Daisy Cox

b. 12 April 1873, d. 7 February 1964
  • Daisy Cox was born on 12 April 1873 in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky.
  • She married Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, son of Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Lavinia Afton Chilton.
  • Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Daisy Cox appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at 615 Webster Avenue. Other members of the household included Lovett Anderson Abercrombie and Leonard Corydon Abercrombie. Also in the household were Daisy's brother Cornelius B. Cox, and nephew Baxter Finch.
  • Leonard Anderson Abercrombie registered for the draft on 9 September 1918 in Douglas County, Nebraska, while living with his wife Daisy on Drake Court in Omaha, employed there as a special investigator with the legal department of Union Pacific Railroad.
  • Daisy Cox appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, at 5017 Chicago Street enumerated in the household of Daisy's sister Nellie and her husband, physician Charles O. Rich. Daisy is identified as a widow.. Other members of the household included Lovett Anderson Abercrombie and Leonard Corydon Abercrombie.
  • The following appeared on 3 December 1928 in The Dallas Morning News: (Houston, Dec. 2) Leonard Corydon Abercrombie, 19, Rice Institute student, was shot and wounded fatally about 11 a. m. Sunday when a shotgun accidentally discharged while the youth was on a hunting trip.
         The accident occurred about nine miles from Tramell as a group of four boys, including young Abercrombie, were unloading their guns preparatory to returning to Houston from their hunting trip.
         Mr. Abercrombie is survived by his father, L. A. Abercrombie, Tulsa, Ok; his mother, Mrs. B. C. [sic] Abercrombie, and one brother, Lovett Abercrombie of Houston.
  • The following appeared on 3 December 1928 in the Omaha World-Herald: Corydon Abercrombie, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Abercrombie, former Omaha residents, died Sunday at Houston, Tex., from gunshot wounds received in a hunting accident. Telegrams to relatives here said a charge from an accidentally discharged shotgun struck him in the leg, severing an artery.
         Preceding the family's moving to Houston eight years ago, young Abercrombie was a pupil in the Dundee school. He had been a student at Rice Institute for the last two years.
         The accident victim was a nephew of Mrs. Charles Rich and Mrs. Gentry Waldo of Omaha.
  • Daisy Cox appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at 408 Hathaway. Other members of the household included Lovett Anderson Abercrombie. Also in the houshold was one female domestic servant.
  • Various members of the Abercrombie family were listed in the 1937 Houston City Directory.
  • At the time of her death Daisy Cox was living in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at 1002 Bissonnet.
  • Daisy Cox died on 7 February 1964 at age 90 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at St. Luke's Hosipital . Her death was officially witnessed by Lovett Anderson Abercrombie.
  • She was interred at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas.
  • Last Edited: 31 Jan 2013

Family: Leonard Anderson Abercrombie b. 15 April 1875, d. circa 1958