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Thomas Ellis Cox

Person Chart

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Ernest Hiram Cox III	9/30/1876	Mattie Virginia Belt	1/1/1883

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Donna Davis		Sharon Carol Cox Evans James "Jimmy" Lawrence Cox Evans
Cora "Mike" June Barton	12/30/1932	Terry Lee Cox Susan Lynne Cox

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	10/6/1922	Leedy, Oklahoma, USA
Marriage	5/19/1945
Divorce	12/19/1952
Marriage	9/19/1953	Warrington, England
Death	2/19/1973	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Notes


Biography - Thomas Ellis Cox was of slight build, with steel blue penetrating eyes. He was feisty by nature and would never settle for anything but the best. He gave his best and expected others to give theirs. Tommy Cox graduated from Leedy High School, Leedy, Oklahomain 1941 and served in World War II on the destroyer escort S. S. Lovelacein the Pacific. He later transferred to a minesweeper. Tommy Cox met and married Donna Davis while on leave after being in the south Pacific for 36 months. They had known each other for only a week when they married on May 19th, 1945. The war was over in Europe and Tommy went to Virginia to get his discharge from the U. S. Navy. On his return to Bellingham, Washington he entered Northwestern Washington State University with his G. I. Bill money, worked part time and raised chickens. The chickens got coccidiosis and died. Their first child Sharon was born November 27th, 1946. When Donna became pregnant with a second childand Sharon was hospitalized with a severe intestinal infection, their savings was wiped out. Tommy decided to go back into the militaryservice in anew branch called the Air Force. The second child, James, was born in Fort Lewis Army Hospital December 31st, 1947. Tommy was stationed in Tacoma, and transferred to Hill AFB, Utah. In January 1952 Tommy Cox was transferred to Germany. Little Jimmy was recovering from Polio, which left him with a slight limp and Donna did not want to leave the USA. Tommy got a transfer to England but Donna still refused to go over seas. Donna said she just didn't love Tommy any more and wanted an immediate divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. The divorce was final on December 19th, 1952. On the 20th, Donna married a Robert Evans. Tommy Cox wrote both of them a furious note and told Evans if he could break up a marriage, he had better be prepared to adopt the children. Robert Evans didadopt Sharon and Jimmy and he and Donna had two more children besides. Tom Cox said he would wait until Sharon and Jimmy were grown before he would explain his side. So Tommy had no contact with his children until twelve years later. Sharon did meet with him, but Jimmy refused to meet Tommy which broke Cox's heart. Cox had had to return to England in 1952 and on September 19th, 1952 met Cora June "Mike" Bartonat a dance in England. Despite a ten year difference in age, they fell in love and were married one year later on September 19th, 1953. Tommy mentioned at the time, "Everything good and bad happens to me on the 19th!" They returned to the United States in 1954. Tommy served with the office of Special Investigations (OSI) in California and Washington DC. There he attended foreign language school sponsored by the State Department and was stationed in Seville, Spain for two years. Cora loved to travel and happily accompanied Tommy. even bringing their daughter, Terry, born May 5th, 1955 in Riverside, California. then Tommy and Cora moved back to the U. S. for two years, to California and Texas where a secong daughter Susan, was born November 5th, 1959. then they returned abroad to Middlesex, England, and then Madrid, Spain. In 1964 he was offered a body guard position with President Lyndon B. Johnson, but Tommy Cox refused the position because he didn't agree with the man's politics. Tommy Cox was an excellent investigator, considered one of the best in his group of peers. To relax in his free time, Tommy enjoyed painting and drawing and encouraged his daughters from his second marriage, Terry and Susan, to enjoy the arts. He loved music and electronic devices, even wiring two of the homes he owned to have music throughout the house. Tommy was quick tempered, but quick to forgive. he saw things black or white and had no time for the gray in between. You either did something or you did not do it. Cox always felt there was not enough hours in the day to do all he wanted to do.He loved his family, his job and was very patriotic. Every time they came back after living in another country, Tommy Cox would say, "I'm so glad to be an American, and our system of government may not be perfect, but it's far better than the country's we have just been livin in." In 1965 Tommy Cox retired from the OSI and from repairing Air Force teletype machines and ended up working for the U. S. Customs, first of the docks in Seattle, Washington and then in Anchorage, Alaska. Cigarette smoking and a high cholesterol farmdiet he liked to eatled to a heart attack in 1972 after which Tommy Cox moved to Portland (Hillsboro), Oregon. One year and one month later while on a vacation with Mike in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tommy had a second heart attack and died. he was 50 years old.

Biography -
Thomas Ellis Cox was of slight build, with steel blue penetrating eyes. He was feisty by nature and would never settle for anything but the best. He gave his best and expected others to give theirs. Tommy Cox graduated from Leedy High School, Leedy, Oklahomain 1941 and served in World War II on the destroyer escort S. S. Lovelacein the Pacific. He later transferred to a minesweeper.
Tommy Cox met and married Donna Davis while on leave after being in the south Pacific for 36 months. They had known each other for only a week when they married on May 19th, 1945. The war was over in Europe and Tommy went to Virginia to get his discharge from the U. S. Navy. On his return to Bellingham, Washington he entered Northwestern Washington State University with his G. I. Bill money, worked part time and raised chickens. The chickens got coccidiosis and died.
Their first child Sharon was born November 27th, 1946. When Donna became pregnant with a second childand Sharon was hospitalized with a severe intestinal infection, their savings was wiped out. Tommy decided to go back into the militaryservice in anew branch called the Air Force. The second child, James, was born in Fort Lewis Army Hospital December 31st, 1947. Tommy was stationed in Tacoma, and transferred to Hill AFB, Utah.
In January 1952 Tommy Cox was transferred to Germany. Little Jimmy was recovering from Polio, which left him with a slight limp and Donna did not want to leave the USA. Tommy got a transfer to England but Donna still refused to go over seas. Donna said she just didn't love Tommy any more and wanted an immediate divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
The divorce was final on December 19th, 1952. On the 20th, Donna married a Robert Evans. Tommy Cox wrote both of them a furious note and told Evans if he could break up a marriage, he had better be prepared to adopt the children. Robert Evans didadopt Sharon and Jimmy and he and Donna had two more children besides.
Tom Cox said he would wait until Sharon and Jimmy were grown before he would explain his side. So Tommy had no contact with his children until twelve years later. Sharon did meet with him, but Jimmy refused to meet Tommy which broke Cox's heart.
Cox had had to return to England in 1952 and on September 19th, 1952 met Cora June "Mike" Bartonat a dance in England. Despite a ten year difference in age, they fell in love and were married one year later on September 19th, 1953. Tommy mentioned at the time, "Everything good and bad happens to me on the 19th!"
They returned to the United States in 1954. Tommy served with the office of Special Investigations (OSI) in California and Washington DC. There he attended foreign language school sponsored by the State Department and was stationed in Seville, Spain for two years. Cora loved to travel and happily accompanied Tommy. even bringing their daughter, Terry, born May 5th, 1955 in Riverside, California.
then Tommy and Cora moved back to the U. S. for two years, to California and Texas where a secong daughter Susan, was born November 5th, 1959. then they returned abroad to Middlesex, England, and then Madrid, Spain.
In 1964 he was offered a body guard position with President Lyndon B. Johnson, but Tommy Cox refused the position because he didn't agree with the man's politics.
Tommy Cox was an excellent investigator, considered one of the best in his group of peers. To relax in his free time, Tommy enjoyed painting and drawing and encouraged his daughters from his second marriage, Terry and Susan, to enjoy the arts. He loved music and electronic devices, even wiring two of the homes he owned to have music throughout the house.
Tommy was quick tempered, but quick to forgive. he saw things black or white and had no time for the gray in between. You either did something or you did not do it. Cox always felt there was not enough hours in the day to do all he wanted to do.He loved his family, his job and was very patriotic.
Every time they came back after living in another country, Tommy Cox would say, "I'm so glad to be an American, and our system of government may not be perfect, but it's far better than the country's we have just been livin in."
In 1965 Tommy Cox retired from the OSI and from repairing Air Force teletype machines and ended up working for the U. S. Customs, first of the docks in Seattle, Washington and then in Anchorage, Alaska. Cigarette smoking and a high cholesterol farmdiet he liked to eatled to a heart attack in 1972 after which Tommy Cox moved to Portland (Hillsboro), Oregon. One year and one month later while on a vacation with Mike in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tommy had a second heart attack and died. he was 50 years old.

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