Adelia B. Cox Sidwell

Born in 1841 and dying in 1925, Adelia B. Cox Sidwell is remembered chiefly as the author associated with Orville Southerland Cox, Pioneer of 1847, a biographical sketch centered on her father, an early Utah pioneer.

The surviving record available online points to her deep connection with Manti, Utah, and to her role in preserving family and community memory rather than building a large published career. That makes her writing especially interesting: it carries the feel of someone recording lived history for later generations.

Today, readers are most likely to encounter her through reprints and digital editions of that pioneer biography. Even in that single known work, she stands out as a careful family historian whose writing helps keep one strand of 19th-century western settlement alive.