Barbara, I remember when you were born! A girl after all those boys. Maggie Cox was my grandmother, too and she and grandpa lived up the road from us when I was a child. By the time you came along, they had moved many times and grandpa was in a nursing home. Grandma gave birth to you Dad when she was 49 years old. I have a picture of the Cox family - Grandpa and Grandma with all eight children. Grandma is holding Pook in her arms and her hair is white.
My mother, Laura Cox Jones, was pregnant with her third child and was complaining bitterly to Grandma. Grandma asked her, "Sister, when is your time?" My mother answered that she was due the first of November. Grandma told her that she was due a month earlier. My Mom said that was her easiest pregnancy because she never thought about herself, but worried about her poor mother. In due time, you Dad was born on October 2nd (which happened to be my brother, Doyle's fourth birthday) and my sister, Dee was born on November 2.