Ida Cox (25 February, 1896 - 10 November 1967) was a popular African American singer, best known for her Blues performances and recordings. Cox was born Ida Prather in Toccoa, Habersham County, Georgia (Toccoa was in Habersham County, not yet Stephens County at the time), the daughter of Lamax and Susie (Knight) Prather, and grew up in Cedartown, Georgia, singing in the local African Methodist Church choir. She left home to tour with traveling minstrel shows, often appearing in blackface in to the 1910s; she married fellow minstrel performer Adler Cox.