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James Royal Fox, Jr.

“There’s never a wish better than this, when you’ve only got a hundred years to live”

Penned in celebration of the Fox farm in South Tillamook County turning 100 years old, May 16, 2022. Seasoned with lyrics from, ‘100 Years”, by Five for Fighting Orra Baltimore married Jim Fox in 1893 when she was 18 and he was 21. They had a daughter almost a year later in 1894, and April …

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Aunt Mary

It was winter when I retired, a fitting time to stay indoors and begin to explore my interest in genealogy almost immediately. As I explain in the introduction of The Secrets of Benjamin Fox, my cheat sheets were hand written notes compiled by my grandmother in the mid-70’s. Her accuracy is truly phenomenal, in fact …

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