Hidalgo County New Mexico


James Allen and Grace with Roy as a baby.
April 16, 1897 - August 1962
He was an identical twin to Tom Cox. They were born in the Chickasaw Nation at Fox, Oklahoma, near Marlo to William A Cox and Sara Jane Farmer.

While in Corona, New Mexico his mom developed gallstones. Jim thought if he took her to better water she would improve so he took her to Rodeo, New Mexico where his brother John was a pumper for the railroad. He went on to work for the construction of Highway 80 and lived at Apache.

He and Grace married in 1926. He worked for the County for 20 years and the whole family homesteaded with adjoining property. Two parcels were grazing homesteads. Daddy Jim died in Springfield, Missouri.