The Two Algernons

2007-11-24 Dixfield Historical Society 031, originally uploaded by jessica_beagan.

Thomas Cox was a founding father of Dixfield. He and his wife Almira had four children who died before reaching adulthood, including not one, but two infant boys named Algernon that died within one year.

The name of their youngest daughter, Texanna, is an unusual one. Perhaps it relates to the war that was being fought in Texas in the mid-1840's, which led to Texas ultimately becoming a US State, and not an independent nation itself, in 1845.