. Son M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx Farmer

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated 30 April 1930
ED 202-6 SD 19 Sheet 12 A Stamped 83
249-250
Arnold, Dollie Hd F W 56 Wd Tx Miss Ga
Arnold, Winfred Son M W 34 S Tx Tx Tx Farmer

William married Dollie Went on 11 Jul 1893 in Sabine County, Texas. Dollie (daughter of John E. Went and Frances "Fanny" Whitehead) was born on 6 Sep 1873 in Texas; died on 4 Sep 1966 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Virgie Speight's "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas," a column originally written September 26, 1963 about Dolly Wente Arnold was published, on the occasion of Dollie's Ninetieth Birth Anniversary. Dolly remembered her mother spinning thread and weaving cloth, skills which she learned as a child, but did not have to use after growing up. She continues to knit, crochet and embroider. Mrs. Arnold and her two sisters attended a private school in Hemphill taught by Miss Margaret Weatherred, and later went to Hemphill public school. (Speights, p. 22)

At the time of the 1940 census, Dolly was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Della and John Cox, in Houston, Texas.



(Research):
Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated 30 April 1930
ED 202-6 SD 19 Sheet 12 A Stamped 83
249-250
Arnold, Dollie Hd F W 56 Wd Tx Miss Ga
Arnold, Winfred Son M W 34 S Tx Tx Tx Farmer

Notes:

Married:
Virgie Speight's writes that she was married in 1893 to William Carter Arnold, also from a prominent pioneer family. Judge Henry C. Maund performed the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents, with many friends present.