Lost Children of the Alleghenies

The Lost Children of the Alleghenies were two missing brothers from the Appalachia region of the United States in 1856. Joseph and George Cox were known through the Allegheny Mountains as the Lost Children of the Alleghenies. George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five respectively, disappeared from their home in Pavia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1856. Their dead bodies were found several days later in the surrounding woods and they were buried in the Mount Union United Methodist Church cemetery in nearby Lovely.

Lost Children of the Alleghenies

The Lost Children of the Alleghenies were two missing brothers from the Appalachia region of the United States in 1856. Joseph and George Cox were known through the Allegheny Mountains as the Lost Children of the Alleghenies. George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five respectively, disappeared from their home in Pavia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1856. Their dead bodies were found several days later in the surrounding woods and they were buried in the Mount Union United Methodist Church cemetery in nearby Lovely.