From: KyArchives Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:55 AM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Cox.Joe.B.1898.Breckinridge.OBIT Joe B. Cox May 1898 Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, August 2, 1899 Page 6, Death Notice DEATH -- Miss Lizzie BOARD, the daughter of Mr & Mrs Doctor H. C. BOARD, died in this place last Sunday (July 30, 1899) at 2:00 p.m. Miss Lizzie was about 25, and she was ill about one year. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Her funeral was on Monday (July 31, 1899). Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, August 9, 1899 Page 5 A SINGULAR COINCEDENCE: Dr. H. C. BOARD of Hardinsburg in connection with the death of his two children, Miss Lizzie BOARD and Joe B. COX. Joe died on the 5th Sunday in May 1898 at 2:00 p.m., and the death of his sister followed just 14 months afterward on the 5th Sunday in July and at the same hour. The two were associated together for 3 years in the post office at Hardinsburg, and made quite an honorable record. Miss Lizzie's age was 23 years, instead of 25 as stated last week, and she had been sick for 16 months instead of 12 months. Submitted by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com Additional Comments: I did not find a tombstone for Lizzie BOARD or Joe COX in the Breckinridge County Cemeteries, volume one, published in 1991. Peggy Russell This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/