An American Family History

Nancy Taylor Cox was born about 1832 in Bath Township, Greene County, Ohio. She was the daughter of David Taylor and Mary Bolen. The family moved to Shelby County, Ohio where her father died soon after. According to the Shelby County, Ohio Probate Court guardianship records, Ann was two years old on October 28, 1834. 

After her father's death, John Staley was chosen as her guardian and the guardian of her sisters Margaret and Nancy. On August 4, 1836, William J. Martin was appointed guardian to the Taylor children.

When the 1850 census was taken, Nancy was age 18 and living with the Jacob Barr family in Midway, Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio.

Nancy Taylor married Benjamin Cox on November 1, 1855 in Clark County, Ohio.

Nancy and Benjamin's son, Marshall, was born about 1857 and William was born about 1860.

According to the 1860 mortality index Benjamin died when he was 36 in February, 1860 of consumption. He had been sick for 12 weeks.

In 1860 Nancy was 27 and living in Mad River Township with her three year old son Marshall, seven month old baby, William, and a nineteen year old domestic named Sarah.

Nancy appeared in the 1870 census of Mad River Township. She was a 37 year old, widowed seamstress and living with her son Marshal who was 13. She was still there in 1880. She was 47, widowed and living with her son Marshal who was 23.