His death certificate records Joseph Edmond Cox, age 48 years 4 months 28 days, born 31 Jan 1895 in Morgan Co., Kentucky, died 28 June 1943 in German township, Montgomery Co., Ohio, residence R.R. 1, Germantown, Ohio, length of residency 15 years, married, husband of Mary Elizabeth Cox, farmer, father Thomas Cox, born in Morgan Co., Ky, mother’s maiden name Mary Lewis, born in Ky, cause of death chronic ulcerative colitis and chronic anemia resulting in cardiac failure, informant Ethel Phillips, Dayton, Ohio, burial in Middletown, Ohio.