COX, IDA (née IDA PRATHER). Blues singer ( in Toccoa, Georgia; in Knoxville, Tennessee). Her family moved to Cedartown, Georgia, when she was an infant. She sang in a church choir as a child; at the age of fourteen she began singing professionally and touring with traveling shows, among them, White and Clark's Minstrels , Silas Green's show, and F. S.Wolcott's Rabbit Foot Minstrels , with whom she remained for many years. She recorded...