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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES

ANTECEDENTS AND DESCENDANTS
of
JOHN COX
(1 November 1727 - ABT 1804/05)

   

G0498A: Thomas COX I [008]
Birth: BEF 1645, Herefordshire, England
Death: BEF 16 August 1681, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Marriage: 22 April 1665, Maspeth Kills (Newton), Long Island, New York, British North America
Spouse: Elizabeth BLASHFORD (BEF 1645 - AFT 1690/91, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America)

Child 1: Thomas COX II (11 February 1667/68, Long Island, New York, British North America - AFT 16 February 1722/23 and BEF 25 March 1723, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [M]: m. Mary WRIGHT (25 September 1679, at sea - AFT 6 August 1757 and BEF 29 July 1760, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America), ABT 1694, New Jersey, British North America

Child 2: John COX (ABT 1670, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 9 April 1728 and BEF 22 October 1729, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [M]: m. Mary UNKNOWN, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Child 3: James COX (18 August 1672, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 14 October 1750, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: interment at Cox's Corners, Imlaystown, New Jersey) [M]: m1. Anne UNKNOWN (16 January 1672 - 25 November 1747, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America): m2. Rebecca STILLWELL (born ABT 1684, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, British North America - AFT 1757)

Child 4: Joseph COX (15 September 1679, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - BEF 17 November 1750, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [M]: m. Catherine SHEPHERD, BEF 1713, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Child 5: Unknown COX (BEF 9 September 1681, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT February 1688/89, New Jersey, British North America) [F]: m. Nathaniel ROBBINS, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Child 6: Unknown COX (BEF 9 September 1681, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT February 1688/89, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]

Note 1: In the Public Records Office in London, a Thomas COX was licensed, with 2 others, to pass to Virginia in 1650. The first definite record of Thomas COX I is his marriage license, dated 22 April 1665, issued in Newtown, Long Island. In the autumn of 1665, a colony settled at Middletown and Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Most of the settlers were Baptists and Quakers, however there are no records of Thomas COXes belonging to either church. He obtained land in Middletown, New Jersey by the Nicolls patent, but (unusual for the time) Thomas COX recognized the right of the Indians to their lands and paid them for his share of the patent. He was chosen an overseer of the fences in 1667, and registered an earmark for cattle on 4 January 1668 - "Thos Cocks his marke is the top of the right eare cutt off and a swallow taile and a hole in the left ear." Thomas COX served in a variety of public offices, including 'rate maker' of the town, constables' assistant, town deputy and town overseer. He initialled a document "Tc" on 8 November 1673. By 1676 he was chosen a deputy to meet the Governor and his council at Woodbridge. At his death, he is described as having left a widow and six children, two of them very small.

Note 2: Thomas COX I married Elisabeth BLASHFORD, at the head of Newton Creek, Long Island, by license dated 22 April 1665:

  Whereas I have received information of a mutual intent and agreement between Thomas COX of Marshpath Kills in ye Lymmits of New Towne, and Elizabeth BLASHFORD to enter into the state of matrimony, and that there lyeth no lawful obstacle or obligation on either part to hinder the performance thereof, I do hereby grant unto them Lycences so to do -- and do also require one of ye Justices of ye peace of ye North Ryding of Yorkshire upon Long Island or ye Minister of some Parish therein to Joyne the said Thomas COX and Elizabeth BLASHFORD in Marryage, and to pronounce them man and wife and so to record them according to the law made in that behalf, for doing whereof this shall be sufficient warrant.

Given under my hand and Seal at James Hart in New York this 22nd day of April, 1665.

Rich. Nicolls.

  Note: Sir Richard Nicolls (1624, Ampthill, Bedforshire, England - 28 May 1672, in battle at sea), who gave license to Thomas COX I and Elizabeth BLASHFORD to marry, was the first English governor of New York. The marriage license is printed in George William Cocks, assisted by John Cox, Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family Descended from James and Sarah Cock of Killingworth Upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York (New York, privately printed: 1912). Transcription of the marriage license was made at the New York State Library at Albany in 1908.

About Sir Richard Nicolls, the following is taken from Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, six volumes (New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1887-1889) and further edited by Stanley L. Klos:

  NICOLLS, Sir Richard, first English governor of New York, born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, in 1624; died at sea, 28 May, 1672. He was the fourth son and youngest child of Francis Nicolls, of the Middle Temple, and of Ampthill. The civil war put an end to his studies at one of the English universities, and he joined the king's army, though only eighteen years old, and was made captain of a troop of horse. On the fall of the royal cause he fled to Holland, entered the service of the Duke of York, served with him in the continental wars, and at the restoration of Charles II. was appointed gentleman of the bed-chamber to the Duke of York. Being of fine presence, clear head, and pleasant manners, and a good linguist, speaking French and Dutch as well as he did English, he was appointed the chief of the coInmission that was charged by Charles II., in 1664, to settle disputes between and with the New England colonies, and "to reduce" New Netherland from the Dutch. Nicolls sailed with his fleet from Portsmouth, 15 May, 1664. Stopping at Boston, and directing Winthrop to meet him at the west end of Long Island, he reached Gravesend bay, 25 August, 1664, but three of his ships did not arrive till the 28th. He demanded the instant surrender of New Netherland. A successful resistance being out of the question, Stuyvesant reluctantly negotiated. After long discussion between the representatives of Stuyvesant and those of Nicolls, articles of surrender were agreed to on Saturday, 6 September, at Stuyvesant's Bowery house, which Nicolls signed the same day. On Sunday the Dutch council considered them, and early Monday morning, S September, 1664, they were signed by Stuyvesant, and the ratifications were exchanged. Nicolls took possession of New Netherland the same day, the Dutch troops marching out of the fort at New Amsterdam and the English marching in. Nicolls at once gave to the conquered territories the names of the titles of his patron, calling the province and city " New York." Long Island and Westchester county "Yorkshire." and the northern portion of the province "Albania" and its chief town "Albany." By his prudent and mild conduct and pleasing manners, Nicolls so overcame the prejudices of the Dutch that, on 25 and 26 October, 1664, Stuyvesant, Van Cortlandt, and all the other officials and chief men of New Amsterdam took the oath of allegiance to Charles II. as sovereign, and the Duke of York as lord proprietor of New York, and acknowledged Nicolls to be the duke's deputy governor, under the latter's commission, dated 2 April, 1664. On 8 March, 1665, he published, in a convention of delegates at Hempstead, "the duke's laws," the first code of English law in New York. It was drawn up by Matthias Nicolls (q. v.), secretary of the province, from the laws in the other British colonies, the common law of England, and the former Roman-Dutch law of New Netherland. On 12 June, 1665, he established the English municipal government of the city of New York by a mayor, alderman, and sheriff, in place of the Dutch burgomaster and schepens, and appointed Nicholas Bayard, Stuyvesant's nephew, the first clerk of the common council. In 1666 he was engaged in settling difficulties with the Indians and the French, and reconciling minor disputes among the Dutch and English people of the province. In 1667 he applied to the Duke of York for permission to resign, which, after some delay, was granted, but, at the duke's request, he remained till the arrival of his successor, Colonel Francis Lovelace, with whom he made a journey through the province to introduce him to the magistrates and people. On 25 August, 1668, after a notable dinner that was given in his honor by the city authorities, he was escorted to the vessel by the largest procession of military and citizens that had then been seen in New York, and sailed for England, amid the regrets of the people among whom he had come as a conqueror. Nicolls's rule was honest and wise: his decisions as chief of the court of assizes under " the duke's laws" were just, and his government was marked with moderation and integrity. On his return to England he took his former place in the Duke of York's household, and at the beginning of the war with Holland in 1672 served with him in the fleet under his command, and lost his life in the battle with De Ruyter on 28 May, 1672. He lies buried in the chancel of Ampthill parish church, where a white marble monument is erected to his memory, its upper part inclosing the cannonball that killed him, with the words "Instrumentum Mortis et Immortalitatis." Below it is a Latin inscription testifying to his merits as a soldier, governor, and scholar, and, as he requested in his will, mentioning his family. Sir Richard was never married.

Inventory was taken on the estate of Thomas COX I of Middletown on 16 August 1681. It amounted to amounted to £20, real, and £45-17-0, personal estate.

After the death of Thomas COX I, Elisabeth BLASHFORD was married to Thomas INGRAHAM (died ABT 1690):

  "September ye 9: 1681 Tho. INGHAM and ye widow Elizabeth COX were maried by Cap. John Bowne, Justis of the peace in Midle Toune."

On 10 February 1686, Thomas INGRAHAM became the administrator of the estate of Thomas COX I:

  1686 February 10. COCKS, Thomas, of Middletown, administration on [page 101] the estate of, granted to Thomas INGHAME. [New Jersey Archives, XXI, p. 110]

1687/78 February 9. Bond of Thomas INGHAM, of Middletown, as administrator of the estate. [Monmouth Wills]

See Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, vol. 23, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, vol. 1, 1670 - 1730 (Paterson, New Jersey: 1901), p. 100.

Note 3: The Will of Thomas COX II:

  COX, THOMAS of the Township of Freehold, Monmouth County, "Yeoman, Being Very Sick and Weak in Body." Dated February 16, 1722/23. Proved by deposition of Thomas Taylor, James COX, and Robert LAWRENCE, before Michael Kearny, Surrogate, "allins town, 25th March, 1723." Gives: "to my three Chilldren Thomas COX, my son and heir, Mary LAWRENCE and Lydy Cox fifty pounds apeice. My "sons fifty to be paid as soon as Conveniently it Can. My Daughter Mary's fifty pounds to be paid a Year after my Decease, "and my Daughter Lydys fifty pounds to be paid two Years after my decease;" "to my Daughter Cathrine's Husband "Cornelius VANHORNE Thirty pounds And if it shall please God that my Daughter Cathrine's son Thomas VANHORNE shall live "till he comes to the age of Twenty and one years Then I do Give him Thirty pounds." "If John Estill do live with my "Wife till he comes to the age of Twenty one years Then I do Give him a Cow and a Mare." "The Remaining .... moveable Eftate .... to my Loveing wife Mary COX Dureing her life, and at her Decease to be Disposed of as she shall think fitt .... likewife ... to my Loveing wife, with the remaining part of my moveable Estate .... in Leiue of her Dower, My Dwelling house and barn with the half of my Improved land Meadow and Wood Land as long as she shall remain my Widow, To be Divided from the other half of my Orchard Improved land meadow and Wood land By Thomas Taylor and John Ashton both of freehold .... Who I .... Impower to Divide my land ...." "Allso Give an Acre Square of Land where my Chilldren lyes buryed on ye hill above my Orchard Containing the present Burying Yard in the Middle of it, for a burying place forever for me my Wife and Chilldren and for a burying place for my Brother John COX and for his familye forever And .... the said Acre of Ground shall not be sold Granted nor Given Nor .... Conveyed from the Two Familyes abovesaid, But by them to be Kept without ... Molestation For a burying place for them and their children forever;" "to my Cousins Sarah ROBINS and Meribah ROBINS the Dauthers of Nathaniell ROBINS Deceased Ten pounds apeice to be paid them when my wife sees fit." Appoints "my Loveing wife Mary COX to be Sole Executrix ... And if .... she shall Dye before the Legacys herein .... shall be paid and my will performed Then I ... appoint my son Thomas COX, Executor ...." Witnesses.: thomas COX Elias HOLMAN Thomas taylor James COX Robert LAWRENCE Deposition of Mary COX, Executrix, before Michael Kearny, Surrogate, "att allens town, ye 25th day of march, 1723." [Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, vol. 23, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, vol. 1, 1670 - 1730 (Paterson, New Jersey: 1901), pp. 113 - 114]

1722/23 March 15. Inventory of the personal estate, 630.13.2; made by Thomas Taylor, John Ashton and Robert LAWRENCE. [Lib. A, 242, and Monmouth County Wills]

Mary WRIGHT, the wife of Thomas COX II, appears to have been born at sea on 25 September 1679 as the daughter of Samuel WRIGHT and Mary STARKEY [See Burlington Quaker Monthly Meeting Records in Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey (Westminster, Maryland, Family Line Publications: 1994), 3 vols.] But, since the Will of Mary COX, the widow of Thomas COX II, was signed on 6 August 1757 and gives her age as "about 86," her date of birth has also been proposed as about 1671.

The Will of Mary COX:

  1757, August 6. Will of Mary COX, widow of Thomas COX , deceased, of Upper Freehold , about 86 years of age; proved 1760, mentioned: Her son and heir, Thomas COX, received 6 shillings. William CHEESMAN, son of my daughter, Lydia, received 6 shillings. Her two grandsons, Richard and Thomas COX, received 6 shillings, each. Her two granddaughters, Elizabeth and Rebecca COX, received £5, each. Other grandchildren, Thomas VANHORNE, Joseph LAWRENCE, Mary LAWRENCE and Elizabeth HUTCHESON, the balance of her estate. She willed money for the use of the Baptist congregation in Upper Freehold, for the relief of travelling Baptist ministers, repairs to building, etc. Executors: Her grandson, Richard COX, and John Coward , Jr.

1760, July 29. Inventory of Mary COX, widow, of Upper Freehold , amounted to £1472-15-3. [Elsewhere the amount is given as £1471-15-5.] Among the items were "mortgages, bonds and bills," amounting to £1332-6-4.

A child of Thomas COX II and Mary WRIGHT was Thomas COX III (7 June 1700 [Julian Calendar] = 18 June 1700 [Gregorian Calendar], Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 5 June 1783 [Gregorian Calendar], Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, New Jersey: interment at Yellow Meeting House cemetery, Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, Upper Freehold, New Jersey) who was first married to Hannah MORFORD and second married, about 1725, to Rebecca POTTS (1702, Springfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 1754, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America).

The gravestone of Thomas COX III, at the Yellow Meeting House cemetery, reports that he died 5 June 1783 at the age of 82 years, 11 months, and 18 days. Reckoning his date of birth according to the Gregorian calendar yields the date 18 June 1700. This is equivalent, in the Julian Calendar, to 7 June 1700. Thomas COX III was born previous to the British Calendar Act of 1751 which specified that 2 September 1752, under the Gregorian calendar, would be followed by 14 September 1752, under the Gregorian calendar.

A child of Thomas COX III and Rebecca POTTS was Rebecca COX (ABT September 1733, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 9 May 1814, Warren County, Georgia) who was first married to Unknown HARRISON and who, on 1 November 1760, was second married to Thomas ANSLEY (14 January 1736/37, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 14 January 1809, Warren County, Georgia) in Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey. As of 1776, Thomas ANSLEY and Rebecca COX were residing in Warren County, Georgia and Thomas ANSLEY was serving in the Revolutionary War at the rank of Private in the Georgia troops.

A child of Rebecca COX and Thomas ANSLEY was Abel ANSLEY (ABT 1761, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 1822 [Will proved 6 May 1822], Warren County, Georgia) who married Lydia Harrison MORRIS (ABT 1765, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ABT 1838, Warren County, Georgia) on 30 January 1790 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia.

A child of Abel ANSLEY and Lydia MORRIS was Ann ANSLEY (ABT 1801, Warren County, Georgia - ABT 1848, Warren County, Georgia) who married James Wiley CARTER (ABT 1798, Schley County, Georgia - 4 March 1864, Schley County, Georgia) on 18 February 1821 in Warren County, Georgia. James Wiley CARTER was second married to Sarah ROSS.

A child of James Wiley CARTER and Ann ANSLEY was Littleberry Walker CARTER (1832, near Plains, Sumter County, Georgia - 1874, Georgia) who, on 5 January 1851, in Warren County, Georgia, married Mary Ann Diligent SEALS (1838, Sumter County, Georgia - 27 November 1873, Georgia).

A child of Littleberry Walker CARTER and Mary Ann Diligent SEALS was William Archibald CARTER (12 November 1858, Sumter County, Georgia - 3 September 1903, Georgia) who married Nina PRATT (5 December 1863, Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina - 8 March 1939, Plains, Sumter County, Georgia) on 8 September 1885 in Abbeville County, South Carolina.

A child of William Archibald CARTER and Nina PRATT was James Earl CARTER, Sr. (12 September 1894, Arlington, Sumter County, Georgia - 22 July 1953, Plains, Sumter County, Georgia) who, on 27 September 1923, in Richland, Stewart County, Georgia, married Bessie Lillian GORDY (15 August 1898, Richland, Stewart County, Georgia - 30 October 1993, Americus, Sumter County, Georgia).

A child of James Earl CARTER, Sr. and Bessie Lillian GORDY was James ("Jimmy") Earl CARTER, Jr., born 1 October 1924 in Plains, Sumter County, Georgia. James ("Jimmy") Earl CARTER, Jr. was the 39th President of the United States.

Note 4: Rebecca STILLWELL, the daughter of John STILLWELL (18 May 1660, Gravesend, Long Island, Kings County, New York - 1724, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York) and Rebecca THROCKMORTON (died AFT 1724), was first married to Ebenezer SALTAR (died 1749) and second married to James COX whom she survived. About Ebenezer SALTAR, see below under G0496A: John COX, "the Cordwainer."

Note 5: The Will of James COX, Upper Freehold, Gentleman, signed 22 December 1747 and proved 7 November 1750, mentioned:

  (1) John COX, son of my son Thomas, decsd, at 21 a legacy

(2) Mary COX "so lately called, but now married" and

(3) Ann COX ("both daughters of my son Thomas")

(4) son, John COX, heirs land

(5) son, Joseph COX, heirs land

(6) daughter, Elizabeth, heirs land

(7) four daughters of "my late dec'd daughter Anna JEWELL"

(8) grandson, James COX

(9) five daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, Rachel, Dorothy, and Rebecca

He reserved ground where his wife and "others of my family lyes buried for a burying ground forever."

His apparel was to be divided between three sons, James, John, and Joseph COX

Executors: sons, John and Joseph and my kinsman, Thomas COX

Witnesses: Samuel STEELE, John HARTSHORN, and John LAWRENCE, Jr.

The inventory of James COX's personal estate amounted to £743-9-10½

 
Account of Inventory and Sales Over Appraisement  
Disbursements £1010-4-5¼
267-15-3
February 14, 1756
Balance
742-9-21¼
   
Among the disbursements, "£50 Bond given to Rebecca COX, his wife, by said James COX before their marriage."
   
Paid balance of estate to legatees as follows:
Dorothy £56-8-5 pr. Jno COX
64-2-6 pr. Jno COX p rect &c
£120-10-11 Ball. £3-3-11
Elizabeth £123-14-10 & over pd.
Else 123-14-10 & over pd.
Rachell 123-14-10 & over pd.
   
four daughters of Ann, daughter of testator, one share £123-14-10
30-18-18, ½ each
children of Rebecca, daughter of testator, one share which are now alive £123-14-10
20-12-5, ½ each
   

Note 6: The tombstone of James COX, at Cox's Corners, Imlaystown, New Jersey, reads as follows: "Here lies the body of James _ox who departed this life ye 24th of October Anno Domini 1750 aged seventy-eight years _ow (= two) months and six days."

   

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G0497A: John COX [007]
Birth: ABT 1670, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Death: AFT 9 April 1728 and BEF 22 October 1729, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Father: Thomas COX (BEF 1645, Herefordshire, England - BEF 16 August 1681, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America)
Mother: Elizabeth BLASHFORD (BEF 1645 - AFT 1690/91)

Marriage: Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Spouse: Mary UNKNOWN

Child 1: John COX, "the Cordwainer" (1696, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 1768, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey) [M]: m1. Rachel UNKNOWN (ABT 1700 - 16 October 1750, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey), BY 1698, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: m2. Elizabeth HOLMAN, 1 January 1768, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Child 2: Joseph COX (1698, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ?) [M]

Child 3: Samuel COX (1700, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 1737

Child 4: Elisabeth COX (ABT 1707, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]: m. Richard COMPTON (Jr.) (ABT 1698, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - BY 6 July 1782 [Will proven], Somerset County, New Jersey), 15 January 1727

Child 5: Rachel COX [F]

Child 6: Mary COX [F]: m. William ENELMAN, 1729

Child 7: Mercy COX [F]: m. Ephraim ROB(B)INS

Note 1: John COX signed his Will 9 April 1728. It was proved, in Monmouth County, 22 October 1729. The Will mentions wife Mary, children John, Joseph, Samuel, Elisabeth, Rachel, Mary, Alice, and Mercy, and brother James COX [Monmouth County Wills, Book B, p. 169]

  1728 April 9. COX, John, of Freehold, Monmouth County, yeoman; Will of. Wife Mary. Children John, Joseph, Samuel, Elizabeth, Rachel, Mary, Alice and Mercy. Real estate to be divided by brother James COX, Richard Mount junior and William LAWRENCE junior; personal estate. Executors the wife and brother James COX. Witnesses Thomas COX, junior, William Andrews, William LAWRENCE junior. Proved October 22, 1729. [Lib. B, p. 169, and Monmouth County Wills]

Note 2: John COX belonged to the Baptist church in Middletown, along with his brothers. He figured prominently in the riots in Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1701. In the Court of Sessions 6 March 1701, John COX and other citizens were fined 10 shillings each for contempt and misbehavior before the court. A few days later, a mob seized the Governor and the Justices and held them as prisoners from the 25th to 29th of March.

Note 3: Joseph COX may have moved to Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Note 4: Richard COMPTON (Jr.), the husband of Elisabeth COX, was the son of Richard COMPTON (Sr.) (ABT 1672, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ABT 1710, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, British North America) and Prudence Providence ISSELTON (ABT 1664, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America), who were married 13 December 1694, by the deed which, in Monmouth County, Justice of the peace Lewis Morris issued (See Marriage Deeds, Monmouth County, New Jersey: 1667 - 1697, p. 60). The Will of Richard COMPTON (Jr.) was proved, in Somerset County, 6 July 1782 [interim administrator: James Castner, cordwainer; fellowbondsman: Zebulon COMPTON, both of Somerset County. New Jersey Colonial Documents, vol. 35, p. 88]. Jacob Vosseller and Philip V. Arsdalen inventoried the estate of Richard COMPTON (Jr.) on 9 August 1782 and assessed its value at £77.17.4. [Lib. M, p. 130] Zebulon COMPTON (ABT 1730, <Somerset County>, New Jersey, British North America - BEF 1824, <Somerset County>, New Jersey) was the son of Richard COMPTON (Jr.) and Elisabeth COX.

Note 5: Map of Monmouth County, New Jersey (1895):


   

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G0496A: John COX, "the Cordwainer" [006]
Birth: 1696, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Death: 1768, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Interment: Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey
Father: John COX (ABT 1670, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 9 April 1728 and BEF 22 October 1729)
Mother: Mary UNKNOWN (died AFT 22 October 1729)

Marriage: ABT 1725
Spouse: Rachel UNKNOWN (ABT 1700 - 16 October 1750, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey)

Child 1: Mary COX (ABT 1725, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 1786/87, North Carolina) [F]: m. John LEAMING (LIMING or LEMING) (ABT 1716, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ABT 1792, Pennsylvania), 4 November 1740, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Child 2: John COX (1 November 1727, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ABT 1804/05, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina) [M]: m1. Margaret MORRIS (1 October 1732, Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 15 August 1799, Lincoln County, North Carolina), by license dated 29 October 17<50>, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America [See G0495A: Margaret MORRIS in Descendants of Andrew Morris (ABT 1685 - 1728).]: m2. Mary CARPENTER, 27 July 1800, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Child 3: Rebecca COX (1734, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 15 August 1750): m. Joseph NORCROSS (ABT 1725, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 15 August 1750), 1 August 1748, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America

Other Marriage: 1 January 1768, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Spouse: Elizabeth HOLMAN

Note 1: For the construction of this family-group, the following paragraphs constitute an argument:

On 11 February 1762, Richard SALTAR, Jr., the son of Richard SALTAR (died AFT 1728) and Sarah BOWNE (27 November 1669, Gravesend, Long Island, New York - AFT 1714), signed his Will. The document was recorded at Trenton, Middlesex County, New Jersey and was proved 17 November 1762. From the Will, the following can be extracted:

  (1) "I have already given to my three sons Joseph, John, and Lawrence the plantation on which I now live."

(2) Richard SALTAR, Jr. had a daughter, Elizabeth SALTAR.

(3) "My grandson, Richard SALTAR, son of my son, Elisha SALTAR, and my nephew, Thomas SALTAR, . . . who I beg and desire to take the friendly office of giving their advice and order in the premises."

The siblings of Richard SALTAR, Jr. were:

(1) Thomas SALTAR (ABT 1695 - AFT 13 June 1722 and BEF 25 April 1723, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey) [M]: m. Rachel UNKNOWN.

(2) John SALTAR (22 October 1694 - 29 August 1723: interment at the graveyard of the Yellow Meeting House, Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, New Jersey) [M]: m. Elizabeth LAWRENCE (died 1741).

(3) Hannah SALTAR (died by 1714?) [F]: m. Mordecai LINCOLN (24 April 1686 - AFT 22 February 1735 and BEF 7 June 1736, Amity, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania). [Mordecai LINCOLN and Hannah SALTAR were the great-great grandparents of Abraham LINCOLN, president of the United States.]

(4) William SALTAR (not traced) [M].

(5) Ebenezer SALTAR (died 1749) [M]: m. Rebecca STILLWELL. See above, note 4, under G0498A: Thomas COX.

(6) James SALTAR (not traced) [M].

(7) Deborah SALTAR (not traced) [F].

(8) Oliver SALTAR (not traced) [M].

Of these siblings of Richard SALTAR, Jr., Thomas SALTAR who, in a deed of 5 March 1716/17, is called a "yeoman of Freehold" is of particular interest. He is not mentioned in the deed of trust of Capt. John BOWNE (died 13 March 1715/16, at the age of 52, and interred in Presbyterian Burying Ground, Monmouth County, New Jersey), the brother of Sarah BOWNE and, therefore, by marriage the uncle of Richard SALTAR, Jr. and Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman:

  "5 February 1715/16. John BOWNE of Middletown, merchant, gave a bond of £5260, at eight shillings the ounce, to William LAWRENCE, Sr., and Richard HARTSHORNE, in trust, for use of said John BOWNE’s wife, Frances; and John BOWNE, Anne BOWNE, and Lydia BOWNE, son and daughters of Obadiah BOWNE; and Richard SALTAR, William SALTAR, Ebenezer SALTAR, James SALTAR, Deborah SALTAR, and Oliver SALTAR, children of Capt. Richard SALTAR; and Margaret HARTSHORNE, Richard HARTSHORNE, and William HARTSHORNE, children of William HARTSHORNE; and Thomas TAYLOR, James BOWNE, and Samuel WILLET, their executors, administrators, and assigns.

"To Frances BOWNE, there was to be paid, yearly, £45, during her life, at the dwelling of said Richard HARTSHORNE or William LAWRENCE.

"To John BOWNE, son of Obadiah BOWNE, there was to be paid £400, when he reached the age of twenty-one years.

"To Anne and Lydia BOWNE, there was to be paid £200, each, when they reached the age of eighteen years.

"To Richard SALTAR, William SALTAR, Ebenezer SALTAR, Deborah SALTAR, James SALTAR, and Oliver SALTAR, there was to be paid £125, each, when the boys reached the age of twenty-one years, and the girl the age of eighteen years.

"To Richard HARTSHORNE, Margaret HARTSHORNE, and William HARTSHORNE, there was to be paid £150, each, when the boys reached the age of twenty-one years, and the girl the age of eighteen years.

"Thomas TAYLOR, James BOWNE, and Samuel WILLET were to be discharged from all debts.

"Witnesses: Joseph DENNIS and John SALTAR.

"Freehold Deeds, Book G., p. 101"

[Extracted by John Edwin Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, vol. 4 (New York: 1916; reprinted by Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company: 1970), pp. 181-182.]

Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman, however, was mentioned in the Will of Capt. John BOWNE and, for that reason, can be said to have attained his majority by 14 September 1714:

  "BOWNE, Jno of Midletowne, merchant, 'Being sick and weake in body.’

Dated September 14, 1714. Proved by James PAUL [his mark], witness, who saw Joseph DENNIS and Magaret FRAZER, 'formerly CUMMEN,’ sign; before Robert HUNTER, Esqr., Governor, April 11, 1716. Also by Margaret FRAZER and Joseph DENNIS, who each saw the other witnesses sign; before Robert HUNTER, Esq., Governor, April 11, 1716.

"Gives: 'to my wife Frances Bowne the fum of four hundred pounds money of the province aforsaid in right of her 'dowry . . . ;’ 'to my sister Sarah SALTAR all my plate and the bed whereon I Lye and furniture . . . ;’ 'to Gershom MOT the sum of two hundred pounds for the use of his children . . . ;’ 'to Joseph DENNIS one hundred & twenty pounds & to Jeremiah WHITE the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds . . . ;’ 'to Thomas SALTAR & Jno SALTAR & Hannah LINCON and to William HARTSHORNEs three oldest children the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds to each of them;’ 'the rest of my estate both real and personall I will to be equilly devided betweene my brother Obadiah BOWNE & my brother Richard SALTAR their heirs . . . whom I do hereby Appoint sole Excecutors . . . .

"Witnesses:                                       JNO BOWNE 

    James PAUL

    Joseph DENNES 

    Marget COMMEN 

"Oath of Executors, Obadiah BOWNE and Richard SALTER, before Robert HUNTER, April 11, 1716."

On 13 June 1722, Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman signed his Will which, on 25 April 1723, was proved at Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It mentions:

(1) Wife, Rachel

(2) Father, Richard SALTAR, executor

(3) Daughter, Hannah SALTAR

(4) Daughter, Deborah SALTAR [who died after 15 February 1755 and who may have been the spouse of William LEMING (LIMING, LYMING, LEAMING) (ABT 1686, Monmouth County, New Jerey - January 1747/48, Monmouth County, New Jersey), the brother of John LIMING (LYMING, LEMING, LEAMING) about whom, see below.]

(5) Son, Richard SALTAR

The Will was witnessed by James COX, Thomas COX, and Jan Geisbertson.

"Trenton Wills, Book 2, p. 248." and Calendar of New Jersey Wills: 1670 -1730, vol. 1, p. 400.

All of this is of interest for understanding the place, in the system of kinship of the family SALTAR, of the Thomas SALTAR who was the nephew of Richard SALTAR, Jr. and who was a maritime merchant of Philadelphia. Thomas SALTAR the Merchant was the owner or part owner of a number of commercial sailing vessels which plied the Atlantic coast of North America. It seems that, on an island at the mouth of the Savannah River and as of 1741, he - or a person of the same name - owned a brickyard. This island, which came to be the site of Fort Jackson, has been known ever since as "Salter’s Island." A Thomas R. SALTAR is known to have resided in Charleston, South Carolina from 1816 to 1828.

 

Detail of Nicholas Scull's survey of Philadelphia,
published by James Clarkson and Mary Biddle in 1762.

In 1785, Captain John MacPherson compiled a directory for the city of Philadelphia and, in the process, was the first to assign numbers to its houses. He identified "Thomas SALTER, merchant" as occupying a property at 348 Front Street, very near the intersection with Margaretta Street, and as occupying another property at 109 Water Street, near the intersection with Callowhill Street. In the map of Philadelphia which was made by Nicholas Scull, the Surveyor General, and which, after his death, James Clarkson and Mary Biddle published in 1762, Water Street is shown as the narrow artery running parallel to, and immediately to the east of, Front Street. Water Street, not included in the original plan of Philadelphia, was laid out by the merchants whose wharves and houses of commerce fronted the Delaware River. More recently, Water Street has been all but obliterated by the construction of Columbus Boulevard (Delaware Avenue) and Interstate Highway 95.

Both of the addresses shown for Thomas SALTAR the Merchant were located in the District of Northern Liberties the southern boundary of which was at Vine Street. His address at 109 Water Street is likely to have been adjacent to, or at, the wharf designated on Scull's map as "Allen & SALTER'S" and is undoubtedly the location at which he kept office. The wharf was located on Water Street about 200 feet north of the intersection with Callowhill. In contemporary Philadelphia (2003), that site is occupied by Pier 24N. SALTAR's address at 348 Front Street, perhaps immediately north of what was Margaretta Street, must have been his place of residence.

Thomas SALTAR the Merchant's partnership in the wharf is likely to have been with Chamless Allen, the merchant who kept office at 221 Water Street, near Chestnut Street, and whose residence appears to have been at 281 Market Street, on the north side, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Chamless Allen, who must have been somewhat younger than Thomas SALTAR the Merchant, appears to have been the son of Jedediah (Judiah) Allen, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America, and Mary Chamless of Salem County, New Jersey, British North America.

Thomas SALTAR the Merchant (as "Thomas SALTER of Philadelphia"), on 5 December 1764, obtained a Mediterranean Pass, number 2879, for the sloop Africa, displacing 15 tons, of which he was the owner and of which Leonard Hammond was the master. The destination of the sloop was given generically as "Africa." Because the pass furnished SALTAR, under the flag of Great Britain, with entry to the Mediterranean, the destination of the Africa must have been some one or another of the Barbary States of North Africa, that is, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, or Tripoli. Because most of the slaves imported from Africa and Madagascar were carried in sloops outfitted for the slave-trade and because slaves were the major stock in trade of the Barbary States of Islamic North Africa, it may certainly be deduced that Thomas SALTAR the Merchant obtained some profit by the traffic in slaves. [See Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, published under the direction of Matthew S. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth, edited by John B. Linn and William. H. Egle, MD, Vol II, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, B. F. Meyers, State Printer, 1876, page 627.]

Thomas SALTAR the Merchant, who died AFT 21 May 1790 and BEF 7 June 1790, was first the spouse of Susannah ULRICH (died AFT 4 October 1785 and BEF 21 May 1790) and second the spouse of Sarah STEWART. By both marriages, he was without issue.

From the indenture which he made to John COX (1 November 1727, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey - 1804/05, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina), on 23 April 1782, and from his Will, which was proved 7 June 1790 (see Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785), it may certainly be deduced that Thomas SALTAR the Merchant was the half-brother of John COX (1727), that he was the uncle, in some sense, of Rachel WOOLMAN, and that he was the brother, in some sense, of Mary LEAMING (LIMING).

Rachel WOOLMAN was born Rachel NORCROSS (15 August 1750, Burlington County, New Jersey - 15 February 1796, Burlington County, New Jersey) and was married to Asher WOOLMAN (27 June 1722, Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey - 15 February 1796, Burlington County, New Jersey). She was the daughter of Joseph NORCROSS (ABT 1725, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - AFT 15 August 1750) and Rebecca COX (1734, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey - AFT 15 August 1750), who were married 1 August 1748 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Rebecca COX, therefore, was full sister to John COX (1727) and half-sister to Thomas SALTAR the Merchant.

In the Will of John LIMING (LEAMING), the son of Mary COX(E) (ABT 1725, Monmouth County, New Jersey - 1786/87, North Carolina) and John LIMING (LEAMING) (ABT 1716, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey - ABT 1792, Pennsylvania), dated 25 February 1799 at Nottingham Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, reference is made to the legacy from Thomas SALTAR the Merchant:

  "Will of John LIMING, February 25, 1799, Nottingham Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mentions a legacy that he inherited from Thomas SALTER. Wife not mentioned. Children: Mary, Jane, James, Isiah, Rebecca, M. Rachel Tommelin in St. Paul, Pennsylvania. November 1, 1783." [Sam K. Leming, The History and Genealogy of the Leming Family (Waldron, Arkansas: 1947), p. 29]

And, in the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 19 (January 1944), p. 24, the following was extracted from the marriage bond of Mary COX(E) and the elder John LIMING (LEAMING):

  "November 4, 1740, John LIMING, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, weaver, and Mary COXE, single woman, daughter of John COXE of same, cordwainer."

Mary COX, therefore, was full sister to John (1727) and Rebecca COX and was the half-sister of Thomas SALTAR the Merchant. Furthermore, on the basis of this report of the marriage of Mary COX and John LIMING, it is demonstrably true that John COX the Cordwainer, of Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, was the father of John (1727), Rebecca, and Mary COX.

Because Thomas SALTAR the Merchant was half-brother to John (1727), Rebecca, and Mary COX, they must all have had a mother in common.

By 25 April 1723, Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman was deceased, leaving Rachel UNKNOWN as his widow. During the 1720s, there was a John COX (1696 - 1768), in Monmouth County, New Jersey, who had attained his majority by 1717, who was the son of John COX (ABT 1670, Monmouth County, New Jersey - AFT 9 April 1728 and BEF 22 October 1729, Monmouth County, New Jersey) and Mary UNKNOWN (died AFT 22 October 1729), and who was himself first married to a Rachel UNKNOWN (died BEF 1 January 1768) and second married to Elizabeth HOLMAN.

From the marriage bond which was obtained for his second marriage, it seems that the first marriage of John COX (1696) may have been respectably long and that his second was disappointingly brief:

  "#443: John COX and Gisbert GIBERSON, both of Upper Freehold of the County of Monmouth . . . [bound to] . . . William FRANKLIN, Governor . . . 500 pounds . . .1 January 1768. . . . John COX and Gisb't GIBERSON obtained license of marriage for the said John COX . . . and for Elizabeth HOLMAN / HOLMON . . . [witnesses] Jos POTTS and Samuel QUICKSELL."

Elizabeth HOLMAN, the second wife of John COX the Cordwainer, is most likely to have been the same person as Elizabeth GIBERSON who was born about 1734 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey and who was first married to Unknown HOLMAN. Elizabeth GIBERSON was the daughter of Guisbert GUISBERTSON, Sr. (ABT 1710 - BY 19 May 1766, Allenstown, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) and Hannah PARENT (ABT 1710 - BY 3 January 1767, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America. Her siblings were: John GIBERSON (ABT 1730, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - BY 13 April 1758, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [M]: m. Margaret ROBBINS, 29 October 1750, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America; William ("Loyalist") GIBERSON (1733, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 1816, <York County>, New Brunswick, British North America [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN, ABT 1760, New Jersey, British North America; Esther GIBERSON (born ABT 1735, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]; Hannah GIBERSON (born ABT 1736, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]: m1. John EVERINGHAM, 11 July 1761, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: m2. Lewis CHAPMAN, 16 April 1777, Burlington County, New Jersey; Helena GIBERSON (born ABT 1737, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]; Meribah GIBERSON (born ABT 1738, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]: m. Thomas ROBBINS, 9 October 1758, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America; Lydia GIBERSON (born ABT 1738, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]; Mary GIBERSON (born ABT 1739, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America) [F]: m. John HARRISON, 21 September 1759, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America; and Captain Guisbert ("Loyalist") GIBERSON, Jr. (22 September 1752, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 21 December 1843, at the age of 91 years, 2 months, 29 days, Monmouth County, New Jersey: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey) [M]: m. Rachel STILLE (March 1753 - 23 June 1833, Monmouth County, New Jersey: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey).

The Will of Guisbert GUISBERTSON, Sr. is dated 13 April 1750 and was proved in Monmouth County, New Jersey on 19 May 1766:

  1750, April 13: GUISBERTSON, Guisbert, of Monmouth County, yeoman, Will of:
   
  Wife, Hannah, use of all my lands, a house in Allentown and three lots near the same town; and after her death, all to be sold, and £50 given to each of my son, John's children, and the rest to be given to my own daughters. To Guisbert GUISBERTSON, the son and heir to my eldest son and heir, John, deceased, five shillings. To Guisbert GUISBERTSON and William Guisbertson, (my sons), the plantation where I live. Moveable estate to be sold and money divided between my daughters, Elizabeth, Esther, Hannah, Meribah, Helena, Lydia, and Mary GUISBERTSON; but Elizabeth and Esther shall have L20 less than the others.

Executors -- wife, Hannah; son, Guisbert GUISBERTSON, and my brother-in-law, Samuel Parent.

Witnesses -- Daniel Williams, John COX,1 William Lawrence.
Proved May 19, 1766

[New Jersey Colonial Documents, Calendar of Wills 1761-1770, p. 167]

Note: 1. The John COX by whom this document was witnessed in 1750 is likely to have been John COX the Cordwainer.

1766, May 9: Inventory, 1,147 Pounds and 13 Shillings, made by David Gordon, Samuel Forman, Jr., and Moses Laird. [Lib 12, p 443]

About Captain Guisbert "Loyalist" GIBERSON, Jr.:

  Gregory Palmer, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution (Meckler, Westport, Connecticut: 1984), p. 313:
   
  "GIBERSON, Gilbert [Audit Office 12/15/376 and 12/109/158]: Of New Jersey and New York. A native of America, when the Revolution began GIBERSON was living in Monmouth County, New Jersey where he had 205 acres in Freehold Township (about half cleared). In 1775 he was appointed a captain in the American militia, but he resigned following the Declaration of Independence. He claimed that he had only accepted the office at the request of Loyalists, who did not want a "troublesome" man named. GIBERSON also at one point signed an association with the Whigs. When he attempted to join the British, he was charged by the Americans, but later acquitted. GIBERSON joined Cornwallis at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and served for the rest of the war. While employed on secret service, he was able to return to Monmouth to see his family.

"After the war he went to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, but in the fall of 1784 he returned to Monmouth, where he remained until the spring of 1786. GIBERSON then moved with his family to Pennsylvania because of harrassment in New Jersey, returning to New Brunswick only to give evidence in support of his claim. His land was not confiscated. He claimed a loss of L682 sterling, and received L430 sterling. He was buried in 1843 in Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Imlaystown, New Jersey. He died on 21 December 1843 in Monmouth, New Jersey. 2nd Battalion of Foot Militia, County of Monmouth, New Jersey."

E. Alfred Jones, The Loyalists of New Jersey, their Memorials, Petitions, Claims, Etc. From English Records (1988), p. 81:

  "Gilbert GIBERSON (GUISBERTSON), Captain: He is described as a farmer, of Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he was born. Here he was appointed, in 1775, Captain of the American Militia and continued in this service until the Declaration of Independence, when he resigned."

The surname GUISBERTSON is Dutch, that is, as GYSBERTSZEN.

Guisbert GUISBERTSON, Sr. died in 1766 and Captain Guisbert "Loyalist" GIBERSON, Jr. was born in 1752. And there was a Guisbert GIBERSON, born about 1751 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey and died about 1791 in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, who was the son of John GIBERSON and Margaret ROBBINS. As a result, the identity of the Guisbert GIBERSON who stood bond for the marriage of John COX the Cordwainer and Elizabeth HOLMAN in 1768 is unclear. He was perhaps an untraced nephew of Guisbert GUISBERTSON, Sr.

If the Rachels UNKNOWN, who were the spouses of Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman and John COX (1696), were the same person then, with regard to familial association with Thomas SALTAR the Merchant, John COX the Cordwainer should perhaps be identified with John COX (1696) who was married to Rachel UNKNOWN. That the Rachel UNKNOWN who first married Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman and who second married John COX the Cordwainer was indeed one and the same person is proven by the deed which Thomas SALTAR signed on 30 May 1787 and which was recorded in Lincoln County, North Carolina in January 1789. In this document, SALTAR says very plainly that he and John COX were brothers "on the mother’s side." The abstract of this deed is reproduced below in G0495A: John Cox, note 7.

That John COX (1696) and John COX the Cordwainer were - in fact - the same person is indicated by the Records of the Baptist Church (Yellow Meeting House), Middletown, New Jersey. The extracts below refer to John COX (1696), who is known to have resided at Lane’s End:

  "May 10 day 1755 at a Church Meeting at the hows by John Brays Mr. John Coward and Thomus COX had a hearing: Coward [note: John Coward was the Baptist minister] complained that said COX: Abused him in letters which he produced: Which letters ware uery reflecting and agriuating: And further said COX reflected much on said Coward on account of his preaching: And shuld be glad if he preached no more: Thare was also laid before the Church how when Mr. Coward published a meeting on a weak day and desiered the members to attend: That COX said in publick I shall not be thare: And that he treated the brethren with much contempt: And did not kepe his place in the Church.

"After hearing the hole the Church ware of opinion: That COX had treated Coward ill: and his brethren in general: That he had neglected his place in the Church: And that he was wrong in saying: When Mr. Coward published the meeting I shall not be thare. Which opinion the Church made knone to COX but he continued obstinate: For wich he was suspended by the Church.

"On Saturday the 6 day of June 1761 at the General Meeting at Craswicks report being made of the misbehauer ower John COX that he drunke to exces and that a diffrence had arose betwen said COX and Brother Joseph Taylor which said COX and Taylor agreed to leue to the determination of Tapscot and Brother Wilkey and promised to abide by thare determination: Accordingly said Tapscot and Wilkey gaue a judgment: And said COX refused to abide it: The brethren present agreed Brother Cokron and Brother Tapscot shuld discorse said COX on said affair that euening: Which thay did reported next day that said COX continued obstinate: Agreed that Brother Cokron shuld acquaint said COX the brethren desiered his attendance: On Munday betwen meetings which he refused: And said thay might do what thay would: On considiration of the whole affair: The brethren agreed to debar said COX from communion in the Church til he culde be heard: And satisfaction ware made: For said offences: And agreed said Tapscot shuld acquaint said COX thareof.

"On Saturday 11 day of December 1762 at the Meeting House at Crawswicks Brother Tapscot said he deleuered the message with him intrusted: in June 1761 to Brother John COX: Brethren then present said Brother COX continued in the same excess for which he was debared communion in the Church: Agreed at said Meeting that Brother Tapscot and Brother Farr inform Brother John COX that the brethren require his atendance on Saturday the 12 of February at said Meeting House.

"On Monday the 22 day of August 1765 the Church met at Freehold Meeting House: Brother Thomus COX meeting allso: Confesed his sencear repentance: For his past conduct and desiered he might be admitted to Church prûelig [note: "prûelig" = "privilege"]: Was admited again a member of said Church: in full comunion: to the comfor of his brithren. At said Meeting: the Church appointed Brother Farr and Brother Tapscot: To go and discours Brother John COX: Shumaker: And Brother Joseph Estel: Concearning thear negligant and luse life: And make report the next Church Meeting Crauswicks: allso to site Brother Thomus Averinggame [note: This was Thomas Everingham] to appear at said Meeting: And Brother John COX at Lane End [note: John COX resided at Lane’s End]: to appear: And Mr. Jones to site James Willson to appear: If a member.

"On Saturday the 12 day of October 1765 the Church according to appointment met at Crawswicks: Brother Far and Tapscot made report: Thay had discorsed Esteel and COX: Mr. Jones said he had spoken with Wilson who said he would appeard: But did not appear: Brother Tapscot said he had spoken with Aueringgame who said he would appear but did not: Brother John COX appeared: the Church layd before him the crimes he stud charged with: furst drinking to exses: Secondly that he would not abide: By the judgment of Brother Wilkey and Tapscot: In the case of said COX and Joseph Taylor: As to that of Taylor he said the Church might do what thay wod: He neuer wod pay Taylor for the sheepe: And as to that of drinking he said he had eat two much and drank two much: But as to drinking to exses he had not exceaded any man in the Church: On hearing said COX: The Church agreed to bare with said COX for a time: to see if any sines of repentance might appear: But not to take of his supspenshon from communion."

Since, in these records of the Baptist Church, John COX (1696) is said to be a "shumaker" (shoemaker), he can only be identified with John COX the Cordwainer, a "cordwainer" being a worker in leather goods (that is, in cordovan) who was - in the colonial era - invariably a cobbler.

During the pastorate of John Coward, the Baptist Church in this locale was congregated in the Yellow Meeting House the land for which was donated, in fact, by Thomas (the Yeoman) and Rachel SALTAR in 1720. John SALTAR, the brother of Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman, lies buried in the church cemetery. John SALTAR’s gravestone, which is the earliest dated stone in the cemetery, shows him to have died 29 August 1723, aged 28 years, 10 months, and 7 days. The father of John COX the Cordwainer was a member, as noted above, of this congregation of Baptists.

It may, therefore, be granted as proven (1) that Thomas SALTAR the Merchant was engendered by Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman and Rachel UNKNOWN and (2) that John (1727), Rebecca, and Mary COX were engendered by John COX the Cordwainer (1696) and the same Rachel UNKNOWN. For showing the mother in common for Thomas SALTAR the Merchant and John (1727), Rebecca, and Mary COX, an alternative configuration of credibly related persons has not yet been found. Rachel UNKNOWN, the widow of Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman and the spouse of John COX the Cordwainer, lies buried in the Yellow Meeting House Churchyard. To see a complete list of COX interments in this cemetery, see The Family Cox: Yellow Meeting House.

That Thomas SALTAR the Merchant could have been the son of Ebenezer SALTAR and Rebecca STILLWELL, as some researchers claim, is logically possible but not at all probable in a manner that allows for kinship with John (1727), Rebecca, and Mary COX. That John COX (1727) could have been the son of James COX (18 August 1672, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey - 24 October 1750, Monmouth County, New Jersey) and Rebecca STILLWELL, as many of these same investigators report, is absolutely implausible.

In support of the argument that John COX the Cordwainer was the father of the John COX (1727) who married Margaret MORRIS, the following is cited from Rev. Henry Miller Cox, The Cox Family in America (New York: 1912), p. 164:

  "JOHN4 COX, Minor, [or Junior] (John3, John2, Thomas1), -- son of John3 and (?) Rachel COX; had deed from his father for 222 acres, Upper Freehold, 1757; m. Margaret MORRIS; license, October 29, 1769."

The date of 1769 which Henry Miller Cox gives for the marriage of John COX (1727) and Margaret MORRIS is incorrect and was based on an incorrect inference. See Note 2 under G0495A: John COX.

For further details, see Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785, especially Note 6.

John LEAMING (LIMING or LEMING), the husband of Mary COX, was the son of John LEMING (LIMING, LYMING, LEAMING) (ABT 1683, Monmouth County, New Jersey - December 1757, Monmouth County, New Jersey) and Dinah DEWILDE (ABT 1694, Lambeth County Surrey, England - AFT 1 August 1760 and BEF 6 November 1773, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey), the daughter of John DEWILDE (died AFT 30 November 1708 and BEF 28 February 1709) and Unknown UNKNOWN. John LEMING and Dianah DEWILDE were married, ABT 1714, in New Jersey. It is worth mentioning that Dinah DEWILDE, by her father's Will, was the ward of Richard SALTAR (died AFT 1728):

  WILL of JOHN DEWILDY, of Monmouth County: "finding my-Self much indisposed of body and being under aprehentions ytt my time may be short in this world." Dated "Att Doctors Creek," 30 November 1708. Proved by oath of James Lawrence, witness, to testator's signature, and those of the other witnesses, Wm White and Aron Robins, before Richard Ingoldesby, Esqr, Governor, Burlington, 28 February 1708 [or 1709?]. Directs that, after his funeral expenses are paid, his estate be divided among his creditors: "and if there shall be found Enugh to pay them & any thing to spare ye ouer plush I giue to my Daughter Dinah & whearas my sd Daughter is young and not fitt to be att her one Dispossall I ... make Choice of Mr Anthony Woodward & Richard SALTAR Esqrs & both of freehol . . . to Be gaurdians to my afforsd Daughter & Do Earnistly Recommend Her to the protection of God . . . and the Conduct of my two frinds . . . Intill She Come off age of twenty years unless she shall marry before ytt time . . . and I pray . . . anthony woodward & Richard SALTAR ytt they would take Care yt the profit or Rents of my Real Estate which I haue now made ouer to my sd Daughter By Deed of Gift, bearing Date with this last will . . . Be Imployed towards the bringing up of my sd Daughter . . . ."

JOHN deuwilldy

Witnesses: James Lawrence

william white [his mark]

Aaron Robins [his mark]

Note 2: Rebecca COX and Joseph NORCROSS were the parents of Rachel NORCROSS (15 August 1750, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 21 February 1812, Burlington County, New Jersey). Rachel NORCROSS was married to Asher WOOLMAN (27 June 1722, Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 12 February 1796, Burlington County, New Jersey) BET 15 February and 13 December 1769 in Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America. Their children were: (1) Beulah WOOLMAN (20 September 1770, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 10 March 1801) [F]: m. Joseph BUZBY, 16 April 1794, Ancocas Meeting House, Burlington County; (2) Rebecca WOOLMAN (29 January 1772, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 1844, St. Joseph County, Indiana) [F]; (3) Granville WOOLMAN (1 January 1774, Burlington, Burlington, County, New Jersey, British North America - 7 October 1854) [M]: m. Hannah STOKES (1775, British North America - 27 January 1868), 11 February 1795, Ancocas Meeting House, Burlington County, New Jersey; (4) Edith WOOLMAN (20 May 1776, Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 18 November 1850, Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey) [F]: m. George HAINES (4 November 1769, Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 27 September 1844, Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey), 13 April 1796, Ancocas Meeting House, Burlington County, New Jersey; (5) Ann WOOLMAN (21 April 1778, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - 27 May 1796, Burlington County, New Jersey) [F]; (6) Elizabeth WOOLMAN (30 March 1780, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - ?) [F]; (7) Rachel Wilson WOOLMAN (Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, 18 August 1782 - 30 November 1848, Long Beach, New Jersey) [F]: m. Hudson BUZBY (2 January 1777, Burlington County, New Jersey - ?); (8) Abigail WOOLMAN (8 June 1784, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - 1787) [F]; (9) Hannah WOOLMAN (1 December 1786, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - 1792) [F]; (10) Abigail WOOLMAN (10 October 1789, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - 25 February 1859) [F]; (11) Samuel WOOLMAN (3 November 1793, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - 23 May 1834) [M]; (12) Asher WOOLMAN (7 October 1795, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey - 2 January 1866, Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey) [M].

Asher WOOLMAN (1722), it should be noted, was the brother of the celebrated John WOOLMAN (19 October 1720, Northhampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 7 October 1772, York, Yorkshire, England), progenitor of Abolitionism and, therefore, the patriarch of the civil-rights movement. Both were the sons of Samuel WOOLMAN (14 March 1689, Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 31 August 1750, Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America) and Elizabeth Hudson BURR (1695, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America - 8 September 1773, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America). Samuel WOOLMAN was the grandson of William WOOLMAN (1632, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England - 1692, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, British North America).

Of the self-effacing John WOOLMAN, no portrait was ever made.

  Biography of John WOOLMAN.
© 2001 PageWise

Man's ideas of liberty and life have always harbored a conflict of civil law and civil rights. Disobedience of civil law takes place when an individual's conscience interferes with society's rules. Socrates, Plato, Jesus, the Sadducees and the Pharisees of Biblical times, all, displayed civil disobedience by going against government, current philosophy, tax collectors and the worship of idols. People are continuing to increase their stand on issues of conscience. Individuals great and small have influenced and inspired enthusiasts for every cause. One such man, perhaps, the most prominent man of his day, was "the earnest Quaker," a man who not only preached brotherhood, but also practiced it. John Woolman, early Quaker abolitionist, devoted much of his life to freeing black slaves through civil disobedience.

The Woolmans came to the new world in 1678. They settled in West New Jersey and were prominent businessmen and substantial landholders by Quaker standards. Woolman, as was his father, was active in politics, business and religion. He achieved the knowledge of reading, surveying, accounting, medicine and the drawing of legal documents without the benefit of conventional schooling. Woolman's life was based on morals of love and conscience. At an early age, he learned the writings of God's word and amplified his interpretation of the Bible into his life. This strong belief in the scripture systematically led him into a life of trying to correct the evils of society. He used his belief in God to justify his defiance of the keeping of slaves. Woolman claimed it a sin to keep slaves; and insisted, "[t]he black men and women in bondage in America must be freed." Woolman believed all life precious and deserving of freedom. As a young boy, he took the freedom of life from another creature and was haunted by it.

On his way to the home of a neighbor, he spied a robin on her nest. Being curious, he approached. The mother robin flew off darting everywhere in protection of her young.

Woolman began throwing rocks at her, eventually, striking and killing her. Excitement--horror--pain--arose in Woolman as he took joy in his marksmanship -- shook in fear of the life he took -- and hurt for the young that would surely die without the care of their mother. So, he climbed the tree and took the life of the young robins feeling this to be the more merciful measure. For hours, he was unable to think of anything other than the horrifying exploits of the day. Woolman's, convictions bore heavy on all his decisions from that day forward.

Woolman chose the writing of legal documents and merchandising as his career. Hearing the talk of buying and selling men and women, no matter what color, bore heavy on Woolman's mind and he found himself often in prayer for guidance. One day his boss came to him for the writing of a legal document. It involved a slave the shop-owner had sold. This troubled him; but obligated by duty, to his employer, he executed the bill.

Being deeply disturbed in conscience, he revealed to his employer and the buyer "that . . . slavekeeping . . . be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion.” With this action, Woolman began his gentle, movement for the cause of the Negroes, in the writing of his first essay, "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes." Although this writing would not be published until after his father's death, Woolman began dedicating his life to the cause of the blacks. Days before Woolman's father died, in 1750, he asked his son if he had yet considered submitting his manuscript to the Overseers of the Press. Woolman responded with this statement: "I have all along been deeply affected with the oppression of the poor Negroes, and now at last my concern for them is as great as ever."

Though Woolman at times was not able to perform his duties -- he always excused himself in a manner of politeness, respectfulness and consideration of his fellow man. In search of a method to ease his mind, he took to the road with a fellow friend. Woolman felt if he visited other members of the Quaker society, he could make them aware of their disgraceful sins thus helping to ease the pain of the cause he was dedicated to.

Through these travels though he found his heart saddened even more by the number of Friends who kept blacks. Some for labor, some for pleasure and some importing blacks for profit. Feeling distressed of mind they returned home. Soon after his return, home an elderly man, respected in the community, approached Woolman. This man desired Woolman to write his will.

Knowing this man kept slaves, Woolman spoke with him concerning their treatment. The man told him they were to go to his son. Woolman said, "I cannot write thy will without breaking my own peace!" The man accepted and had someone else write it. Some years later, the same man returned with changes to be made in his will. Woolman again spoke to the man and refused to write the will. The man then left, but before going to far returned to Woolman and ordered the blacks freedom written into his will. Woolman agreed and executed the document.

Woolman believed all men, regardless of color or position, are equal in the eyes of God and should be equal in the eyes of man. He also believed no man should support a cause he felt wrong. One evening when approached by a justice of the peace, concerning the paying of taxes, Woolman commented in this manner: "Men put in public stations are intended for good purposes, some to make good laws, others to take care that those laws are not broken. Now if those men thus set apart do not answer the design of their institution, [they are] . . . freely contributing to support them in that capacity [sic] when we certainly know that they are wrong is to strengthen them in a wrong way and tends to make them forget . . . when . . . we are . . . uneasy with the application of money, and in the spirit of meekness suffer distress to be made on our goods rather than to pay actively, this joined with an upright uniform life may tend to put men a thinking about their own public conduct . . . Civil government is an agreement of free men by which they oblige themselves to abide by certain laws as a standard, and to refuse to obey in that case is of like nature as to refuse to do any particular act which we had covenanted to do . . . should a man make such a commitment unto another man to totally obey and said man chose to disobey the law and enjoined you to help, being promised to him would only add "one evil to another; that though by such promise I should be liable to punishment for disobedience, yet to suffer rather than act to me appears most virtuous.""

Woolman considered the matters of civil society to be an infectious pestilence and while some rules approved in civil society and conformable to human policy, so called, are distinguishable from the purity of truth and righteousness . . . it is a time for us to attend diligently to the intent of every chastisement and consider the most deep and inward design of them. Putting aside, the keeping of slaves for any reason was always on Woolman’s mind.

John Woolman wrote three major essays and a journal. The essays are entitled: "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes," "Considerations on Keeping Negroes: Part Second" and "A Plea for the Poor". His journal is simply, "The Journal of John Woolman." He was like Henry David Thoreau, who followed many years later, in that the similarities of their lives and

their strong religious and moral beliefs set the path they would follow through life. One thing Woolman maintained through his life was his religion: When Woolman had outgrown his failing culture and become a sojourner with his family, he held onto something never letting go of it while Thoreau in the end desperately lost because he let go and Woolman held on. To the finish Woolman's religion worked for him, Thoreau's failed.

John Woolman, Quaker, lover of mankind, forgotten by those he rose up so vehemently to protect and fight for, will live on. His work inspired many and found its way into many hands. Some recognize his influence some do not. Some of the civil disobedience actions taking place daily across this land would never have been if it had not been for John Woolman the gentle Quaker. One fact that is clear is Woolman opened the door for today's civil rights movement. This humble man lived, breathed, and shared the love of God and the love for all mankind, red, yellow, white or black. A man who may have moved this country with, as much or more intensity than Martin Luther King, James Baldwin or Jesse Jackson, John Woolman is "A Man for All Souls.”

References:

Burwell, Basil. "A Man for All Souls." American Heritage. New York: American Heritage, Dec. 1971.

Cady, Edwin H. John Woolman: The Mind of the Quaker Saint. New York: Washington Square, 1966.

Marietta, Jack D. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1984.

Marty, Martin E. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. Boston: Little, 1984.

Moulton, Phillips P., ed. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman. New York: Oxford UP, 1971.

Woolman, John. "The Journal of John Woolman: 1720-1742." Moulton 23-33.

---. "The Journal of John Woolman: 1749-1756." Moulton 44 - 51.

---. "The Journal of John Woolman: 1755-1756." Moulton 90 - 93.

---. "The Journal of John Woolman: 1758-1759." Moulton 104 - 105.

---. "Considerations on Keeping Negroes: Part Second." Moulton 212-13.

Joseph BUZBY and Hudson BUZBY were the sons of Amos BUZBY and Patience SPRINGER.

For the COX-SALTAR-NORCROSS-WOOLMAN connections, see Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785.

Note 3: It is possible that Rachel UNKNOWN, first the spouse of Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman and second the spouse of John COX the Cordwainer, was born a ROBBINS. Whatever her maiden identity, the notes above establish that, by Thomas SALTAR the Yeoman (ABT 1695 - AFT 13 June 1722 and BEF 25 April 1723, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey), she was the mother of Hannah SALTAR (who married Thomas BRITTON), Deborah SALTAR, Richard SALTAR, Sarah SALTAR (who married Thomas LEAMING), Meribah SALTAR (who married Joseph ROBBINS); and that, by John COX the Cordwainer, she was the mother of Mary COX (who married John LEAMING), John COX of North Carolina (who first married Margaret MORRIS and then Mary CARPENTER), and Rebecca COX (who married Joseph NORCROSS). Also see Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785.

   

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G0495A: John COX [005]
Birth: 1 November 1727, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Death: ABT 1804/05, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Interment: 4 1/2 miles north of Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1/4 mile to the left of the Morgantown Road, near small creek in a forest of large oaks
Father: John COX "the Cordwainer" (1696, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 1768, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey)
Mother: Rachel UNKNOWN (ABT 1700 - 16 October 1750, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America: interment at Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Cream Ridge, New Jersey)

Marriage: by license dated 29 October 17<50>, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America
Spouse: Margaret MORRIS (1 October 1732, Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 15 August 1799, Lincoln County, North Carolina) [See G0495A: Margaret MORRIS in Descendants of Andrew Morris (ABT 1685 - 1728).]

Child 1: Morris COX (24 September 1751, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 22 April 1804, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina) [M]: Catherine HUTCHINSON (11 February 1754/55 - 14 July 1796) 21 June 1773, New Jersey

Child 2: Rebecca COX (22 March 1755, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Absalom BONHAM (1739 - 1794), by license dated 8 April 1785, North Carolina

Child 3: Aaron COX, Sr. (2 October 1757, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - AFT 1840, Lincoln County, North Carolina) [M]: m. Olly BAKER (1760/65 - AFT 1840), by license dated 4 January 1787, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Child 4: Mary COX (14 October 1761, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - 15 December 1847, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina) [F]: m. James SULLIVAN (1754 - 27 August 1825) ABT 1790

Child 5: Paul COX (14 July 1763, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America - ?, Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina) [M]

Child 6: Rachel COX (3 September 1765, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British North America- ?) [F]: m. Peter CARSON, by license dated 5 July 1786, North Carolina

Child 7: Nancy Ann(e) COX (19 August 1767, Monmouth or Middlesex County, New Jersey, British North America - 6 September 1847) [F]: m. Moses MOORE (29 November 1762 - 7 December 1832), by license dated 29 July 1785, North Carolina

Child 8: Elizabeth COX (16 February 1769, Monmouth or Middlesex County, New Jersey, British North America - 1844, Johnson County, Missouri) [F]: m. Moses Hiram FERGUSON (February 1762, Baltimore [aboard ship], Baltimore County, Maryland, British North America - 1845, Johnson County, Missouri: interment at Old Blackwater Cemetery, northeast of Holden, Johnson County, Missouri), 1785, North Carolina

Child 9: Elisha COX, Captain, (6 October 1771, Lincoln County, North Carolina, British North America - 26 January 1824, Lincoln County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina) [M]: m. Margaret HOLLAND (26 January 1774, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 31 January 1825, Gastonia, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina), 19 December 1792 (Bible record) [See G0494A: Margaret HOLLAND in Antecedents and Descendants of Isaac Holland, Sr. (12 May 1745 - 10 September 1810 and see Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials.]

Child 10: Susannah COX (24 March 1773, Lincoln County, North Carolina, British North America - BET 1845 and 1850, Lincoln or Gaston County, North Carolina: interment at Big Gullies Cemetery, Gaston County near the Lincoln County line) [F]: m. "Hairy" Peter CARPENTER (ABT 1762 - 1845, Lincoln or Gaston County, North Carolina: interment at Big Gullies Cemetery, Gaston County near the Lincoln County line), ABT 1790, North Carolina

Child 11: Elijah COX (17 January 1775 - ?, Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee) [M]: Jane HUGGIN, by license dated 8 December 1796, North Carolina

Other Marriage: 27 July 1800, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Spouse: Mary CARPENTER

Note 1: Concerning the parentage and juvenile relations of John COX, see Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785. John COX had a sister, Rebecca (born 1734, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey; married 1 August 1748), who was the wife of Joseph NORCROSS (born ABT 1725, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey). Any account of the parentage of John COX must also explain that of Rebecca COX.

Note 2: Among the extracts which, in 1999, Patricia M. Bergener made from microfilmed copies of original marriage bonds in possession of the New Jersey Department of Education, Division of State Library Archives & History, and which were microfilmed in 1966, is the following:

  "John COX minor and Peter WATSON, both of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth, yeomen . . . [bound to] . . . Jonathan BELCHER, Governour . . . 500 pounds . . . 29 Oct 17__ (rest of year left blank) . . . John COX minor . . . obtained license of marriage for himself and for Margaret MORRIS of the place abovesaid, spinster . . . [w] Henry VAN HOOK, Jos: ARNEY"

[FHLC 0888706; Vol. M; 1735-1794 (602 bonds) #301 - #350, #347]

Because this document was filed between bonds dated in October and December 1769, some investigators have been misled into thinking that this item should be dated 29 October 1769. Jonathan Belcher, however, was the governor of the New Jersey colony from 1747 to 1757, which would require that it be dated no later than 1757. On the assumption that this, indeed, is the marriage bond of the John COX who was born 1 November 1727 and Margaret MORRIS, who was born 1 October 1732, the date of their marriage seems likely to have been shortly after 29 October 1750.

In this context, the word "minor" need not suggest that John COX had not attained the age of majority. It may suggest that, in Monmouth County, there was another John COX of greater social prominence or that there was some other John COX, most likely a kinsman, in relation to whom this John COX was junior. It certainly does suggest that the senior John COX was alive at the time of the marriage which the bond of 29 October 1757 anticipates. In 1750, John COX (1696, Monmouth County, New Jersey - 1768, Monmouth County, New Jersey) who, in this account, is identified with John COX "the Cordwainer," the father of John COX "minor," was still living.

On the subject of Jonathan Belcher, as the founder of Princeton University, see the following:

  Belcher, Jonathan (1681/82-1757), governor of the Province of New Jersey from 1747 to 1757, granted Princeton its second charter and helped its advancement in many other ways; the College, his fellow trustees declared in 1755, viewed him as "its founder, patron, and benefactor."

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard in 1699, second in a class of twelve, accumulated a fortune at an early age as a merchant in Boston, and then occupied himself with a succession of public offices: tithingman and town accountant of Boston, member of the Massachusetts Council, governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and finally, during the last decade of his life -- to quote from his commission, which is preserved in the University Library -- "Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of the Province of New Jersey and territories thereupon depending in America, and Vice-Admiral of the same."

Belcher had a quick temper and a sharp tongue, which aggravated the troubles that every royal governor faced in reconciling colonial interests with those of the Crown, and earned for him many enemies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire whose intrigues brought about his dismissal in 1741. He was, however, able to convince the English court that he had been maligned by his political enemies, and after living in England for several years he was appointed to the New Jersey governorship.

Soon after his arrival in New Jersey in 1747, Belcher, a Congregationalist, adopted the infant college of the dissenting Presbyterians as his own and busied himself in its promotion for "better enlightening the minds and polishing the manners of this and neighboring colonies." Finding the legality of the College's original charter under attack -- it had been granted by Acting Governor John Hamilton, whose authority was questioned -- Belcher granted a second one on September 14, 1748. The charter provided for twenty-three, rather than twelve, trustees, thus permitting the governing board to broaden and strengthen its representation politically and religiously. Eight weeks later at the College's first commencement, the trustees conferred on Belcher Princeton's first honorary degree.

Belcher encouraged the trustees to raise funds for a college building and a house for the president and, in the dispute as to where the College was to be settled, threw his influence in favor of Princeton -- "as near the center of the Province as any and a fine situation."

Just before the College moved from Newark to Princeton Belcher gave the trustees his library of 474 volumes, his full-length portrait, his carved and gilded coat-of-arms, a pair of terrestrial globes, and ten framed portraits of kings and queens of England. In their address of thanks the trustees asked his permission to name the first building, then being erected in Princeton, Belcher Hall. Modestly -- and providentially -- the governor declined this honor and persuaded them to name it Nassau Hall for "the glorious King William the Third . . . of the illustrious House of Nassau," who was held in high regard by dissenters as a champion of religious freedom and political liberty.

Although only six of Belcher's books have survived, he is still held in honor as the library's oldest benefactor: when Firestone Library was built in 1948, the governor's arms were carved in stone over the main entrance along with those of the University. His portrait and those of the ten English monarchs were destroyed during the Revolution. The portrait of Belcher that now hangs in Nassau Hall was obtained from an English descendant of the governor and presented to the University in 1953 by Carl Otto von Kienbusch '06.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978)

Note 3: Margaret MORRIS, as was claimed by her grandson, Oliver Wiley COX, was the sister of Robert MORRIS, the financier of the American Revolution and the signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. Oliver Wiley COX, who would have obtained this account of his ancestry from his father, Elisha COX, was the state senator, in Georgia, for Henry County. For his own words, see his memorandum below.

Note 4: The evidence is that John COX and his family migrated from Trenton, Middlesex County, New Jersey, to Lincoln County, North Carolina, in 1770, to occupy lands then owned by Thomas SALTAR. That John COX had been a resident of Middlesex County is verified by Thomas SALTAR's Indenture of 1782. See Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785.

Note 5: Thomas KIRBY, Elizabeth KIRBY, and William KIRBY: The Indenture of 19 May 1797

Thomas KIRBY &
Elizabeth his wife
To
William KIRBY

Deed Indented – This Indenture made this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven Between Thomas KIRBY & Elizabeth his wife of the Township of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, Carpenter, of the one part and William KIRBY of the fame place yeoman of the other part Witnefseth that the faid Thomas KIRBY for and in confideration of the fum of five hundred pounds lawful money of New Jersey, to him in hand paid by the said William KIRBY, the receipt whereof the faid Thomas KIRBY doth hereby acknowledge and himself to be therewith fully satisfied contented and paid and him the said William KIRBY his heirs executors and adminiftrators from every part and parcel thereof doth fully acquit exonerate and discharge, Hath given, granted, bargained, fold, aliened, released, enfeoffed, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain sell alien release enfeoff convey and confirm unto him the said William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns forever All the following Tracts of Land fituate lying and being in the Township of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aforefaid. The first Tract Beginning at a red oak fapling Lettered E.C. Standing on the Northfide of Afsunpink Brook on a fmall Island about thirty three Chains and a half above Thomas COX’s upper corner of the old tract on faid brook, which faid Tree is the upper corner of Land John TROUT bought of Joseph COX on said brook, thence running up Afsunpink brook about fifty six chains on a ftraight line to the corner of Thomas LIMINGs land thence South twenty six degrees East eighty chains and eighty three links to a chesnut stake corner thence north fifteen degrees and thirty minutes Weft sixty five chains acrofs the Neck to empty box brook, thence running down said brook about twenty eight chains and a half to John TROUTs corner, thence South five degrees Weft thirty three chains and fifty links along said TROUTs line to his corner thence South sixty three degrees East five chains and fifty links to a corner ftone planted thence South thirty six degrees and fifteen minutes Weft thirty six chains and seventy links to the Beginning containing two hundred and twelve acres Bounded Southerly by Afsunpink brook Easterly by the above named line acrofs the Neck Northerly on Empty box brook and Westerly by said John TROUTs land. Also Ten acres of meadow on Empty Box brook Beginning at the upper end of the ditch that did in the year 1728 part that and the land belonging to John GUISBERSON, thence running South twenty seven degrees and fifteen minutes Weft twelve chains and eighty links Thence North fifty degrees Weft nine chains and twenty five links, thence North thirteen degrees East to the ditch and up the ditch to the place of beginning which above described tracts were conveyed to the faid Thomas KIRBY from John COX Junr & Margaret his wife by deed bearing date the 12th October 1765. One other of them Beginning at the aforefaid red oak marked and lettered E.C. standing on the Northfide of Afsunpink brook as aforesaid (said tree being a corner of the first described Tract) thence down the old run of said Afsunpink the several courses thereof to a ftake or stone for a corner to Peter and John TROUTs Thence (2) along their division line North forty three degrees East forty three chains and eighty links to the line of the said first described tract thence (3) alongsaid line South five degrees Weft twenty chains to a corner thereof, Thence (4) South Sixty three degrees East along the fame line five chains and fifty links to a corner thence (5) along the fame line South thirty six degrees and one quarter Weft thirty six chains and twenty links to the Beginning containing thirty acres and nine perches. One other of them beginning at the aforesaid red oak lettered E.C. and running (1) up the several courfes of said Afsunpink brook to the mouth of a small run which is on a ftraight line South Sixty seven degrees Eaft six chains and twenty links, thence (2) up the several courses of said run about ten chains to a maple marked on two fides standing just on the Eaftfide of the run of water Thence (3) from faid maple South two degrees and a half, East nineteen chains to a stone corner thence (4) North fifty five degrees and one quarter weft twenty chains thence (5) North thirty six degrees East twenty five chains to the Beginning, both which last described Tracts contain one hundred and forty acres three roods and twenty Perches ftrict measure reference to the Map thereof will appear, and were conveyed to the faid Thomas KIRBY from John PANCOAFT and Sarah his wife by deed bearing date May 1st 1807. Together with the improvements privileges hereditaments and appurtenances to the fame belonging or in any wise appertaining And also all the estate right title intereft pofsefsion property claim and demand whatsoever of him the faid Thomas KIRBY of in and to the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances and of in an to every part and parcel thereof To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances unto him the faid William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns to the only proper ufe benefits and behoof of him the faid William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns forever And the faid Thomas KIRBY for himself his heirs executors and adminftrators doth covenant and grant to and with him the faid William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns, that he the faid Thomas KIRBY at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these prefents is lawfully seized of the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances in fee fimple and hath in himself good right full power and abfolute lawful authority to fell and convey the same in manner and forma as above, and further that he the said Thomas KIRBY his heirs executors and adminiftrators the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances unto him the said William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns from the lawful claim and demand of all persons claiming from by or under him the faid Thomas KIRBY fhall and will Warrant, and forever defend by these presents—In Witnefs whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and feals the day and year first above written.

Sealed & delivered in the prefence of Thomas KIRBY L.S.

Zeb’n CLAYTON – Margaret M –her mark- CLAYTON

Elizabeth KIRBY L.S.

Received the day of the Date of the within written Indenture of the within named KIRBY the full confideration money within mentioned

Witnefses to the signing

Thomas KIRBY

Zeb’n CLAYTON – Margaret M –her mark- CLAYTON

State of New Jersey Middlesexfs. Be it remembered that on the Seventh day of April Eighteen hundred and seven Before me Andrew ROWAN one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Please in faid County personally appeared Thomas KIRBY and Elizabeth his wife the within Grantors and did acknowledge that they signed sealed & delivered the within inftrument as their voluntary act and deed by them respectively signed sealed and delivered for the use and purposes therein mentioned and the faid Elizabeth KIRBY being privately examined apart from her hufband did acknowledge that she was acquainted with the tenor and effect of the faid inftrument of that she signed sealed & delivered the same as her voluntary act and deed freely without any fear threats or compulsions from her husband –Acknowledged before me— And’w ROWAN —

Received and recorded the twenty eighth day of April 1807

Middlesex County, New Jersey: Deed book Q, pp. 447-450

  Thomas KIRBY &
Elizabeth his wife
To
William KIRBY

Deed Indented – This Indenture made this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven Between Thomas KIRBY & Elizabeth his wife of the Township of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, Carpenter, of the one part and William KIRBY of the fame place yeoman of the other part Witnefseth that the faid Thomas KIRBY for and in confideration of the fum of five hundred pounds lawful money of New Jersey, to him in hand paid by the said William KIRBY, the receipt whereof the faid Thomas KIRBY doth hereby acknowledge and himself to be therewith fully satisfied contented and paid and him the said William KIRBY his heirs executors and adminiftrators from every part and parcel thereof doth fully acquit exonerate and discharge, Hath given, granted, bargained, fold, aliened, released, enfeoffed, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain sell alien release enfeoff convey and confirm unto him the said William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns forever All the following Tracts of Land fituate lying and being in the Township of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aforefaid. The first Tract Beginning at a red oak fapling Lettered E.C. Standing on the Northfide of Afsunpink Brook on a fmall Island about thirty three Chains and a half above Thomas COX’s upper corner of the old tract on faid brook, which faid Tree is the upper corner of Land John TROUT bought of Joseph COX on said brook, thence running up Afsunpink brook about fifty six chains on a ftraight line to the corner of Thomas LIMINGs land thence South twenty six degrees East eighty chains and eighty three links to a chesnut stake corner thence north fifteen degrees and thirty minutes Weft sixty five chains acrofs the Neck to empty box brook, thence running down said brook about twenty eight chains and a half to John TROUTs corner, thence South five degrees Weft thirty three chains and fifty links along said TROUTs line to his corner thence South sixty three degrees East five chains and fifty links to a corner ftone planted thence South thirty six degrees and fifteen minutes Weft thirty six chains and seventy links to the Beginning containing two hundred and twelve acres Bounded Southerly by Afsunpink brook Easterly by the above named line acrofs the Neck Northerly on Empty box brook and Westerly by said John TROUTs land. Also Ten acres of meadow on Empty Box brook Beginning at the upper end of the ditch that did in the year 1728 part that and the land belonging to John GUISBERSON, thence running South twenty seven degrees and fifteen minutes Weft twelve chains and eighty links Thence North fifty degrees Weft nine chains and twenty five links, thence North thirteen degrees East to the ditch and up the ditch to the place of beginning which above described tracts were conveyed to the faid Thomas KIRBY from John COX Junr & Margaret his wife by deed bearing date the 12th October 1765. One other of them Beginning at the aforefaid red oak marked and lettered E.C. standing on the Northfide of Afsunpink brook as aforesaid (said tree being a corner of the first described Tract) thence down the old run of said Afsunpink the several courses thereof to a ftake or stone for a corner to Peter and John TROUTs Thence (2) along their division line North forty three degrees East forty three chains and eighty links to the line of the said first described tract thence (3) alongsaid line South five degrees Weft twenty chains to a corner thereof, Thence (4) South Sixty three degrees East along the fame line five chains and fifty links to a corner thence (5) along the fame line South thirty six degrees and one quarter Weft thirty six chains and twenty links to the Beginning containing thirty acres and nine perches. One other of them beginning at the aforesaid red oak lettered E.C. and running (1) up the several courfes of said Afsunpink brook to the mouth of a small run which is on a ftraight line South Sixty seven degrees Eaft six chains and twenty links, thence (2) up the several courses of said run about ten chains to a maple marked on two fides standing just on the Eaftfide of the run of water Thence (3) from faid maple South two degrees and a half, East nineteen chains to a stone corner thence (4) North fifty five degrees and one quarter weft twenty chains thence (5) North thirty six degrees East twenty five chains to the Beginning, both which last described Tracts contain one hundred and forty acres three roods and twenty Perches ftrict measure reference to the Map thereof will appear, and were conveyed to the faid Thomas KIRBY from John PANCOAFT and Sarah his wife by deed bearing date May 1st 1807. Together with the improvements privileges hereditaments and appurtenances to the fame belonging or in any wise appertaining And also all the estate right title intereft pofsefsion property claim and demand whatsoever of him the faid Thomas KIRBY of in and to the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances and of in an to every part and parcel thereof To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances unto him the faid William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns to the only proper ufe benefits and behoof of him the faid William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns forever And the faid Thomas KIRBY for himself his heirs executors and adminftrators doth covenant and grant to and with him the faid William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns, that he the faid Thomas KIRBY at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these prefents is lawfully seized of the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances in fee fimple and hath in himself good right full power and abfolute lawful authority to fell and convey the same in manner and forma as above, and further that he the said Thomas KIRBY his heirs executors and adminiftrators the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances unto him the said William KIRBY his heirs and afsigns from the lawful claim and demand of all persons claiming from by or under him the faid Thomas KIRBY fhall and will Warrant, and forever defend by these presents—In Witnefs whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and feals the day and year first above written.

Sealed & delivered in the prefence of Thomas KIRBY L.S.

Zeb’n CLAYTON – Margaret M –her mark- CLAYTON

Elizabeth KIRBY L.S.

Received the day of the Date of the within written Indenture of the within named KIRBY the full confideration money within mentioned

Witnefses to the signing

Thomas KIRBY

Zeb’n CLAYTON – Margaret M –her mark- CLAYTON

State of New Jersey Middlesexfs. Be it remembered that on the Seventh day of April Eighteen hundred and seven Before me Andrew ROWAN one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Please in faid County personally appeared Thomas KIRBY and Elizabeth his wife the within Grantors and did acknowledge that they signed sealed & delivered the within inftrument as their voluntary act and deed by them respectively signed sealed and delivered for the use and purposes therein mentioned and the faid Elizabeth KIRBY being privately examined apart from her hufband did acknowledge that she was acquainted with the tenor and effect of the faid inftrument of that she signed sealed & delivered the same as her voluntary act and deed freely without any fear threats or compulsions from her husband –Acknowledged before me— And’w ROWAN —

Received and recorded the twenty eighth day of April 1807

Middlesex County, New Jersey: Deed book Q, pp. 447-450

This Indenture seems to prove that John COX (1727) and his wife, Margaret, were residing in Monmouth County at least up to 12 October 1765.

Note 6: Morris COX: Among the extracts which, in 1999, Patricia M. Bergener made from microfilmed copies of original marriage bonds in possession of the New Jersey Department of Education, Division of State Library Archives & History, and which were microfilmed in 1966, is the following:

  #530; Morris COX and Richard ELY, both of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth . . . [bound to] . . . William FRANKLIN, Governor... 500 pounds... 21 June 1773 . . . . Morris COX . . . obtained license of marriage for himself and for Catharine HUTCHINSON . . . [w] Dav'd BREARLEY Jr, Surr.

Note 7: Cox/Sullivan Cemetery
Lincoln County, North Carolina
By James Burton Wood
Q u i r u k @ m t a o n l i n e . n e t

  To get to the cemetery, proceed about three miles on NC Hwy #27 west from the South Fork River Bridge at Lincolnton to Saint Dorothy's Catholic Church. From the church, proceed along Hwy #27 about one quarter mile further, thence perpendicularly from the south (left) of the highway into the woods along Rock Dam Creek. Cross the creek and proceed about fifty yards up the hill to the cemetery. The cemetery is located on the farm of Craig Luther Wood, direct descendant of the Cox/Sullivan family. There are about 20 graves in this cemetery marked only by simple field stones.

The Surnames

Cox, Sullivan, Taylor, Weaver

John Cox died -------, 1785
Margaret Cox departed this life August 15, 1799 Aged 67 years
James Sullivan died Aug 27th, 1825 In his 71st year
Mary Sullivan Died Dec 15, 1847 Aged 86 years 2 M
Morris Cox departed this life April 22, 1804 Aged 53 years
Catherine Cox departed this life July 14, 1796 Aged 41 years
Elijah Taylor died Aug 29, 1828 Aged 13 years
Mary Taylor died Feb 24, 1827 Aged 51 years
Conrad Weaver Died Autumn 1840 Aged about 80 years
Elizabeth Weaver Wife of Conrad Weaver Died Nov 1836 In her 76th year

At this burial site, the tombstone of John COX (1 November 1727, Middletown, New Jersey - ABT 1804/05, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina) has been broken off. The John COX whose tombstone is legible was the son of Morris COX and Catherine HUTCHINSON. This John COX was born 21 March 1777 and, therefore, died about the age of eight. Mary SULLIVAN (née COX) was the spouse of James SULLIVAN.

Note 8: Moses Hiram FERGUSON (Sr.), the husband of Elizabeth COX, was the son of Col. Robert FERGUSON (Jr.) (1722, Scotland - AFT 25 February 1805, Lincoln County, North Carolina) and Elizabeth WYLLEY (ABT 1726 - 1780, Lincoln County, North Carolina, at the hands of the Tories), who were married 5 October 1757 [marriage bond date], in New York City, at Trinity Presbyterian Church. The offspring of Moses Hiram FERGUSON and Elizabeth COX are said to have been: Polly FERGUSON (ABT 1787 - ?) [F]: m. John ALEXANDER, 1812; Samuel FERGUSON (25 December 1791, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 28 November 1857, Holden, Johnson County, Missouri) [M]: m. Sarah MOONEY (ABT 1796, North Carolina - ?), ABT 1815, North Carolina; Nancy FERGUSON (1792 - ?) [F]; Aaron FERGUSON (1794, Lincoln County, North Carolina - AFT 1865, Missouri or Kansas) [M]: m. Catherine BECK (ABT 1802, North Carolina - AFT 1865, Missouri or Kansas), 25 September 1821, Rhea County, Tennessee; William FERGUSON (1796, North Carolina - ABT 1875, Missouri) [M]: m. Margaret HENRY, 28 January 1822, Rhea County, Tennessee; John Cox FERGUSON (21 June 1799, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 10 August 1857, Johnson County, Missouri) [M]: m. Sarah FALLS (1798 - September 1861, Missouri), 18 September 1820, Lincoln County, North Carolina; Matilda FERGUSON [F]; Sarah? FERGUSON (1800 - AFT 1860, according to census) [F]; Margaret FERGUSON (1801, North Carolina - 1838, St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri) [F]: m. Preston KNIGHT, BEF 1830; Martin FERGUSON [M]; Tolliver FERGUSON (ABT 1807, North Carolina - ?) [M]; Russell FERGUSON [M]; Moses FERGUSON (Jr.) (1809, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 1863, Johnson County, Missouri) [M]: m. Rebecca Ann SIMMERMAN (1822, Virginia - 5 March 1905, Missouri), 25 March 1841, Johnson County, Missouri; and Rachel? FERGUSON [F].

Sarah FALLS, the wife of John Cox FERGUSON, was the daughter of James FALLS (31 December 1769, Lincoln County, North Carolina, British North America - 22 November 1821, Lincoln County, North Carolina) and Mary J. FERGUSON (1770, Chester County, South Carolina, British North America - 3 August 1832, Lincoln County, North Carolina), who were married 12 August 1788, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Mary J. FERGUSON was the daughter of Robert FERGUSON (Sr.) (ABT 1700, Scotland - December 1794, Lincoln County, North Carolina) and Sarah SIMS (1744, Pennsylvania, British North America - 7 June 1814, Lincoln County, North Carolina), who were married about 1760, in Pennsylvania. Because Robert FERGUSON (Sr.) and Sarah SIMS were the parents of Col. Robert FERGUSON (Jr.), Mary J. FERGUSON was the aunt of Moses Hiram FERGUSON.

  The Will of Col. Robert FERGUSON (Jr.):

In the name of God, Amen. The 25th day of February one thousand eight hundred and five, Robert FERGUSON of North Carolina in the county of Lincoln, being increased in years and feeble in body yet of perfect mind and memory for which I thank God, calling to mind the mortality of my body that I must shortly put off the mortality, yet in hope of a glorious resurection, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament first recommending my soul to God and my body to the earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the discretion of my executors. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, divise, depose of in the following manner and terms: I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Isabel, the plantation I now live on or the plantation I may live on last next to my deceased together with my stock, plantation tools, and house-hold furniture during her natural life and after her decease to decend to her youngest son Moses BARR. I also give and bequeath to Margaret BARR fifty dollars. I also give and bequeath to Robert PURSLEY, son of my daughter, Jane, fifty dollars. I also give and bequeath to my son, Elias, fifty dollars. This $150. to be raised out of my personal property. I give and bequeath to my five sons, James, Moses, John, Robert and Alexander all my lands in the Tennessee State to be equally divided among them. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my son Alexander and my friend David Dickey executors of this my last Will and Testament ratifying and confirming the same.

Signed, sealed, published and pronounced and deposed by the said Robert FERGUSON as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us.
Lewis Dickey - - - Tommie E. Dickey - - - D. Dickey

Robert FERGUSON <seal>

Note 9: The following transactions in real estate and chattel pertain to the fortunes of John COX, Margaret MORRIS, and their family in North Carolina.

  (1) Brent H. Holcomb and Elmer O. Parker, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: Deed Abstracts: 1763 - 1779
 
[volume 4] Pp. 430 - 436: 19 & 20 Feb. 1768, Peter Harper (= Harpell, in this below and in all later documents) of Tenecum Township, Bucks Co., Pa., Yeoman to Thomas SALTER of City of Philadelphia, Merchant, lease 5s, release £250) . . . 600 A on S side S fork Cautabo (= Catawba) River on N side of South Fork of Fishing (= Fishers) Creek and another tract of 120 A on No. fork of Indian Creek . . . Peter Harpell (seal). Wit. Peter Knight, James (?) Moore, John BRITTON, Thomas BRITTON. Proved by Francis Moor, at Newbern, North Carolina, 26 July 1768.

(2) Brent Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina: 1769 - 1786; Tryon County Wills & Estates (Southern Historical Press)

  JULY COURT Anno Domini 1784

Pp. 678 - 679: Thomas SALTER of the Northern Liberties of the City of Philadelphia, Pa., merchant, for natural love & affection to James SULLIVAN, late of the State of New Jersey & wife Mary & her two eldest sons Samuel and John SULLIVAN and of their going to and residing on the premises herein after granted and for the sum of 10s . . . land on S side S fork Catawba, 600 [?] A (being the second described of two tracts which Peter Harpill of Lincrum (= Tenecum) Township, in the county of Bucks, Pa., yeoman, by deed 20 Feb 1768, recorded in Mecklenburg Co., granted to sd.. Thomas SALTER, by two distinct patents both dated 28 Mar 1751, granted to sd. Harpell . . . 4 Sept 1783 . . . Thos SALTER (seal), Wit. Burton Hathaway, Peter CARSON, R. Whitehead. Rec. July term 1784

Pp. 679 - 680: 23 Apr. 1782, Thomas SALTER of Philadelphia to John COXE of Middlesex Co., N. J., yeoman, the half brother of sd. Thomas SALTER & Aaron COXE, Paul COXE, Elisha COXE & Elijah COXE, the sons of sd. John COXE, for natural love & affection . . . and for 5s . . . land on N side of S fork Catawba on S branch of Fishers Creek, part of grant to peter Harpill, 100 A, by L & R 19 & 20 1768, recorded in Mecklenburg Co. . . . Thos SALTER (seal), Wit. Rachel COXE, Nancy COXE, R. Whitehead. Rec. July term 1784.

(3) A. B. Pruitt, Abstracts of Deeds: Lincoln County, North Carolina: Books 3 (and Old Book 15), 4, & 16 (ISBN: 0-944992129) 1988:

  January Court 1789

[New Book 3 & Old Book 15] 349. May 30, 1787 Thomas SALTER "Northern Liberties," merchant (Philadelphia, PA) to John COXE, yeoman & brother "by the mother's side" of Thomas SALTER, formerly of NJ and now of Lincoln Co; for love & affection and 5s sold 210 ac in Lincoln formerly Anson Co; border: an old marked corner and land "lately granted by" Thomas SALTER to his nephew Isaiah LIMING; being remainder of 410 (sic) ac grant Mar. 28, 1751 to Peter Harpell who sold Feb. 19 & 20, 1768 (in Mecklenburg Co) to Thomas SALTER who sold May 25 "Inst by metes & bounds" northernmost part to nephew Isaiah LIMING. [signed] Tho SALTER. [witness] Vallentine Mauny & R. Whitehead. Rec. Jan. 1789. Book 3 p. 440; Book 14 p. 128.

[New Book 3 & Old Book 15] 350. May 25, 1787 Thomas SALTER "Northern Liberties," merchant (Philadelphia PA) to Isaiah LIMING, tanner (formerly of "Upper Freehold," Monmouth County, NJ and now of Lincoln Co); for love & affection & for his living on premises & 5s sold 210 ac; part of 420 ac grant Mar. 28, 1751 to Peter Harpell in Anson now Lincoln Co on N fork of Indian Cr; grant bordered a black oak marked "PH" and had yearly rent of 4s per 100ac; grant was sold Feb. 19 & 20 1768 by Peter Harpell to Thomas SALTER (registered in Mecklenburg Co). [signed] Tho SALTER. [witness] Vallentine Mauny and R. Whitehead. Rec. Jan. 1789. Book 3 p. 441; Book 15 p. 130.

[Book 16] 565. Apr. 4, 1790 John COX and wife Margaret (Lincoln Co) to"his" son Morris COX (same); for love and affection & 5s sold 158 ac on both sides of Leonards fork of Indian Cr; border: Aaron COX and Isaac LIMINGS; middle part of 420 ac granted Mar. 28, 1751 to Peter Harpell who sold Feb. 19 & 20, 1768 to Thomas SALTER who sold May 13, 1787 to John COX. [signed] John & Margat COX. [witness Moses MOORE & Elisha COX. Rec. Jan. 1791. Book 16 p. 47.

[Book 16] 570. Apr. 4, 1790 John COX & wife Margaret (Lincoln Co) to "his" son Aaron COX (same); for love and affection and 5s sold 158 ac on both sides of Leonards fork waters of Indian Cr; part of upper end of 420 ac granted Mar. 28, 1751 to Peter Harpell who sold Feb. 19 & 20, 1768 to Thomas SALTER who sold May 13, 1787 to John COX. [signed] John & Margaret COX [witness] Moses MOORE & Elisha COX. Rec. Jan. 1791. Book 16 p. 52

[Book 16] 572. Aug. 15, 1789 Henry Isenhart (Lincoln Co) to Peter CARPENDOR (= CARPENTER) (same); for £100 NC money sold 300 ac on S side of Beaverdam Cr waters of S fork of Catawba R; border: Jacob CARPENDOR (= CARPENTER), Lawrence KOISER (= KISER), & Christen CARPENDOR (= CARPENTER); granted Apr. 19, 1763 to Henry Isenhart. [signed] Henry Isenhart’s mark [witness] Eliezer Givens & Christopher CARPENTER. Rec. Jan. 1791. Book 16 p. 55.

[Book 16] 790. May 22, 1790 Thomas SALTER, merchant (Northern Liberties of city of Philadelphia, PA): an oath (sort of); on Feb. 19 & 20, 1768 Peter Harpell sold to Thomas SALTER 420 ac in Anson now Lincoln Co on N fork of Indian Cr; border: black oak marked "PH"; Thomas SALTER intended to give the land to his cousin [correction: nephew] Isaiah LIMING and step-brother John COX: on May 25, 1787 the South part (210 ac) to Isaiah LIMING and on May 30, 1787 North part (210 ac) to John COX; but the division line was called out wrong in Isaiah LIMING’s deed so there’s an argument between Isaiah LIMING and John COX; so now for the original consideration, Thomas SALTER describes the division line between the two tracts. [signed] Tho SALTER. [witness] Arthur Graham & Richd Whitehead. Wit. Oath Jan. 1793 by Arthur Graham. Book 16 p. 330.

[Book 16] 704. Dec. 1, 1791 John COX (Lincoln Co) to Paul COX (same); for £100 sold 600 ac on N side of S fork of Catawba R on S branch of Fishers Cr; entered by & granted to Peter Harpill who sold to Thomas SALTER and "sold & given" to John COX to issue to certain persons, described in said deed, after his death. [signed] John COX [witness] James SULAVAN (= James SULLIVAN) & Moses MOORE. Rec. Jan. 1792. Book 16 p. 225

(4) A. B. Pruitt, Abstracts of Deeds: Lincoln County, North Carolina: Books 23, 24, & 25 (ISBN: 0-944992501) 1994

  April Court 1808

[Deed Book 23] 267. Jan. 27, 1807 Robert Patterson, sheriff (Lincoln Co) to Rebecca BONHAM "sr" (same); for £1.3, or the taxes due on 300 ac, sold 290 ac; border: crosses W fork of Indian Cr; part of 300 ac on W fork of Indian Cr which land is property of heirs of Absalom BONHAM deceased but taxes aren’t paid for 1804; so land is sold at public sale on Monday Jan. 6, 1806 at the Court House in Linolnton; the 300 ac was granted No. 17, 1790 to Absalom BONHAM. [signed] Robert Patterson jurat and Lwn Henderson. Rec. Apr. 1808. Book 23 p. 391.

[Deed Book 23] 268. Feb. 6, 1808 John Lyon (Bourbon County, KY) to Lawson Henderson (Lincoln Co); for $250 sold a Negro girl Rachel "a slave for life." [signed] John Lyon; witness Elijah COX jurat. Rec. Apr. 1808. Book 23 p. 392.

[Deed Book 23] 269. Oct 9, 1800 Morris COX to James G. Beatty; for £0.5 received in full of "all" accounts except a note dated today for $115, sold a Negro fellow Murry now in said Beatty’s possession. [signed] Morris COX; witness Moses MOORE jurat and "Robon" Weer. Rec. Apr. 1808. Book 23 p. 393.

   

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G0494A: Elisha COX, Captain [004]
Birth: 6 October 1771, Lincoln County, North Carolina, British North America
Death: 26 January 1824, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Interment: Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina [See Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials.]
Father: John COX (1 November 1727, Middletown, New Jersey, British North America - ABT 1804/05, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina)
Mother: Margaret MORRIS (1 October 1732, Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 15 August 1799, Lincoln County, North Carolina) [See G0495A: Margaret MORRIS in Descendants of Andrew Morris (ABT 1685 - 1728).]

Marriage:19 December 1792 (Bible record)
Spouse: Margaret HOLLAND (26 January 1774, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, British North America - 31 January 1825, Gastonia, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina) [See G0494A: Margaret HOLLAND in Antecedents and Descendants of Isaac Holland, Sr. (12 May 1745 - 10 September 1810 and see Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials.]

Child 1: Isaac COX (28 October 1794, Lincoln County, North Carolina - ?) [M]

Child 2: John Morris COX (7 April 1794, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 23 April 1851, Cherokee County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Mary Blanton HAWKINS (2 April 1805 - 5 February 1849, Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia), 7 November 1821, Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia: m2. Irena JUNIOR (ABT 1821, Georgia - AFT 1870 and BEF 1880, Blount County, Alabama), 23 April 1849, Henry County, Georgia

Child 3: Peggy Mira (Myra) COX (8 August 1799, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 26 January, 1874, Henry County, Georgia) [F]: m. William BERRY (14 October 1791, North Carolina - 21 December 1879, Henry County, Georgia), 8 October 1818, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Child 4: Oliver Wiley COX, Colonel, (11 June 1802, Lincoln County, North Carolina - October 1852, Henry County, Georgia) [M]: m. Helen Marr HARVEY (July 1811, Butte County, Georgia - March 1881, Leon County, Texas: interment, under the same monument as Mary ["Mollie"] COX and James F. KENNEDY, at Jackson Cemetery, Leon County, Texas), 29 July 1830, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia [See G0493B: Helen Marr HARVEY in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]

Child 5: Andrew Berry COX (1 February 1805, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 19 February 1859, Yell County, Arkansas) [M]: m. Elizabeth ("Betsy") IRBY (9 December 1800, York District, South Carolina - 5 January 1872, Yell County, Arkansas), 30 May 1828, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Child 6: Samuel Waller COX (7 June 1808, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 1837 [BY 13 November 1837], Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia) [M]: m. Amanda Melvina HARVEY (July 1811, Butte County, Georgia - 1861, Leon or Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America), 7 February 1831, Henry County, Georgia [See G0493A: Amanda Melvina HARVEY. in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]

Child 7: James Holland COX (6 April 1810, Lincoln County, North Carolina - ?, Memphis, Tennessee) [M]

Child 8: George Washington COX (11 January 1813, Lincoln County, North Carolina - ?, Texas) [M]

Child 9: Mary Salina COX (12 [or 20] February 1815, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 10 August 1876, Henry County, Georgia: interment at Dailey-Selfridge Family Cemetery, Henry County, Georgia) [F]: m. John DAILEY (Jr.) (16 August 1802, <Georgia> - 25 June 1861, Henry County, Georgia, Confederate States of America: interment at Dailey-Selfridge Family Cemetery, Henry County, Georgia), 11 March 1835, Henry County, Georgia

Note 1: Elisha COX, of Lincolnton, North Carolina, was commissioned as a Captain of the First Troop of Cavalry in the First Regiment of the militia of Lincoln, County, North Carolina. The commission is dated 27 July 1804. The commission was signed by James Turner, Governor, and by I. W. Guion whose title is not decipherable. Elisha COX's date of death, 26 January 1824, was preserved on his tombstone: "Capt. Elisha Cox Died Jan 26, 1824 in the 51st year of his life."

About the burial site of Elisha COX and Margaret HOLLAND, there is some controversy. In her genealogical memoir, Frances Lee Pyron DANCE claimed that, although there are markers for both Elisha COX and Margaret HOLLAND in the cemetery of the Olney Presbyterian Church, their site of burial is actually in what was the graveyard of the Goshen Presbyterian Church in Belmont, Gaston County, North Carolina.

In 2002, to complicate matters further, in the Cramer Woods development, off New Hope Road (NC 279) near Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, a grave plot was discovered that was marked by a headstone inscribed as follows:

  In Memory of
MARGARET COX
Died 1825 aged
51 years

The grave has both a headstone and a footstone. Beside it , there appears to be two graves marked with headstones and footstones, none with any visible inscriptions. The plot is surrounded by stone with an old azalea bush growing out the top.

Since it has now (2005) been established, by means of electronic soundings, that no burial occurred at the site in the Cramer Woods development and that a burial did occur in the graveyard of the Olney Presbyterian Church, it seems well established that the interment of Margaret HOLLAND took place at the graveyard of Olney Presbyterian Church. The headstone in the Cramer Woods development appears to have been the original which was replaced by a newer monument at Olney Presbyterian Church.

The graveyard of Olney Presbyterian Church is located about 2.8 miles south of Garrison Boulevard, in Gastonia, North Carolina, and is about 1000 feet off the east side of Highway US-321. In it, there are two markers of interest:

  ELISHA COX
Son of
John and Margaret
Morris Cox
October 6 1771
January 26 1824
MARGARET HOLLAND
Daughter of
Isaac and Hannah
Holland
Consort of
Capt. Elisha Cox
Died Jan 31 1825
Age 51

The graveyard is not now owned by Olney Presbyterian Church.

See Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials.

Note 2: After the death of Mary Blanton HAWKINS, John Morris COX married a person to whom his children objected strenuously. Her name, seemingly to conceal scandal, was not given to Frances Lee Pyron DANCE, the principal genealogist of this line. But Frances Lee Pyron DANCE believed that, in his second marriage, John Morris COX had engendered a son, "Jack COX."

From the Will of John Morris COX, dated 21 April 1851 in Cherokee County, Georgia, it is possible to discover a few facts:

  State of Georgia, Cherokee County

In the name of God Amen. I John M. COX of said State and County being of sound mind and memory and knowing that I must shortly depart this life deem it right and proper both as respects my family and myself that I should make a disposition of the property with which a kind Providence has blessed me do therefore make this my last will and testament hereby revoking all others heretofore made by me.

1. Item. I desire and direct that my body be buried in a decent and christian like manner suitable to my circumstance and condition in life. My soul I trust shall return to rest with God who gave it.

2. Item. I desire and direct that all my just debts be paid without delay by my executor herein after appointed as I am unwilling my creditors should be delayed in their just rights.

3. Item. I give and devise to my beloved wife Irena for and during her natural live (only) all that tract of land being in the County of Cherokee and State of Georgia known and distinguished by no. four hundred & thirty two (432), four hundred & thirty three (433) four hundred & thirty four (434) five hundred and three (503) five hundred and four (504) and all that part of lot no. (505) five hundred and five that lies on the north side of Little River and all that part of lot no. (506) five hundred and six on the north side of Little River, all said numbers adjoining and taken together containing three hundred & twenty acres more or less and all in the 15th Dist. of the second section of said county. Fractional lot no. three hundred & ninety seven in the twenty first District of the second section of said county containing seventy four acres more or less with all the rights and appertences of the said lots of land in any wise belonging to her own proper use and benefit during her natural life after which said tract of land I desire and wish my Executor to dispose of and divide equally between the heirs of her body to wit. Sarah Jane, Elisha, and Malissa COX. I also give and bequeath to my beloved wife Irena (in the same ? manner) my Plantation Wagon and two mules such as she may select from my mules, the farming utensils used on and belonging the Plantation of every description whatever, also all my cattle and hogs of every description, also all my household and kitchen furniture belonging to and used on said Plantation all given and bequeathed in the name aforesaid.

4. Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife for and during her natural life (only) my negro man Adam about twenty three years old, negro woman Mariah about thirty seven years old, negro boy Bob about seven years old and after her estate is over then to be equally divided between the heirs of her body so afore named in the 3rd item.

5th Item. I give bequeath and desire my daughter Malissa forever my negro girl Sophia about three years old to her own porper use and benefit forever.

6th I desire and wish my Executors to sell my negro woman Herriet about 27 years old, lot of land no. six hundred & fourty nine in the 15th Dist. 2nd section Cherokee County, als. no. 182 in the 3rd Dist. of the 2nd section in said county, also one mule and carriage also two notes in the hands of Moon & Alfred given by Jas. Cooper for six hundred and forty two dollars each, one due 25th December 1851, the other due 25 Dec. 1852, also one note of the hand of L. T. Glenn given by G. F. Knott for about ninety dollars due said dicreted notes to collect together with the money arising from the sale of said negro woman and said lots of land and mule and carriage ? my Executors to apply to the payment of my just debts and if any remaining to be divided equally between my three oldest children to wit Elizabeth Ann PYSON (PYRON), Mary Martha BANKS and John W. COX.

7th I hereby constitute and appoint my worthy friend David Putman Executor of this my last will and testament this April 21st 1851.

John M. COX (Seal)

On file at Georgia Archives, Drawer 13, box 17, page 30, Book B.

From the Will of John Morris COX, it is known that he called his second wife "Irena" and that, by her, he engendered Sarah Jane, Elisha, and Melissa COX.

By Mary Blanton HAWKINS (2 April 1805 - 5 February 1849, Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia), John Morris COX is known to have engendered (1) Elizabeth Ann COX (20 April 1823, Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia - 21 April 1910, Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia interment at Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia), female, who married James PYRON (8 September 1816, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - 6 June 1867, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia interment at Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia) on 3 August 1842 in McDonough, Henry County, George; (2) Mary Martha COX, female, who married Unknown BANKS; and (3) John W. COX, male.

John W. COX is likely to be the "Jack COX" about whom Frances Lee Pyron DANCE reported - perhaps mistakenly - as the offspring of a second marriage.

After the death of Mary Blanton HAWKINS on 5 February 1849, John Morris COX was married to Irena JUNIOR on 23 April 1849 in Henry County, Georgia [Georgia Marriages to 1850 records the marriage of John M. COX to "Amery" JUNIOR in Henry County, Georgia on 23 April 1849. "Amery" is probably the mistranscription of what was written as "Arreny."]

By Irena JUNIOR (ABT 1821, Georgia - AFT 1870, Blount County, Alabama), John Morris COX is known to have engendered (1) Sarah Jane COX (ABT 1844, Cherokee County, Georgia - 11 September 1913, Blount County, Alabama: interment at Hood Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama) [F]: m. Christopher Colombus HELMS (11 January 1847 - 12 January 1903, Blount County, Alabama: interment at Hood Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama), 30 July 1869, Blount County, Alabama (Bondsman or performer: D. A. Hendricks); (2) Elisha Madison COX (25 May 1846, Cherokee County, Georgia - 28 August 1925, Blount County, Alabama interment at Hood Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama) [M]: m. Pheby (Phebe) A. SULLENS, 2 July 1868, Blount County, Alabama; and (3) Melissa COX (March 1850, Cherokee County, Georgia - ?) [F]. [See United States Census for 1850, Division 15, Cherokee County, Georgia, 12 August 1850, where the given name of Irena COX is written as "Aurinius." D. A. Hendricks, who stood either as bondsman or performer of the marriage of Sarah Jane COX to Christopher Colombus HELMS, is probably to be identified with Denmon Hendricks, born in Georgia, the son of Willis Hendricks, born about 1822, also in Georgia. In 1870, Denmon Hendricks was residing with his parents in Blount County, Alabama. In 1870, he was 25 years of age and his occupation was "school teacher." He could easily have been a lay preacher eligible to perform marriages. In the United States Census for Blount County, Alabama in 1870, there is no other person surnamed Hendricks whose given name begins with "D."]

The evidence seems to be that, previous to the death of Mary Blanton HAWKINS and previous to his second marriage, John Morris COX had already engendered Sarah Jane COX and Elisha Madison COX by Irena JUNIOR. This may have been the scandal which the grandchildren of John Morris COX and Mary Blanton HAWKINS were concealing from Frances Lee Pyron DANCE. Among the descendants of John Morris COX and Irena JUNIOR, the legend is that Irena JUNIOR was what today is called a "native American," possibly of Cherokee extraction.

According to Robert Scott Davis, The Georgia Black Book, vol. II, More Morbid, Macabre, and Sometimes Disgusting Records of Genealogical Value - Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Get Back Into Genealogy (1982, reprinted 1992), p. 38, John M. COX, about 1850, adopted his illegitimate children, Elisha and Sarah Jane, and changed their surnames from JUNER to COX. They are both reported as having been born in Henry County, Georgia.

After the death of Christopher Colombus HELMS, Sarah Jane COX married William H. LEE on 10 June 1912.

After the death of John Morris COX, Irena JUNIOR, as "Asena COX," was married to John P. (or T.) HONEA (ABT 1829, South Carolina - AFT 1880, Blount County, Alabama), in Cherokee County, Georgia, on 23 March 1852. [Cherokee County, Georgia, Marriage Book B]

By John P. (or T.) HONEA, Irena JUNIOR engendered: (1) John Albert HONEA (1854, Blount County, Alabama - 1937, Blount County, Alabama: interment at New Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama) [M]: m. Rebecca HOOD (1861, Blount County, Alabama - death reported 21 March 1929 in The Southern Democrat: interment at New Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama. The gravestone gives 1928 as the date of death.); (2) Dorothy Ann HONEA (ABT 1857, Blount County, Alabama - ?) [F]; and Martha E. HONEA (ABT 1859, Blount County, Alabama - ?) [F]. [See the United States Census for 1860, Eastern Subdivision, Blount County, Alabama, 12 June 1860, where the given name of Irena JUNIOR is written as "Arrena." The household of John P. HONEA does not appear in the Alabama State Census for 1866. See the United States Census of 1870 for Blountsville, Blount County (East Half), Alabama where the given name of Irena JUNIOR is written as something like "Armen" or "Aruna."]

In the United States Census of Blount County, Alabama for 1880, John Albert HONEA, age 25, reported his father's place of birth as South Carolina and his mother's place of birth as Georgia. His wife was Rebecca HOOD. They had a son, Ellis HONEA, who was born in 1879 and whose death was reported 4 October 1923 in The Southern Democrat. The death of the wife of Ellis HONEA was reported, in The Southern Democrat, 30 October 1910 at the age of 30. She was probably Nancy C. HONEA whose gravestone, at Mt. Joy Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama, states her to be the wife of D. E. HONEA, 24 July 1880 - 14 October 1910.

In the United States Census of Blount County, Alabama for 1880, John P. (or T.) HONEA, a widower, is shown residing in the household of John Albert HONEA. This means that Irena JUNIOR died between 1870 and 1880.

Elizabeth Ann COX, the daughter of John Morris COX and Mary Blanton HAWKINS, and James PYRON engendered: (1) Charles William PYRON (13 May 1844, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - 25 April 1916) [M]: m. Elmira Parkerson COX (ABT 1846, Cherokee County, Georgia - ?), 17 October 1869; (2) Thomas Jefferson PYRON (11 February 1846, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - 28 June 1906, Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia: interment at Liberty Hill Cemetery, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia) [M]: m. Sarah Martha BUCHANAN (5 January 1850, near Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia - 13 March 1918, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia), 10 May 1868, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia; (3) James Madison PYRON (25 November 1848, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - 16 August 1896, Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia: interment at Kennesaw Cemetery, Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia) [M]: m. "Sadie" J. DOUGHERTY (10 January 1854, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia - 12 May 1936, Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia: interment at Kennesaw Cemetery, Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia), 12 December 1877, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia; (4) Mary Ann PYRON (16 April 1850, Dalton County, Georgia - 28 March 1875) [F]: m. Fletcher A. NORTHCUTT (ABT 1846 - ?) , 12 January 1868; (5) Martha PYRON (11 October 1852, <Dalton> County, Georgia - April 1855) [F]; (6) John Wylie PYRON (11 July 1854, <Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 7 July 1928) [M]: m. Harriet Robinson FANNIN, 8 January 1888; (7) Stephen Johnson PYRON (3 October 1857, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 6 April 1925, Georgia) [M]; (8) Lucy Angeline PYRON (22 December 1859, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 13 October 1874) [F]; and (9) Henry Davis PYRON (8 October 1861, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 6 March 1883) [M].

Elmira Parkinson COX, the wife of Charles William PYRON, was the daughter of Joshua COX (ABT 1811, Alabama - ?), a millwright, and Sarah Evans MCCONNELL (ABT 1828, Georgia - ?). Her siblings were: Mary Ann COX (1846, Cherokee County, Georgia - ?) [F]; Theresa Bashaw COX [F]; and John W. COX (1 June 1848, Cherokee County, Georgia - 1 October 1908, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California: interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California) [M]: m. Olive E. BOONTON (21 November 1861, Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa - 5 December 1926, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California), 20 January 1876, Fremont County, Iowa. In the United States Census for 1850 for Division 15, Cherokee County, Georgia, Bennett Tuck, a millwright 28 years of age, is shown as a resident in the household of Joshua COX and Sarah Evans MCCONNELL. Some years previous to the War Between the States, Bennett Tuck disappeared while on a business-trip to Tennessee.

Thomas Jefferson PYRON and Sarah Martha BUCHANAN engendered: (1) Emma Ryals PYRON (9 April 1869, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 18 October 1910, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia: interment at Acworth Cemetery, Cobb County, Georgia) [F]: m. Noah Judson PUGH (21 February 1857, Virginia [now West Virginia] - 28 December 1943, Florida), 25 April 1901; (2) Sue Elizabeth PYRON (24 September 1871, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 19 May 1873, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia) [F]; (3) Mamie Lou PYRON (25 July 1874, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 4 December 1875, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia) [F]; (4) Frances Lee PYRON (22 August 1876, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 8 April 1960, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia) [F]: m. John Edwards DANCE (ABT 1870, Georgia - ?, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia), 17 February 1910, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia; (5) Cora Beatrice PYRON (15 June 1879, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 8 November 1886, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia) [F]; (6) James Thomas PYRON (16 February 1883, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 11 March 1954, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia: interment 13 March 1954 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia) [M]: m. Annie Beaura HUGGINS (29 July 1891, Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas - 27 October 1978, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia), 19 January 1918, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia; and (7) Leonard McCall PYRON (19 November 1888, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia - 6 August 1938, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama: interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama) [M]: m. Alice Read DILLARD (28 June 1892, Tennessee - ?, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama: interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama), 12 June 1914.

Note 3: Elizabeth ("Betsy") IRBY, the wife of Andrew Berry COX, was the daughter of John IRBY (5 August 1761, Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - 9 May 1843, Lincoln County, North Carolina) and Anne KENDRICK (1767, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1845), who were married 12 March 1788 in Lincoln County, North Carolina.

Note 4: Mary Salina COX lies interred in the Dailey-Selfridge family cemetery in Henry County, Georgia. This cemetery, which is inactive, is located in Land Lot 7 of the 11th district of Henry County, McDonough, Georgia. To reach it, take I75S to Exit 72. Head east to GA Hwy. 42, then turn left. Go right on Campground Road, left on GA Hwy 15, and right on Knight Drive. The cemetery is on the left in a fenced-in area.

In 1999, Linda S. Sanders recorded the following inscriptions:

  "John DAILEY Sr. (son of Thomas DAILEY), & wife Rachel Clark BOWEN (widow of John BOWEN III, daughter of Millicent TERRELL & Christopher CLARK). Their children:1. John DAILEY Jr. & wife Mary Salina COX (daughter of Margaret HOLLAND & Captain Elisha COX). John & Mary’s children: Mary Ann (wife of Samuel Patterson GREEN), their children Mary E. & Henry (no stone located)."

John DAILEY, Sr. was born 4 October 1765 and died 29 February 1840 in Henry County, Georgia. His wife, Rachel CLARK, was born 8 October 1768 and died 17 June 1850 in Henry County, Georgia. They are both interred in the Dailey-Selfridge Family Cemetery, Henry County, Georgia.

John DAILEY, Jr. is known to have had a sister, Millie Terrell DAILEY (11 July 1806, Georgia - 24 September 1871, Henry County, Georgia: interment at the Dailey-Selfridge Family Cemetery, Henry County, Georgia) who, on 30 April 1828, was married to John SELFRIDGE (17 December 1788 - January 1856, Alabama) in Henry County, Georgia.

Note 5: Map of Lincoln County, North Carolina (1895):

   

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G0493A: Samuel Waller COX [003]
Birth: 7 January 1808, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Death: 1837 (BY 13 November 1837), Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia
Father: Elisha COX, Captain (6 October 1771, Lincoln County, North Carolina, - 26 January 1824, Lincoln County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina)
Mother: Margaret HOLLAND (26 January 1774, Lincolnton, North Carolina - 31 January 1825, Gastonia, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina) [See G0494A: Margaret HOLLAND in Antecedents and Descendants of Isaac Holland, Sr. (12 May 1745 - 10 September 1810 and see Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials.]

Marriage: 7 February 1831, Henry County, Georgia
Spouse: Amanda Melvina HARVEY (July 1811, Butte County, Georgia - 1861, Leon or Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America) [See G0493A: Amanda Melvina HARVEY. in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]

Child 1: Helen Marr COX (ABT 1832, <Henry County>, Georgia - BEF 1870) [F]: m. Jabez Marion BRASSELL (26 March 1824, Fayette County, Georgia - 2 September 1871, Scott County, Mississippi), ABT 1848, Fayette County, Georgia

Child 2: John Calhoun ("Little Black Jack," "Black Jack") COX (2 January 1836, Fayette County, Georgia - 19 February 1917, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater [Alabama Street], Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [M]: m1. Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN (13 July 1847, Fayette County, Georgia - 17 April 1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas), 22 June 1864, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America [See G0492A: Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).]: m2. Mary Eugenia BARRON (25 April 1847, Troup County, Georgia - 2 April 1916, Tyler, Smith County, Texas), 3 March 1887, Smith County, Texas [See below, Appendix: The System of Kinship of Mary Eugenia Barron (25 April 1847 - 2 April 1916).]

Child 3: Sarah COX (AFT 7 February 1831 and BEF 13 November 1837, Henry or Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 20 January 1841 and BEF 10 March 1841, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]

Child 4: Tabitha M(elvina?) COX (AFT 7 February 1831 and BEF 13 November 1837, Henry or Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 31 December 1841 and BEF 31 December 1842, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]

Note 1: The Estate and Succession of Samuel WALLER COX:

  From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 89
  William BERRY1 and Amanda M. COX and O. W. COX2 and John DAILEY, Jr.,3 securities give bond for $4000 on 13 November 1837 upon condition that William BERRY be appointed administrator and Amanda M. COX administratrix of estate of Samuel W. COX, deceased.

/s/ William BERRY, administrator
/s/ Amanda M. COX, administratrix
/s/ O. W. COX, sec.
/s/ John DAILEY, Jr., sec. Recorded 18 November 1837

Notes:

  1. William BERRY: This was the husband of Peggy Mira (Myra) COX, the sister of Samuel Waller COX.

2. O. W. COX: This was Oliver Wiley COX, the brother of Samuel Waller COX.

3. John DAILEY, Jr.: This was the husband of Mary Salina COX, the sister of Samuel Waller COX.

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 89:

  Amanda M. COX, adminstratrix and William BERRY, administrator and John D. STELL1 and Leonard E. Case and Jordan Johnson make bond for $5000 on 1 January 1838 upon the condition that Amanda M. COX be appointed adminstratrix and William BERRY be appointed administrator of Samuel W. COX, late of this county, deceased.

/s/ Amanda M. COX, administratrix
/s/ William BERRY, administrator
/s/ John D. STELL, sec.
/s/ Leonard E. Case, sec.
/s/ Jordan Johnson, sec.

Recorded: 4 January 1838

Note:

  1. John D. STELL: See G0493A: John Dennis STELL, Colonel in Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706).

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 94:

  John D. STELL and Hiram Dorsham and Elisha Hill make bond in amount of $2000 on 15 July 1839 upon the condition that John D. STELL be appointed administrator of Samuel COX, late of said county, deceased.

/s/ John D. STELL, administrator
/s/ Hiram Dorman
/s/ Elisha Hill

Recorded: 19 July 1839

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 100:

  John D. STELL, Elijah P. ALLEN1 and Andrew McBride2 give bond for $2400 on 18 January 1841 upon the condition that John D. STELL be appointed Guardian of Sarah, Hellen, John C. and Tabitha M. COX, orphan Children of Samuel W. COX, deceased.

/s/ John D. STELL, Guardian
/s/ Elijah P. ALLEN
/s/ Andrew McBride

Recorded 20 January 1841

Notes:

  1. Elijah P. ALLEN: See Child 10: Elijah P(hillips?) ALLEN under G0495A: William ALLEN in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmell Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).

2. Andrew McBride: This was Andrew Jackson McBride, later commander of the 10th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA. See Note 13 under G0493A: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmell Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868). Col. Andrew Jackson McBride, CSA (1805, 96th District South Carolina - 1878, Fayette County, Georgia: interment at McBride Cemetery, Fayette County, Georgia) was, at one time, the sheriff of Fayette County, Georgia. He was the son of James McBride (1777, 96th District, South Carolina - 1851, Fayette County, Georgia) and Mary Hamilton (1778, 96th District, South Carolina - 1852, Fayette County, Georgia) who were married in 1799 in 96th District, South Carolina. He married Malinda Carroll (1820, Georgia - 1880, Fayette County, Georgia: interment at McBride Cemetery, Fayette County, Georgia) 18 May 1836 in Fayette County, Georgia.

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 134

  Inventory and Appraisement of Samuel W. COX, deceased, late of Fayette County

Includes 3 town lots, Nos. 35, 51, and 85 in Fayetteville, one negro man named Billy, one negro woman named Lucy, one negro girl, Martha. Appraisers sworn 26 January 1838: Herman Dorman, William Herring, L. E. Case, Caleb Simmons. Recorded: 18 July 1838.

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 139:

  Sale of Real and Personal Property Belonging to the Estate of Samuel W. COX, deceased, the Realty on a Credit the 25th December 1839 and 1840 with interest on the last payment from the 25th December 1839 the personalty in a credit until the 25th December 1839

Purchasers - L. D. King, O. W. COX, J. C. Terry, W. P. Fernandon, Allen Alford, Dr. Ogleby, Richard Phipps, Fanny Hutcheson, C. Kimsy, E. Glass, E. Moon, William Herring, John D. DeVaughn. Includes 82 acres of land, town lots 35, 37, and 85, 3 slaves - Billy, Lucy and Martha etc. Recorded: 11 July 1839

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 139:

  Estate of Samuel W. COX, deceased, in Account Current with William BERRY, Administrator, and Amanda M. COX, Administratrix from 1 January 1838 to 31st December inclusive

To cash paid C. C. O., John Huie, P. O. Beall, taxes from 1837. (39 vouchers noted stating "proven account") Recorded: 11 July 1839

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 155:

  Estate of Samuel W. COX, deceased, in Account Current with J. D. STELL and William BERRY, Administrators, from 1 January 1840 to 31st December 1840 inclusive

To cash paid - O. W. COX on judgment and note, A. G. Murray for cost. Recorded: 24 March 1841

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 160:

  Helin M., John C. and Tabitha C. COX, Minors of Samuel W. COX, deceased, in Account Current with J. D. STELL, Guardian, from 1 January 1841 up to 31st December 1841 inclusive

To cash paid - C. C. O. Recorded: 10 March 1841

From: Jeannette Holland Austin, Fayette County Probate Records: 1824 - 1871 (Wolfe Publishing, Roswell Georgia: 1995), p. 171:

  Helin M. and John C., Orphans of S. W. COX, deceased, in Account Current with J. D. STELL, Guardian, from 1 January 1842 up to 31st December 1842 inclusive

Includes a receipt for board and tuition of orphans. Recorded: 9 August 1843

Note 2: Amanda Melvina HARVEY was the identical twin of Helen Marr HARVEY, who married Oliver Wiley COX, the brother of Samuel Waller COX. The parents of these twins were Rev. Isaac HARVEY, Sr. (1786, Wilkes County, Georgia - 16 September 1838, Wetumpka, Autauga [now Elmore] County, Alabama) and Sarah Garland NAPIER (23 January 1791, Elbert County, Georgia - AFT 17 February 1832), married in Putnam County, Georgia, 22 December 1808. It is from the testimony of Amanda Melvina HARVEY's step-grandson, John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), published in Leon County Historical Collections, vol. 1 (Leon County Genealogical Society, Leon County, Texas: 1981; reprinted from The Lone Star State Memorial and Biographical Book: 1893), that she is known to have died in 1861. John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), Mary Ella STELL (5 January 1846, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 23 May 1911, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-6], Centerville, Leon County, Texas) the wife of William M. JOHNSTON (16 September 1836, Scotland - 25 December 1894, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-6], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), an attorney in Centerville, Texas), and Emma J. STELL (29 August 1849, Gwinnett County, Georgia - AFT 15 April 1910, <Dallas, Dallas County, Texas>, the wife of David J. C. JOHNSTON [March 1844, Ireland - AFT 8 June 1900, <Corsicana, Navarro County>, Texas]) were the children of James Jones STELL (22 September 1824, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 29 October 1849, Fayette County, Georgia) and Elizabeth ("Renda") TRUITT (31 May 1825, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 24 August 1900, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-2], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), who were married in 1845. About ten years after the death of James Jones STELL, Elizabeth ("Renda") TRUITT, the daughter of John TRUITT of Georgia, was married to John T. GRESHAM (4 June 1817, Virginia - 15 July 1870, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-2], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the widower of a Mrs. JOHNSTON, née Elizabeth CAULFIELD (1804, Ireland - 14 August 1857, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section B-3], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), who died in 1857. About 1871, John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas) was married to Mary Alice COUSINS (12 May 1854, Alabama - 11 November 1933, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the daughter born in Alabama of a Dr. COUSINS who was native to Virginia. In the United States Census of 1850 for Choctaw County, Alabama, taken 30 September 1850, a James B. COUSINS, born in Virginia, is shown as a physician keeping office in Choctaw County. There is no other person surnamed "COUSINS" found in Alabama in the census of 1850 as a native of Virginia.

Contrary to popular intuition, Elizabeth CAULFIELD was at least ten years older than John T. GRESHAM. The United States Census of 1850 for Centerville, Leon County, Texas fixes her year of birth at 1804. William M. JOHNSTON and David J. C. JOHNSTON were the sons of Mrs. Isabella JOHNSTON, born 1808 in Ireland, who was a "school mistress" in Centerville, Leon County, Texas.

John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas), the step-grandson of Amanda Melvina HARVEY, should not be confused, as he often is, with John Dennis ("Doak") STELL (5 September 1848, Fayette County, Georgia - 8 April 1924, Scranton, Eastland County, Texas: interment at Scranton Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas), the natural son of Amanda Melvina HARVEY. On 9 December 1869, in Smith County, Texas, John Dennis ("Doak") STELL (5 September 1848, Fayette County, Georgia - 8 April 1924, Scranton, Eastland County, Texas: interment at Scranton Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas) was first married to Mary ("Mollie") A. ARTHUR (29 March 1851, Flat Lick, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana - 1 February 1898, near Lingleville, Erath County, Texas: interment at Lingleville Cemetery, Lingleville, Erath County, Texas), the daughter of Thomas Richard ARTHUR (1 January 1813, Georgia - 21 May 1873, Smith County, Texas: interment at Sandflat Cemetery, Smith County, Texas) and Rachel Dorcas LOFTIN (2 October 1818, South Carolina - 17 January 1874, Smith County, Texas: interment at Sandflat Cemetery, Smith County, Texas). After the death of Mary ("Mollie") A. ARTHUR, John Dennis ("Doak") STELL (5 September 1848, Fayette County, Georgia - 8 April 1924, Scranton, Eastland County, Texas: interment at Scranton Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas) was second married to Henrietta UNKNOWN; and, by 27 April 1910, he was residing with her in the Sixth Civil Precinct of Eastland County, Texas. He died in Scranton, Eastland County, Texas on 8 April 1924.

In the Centerville Cemetery, Centerville, Leon County, Texas, Ms. Cheryl Burks transcribed the date of birth from the headstone of John Dennis STELL (26 October 1847, Gwinnett County, Georgia - 28 February 1898, Centerville, Leon County, Texas: interment at Centerville Cemetery [Section D-4], Centerville, Leon County, Texas) as "Oct 26, 1857." The United States Census of 1880 for Centerville, Leon County, Texas, taken 13 June 1880, proves that the transcribed date is off by ten years.

  BIBLE RECORD: Arthur Family - Smith County, Texas

In the possession of Bob Arthur, P. O. Box 40854, Houston, Texas 77240
Notes in ( ) were added by Bob Arthur.

Only two family pages remain (back & front) from the old Bible.
No copyright dates for the Bible.

Page 1 - Marriages

Joseph P. Arthur and Mary L. Wesley was married Dec the 14th 1868

Their son's marriages
T. L. Arthur to Maude Lane Jefferies Jany 14 1903
B. L. Arthur to Mattie Morris, Lindale Tex Feb 14 1903

Names T. L. Arthurs children (all were born in Lindale)
Loftin Jefferies Arthur born Feby 8th 1904 - at Lindale
Mary Lennice Arthur born May 2nd 1905
Melbourne Dorsely Arthur born Mar 1st 1907
T. L. Arthur Jr born August 6th 1912
Loftin Jefferies & Bessie Snow Dece. 18, 1986 (married at Goldswaithe)
Mary Lennis Arthur & J. S. Busha
Melbourne Dorsley Arthur & Marguerite Boggan Aug 29, 1931 (married at
Livingston)
Thomas Loftin Arthur Jr & Natalie Wilson Sept 5, 1937 (maried Sulphur
Springs)
Joe Manguel Arthur & Audry Tracy were married March 1946

Page 2 - Births

The Farther - Joseph P. Arthur was Borned Oct. 14th 1840
The Mother - Mary Loucinda (Lucinda) Arthur was Borned June the 26th 1846
Louther (Luther) Stell Arthur was Borned March 18 1870 (He died at age 3
and is buried at Harris Creek Cemetery)
Thomas Loftin Arthur was Borned April 7th 1871
Byron Lee Arthur Was Borned August 3rd 1873
Joseph P. Arthur - Lindale TX Died March 20th 1916
Mary Lucinda Arthur - Lindale TX Died Jany 21st 1916

Page 3 - Deaths

Died Louther S. Arthur August the 26the 1873
Died - Dr. Byron Lee Arthur Mar. 7th 1941 - Practiced his profession
about 45 years. About 40 years at Lindale, Tex. where
he died. Buried
Dr. Thomas Loftin Arthur March 24, 1945 3 o'clock a.m. At his home in
Kingsville, Texas. Buried Chamberlain Cemetery, Kingsville, Tex.
Mary Lucinda Wesley Arthur - Lindale, Tex. Died Jan 21st 1906
Joseph Prichard Arthur - Lindale Tex. March 20th 1916

Page 4 - Memoranda

Thomas R. Arthur was borned Jan 15 1813
Rachel D. Loftin was borned Oct 7 1819
They were married Feb 17 1834
The former died in his 61st year - The latter in her 55th year

(By T. L Arthur, Sr. from Memory)
Sons: Bill (William G., married M. A. Rasbury)
John (Died in 1862, Miss. Springs Hosp.)
Joe married M. L. Wesley
Charles married Secrest (Julia Secrest)
Philip married Ella Dobbs
Jim married Dora Fowler (James Joyce "JJ" married Glen
Dora "Dorie" Fowler at Oakwood, TX, S. of Palestine)
Daughters: Martha Murrell married
1. Murrell (Joel Simeon Murrell, died in Civil War
Two children reared in Smith County after the war)
2. Jeff Lewis
Mary married Doak Stell (J. D. "Doak" Stell
Janie married Steve Yarbrough
Nettie married Frank Smyre

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Note: These marriages were copied from the Marriage Records of Smith County, Texas - 1846-1899
Published by the East Texas Genealogical Society (1979)
P. O. Box 6968, Tyler, Texas 75711

Arthur, C. L. Julia Ann Secrest 25 Dec 1872 G-175
Arthur, J. P. M. L. Wesley 14 Dec 1868 C-149
Arthur, P. E. Ella Dobbs 8 Dec 1880 I-37
Arthur, W. G. M. A. Rasbury 8 Jan 1861 B-167
Lewis, J. J. Mrs. Martha A. Murrell 30 Nov 1867 C-46
Smyre, F. M. S. F. Arthur 22 Dec 1875 H-89
Stell, J. D. Mollie A. Arthur 9 Dec 1869 F-34
Yarbrough, S. M. N. J. Arthur 17 Dec 1874 G-417

Note 3: Jabez Marion BRASSELL, an attorney, was the son of William J. BRASSELL (24 March 1778, North Carolina - 16 June 1861, Fayette County, Georgia: interment at Alford Family Cemetery, Fayette County, Georgia) and Martha Ellen ("Patsy") HADDOX (7 April 1795, Edgefield District, South Carolina - 13 March 1836, Fayette County, Georgia: interment at Alford Family Cemetery, Fayette County, Georgia), who were married in Jones County, Georgia, 29 October 1809.

From Joel Dixon Wells and Harold R. Schultz, All Known Cemeteries in Fayette County, Georgia (Hampton, Georgia: 25 January 1980 and reprinted November 1980):

  Alford Family Cemetery

ALFORD, Jimerson, Jun 6, 1818 - Mar 22, 1902, Masonic Emblem

HEWELL, Ulette, wife of John T. Hewell, Jr., Apr 13, 1865 - Oct 17, 1893

ALFORD, DeWitt, Jun 2, 1886 - Aug 29, 1887

ALFORD, Abraham, Jul 16, 1888 - Jun 22, 1898

ALFORD, B. W., Jan 6, 1826 - Apr 16, 1901, 73 years, 3 months, 10 days, Masonic Emblem

BRASSELL, Martha Haddox, wife of William BRASSELL, daughter of Moses HADDOX and Rachel COE, Apr 7, 1795 - Mar 13, 1836, 40 years, 11 months, 6 days

BRASSELL, son of Britain BRASSELL and Dicy DAVIS, Mar 24, 1778 - Jun 16, 1861, 83 years, 2 months, 23 days

BRASSELL, Martha, daughter of Wm. and Martha BRASSELL, wife of Willis BRASSELL, Jan 20, 1819 - Mar 16, 1864, 45 years, 1 month, 27 days

BRASSELL, Titus W., Dec 10, 1847 - Sep 6, 1883

BRASSELL, Eugenia M., Mar 2, 1855 - [no date]

BRASSELL, Minnie Belle, daughter of E. M. and T. W. BRASSELL, Jan 8, 1874 - May 1, 1885

BRASSELL, Little Grover Cleveland, son of F. T. and M. S. BRASSELL, Dec 6, 1884 - Nov 11, 1885, 11 months, 5 days

BRASSELLE, William J., Jr., Oct 21, 1821 - Jan 7, 1857

  Note: According to Mrs. Mary Johnson of Inman, the following are buried in some of the unmarked graves in this cemetery: (1) Mrs. Algood FALLIS (next to Jimerson ALFORD); (2) Infant of Mr. and Mrs. John P. HEWELL (next to Mrs. Algood FALLIS); John T. HEWELL, Jr., husband of Ulette HEWELL (next to her); (4) second wife of John T. HEWELL, Jr., who was killed in Dublin, Georgia (and whose name Mrs. Johnson could not recall, on the other side of J. T. HEWELL, Jr.); (5) a young (not an infant) daughter of Algood FALLIS and his wife (next to J. T. HEWELL, Jr.'s second wife); (6) Deci, wife of B. W. ALFORD (next to B. W. ALFORD); (7) Minnie Belle ALFORD, daughter of B. W. and Deci ALFORD (at the beginning of the row after B. W. ALFORD). Also note that Uletta HEWELL was the daughter of B. W. ALFORD and his wife.

The Will of William J. BRASSELL (24 March 1778, North Carolina - 16 June 1861, Fayette County, Georgia):

  Fayette County, Georgia: Will Book A: pp. 195-198:

Georgia              )
Fayette County  )

June 29th 1860

In the name of God, Amen, I William BRASSELL of said State and County feeling myself in common health and of sound mind and knowing the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death do make this my last will and testament, in the first place I wish to commit my soul to the creator that gave it and my body to be buried in common decent form, And all my worldly estate of all and every kinds I wish disposed of in the following manner. I have eleven legal heirs, viz James M. BRASSELL, Sally ALFORD, Celia CAVENDER, John C. BRASSELL, Jabez M. BRASSELL, Delilah MOSES, Martha BRASSELL, Phillip H. BRASSELL, Britton W. BRASSELL, Laodica ALFORD, Alva H. BRASSELL. I have here to fore given to Sally ALFORD, James M. BRASSELL, Celia CAVENDER & Britton W. BRASSELL, sufficient to be their equal distributive share of all my worldly estate but I will at my death that my executors pay to each of those five dollars more out of the affects of my estate and I will that my slave property be disposed of in the following manner, Delila MOSES to have Moses and her two youngest sons Philip MOSES, Hiram Drewry MOSES to have Tilda to be equally between them when they arrive at mature age said Tilda to be hired out by my executors and all the proceeds or increase if any to be also divided equally between them. Martha BRASSELL I will to have Isaac, John C. BRASSELL to have Madison and Alva H. BRASSELL to have Beeffire (?), the balance of my slave property I will to be divided of by lot amongst or between equally all my heirs except Sally, Celia, James and Britton and if they cannot be equally [illegible] out I wish my executor to make each lot of equal value by applying of the proceeds of other property. Now after the foregoing distribution, I will that all my other property, lands, slaves, and household property except a trunnel (?) Broadstrap (?) Begs (?) and furniture to be given to Alva H. BRASSELL without any charge, I wish all the balance sold according to Law and equally divided amongst all my heirs except James, Sally, Celia and Britton. And I do hereby ordain and appoint Thomas C. Matthews my int[illegible] executor of this my last will and testament in witness of whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal the day above written in presence of us

William Jones
Samuel T Rhodes

/s/ William BRASSELL

Source: Fayette County Georgia Probate Court
Written: July 26, 1861
Recorded: July 16, 1863, pp. 221 - 223

Georgia}
Fayette County}

We the undersigned as Legatees and distributees under the will of William BRASSELL which will is dated June the twenty ninth eighteen hundred and sixty (June 29th 1860) In order to carry out the intention of said Testator and prevent future litigation, agree that said will shall be construed as follows, and the division of said property under said will shall be as follows by the administrators on said estate with the will annexed, that the will shall be construed as follows, That it was the intention of the Testator that Mose, a Negro man, bequeathed to Delila MOSES; Isaac, a Negro boy, bequeathed to Martha BRASSELL; Madison, a Negro boy, bequeathed to John C. BRASSELL; Russill? a Negro man bequeathed to Alva F. BRASSELL, should be given to them in lieu of the advancements made by the Testator in his lifetime to James M. BRASSELL, Sally ALFORD, Celia CAVENNAH, Jabez M. BRASSELL, Phillip H. BRASSELL and Ludicy ALFORD and that said Negroes above specified be delivered to said Legatees, as mentioned in said will to make them equal with those legatees above named, who received advancements in the lifetime of the Testator. We further agree, that the administrators with the will annexed be authorized to execute, to Britton W. BRASSELL, a good and sufficient title to a certain Negro boy named Simon about fourteen years of age, belonging to the estate of said Testator in order to make him equal with the balance of the legatees, he having received nothing by advancement nor specific legacy under the will, Tilda a Negro girl mentioned in said will, to be disposed of according to said will, and we all agree and consent, that acre of ground including the family grave yard, with the right of way to the same, shall be reserved by the administrators with the will annexed, and not sold or deede to any person, and that said administrators shall erect suitable and neat? monuments over the graves of the Testator and his deceased wife, and William J. BRASSELL, his deceased son, and also erect a suitable monument to the memory of Titus L. BRASSELL deceased all to be paid for out of the estate or assets of said estate; Then the balance of the property of every description belonging to said estate to be legally sold by said administrators with the will annexed (as the same cannot be divided equally to the interest of the Legatees) and the proceeds of said sale be equally divided amongst all the Legatees, mentioned in said will to wit, Sally ALFORD, Celia CAVANNAH, James M. BRASSELL, Delila MOSES, Martha BRASSELL, John C. BRASSELL, Jabez M. BRASSELL, Phillip H. BRASSELL, Britton W. BRASSELL, Ludicy ALFORD and Alva F. BRASSELL.

Given under our hands and seals this the 26th day of July 1861.

Attest

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of

L. D. PADGETTE
R. R. Rogers J. P.

P. H. BRASSELL (LS)
John C. BRASSELL (LS)
Jabez M. BRASSELL (LS)
Alva BRASSELL (LS)
B. W. ALFORD (LS)
Ludicy M. ALFORD (LS)
Willis BRASSELL (LS)
Martha BRASSELL (LS)
Delilah MOSES (LS)
Britton W. BRASSELL (LS)

Attest

Signed sealed and delivered of us this May 20th 1863

B. W. ALFORD
Joseph L. Bishop JP (LS)

James M. BRASSELL (LS)
Scott County Mississippi

Spire (his mark) ALFORD (LS)
Scott County Mississippi

Sally (her mark) ALFORD (LS)
Scott County Mississippi

Celia (her mark) CAVENAH (LS)
Scott County Mississippi

State of Mississippi}
Scott County}

I B. W. Bonds Clerk of the probate court in and for said County and State hereby certify that the above Joseph L Bishop whom subscribed the foregoing Testament as a witness is one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized as such with full power to administer oaths and witness ?????? under the statutes of this State and that his signature above subscribed is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my official signature and affixed the seal of my office this May 21th 1863.

B. W. Bonds Clerk
Probate Court of Scott County

State of Mississippi}
Scott County}

I James W. Wafford Judge of the probate court in and for said county and state do hereby certify that the above named B. W. Bonds who subscribed the above and foregoing certificate as clerk of the Probate court of said County and affixed the seal of said court thereto is in deed commissioned as such and duly authorized to ??? the seal of said court and that his signature subscribed to said certificate is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my official signature and affixed my ???ate seal, and seal of said court this 21st day of May A. D. 1863

J. W. Wafford Judge of Probate Court of Scott County

Recorded this 16th day of July 1863
Geo C. King Ordinary and Ex officio Clerk

William J. BRASSELL was the son of Britton (or Britain) BRASSELL (ABT 1750, <Anson County, North Carolina>, British North America - September 1827, Pike County, Georgia: interment at Brassell/Alford Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia) and LaDicy DAVIS (ABT 1754, Anson County, North Carolina - 1824, Jones County, Georgia). In Pike County, Georgia, his gravestone is inscribed:

  BRITAIN BRASSELLE, Revolutionary Soldier.
Born 1750 in Acadia, Canada.
Died Sept. 1827 Pike Co, Ga
Progenitor of the Brasselle Family
Burial Place Marked by his descendants
the Brasselle Reunion June 1981

There is no evidence that Britton (or Britain) BRASSELL ever wrote his surname with a terminal e; and it seems to be untrue that he was born in Acadia.

The siblings of Jabez Marion BRASSELL were: Sarah ("Sally") BRASSELL (9 February 1811, Jones County, Georgia - 20 March 1829, Scott County, Mississippi) [F]: m. Jimmerson ALFORD; Selah ("Celia") BRASSELL (11 August 1812, Jones County, Georgia - 1 September 1863, Scott County, Mississippi) [F]: m. John M. CAVANAUGH, Fayette County, Georgia; James ("Jimmy") M. BRASSELL (6 April 1814, Jones County, Georgia - 30 July 1896, Scott County, Mississippi) [M]: m. Nancy CAVANAUGH (15 January 1815, Putnam County, Georgia - 9 March 1897, Pulaski, Scott County, Mississippi), 13 August 1835, Upson County, Georgia; Alvah Field BRASSELL [M]; Delilah BRASSELL (20 July 1816, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [F]: m1. Hiram MOSES: m2. Wade Hampton CAVENDER, 13 May 1840, Fayette County, Georgia; LaDicy M. BRASSELL (?, Fayette County, Georgia - ?, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]: m. Britton Washington ALFORD, 11 September 1857, Fayette County, Kentucky; Martha ("Patsy") BRASSELL (20 January 1819, Fayette County, Georgia - 16 March 1864, Fayette County, Georgia) [F]: m. James Willis BRASSELL (died in Fayette County, Georgia after 20 March 1852 and before 4 October 1852), 2 November 1837, Fayette County, Georgia; Britton Washington BRASSELL (?, Fayette County, Georgia - ?, Gonzales County, Texas) [M]; William J. BRASSELL (Jr.) (21 October 1821, Fayette County, Georgia - 7 January 1857, Fayette County, Georgia) [M]; John Calvin BRASSELL (?, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Martha CAVENDER, 25 May 1843, Fayette County, Georgia; Titus L. BRASSELL (5 January 1826, Fayette County, Georgia - 5 July 1859) [M]; Philip Haddox BRASSELL (13 October 1827, Fayette County, Georgia - 19 September 1876, DeWitt County, Texas) [M]: m. Mary Ann ("Polly Ann") GAY (16 July 1829 - ?), 2 November 1851, Fayette County, Georgia. [Regarding Mary Ann ("Polly Ann") GAY, see G0495A: Rev. John HARVEY (Jr.), note 8, in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]

In the United States Census of 1870, for Scott County, Mississippi (p. 29, Beat 1, Forest Post Office, 21 June 1870), Jabez (spelled as "Jabes") BRASSELL seems to be residing without family, listing his age as 43, his place of birth as Georgia, and his occupation as postmaster. In the same census (p. 24, Beat 2, Morton Post Office, 27 August 1870), his brother, James M. BRASSELL, is reported as follows:

  Brassell Jas. 56 M farmer 640 700 Georgia
Nancy 54 F keeping house Georgia (This is Nancy CAVANAUGH, the daughter of George and Catherine Miles CAVANAUGH.)
Katharine 24 F Georgia
Hamin 22 F Mississippi
Malissa 20 F Mississippi
Edd 17 M farmer Mississippi (This is Edward Phillip BRASSELL, m. Fannie Ann YOUNGBLOOD)
Amanda 14 F student Mississippi E
James 12 M student Mississippi E
Kavenaugh M. E. 44 F Georgia blind 35 years

By Helen Marr COX, Jabez Marion BRASSELL (Sr.) engendered Walter BRASSELL (ABT 1848, Fayette County, Georgia - ?). In the United States Census for 1870, Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas, Walter BRASSELL is shown to be residing in the household of his maternal uncle, John Calhoun COX. [See John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917): United States Census of 1870.] In the United States Census for the third precinct (enumeration district 70) of Gonzales County, Texas (p. 462C), taken 5 June 1880, he is shown as Walter T(homas?) BRASSELL, a single white male, occupied as a farmer, 30 years of age, born in Georgia, with both parents born in Georgia.

The Will of James Willis BRASSELL, Fayette County, Georgia:

 

Source: Fayette County, Georgia
Probate Court
Written: March 20 1852
Recorded: October 4 1852

Georgia}
Fayette County}

In the name of God Amen I James BRASSELL of said State and County being of Advanced age and Knowing that I must shortly depart this life or ????? deem it right and proper that as respects myself and family that I should make a disposition of the property which a kind providence blessed me. I therefore make this my last will and testament therby revoking and annulling all others heretofore made by me.

Item first I desire and direct that my body be buried in a decent and Christian like manner suitable to my circumstances and condition my sould I trust shall return to rest with God who gave it.

Item 2nd Second I give and bequeath to my beloved grand son James T. BRASSELL one thousand dollars to be paid to him by my Executor herein after named and to be paid to him when he becomes twenty one years of age and to be raised out of the proceeds of my property. I also give and bequeath to him one horse sadelle and bridle, also one bed, bed stead and furniture.

Item third After the death of my beloved wife Patsey the ballance of the property to be Equally divided between Samuel PREWITT husband of my beloved Daughter Polly and Lorenzo D. PADGETTE husband of my beloved Daughter Elizabeth and my beloved son Willis BRASSELL, William BRASSELL and my beloved Grand Son James T. BRASSELL.

Item fourth. I constitute and appoint my son Willis BRASSELL Executor to this my last will and testament this the 20 day of March 1852.

James BRASSELL (LS)

Sealed declared and published by James BRASSELL his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribers who subscribed our names hereto in the Signedpresence of said testator and of each other this March 20th 1852.

William BRASSELL
Richard B. Humphrey
John C. BRASSELL

Court of Ordinary
October Term 1852

Georgia}
Fayette County}

The will of James BRASSELL late of said county deceased being produced in court and the witnesses of said will to wit William BRASSELL, John C BRASSELL, Richard B Humphreys being duly sworn depose and say that they saw James BRASSELL the Testator sign seal deliver and publish the instrument now presented as his last will and testament freely volunterly and of his own accord and without any compultion or influence whatever. That at the time of the Execution of the said will said testator was of sound and disposing mind and memory that deponants signed said will as witnesses in the presence of the testator at his special instance and request and in the presence of each other, sworn to and subscribed before me in open court this 4 day of October 1852.

William BRASSELL
R. B. Humphrey
John C BRASSELL

J. L. Blalock Ordinary

Recorded this the 10 day of January 1853

Geo C King Dept Ordinary

We the Legatees under the will of James BRASSELL late of said County deceased each and every one of us for ourselves individually acknowledge notice of application to prove the will of said James BRASSELL deceased and wave all further notice of the same and have no objections to the probate thereof in solem or common form at the October Term of the court of Ordinary of said Fayette County or at any term thereafter.

September 7th, 1852

William BRASSELL, Jr.
Willis BRASSELL
Samuel PREWETT
L. D. PADGETTE

Recorded this the 10 day of January 1853 Geo C King Dept Ordinary

The Will of Willis BRASSELL, the son of James Willis BRASSELL, Fayette County, Georgia:

 

Source: Fayette County, Georgia Probate Court
Written: September 15, 1877
Recorded: October 1, 1877

436

Know all Men by these Presents That I Willis BRASSELL of Brooks Station in the County of Fayette and State of Georgia, being in ill health but of sound and disposing mind & memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament, As to my worldly estate and all the property real, personal or mixed of which I shall ???? seized and possessed of, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease, I devise, bequeath and dispose thereof in the manner following to wit:

First, My will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall by my executors hereinafter named be paid out of my estate as soon after my decease as shall by them be found convenient.

Secondly, I give devise and bequeath to my present wife Fanney and each of my two children by her Jesse & Nellie? one hundred dollars.

Thirdly, I will that my grand Son Willis Neal by daughter Martha have one hundred dollars Fourthly, I will that the remainder of my Estate be divided equally among the rest of my legal heirs.

Lastly, I do nominate and appoint my Sons Titus W. BRASSELL & John W. BRASSELL to be the Executors of this my last Will and testament.

In testimony whereof I the said Willis BRASSELL have to this my last will and testament subscribed my name and affixed my seal this the fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and Seventy Seven.

Willis BRASSELL

Signed Sealed and published by Willis BRASSELL in the presence of T. B. King, A. W. Gable, and John Tilley

Georgia}
Fayette County}

Fayette Court of Ordinary
October Term 1877

Before me on the 1st day of October 1877, for the purpose of proving the last Will and testament of Willis BRASSELL, one of the witnesses to said will to wit, T. B. King and the said will being brought before me for probate of the same, the said witness deposeth and saith of the same, that he saw Willis BRASSELL Sign and publish as his last will & testament on the day & year there stated as executed by him, That he witnessed the same, at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of the other Witnesses A. W. Gable & John Tilley who subscribed said will as witnesses. That the same was voluntarily executed by him while he was of sound & disposing mind & memory. Sworn to and subscribed before T. B. King me this 1st day of Oct 1877

L. B. Griggs Ordy

Ordered that the will of Willis BRASSELL be admitted to record as satisfactorily proven in common form & the Executors Titus W. and John W. BRASSELL have leave to qualify & before so doing that letters testamentary issue to them.

L. B. Griggs Ordy

Recorded Oct 1st 1877

L. B. Griggs Ordy & Ex Officio CCO

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G0493B: Oliver Wiley COX, Colonel
Birth: 11 June 1802, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Death: October 1852, Fulton County, Georgia
Interment: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Father: Elisha COX, Captain (6 October 1771, Lincoln County, North Carolina, - 26 January 1824, Lincoln County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina)
Mother: Margaret HOLLAND (26 January 1774, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 31 January 1825, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina) [See G0494A: Margaret HOLLAND in Antecedents and Descendants of Isaac Holland, Sr. (12 May 1745 - 10 September 1810 and see Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials.]

Marriage: 29 July 1830, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, by Rev. James Gamble
Spouse: Helen Marr HARVEY (July 1811, Butte County, Georgia - March 1881, Leon County, Texas: interment, under the same monument as Mary ["Mollie"] COX and James F. KENNEDY, at Jackson Cemetery, Leon County, Texas) [See G0493B: Helen Marr HARVEY, in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]

Child 1: Thomas Nathan COX (14 May 1831, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - 1 May 1859, Calhoun [now Cleburne] County, Alabama: interment at Chulafinnee Methodist Cemetery, Chulafinnee, near Anniston, Township 17, Range 9, Section 13, Calhoun [now Cleburne] County, Alabama) [M]

Child 2: Margaret Sara COX (21 December 1832, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - 30 December 1911, <Clay County>, Alabama) [F]: m. William Columbus KENNEDY (2 May 1827, Randolph County, Alabama - 16 January 1895, <Clay County>, Alabama)

Child 3: Leonora COX (18 December 1834, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - August 1851, Fulton County, Georgia: interment at Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia) [F]

Child 4: Elisha Carson COX (9 December 1836, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - AFT 9 June 1880, Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Mary Isabelle FINLEY (or FINDLAY) (1842, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia - August 1906), 5 February 1861, Georgia

Child 5: Martha ("Mattie") Varner COX (6 March 1838, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - AFT 7 June 1880, <Wood County>, Texas) [F]: m. James D. ("Dorse") CAMPBELL (1834, Georgia - AFT 7 June 1880, <Wood County>, Texas), 15 August 1865, Henry County, Georgia

Child 6: Mary ("Molly") COX (December 1838, McDonough, Henry County, Georgia - December 1882, Leon County, Texas: interment at Jackson Cemetery, Leon County, Texas) [F]: m. James F. KENNEDY (1828, Franklin County, Georgia - December 1885, Leon County, Texas: interment at Jackson Cemetery, Leon County, Texas)

Child 7: Isaac Harvey COX (20 May 1843, Randolph County, Alabama - 16 May 1908, Leon County, Texas: interment at Gum Springs Cemetery, Flynn, Leon County, Texas) [M]: m. Sarah Elizabeth ("Bettie") BRADY (7 June 1840, Tennessee - 4 November 1918, Leon County, Texas: interment at Gum Springs Cemetery, Flynn, Leon County, Texas), 1866, Leon County, Texas

Child 8: Tabitha M. COX (19 February 1845, Randolph County, Alabama - December 1852, Fulton County, Georgia: interment at Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia)

Note 1: Oliver Wiley COX was, in Georgia, the State Senator for Henry County in 1840. He arrived in Henry County, Georgia, early in the 1830s and resided, near McDonough, at his plantation called "White Chimneys." It is likely that it was Oliver Wiley COX who introduced Colonel John Dennis STELL (27 October 1804, Hancock County, Georgia - 28 October 1862, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America) to the widow of Samuel Waller COX and that it was STELL who began the migration to Smith and Leon counties, Texas, in which so many of the children of these two brothers COX participated.

Of the marriage of Oliver Wiley COX and Helen Marr HARVEY, the Weekly Telegraph (Macon, Georgia) reported, on Saturday, 31 July 1830, as follows:

  On the 29th of July, by the Rev. James Gamble, O. W. COX, formerly of Charleston, S. C., now merchant of McDonough, Henry County, to the amiable Miss Helen M. HARVEY, daughter of Isaac HARVEY, of Bibb County.

Georgia Marriages to 1850 shows the marriage, in Henry County, of Pleas W. COX and Helen M. HARVEY on 29 July 1830. There was a Pleasant W. COX flourishing in the area of Henry County, Georgia at this time; and it is possible that "Pleasant" was the nickname of Oliver Wiley COX.

The following paragraph appears in "History of McDonough," which was published by Scip Speer in 1921 on the occasion of the centenary of Henry County. The words, however, are those of Elizabeth C. Nolan as they appeared, in 1908, in the United Daughters of the Confederacy "edition of the Weekly:"

  "Oliver W. COX came to Henry County in the early thirties and settled in McDonough where he engaged in the mercantile business in the building recently occupied by Mr. Cam Turner. At one time he owned the plantation known as "White Chimneys". He married Miss Harvey, of McDonough. In 1840 he was elected senator. His brother, John M. COX, came to McDonough in 1838. He also went into the mercantile business and for a number of years was proprietor of the hotel which stood on the southeast corner of the square. While living here he owned the plantation now known as the Dailey place."

Miss Nolan also recorded that Mattie COX, in Henry County, was a school teacher.

In an anonymous account of the history of Henry County (http://www.nwittler.com/HenryCounty/history.html), the following paragraph occurs:

  "Subtle changes began to occur in McDonough and Henry County in the 1830s, as new territories began to open up to the west, attracting the pioneer spirit in many and gold was discovered in North Georgia and Alabama, drawing others to those places of seemingly great promise. Prosperous merchants such as Amasa Spencer, William L. Crayton, and Gilbert S. Matthews heard the siren call and moved on. Oliver W. COX and Thomas C. Russell, one of the Justices who had served in the organization of McDonough, sought their destinies in Alabama. It was an adventurous and fast-moving era and the county lost many worthy citizens to the changes that were taking place."

On Saturday, 14 January 1832, the Georgia Messenger reported, from the executive department of the State of Georgia, that Gov. Wilson Lumpkin had named Oliver W. COX, of Henry County, as one of his aides.

  United States Census
Henry County, Georgia
District 702
1840

O. W. COX
1 male, aged under 5
1 male, aged 5 and under 10
2 males, aged 20 and under 30
1 female, aged under 5
2 females, aged 5 and under 10
1 female, aged 15 and under 20
2 females, aged 20 and under 30

By 1843, Oliver Wiley COX and his family were residing in Randolph County, Alabama where - in what seems to indicate a reversal of his fortunes - he was employed as a blacksmith.

  United States Census
Randolph County, Alabama
Precinct 5
13 November 1850

Oliver W. COX, male, aged 48, blacksmith, born in North Carolina
Helen Mar[r] COX, female, aged 37, born in Georgia
Thomas N. COX, male, aged 19, born in Georgia
Leonora COX, female, aged 16, born in Georgia
Elisha C. COX, male, aged 13, born in Georgia
Mary COX, female, aged 12, born in Georgia
Martha COX, female, aged 10, born in Georgia
Isaac COX, male, aged 8, born in Alabama
Tabitha COX, female, aged 4, born in Alabama

Note 2: After the death of Oliver Wiley COX, his widow resided with her son, Elisha Carson COX, until she went to Texas to live with Isaac Harvey COX.

Note 3: Thomas Nathan COX was, by profession, an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. He had served in the Mexican War under General Zachary Taylor and, while doing so, contracted tuberculosis. He is said to have mastered four languages and to have written a tragicomedy called The Lombard King. The play was performed in a number of cities, with its author in the leading role, and is said to have been a success. Thomas Nathan COX acquired land in the vicinity of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and moved to that locale, presumably for his health. He died, however, in Calhoun County, Alabama.

Note 4: Elisha Carson COX moved to Smith County, Texas, about 1870.

  United States Census
Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas
Mt. Sylvan Post Office
6 August 1870

Elisha COX, male, aged 33, farmer, born in Georgia
Mary COX, female, aged 28, keeping house, born in Georgia
Robert COX, male, aged 8, born in Georgia
Mary COX, female, aged 5, born in Georgia
Margaret COX, female, aged 5/12, born in Texas
Helen COX [= Helen Marr HARVEY], female, aged 55, born in Georgia
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United States Census
Justice Precinct No. 5, Smith County, Texas
9 June 1880

E. Carson COX, male, aged 43, farmer, born in Georgia
Mary I. COX, female, aged 38, wife, keeping house, born in Georgia
R. Finley COX, male, aged 18, son, laborer on farm, born in Georgia
Nolly COX, female, aged 13, daughter, at home, born in Georgia
Mag[g]ie COX, female, aged 10, daughter, in school, born in Texas
Arthur COX, male, aged 7, son, at home, born in Texas
Nathan COX, male, aged 5, at home, born in Texas

Note 5: The identity of Mary ("Molly") COX's husband has not been previously remarked by investigators of this line. According to the written testimony of John Calhoun COX, she had married the brother of William Columbus KENNEDY, the husband of Margaret Sara COX. And, according to a letter from Margaret COX, born in Garden Valley, Texas, to Frances Pyron DANCE, dated 2 February 1940, Helen Marr COX (née HARVEY) died, in 1877 (sic), at the home of "Molly," "Mrs. Jim Kennedy," in Leon County, Texas.

Helen Marr COX (née HARVEY) is buried in Jackson Cemetery, Leon County, Texas, under the same monument as Mary ("Molly") COX and James F. KENNEDY. For her, the inscription reads "Helen C. Cox, wife of Col. O. W. Cox, born in Butte County, Georgia, July, 1813 - died March 1881." Because, in the United States Census for 1860, Amanda Melvina HARVEY, the twin sister of Helen Marr HARVEY, reported her age as 49, the year of birth as 1811 is here provisionally accepted for Helen Marr HARVEY.

The inscription, in the Jackson Cemetery, for James F. KENNEDY gives his place of birth as Franklin County, Georgia; and that for Mary ["Molly"] COX gives her place of birth as Henry County, Georgia.

The Jackson Cemetery is located east of Jewett, in Leon County, Texas. From Jewett, take US 79 approximately four miles, then left on a dirt road approximately 1.5 miles, then left on another dirt road for one mile. The cemetery is located 1500 feet east of what is known as Taylor Lake.

Frances Pyron DANCE, who was the principal genealogist of the Georgia branch of this line of Coxes and who documented the parentage and offspring of William Columbus KENNEDY, stated that she had no record of Mary COX's marriage. William Columbus KENNEDY and James F. KENNEDY were the sons of Joseph Marcus KENNEDY who emigrated from Henry County, Georgia to Randolph County, Alabama, in 1820. The elder KENNEDY lived among the Creek Indians until their expulsion in 1836.

Note 6: Isaac Harvey COX, who was known as "Dick" or "Harvey," moved to Leon County, Texas and there married Sarah Elizabeth ("Bettie") BRADY. The transcription of her gravestone, at Gum Springs Cemetery, Leon County, Texas, gives her date of birth as 11 June 1850. But since, in fact, she was three years older than Isaac Harvey COX, she was born 11 June 1840.

There is reason to believe that Rev. Isaac HARVEY, Sr. the maternal grandfather of Isaac Harvey COX, was similarly called "Dick". This has misled investigators into thinking that there was a "Richard" HARVEY who was the father of Helen Marr HARVEY and Amanda Melvina HARVEY. Isaac HARVEY is said to have been a backwoods Presbyterian (or Methodist) revivalist.

Note 7: The memorandum, reproduced below, of Oliver Wiley COX to his eldest son, Thomas Nathan COX, exists in several states. The state of the text, as it is given here, seems to be the earliest.

  Copy of Letter Which Was Written by OLIVER WILEY COX to His Son THOMAS COX

My Son:

The following list of ancestors may possibly be of interest to you at some period of life.

Your great grand-father was named JOHN. He emigrated from Trenton, N. J., and settled in Lincoln County, N. C. Your great grand-mother COX was named Margaret. Her maiden name was MORRIS, a sister of ROBERT MORRIS, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington.

Your grand-father's name was Elisha COX. His oldest brother was Morris, the others, Paul, Aaron, and Elijah. The sisters were as follows - "Polly" who married James SULLIVAN; Rebecca married a BONEHAM; Elizabeth married FERGUSON; Rachel married CARSON; Nancy married MOORE; Susan married CARPENTER.

Your great grand-mother's name was Margaret HOLLAND. Your great grand-father on that side was Isaac HOLLAND, a respectable, sensible man and one of the heroes of King's Mountain. His children were Isaac & Oliver, twin brothers, yet living, and James, who is dead. One other of the three sisters married a DICKSON, one a HALL, and if now living are in Tennessee. One other married William BAIRD and went to Indiana. Most of the relatives have emigrated to the Western States. I know but little of where they are.

Elijah COX's family are about Murphreesboro, Tenn.

Your great grand-mother HOLLAND was named Hannah WILEY. Many of the family are scattered thro the West. She was twice married. Her first husband was LIGGETT, by whom she she had one son, William whose family are in Tenn.

Editorial Notes:

  Isaac HOLLAND (Sr.) was born 12 May 1745, most likely in Pennsylvania, British North America. He died 10 September 1810 in Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina. He was married to Hannah WILEY (WYLIE) (29 October 1747 - 25 June 1818, Lincoln County, North Carolina), 8 March 1770, in North Carolina. Hannah WILEY (WYLIE) was the widow of Unknown LIGGETT by whom she engendered William LIGGETT (1764/68 - ?, Tennessee).

Isaac HOLLAND, Jr., was born 26 July 1781, Little Catawba Creek, Lincoln (in 1846, Gaston) County, North Carolina, and died 9 August 1859, Gaston County, North Carolina. His twin, Oliver Wiley HOLLAND, Sr., was born 26 July 1781, Little Catawba Creek, Lincoln (in 1846, Gaston) County, North Carolina, and died 12 October 1857, Gaston County, North Carolina. James ("Jasper") Harrison HOLLAND, was born 4 October 1784, Lincoln (in 1846, Gaston) County, North Carolina, and died 30 March 1826, Lincoln (in 1846, Gaston) County, North Carolina. Thomas Nathan COX, to whom Oliver Wiley COX was writing, was born 14 May 1831, Henry County, Georgia, and died 3 May 1858, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This letter, therefore, was written after 14 May 1831 and before 12 October 1857. One surmises, however, that it was written no earlier than 1849. Versions of the letter can be found among the Coxes of this line both in Texas and in Georgia.

Isaac HOLLAND, Jr. was first married to Mary ("Polly") Dickson GREAVES (1790, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina - 28 February 1809, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina), 9 April 1807, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina and was second married to Mary C. RANKIN (14 February 1794, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina - 9 June 1865, Gaston County, North Carolina), 14 October 1813, Lincoln (in 1846, Gaston) County, North Carolina.

Oliver Wiley HOLLAND (Sr.) was married to Mary ("Polly") Elizabeth MOORE (4 February 1788, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina - 28 January 1867, Gaston County, North Carolina), 4 September 1807, Lincoln (in 1846, Gaston) County, North Carolina. Mary ("Polly") Elizabeth MOORE was the daughter of William MOORE (5 September 1751, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British North America - 15 April 1839, Lincoln County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina) and Rebecca GULLICK (1756 - 7 January 1808, Lincoln County, North Carolina: interment at Olney Presbyterian Church, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina).

James ("Jasper") Harrison HOLLAND was married to Jane MOORE, before 1818, and he was second married to Elizabeth ("Betsy") L(arkin?) HOYLE (30 October 1797 - 18 March 1871, Lincoln County, North Carolina), 14 July 1819, Dallas, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina. [Elizabeth ("Betsy") L(arkin?) HOYLE was second married, March 1831, in Lincoln County, North Carolina, to Abraham STOWE.] It is likely, but not proven, that Jane MOORE was the sister of Mary ("Polly") E. MOORE.

The "three sisters" HOLLAND were, as follows:

Mary HOLLAND (9 January 1771, Little Catawba Creek, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina, British North America - BEF October 1815, Rutherford County, Tennessee): m. John DICKSON, Jr. (ABT 1772, Lincoln County, North Carolina, British North America - AFT 23 November 1822 and BEF 28 February 1823, Rutherford County, Tennessee), 12 December 1787 [Between 1788 and 1804, John DICKSON, Jr. was a member of the state legislature of North Carolina. He was second married, October 1815, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, to Mary ("Polly") ROACH (ABT 1795, Davidson County, Tennessee - AFT 11 January 1828 and BY August 1828, Rutherford County, Tennessee).]

Jean Wiley (Wylie) HOLLAND (1 April 1779, Little Catawba Creek, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina - BEF 1850, Indiana): m. William BAIRD (1774 - AFT 1850), ABT 1799

Hannah HOLLAND (14 December 1788, Lincoln [in 1846, Gaston] County, North Carolina - ?): m. Unknown HALL

   

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G0492A: John ("Little Black Jack," "Black Jack") Calhoun COX, Sergeant, Company C, Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and Justice of the Peace, Smith County, Texas ("Judge Cox") [002]
Birth: 2 January 1836, Fayette County, Georgia
Death: 19 February 1917, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas
Interment: City Cemetery of Sweetwater (Alabama Street), Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Texas
Father: Samuel Waller COX (7 January 1808, Lincoln County, North Carolina - 1837 [BY 13 November 1837], Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia)
Mother: Amanda Melvina HARVEY (July 1811, Butte County, Georgia - 1861, Leon or Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America) [See G0493A: Amanda Melvina HARVEY. in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).]
Foster Father: John Dennis STELL, Colonel (27 October 1804, Hancock County, Georgia - 28 October 1862, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America) [See G0493A: John Dennis STELL, Colonel in Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706).]

Marriage: 22 June 1864, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America
Spouse: Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN (13 July 1847, Fayette County, Georgia - 17 April 1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [See G0492A: Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).]

Child 1: Della Amanda COX (26 September 1865, Smith County, Texas - 7 December 1925, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater [Alabama Street], Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F]: m. Joseph Dudley SLOAN (12 May 1852, Indianola, Calhoun County, Texas - 1 April 1921, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater, Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas), 13 July 1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas [See G0491A: Joseph Dudley SLOAN in Descendants of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764).]

Child 2: Helen Chloe COX (February 1868, Smith County, Texas - October 1871, Smith County, Texas) [F]

Child 3: John Carson COX (5 December 1869, Smith County, Texas - 22 October 1908, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Mattie Lee FERRELL (May 1875, Coweta County, Georgia - ?, Smith County, Texas), 8 November 1895, Smith County, Texas

Child 4: Mary ("Mattie") L. COX (29 September 1871, Smith County, Texas - 29 August 1902, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. Leslie E. BURKE (1869, Brownsville, Marshall Township, Saline County, Missouri - AFT December 1894 and BEF 18 June 1900, Dublin, Erath County, Texas ), 10 September 1890, Nolan County, Texas

Child 5: Whit Allen COX (23 October 1873, Leon County, Texas - 25 February 1925, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas) [M]: m. Ella ("Nell") Rives Moore WOODS (23 November 1876, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas - 23 December 1948, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas), 5 September 1910

Child 6: William Camp COX (8 January 1876, Leon County, Texas - AFT 4 July 1923, <Brownwood, Brown County>, Texas) [M]: m. Florence ("Florrie") A. WATKINS (October 1885, Tyler, Smith County, Texas - ?), 26 December 1906, Tyler, Smith County, Texas

Child 7: Unnamed daughter COX (died at birth, probably in 1877, Smith County, Texas) [F]

Child 8: Emmie Elizabeth COX (5 February 1878, Smith County, Texas - 18 May 1883, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F]

Child 9: Sam Stell COX (8 November 1881, Mineola, Wood County, Texas - AFT 1925) [M]: m. Lily ("Lil") L. HARPER (February 1892, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas - AFT 25 November 1925), 10 July 1919, 8:45 PM, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Lily A. HARPER

Child 10: Unnamed daughter COX (died at birth, 1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F]

Other Marriage: 3 March 1887, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by George P. Birdwell, Minister of the Gospel
Spouse: Mary Eugenia BARRON (25 April 1847, Troup County, Georgia - 2 April 1916, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [See below, Appendix: The System of Kinship of Mary Eugenia Barron (25 April 1847 - 2 April 1916).]

Child 1: Sallie Maude COX (15 July 1889, Smith County, Texas - 27 May 1976, San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas) [F]: m. Clayton J. NEWLIN (9 May 1885, Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana - 30 May 1959, <Normal, McLean County, Illinois>), 16 August 1911, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas

Note 1: In the annals of the Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, which served both in the Army of Northern Virginia and in the Army of Tennessee, the name of John Calhoun COX has long been synonymous with courage. See John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (1) and John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (2).

In Texas, remaining true to his roots in Georgia, John Calhoun COX enjoyed raising peanuts.

Note 2: Colonel John Dennis STELL (27 October 1804, Hancock County, Georgia - 28 October 1862, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, Confederate States of America), after the death of Samuel Waller COX, was second married to Amanda Melvina HARVEY, in Fayette County, Georgia, on 2 January 1839. John Dennis STELL was a figure of some importance in the histories of both Georgia and Texas. See John Dennis Stell: Texas Secession Convention, John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (1), and John Calhoun Cox: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (2). It is abundantly evident that John Calhoun COX regarded John Dennis STELL with perfect filial affection. John Dennis STELL's system of kinship can also be viewed at Penny's Southern Diggins'.

Note 3: Clayton J. NEWLIN was the son of John William NEWLIN (14 August 1841, Parke County, Indiana - 12 December 1927, Elwood, Vermilion County, Illinois) and Mary MERRIWETHER (19 March 1851, Parke County, Indiana - AFT 1 April 1930, Ridge Farm, Vermilion County, Illinois) who were married 1 January 1880 in Parke County, Indiana. From his marriage to Sallie Maude COX, three children were engendered: John Cox NEWLIN (14 June 1912, Tyler, Smith County, Texas - 26 July 1957, Illinois) who married Winifred FLETCHER (4 March 1914, Illinois - July 1986, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois), Robert Ervin NEWLIN (22 April 1916, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois - 9 June 1998, Ft. Myers, Lee County, Florida) who married Beatrice GUCK on 26 September 1942, and William Barron NEWLIN (born 1927 in Normal, McLean County, Illinois), who married Elena BUSTAMENTE.

Previous to his marriage to Mary MERRIWETHER, John William NEWLIN was married to Lydia E. MENDENHALL (7 December 1837, Hamilton County, Indiana - 15 August 1878, Indiana) on 10 December 1874 at Ridge Farm, Vermilion County, Illinois.

John Cox NEWLIN engendered Johnny Joe NEWLIN and Carol Jean NEWLIN. Robert Ervin NEWLIN engendered Mary Ann NEWLIN and Linda Lee NEWLIN.

About Clayton J. NEWLIN, the following promotional squib was published in Jacob L. Hasbrouck, History of McLean County, Illinois, two volumes (Histoical Publishing Company, Topeka and Indianapolis: 1924), vol. 2, pp. 1023 -1024:

  Clayton J. NEWLIN, well known building contractor of Normal, was born in Parke County, Indiana in 1885 and is a son of John and Mary (MERIWEATHER) NEWLIN.

John NEWLIN was born in Parke County, Indiana in 1841 and his wife is also a native of the same county, born in 1853. They are the parents of three children: E(rvin) M. [born 7 January 1881, Penn Township, Parke County, Inidiana: m1. Blanch BAIRD (died 17 October 1918), 27 September 1908: m2. Xenia CUNNINGHAM (née PERRY), 14 May 1921], married Xenia PERRY, lives at Normal, Illinois; Clayton J., the subject of this sketch and Florence [born 25 April 1883, Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana: m. William Rollin CARMACK (29 September 1879, Vermilion County, Indiana - 25 February 1959), 29 May 1928], lives at Ridge Farm, Illinois. She is librarian at the Carnegie library there. Ridge Farm is the smallest town in the United States having a Carnegie library. Mr. John NEWLIN has been a prominent building contractor in Indiana for many years and he and his wife now live retired at Ridge Farm, Illinois.

Clayton J. NEWLIN received his education in the public schools and after learning the carpenter trade, was employed by M. Yeager & Son at Danville, Illinois where he remained six years. He then was associated with the Fitzsimmons Construction Company of Springfield and in 1916 came to McLean county, locating in Normal. Mr. NEWLIN has had the contract for many public buildings in Illinois and has built fifteen school buildings, among them being the McLean high school.

In 1911, Mr. NEWLIN was married to Miss Sallie M. COX, a native of Tyler, Texas and the daughter of John and Mary (BARRON) COX. Mr. COX was born in Georgia and his wife was a native of Alabama. He served during the Civil war with the Hood's Texas Brigade in Company C. He was a prominent politician of Texas and served as county judge of Smith County for 15 years. Mr. and Mrs. COX are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. NEWLIN two children have been born: John Cox, born at Tyler, Texas in 1912 and Robert Ervin, born at Springfield, Illinois in 1916.

Mr. NEWLIN is a Republican, a member of the Quaker church and belongs to the Masonic lodge and Consistory of Bloomington, the Shrine of Peoria and the Blue lodge of Normal. Mr. NEWLIN has been unusually successful and is considered one of Normal's most efficient citizens.

Note 4: To see the Southern Cross of Honor with which John Calhoun COX was awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, go to John Calhoun Cox: Southern Cross of Honor.

Note 5: To see the United States Census report for the household of John Calhoun COX in Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas for 1870, go to John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917): United States Census of 1870.

Note 6: In Tyler, Smith County, Texas, during the court term of February 1867, Susan Tolaver, a "child of color" eight years of age, was apprenticed to John Calhoun COX by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. The legal form of apprenticeship was consistent with the example furnished below:

  February Term 1869

Now at this term of the Court came one to be heard the application of J. S. O. Brook Jr the apprenticeship one Mary Ily a minor of the age of about six years and after --- having been given and no obligation having been made. It is ordered by the Court that the said Mary Iley be apprenticed to the said J. S. O. Brooks under the Apprentice Law passed at the last Legislature 1866 and the said Mary Ily is to remain with the said J. S. O. Brooks until she arrives at the age of eighteen years old unless sooner marries. The said J. S. O. Brooks is to furnish the said Mary Iley with good comfortable clothing and food and he is further required to give her a sufficient English education to learn her to spell and read and further when she married, the said J. S. O. Brooks is to furnish her three cows and calves or the value thereof to the amount of fifty dollars cash for the faithful performances of which he (the said Brooks) is required to give bond in the sum of two hundred dollars.
 

Under the Apprentice Law, males were were expected to remain with their masters until they were 21, at which time they received a good horse, bridle, and saddle worth at least $100.

It seems to have been understood that apprentices were to "behave themselves discreetly unto the person apprenticed to and all his family."

Also during the court term of 1867, Hannah Tolaver, eight years of age, was apprenticed to Whitmill Phillips ALLEN by Judge Samuel D. Gibbs. It is possible to surmise that Susan and Hannah Tolaver were twins, that - with the termination of slavery - they had been orphaned, and that - under the regime of slavery - they had somehow been associated with the old Southern family of Taliaferro (pronounced "tolliver"). [See G0493A: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).]

Note 7: This is an example of scrip employed as currency in Tyler, Texas in 1865. Note the signature of Judge Samuel D. Gibbs:

Note 8: In his terminal illness, John Calhoun COX was attended by H. C. Scott, M. D., who last visited his patient at home (206 Bowie St., Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, the residence of Joseph Dudley SLOAN), on 18 February 1917 and who testified, on 14 March 1917, that the old soldier had died of "softning (sic) of the brain," a condition which, as the dutiful physician reported, had persisted for the previous six years. [See G0491A: Joseph Dudley SLOAN in Descendants of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764).]

Note 9: Map of Fayette County, Georgia (1895):

Note 10: Mattie Lee FERRELL was the daughter of Augustus Cicero FERRELL (18 August 1844, Coweta County, Georgia - 14 March 1912, Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas: interment at Dover baptist Church Cemetery, Smith County, Texas), a veteran of Company C, 63rd Georgia Infantry, Confederate States Army, and Mary M. HAMRICK (1851, Morgan County, Georgia - AFT March 1890 and BEF 7 December 1892, Smith County, Texas) who were married 15 November 1866 in Campbell County, Georgia. Augustus Cicero FERRELL was second married to Mary Elizabeth Florence WILBANKS (1856, Alabama - 10 August 1942, Smith County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) on 7 December 1892 in Smith County, Texas. To the marriage of John Carson COX and Mattie Lee FERRELL, four children are known to have been born: Noveline (or Noviline or Novelina) COX who was born in Smith County, Texas in November 1896, Roy COX who was born in Smith County, Texas in August 1899, Helen COX who was probably born after 18 June 1900 and no later than July 1909 in Smith County, Texas, and Robert COX who was probably born after 18 June 1900 and no later than July 1909 in Smith County, Texas. John Carson COX and Mattie Lee FERRELL are both known to have died in Smith County, Texas. If their deaths were not actually simultaneous, neither seems to have much survived the other.

Note 11: Leslie E. BURKE was the son of William E. BURKE, a minister of the Gospel born in Missouri in 1842, and Mary Lilla UNKNOWN, born in Missouri in 1849. After the death of William E. BURKE, Mary Lilla UNKNOWN was married to John E. BOYNTON in Comanche County, Texas on 28 September 1898.

Mary ("Mattie") L. COX and Leslie E. BURKE are known to have had no more than two children, both daughters: Lilla BURKE and Louise BURKE. In the United States Census for Tyler, Ward 3, Smith County, Texas, taken 18 June 1900, "M. L. BURKE," a widow, is shown residing in the home of her father, John Calhoun COX, with her daughter, "L. L. BURKE." "L. L. BURKE" was Leslie L. BURKE who, in the United States Census for Dublin, Erath County, Texas, taken 21 April 1910, is shown residing in the home of her paternal grandmother, Mary L. BOYNTON, a widow. Whether Leslie L. BURKE should be identified with Lilla BURKE or with Louise BURKE is not known. But it seems that either Lilla BURKE or Louise BURKE did not survive to the year 1900.

It frequently happens that, when a daughter is named after her father, the father has died previous to his daughter's birth.

Note 12: Florence ("Florrie") A. WATKINS was the daughter of William WATKINS, born May 1858 in North Carolina, and Nannie M. UNKNOWN, born March 1861 in Texas. The marriage of William Camp COX and Florrie A. WATKINS was without issue. In Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, Florence Watkins COX was a member of the faculty at Daniel Baker College. She is pictured in The Trail for 1917, the yearbook of Daniel Baker College.

About Daniel Baker College, the following by Louann Atkins Temple is from the Handbook of Texas Online:

  Daniel Baker College, in Brownwood, was founded in 1888 as a Presbyterian college and named after clergyman Daniel Baker, who had helped to organize both the first presbytery of his church in Texas in 1840 and Austin College in 1849 and had advocated a public school system for the state. The Coggin brothers, local residents, donated land for the campus in 1889, and in 1890 the college began to hold classes under the direction of Brainard Taylor McClelland, who served as president until his death eleven years later. The college opened with a faculty of seven, four of whom held M. A. degrees from eastern colleges, and with a student enrollment of 111, a figure that doubled in one year. In 1894 the enrollment had decreased to 95, and in 1899 to 62. Growth soon resumed, however, both in enrollment and in the physical plant; to the original main building were added a women's dormitory in 1911, a chapel in 1921, and a gymnasium in 1928. Nevertheless, financial difficulties plagued the college until, in 1929, the church released control and the institution became independent.

In 1942 John N. R. Score assumed the presidency of Southwestern University in Georgetown. Score, known as an expansionist, launched his "University of Small Colleges" plan under which, in 1946, Southwestern acquired Daniel Baker College. But the plan was unable to solve the smaller school's problems; enrollment once again was decreasing, accreditation was withheld, and finances were not improving. In 1949 the experiment was abandoned.

In 1950 the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas began operating the school, which had grown to comprise fourteen acres and eight buildings, as one of only two Episcopal senior colleges in the United States. Once again the college was accredited. It had an enrollment of 200 and a faculty of twenty-six, with eight Ph. D.s; it offered B. A. and B. S. degrees and, beginning in September 1951, a program in church-work training with sixteen female students enrolled. Daniel Baker played basketball in the Big State Athletic Conference. Nevertheless, the college once again failed financially, and in 1953 it closed. Its campus was taken over by nearby Howard Payne College (now Howard Payne University), which remodeled the main Daniel Baker building for use as the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dictionary of American Biography. Ralph W. Jones, Southwestern University, 1840-1861 (Austin: Jenkins, 1973). William Stuart Red, A History of the Presbyterian Church in Texas (Austin: Steck, 1936). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Note 13: Lily ("Lil") L. HARPER was the daughter of James O. HARPER, an attorney who was born February 1857 in Mississippi, and Lily A. UNKNOWN, who was born November 1870 in Alabama.

Sam Stell COX and Lily ("Lil") L. HARPER engendered a son, Samuel Stell COX, Jr. (2 October 1920, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas - 29 August 1990, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas) and a daughter, Martha Ann COX, born 25 November 1925 in Mexia, Limestone County, Texas.

Note 14: Ella ("Nell") Rives Moore WOODS, the wife of Whit Allen COX, was the daughter of Col. Peter Cavanaugh WOODS, M. D.(30 December 1819, Shelbyville, Franklin County, Tennessee - 27 January 1898, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas) and Ella Rives OGLETREE (12 January 1845, <Newberry District>, South Carolina - 4 July 1932, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas), married in 1874. The first wife of Col. Peter Cavanaugh WOODS, M. D. was Georgia Virginia LAWSHE, married in 1850. The offspring of Whit Allen COX (Sr.) and Ella Rives WOODS were: Ella Rives COX (4 November 1912, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas - 23 December 1979, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas) and Whit Allen COX (Jr.) (2 November 1914, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas - 9 January 1961, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas).

 
[Image credit: Mr. and Mrs. William David Hill]
 
[Image credit: Mr. and Mrs. William David Hill]
 
[Image credit: Mr. and Mrs. William David Hill]

From: Handbook of Texas Online:

  "WOODS, PETER CAVANAUGH (1819-1898) Peter Cavanaugh Woods, Confederate army officer, was born on December 30, 1819, at Shelbyville in Franklin County, Tennessee, the son of Peter and Sarah (Davidson) Woods. He graduated from Kentucky's Louisville Medical Institute in 1842 and in 1850 established a practice on Water Valley, Mississippi, where he married Georgia Virginia Lawshe. Woods moved to Texas in 1851. He settled first at Bastrop and in 1853 moved to San Marcos, where he established himself as a planter. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Woods raised a company of Cavalry, primarily from Hays County, later to become Company A of the Thirty-six Texas Cavalry regiment. This regiment was mustered into Confederate service at Camp Woods on Salado Creek on March 22, 1862, and Woods was elected colonel when the regiment was organized. The Thirty-sixth (often called the Thirty-second) Texas Cavalry regiment was recruited within a fifty-mile radius of San Antonio. Nathaniel Benton, a brother-in-law of generals Ben and Henry E. McCulloch served as the regiment's lieutenant colonel. After instruction in drill and tactics at Camp Clark near San Marcos in July and August 1862, the regiment patrolled the area around Fredericksburg, then the scene of considerable unrest due to the large number of Union sympathizers among its German citizens. Other companies of the regiment were posted along the Rio Grande, with headquarters at Fort Ringgold in maintaining order in the Corpus Christi-Brownsville-Eagle Pass triangle, protecting the ports, keeping Mexico trade open and preventing deserters and draft evaders from crossing the international border. In June 1863 elements of the regiment were moved up the coast as far as Indianola in response to the threat of invasion from Union general Nathaniel P. Banks. On July 12 Woods was given command of the First Cavalry Brigade of Gen. Hamilton P. Bee's division, which included Woods and Charles L. Pyron's Second Texas Cavalry regiments. On September 9 the regiment was ordered dismounted. It was to be moved by rail to Beaumont, and its horses, the personal property of the men, were preempted by the Confederate government. Woods protested the order and refused to obey it. After marching and countermarching the Texas coast for several months in response to invasion alarms, 157 of Woods's troopers deserted on the night of February 1, 1864. Granted thirty days leave, Woods followed his deserters to their homes and returned with them to his camp. On February 20 the highly unpopular dismounting order was finally executed, but on February 28 the regiment was ordered to Louisiana for the Red River campaign, and remounts were hastily procured. The regiment marched for Richard Taylor's army on March 12, arriving at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, on April 9, too late for the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. They were attached to Gen. Thomas Green's cavalry division and immediately marched for Blair's Landing in pursuit of Bank's defeated army. On April 12 Woods and his men received the baptism of fire at the battle of Blair's Landing, where General Green was killed. They skirmished daily with the retreating federals through Grand Ecore, fought a determined holding action at Monett's Ferry, and continued a running fight with the enemy until a spirited action at Yellow Bayou on May 18 in which Woods was wounded halted the chase. A rifle ball entered Woods's left hand and traversed his forearm, exiting his elbow. Although he returned to service after only two weeks of convalescent leave, he never fully regained the function of his left arm.

"In the reorganization that followed Green's death and Bee's removal from command, Woods's regiment became part of Xavier B. Debray's brigade of John A. Wharton's division. During the next seven months the Hirtle Texas Cavalry remained in Louisiana, patrolling the Athanasia River from Alexandria to Opelusas. In February 1865 the regiment returned to Texas, and at Houston on May 21, 1865, by order of Gen. John B. Magruder, it divided its public property and disbanded. Following the war Woods returned to San Marcos to resume his medical practice and farming. He married Ella Reeves Ogletree in 1874; the couple had five children. Woods died in San Marcos on January 27, 1898, and is buried there."

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carl L. Duaine, The Dead Men Wore Boots: An Account of the Thirty-Second Texas Volunteer Cavalry, CSA, 1862-1865 (Austin: San Felipe, 1966).

Thomas W. Cutrer

   

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G0491A: Della Amanda COX [001]
Birth: 26 September 1865, Smith County, Texas
Death: 7 December 1925, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Interment: City Cemetery of Sweetwater (Alabama Street), Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas
Father: John Calhoun ("Little Black Jack," "Black Jack") COX (2 January 1836, Fayette County, Georgia - 19 February 1917, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas)
Mother: Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN (13 July 1847, Fayette County, Georgia - 17 April 1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [See G0492A: Sarah ("Sallie") Elizabeth ALLEN in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).]
Interment: City Cemetery of Sweetwater (Alabama Street), Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Texas

Marriage: 13 July 1884, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, by Rev. Bennet Hatcher (Baptist Church), in the presence of W. D. Johnson, Miss Minta West, S. B. Johnson, and Miss Mamie Winship
Spouse: Joseph Dudley SLOAN (12 May 1852, Indianola, Calhoun County, Texas - 1 April 1921, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas). [See G0491A: Joseph Dudley SLOAN in Descendants of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764).]

Child 1: Unnamed infant SLOAN, born and died 14 April 1885 [F]

Child 2: Ida May SLOAN (4:00 AM, 4 June 1887, Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas - 2:20 AM, 12 September 1964, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: interment 14 September 1964 at Orange Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana) [F]: m. Charner Augustus SCAIFE (14 June 1884, Gibsland, Bienville Parish, Louisiana - 11 September 1944, Nocona, Montague County, Texas: interment at Orange Grove - Graceland Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana), 25 September 1910, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas. [See G0490A: Charner Augustus SCAIFE (Jr.) in Descendants of Robert Scaife I of Winton (ABT 1515 - 11 January 1591).]

Child 3: Joseph Calhoun SLOAN, Sr. (11:00 PM, 1 September 1889, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas - 5 October 1953, St. Paul Hospital, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas: interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas) [M]: m1. Hazel MILLER, 8 January 1914, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas: m2. Gladys REED (28 July 1898 - 9 May 1978, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas), 4 July 1926, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

Child 4: Samuella Eliza SLOAN (8:00 AM, 12 June 1891, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas - 2:40 PM, 12 April 1907, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater [Alabama Street], Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F]

Child 5: Allie Nora SLOAN (2:00 AM, 12 August 1893, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas - 28 November 1985, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas: interment at Restland Memorial Park [mausoleum], Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas) [F]: m1. Edward S. FISHER (died 9:35 PM, 17 April 1914: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater [Alabama Street], Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas), 7 December 1913, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, officiated by Rev. H. C. Compton: m2. Ferd HAMILTON (born February 1886 in Texas), 29 June 1920, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, officiated by Rev. T. Y. Adams

Child 6: Winnie "Lucille" SLOAN (7:00 AM, 15 December 1895, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas - 26 January 1986, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater [Alabama Street], Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [F]: m. John Maburn MARTIN (Sr.) (8 September 1892, Texas - 14 December 1974, Crowley, Tarrant County, Texas), 31 December 1919, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, officiated by Rev. T. Y. Adams

Note 1: Samuella Eliza SLOAN died in hospital in Abilene, after confinement for about a year.

Note 2: Joseph Calhoun SLOAN, Sr. was District Passenger Agent for the Texas & Pacific Railroad, with offices in Dallas, Texas atthe Adolphus Hotel. In this capacity, he was personally acquainted with Sion Wilson MARLER. [See G0490A: Sion Wilson MARLER in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (10 August 1823 - 23 May 1903).]

Joseph Calhoun SLOAN, Sr. and Hazel MILLER engendered one son: Joseph Calhoun SLOAN, Jr. (1:45 PM, 6 July 1919, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas - 30 December 1946, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas: interment at Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas). Joseph Calhoun SLOAN, Jr. was married to Louise LEWIS on 28 August 1943. He weighed 9¾ pounds at birth. His demise was caused by the complications of diabetes.

Note 3: Edward S. FISHER, the first husband of Allie Nora SLOAN, died in Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas in the aftermath of minor surgery on his nose. He was a hemophiliac.

Note 4: Winnie SLOAN, in her young adulthood, awarded herself the middle name "Lucille." She graduated from the University of Texas in 1917.

Note 5: Map Of Smith County, Texas (1895):

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APPENDIX:
THE SYSTEM OF KINSHIP OF MARY EUGENIA BARRON
(25 April 1847 - 2 April 1916)

   

G0496A: William BARRON
Birth: 1738/42, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina
Death: BET 14 and 18 September 1780, Richmond County, Georgia, at the Battle of Augusta
Interment: Richmond County, Georgia

Marriage: ABT1760
Spouse: Prudence DAVIS (1738/42, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina - AFT 1783, Georgia)

Child 1: John BARRON (1763, North Carolina or Georgia - ABT 1823, Jones County, Georgia) [M]: m. Frances GARRARD (ABT 1764, South Carolina - AFT 1788, Jones County, Georgia), 1788, Georgia

Child 2: Mary Elizabeth BARRON (25 October 1765, North Carolina or Georgia - February 1827, Putnam County, Georgia) [F]: Jacob GARRARD (4 September 1763, Wilkes County, Georgia - 1823, Putnam County, Georgia), 22 June 1786, Wilkes County, Georgia

Child 3: Samuel BARRON (28 August 1767, Georgia, British North America - 16 December 1801, Hancock County, Georgia) [M]: m. Jane MILLER, 8 July 1790

Child 4: William BARRON (May 1769, St. Paul’s Parish, Warren County, Georgia, British North America - November 1848, Butts County, Georgia) [M]: m. Martha ("Patty") SMITH (14 March 1770, Warren County, Georgia, British North America - AFT 1850, Warren County, Georgia), BY 1791

Child 5: Prudence (?) BARRON (died ABT 1810) [F]: m. John SMITH, BEF 1793

Note 1: Jacob and Frances GARRARD were siblings, the children of John GARRARD (1725, England - March 1811, Wilkes County, Georgia) and of his first wife, Mary BOLT (ABT 1740, South Carolina - 1806, Jones County, Georgia)

Note 2: William BARRON was a military officer of the United States during the American Revolution. He was killed, between 14 and 18 September 1780, at the Battle of Augusta and is said to have been decapitated by the Cherokees who were allied with the British. It is also said that, in the aftermath, his head was exhibited on a pole.

Note 3: According to Leon Darrell Johnson, "There were two William BARRONs in the Georgia area at the time and probably both at Augusta. One was a Captain in the Georgia Militia. He received, as a result of his service in the Revolution, several hundred acres of land primarily in Washington County. He died in Richmond County in 1789 and his wife died in Warren County in 1815. The other was the husband of Prudence Davis Barron and they both were born in Craven County, North Carolina, between 1738-1742. He is the one who died at the Battle of Augusta (most likely); at least Prudy is a widow on 250 acres in Wilkes County, Georgia, by the end of the war. As to immigration from Ireland, there is overwhelming proof that he did not come from Ireland and that his grandfather William came to North Carolina from London on board the 'Carolina' in 1698."

   

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G0495A: William BARRON
Birth: May 1769, St. Paul’s Parish, Warren County, Georgia, British North America
Death: November 1848, Butts County, Georgia
Father: William BARRON (1738/42, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, British North America - BET 14 and 18 September 1780, Richmond County, Georgia, at the Battle of Augusta)
Mother: Prudence DAVIS (1738/42, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, British North America - AFT 1783, Georgia)

Marriage: BY 1791, <Warren County>, Georgia
Spouse: Martha ("Patty") SMITH (14 March 1770, Warren County, Georgia, British North America - AFT 1850, Warren County, Georgia)

Child 1: James S. BARRON (29 November 1791, Wilkes County, Georgia - 18 January 1856, Meriwether County, Georgia: interment at Barron Cemetery, Gay, Meriwether County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Mary DOSS (or DAUS) (interment at Barron Cemetery, Gay, Meriwether County, Georgia), 10 December 1812, Putnam County, Georgia: m2. Sarah H. MARTIN, 14 November 1841

Child 2: Thomas BARRON, Reverend (27 October 1793, Wilkes County, Georgia - AFT 1 June 1858 and BEF 6 August 1858, Pike County, Alabama) [M]: m. Elizabeth DOSS, 2 January 1817, Putnam County, Georgia

Child 3: Mary Elizabeth ("Polly") BARRON (6 September 1796, Wilkes County, Georgia - 25 December 1854, Newton County, Georgia: interment at Carmel Cemetery, Mansfield, Newton County, Georgia) [F]: m. John ROQUEMORE (interment at Carmel Cemetery, Mansfield, Newton County, Georgia), 5 August 1813, Putnam County, Georgia

Child 4: Henry BARRON (8 November 1801, Hancock County, Georgia - 12 August 1880, Butts County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Elizabeth STRICKLAND, 21 June 1821, Jasper County, Georgia: m2. Penelope EIDSON, 19 November 1843 in Butts County, Georgia

Child 5: Joseph BARRON (October 1803, Hancock County Georgia - 27 July 1839, Troup County, Georgia) [M]: m. Sarah Graham HAYS (8 November 1804, South Carolina - 1878, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas), 30 July 1822, Newton County, Georgia

Child 6: Smith BARRON (August 1805, Putnam County, Georgia - 1868, Pike County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Lucy N. REEVES (ABT 1805,
Wilkes County, Georgia - 1847, Troup County, Georgia), 6 April 1824, Jasper County, Georgia: m2. Sarah Graham HAYS (8 November 1804, South Carolina - 1878, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas), 1847

Child 7: John Davis BARRON (5 March 1810, Jefferson County, Georgia - November 1830) [M]: m. Susan FARR, 20 September 1827, Newton County, Georgia

Note 1: Record of this family group was preserved among the descendants of James SMITH (ABT 1725 - 1799) who seems to have migrated from Craven County, North Carolina to Wilkes County, Georgia.

  The Will of James SMITH, which was signed on 2 January1797, and probated 9 July1799, in Wilkes County, Georgia, reads as follows:
   
  In the name of God amen. I James SMITH of the County of Wilkes & State of Georgia being of perfect mind and memory do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, To Wit:

Item I give and bequeath to my Son John SMITH and to my Daughter Patty BARRON a Tract of land on Long Creek in the County of Oglethorpe containing two hundred and sixteen acres be[ing] the same more or less granted to James Hart to be equally divided between them to them and their heirs forever.

Item I give and bequeath to my Son Joseph SMITH the Tract of land I now live on in the County of Wilkes containing two hundred Acres more or less granted to James SMITH to him and his heirs forever.

Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth one Bedd & furniture to her & her heirs forever.

Item it is my Will and Desire that all the Rest of my Estate of Every kind whatever be sold on twelve months Credit and the money arising from such sale to be equally divided among my following Children or their heirs Viz Nathan SMITH, John SMITH, Joseph SMITH, the children of my Son Jacob SMITH, Mary WHITE, Patty BARRON, Elizabeth SMITH, Rachel SMITH, Sarah THOMPSON to them & their heirs forever.

Lastly I appoint my sons Nathan SMITH, Jno SMITH & Joseph SMITH Executors to this my last Will & Testament utterly revoking and annulling all other Wills by me heretofore made do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2nd day of January in the year of Our Lord 1797 and of the
Sovereignty and independence of America the twenty first year.

The Will was attested by Edward Butler, Nathaniel Rice and Samuel Rice.

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The returns filed with the probate court by the Executors, Nathan, John and Joseph SMITH, in February 1801, read as follows:

"paid Jos. and Nathaniel [sic] SMITH, paid Wm. BARRON, paid David COLLUM and Wm. CHAFFIN, in right of his wife Zechie SMITH, for their wives in part of their legacies."

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The returns of Jos. SMITH, Executor, February 1802 include the receipt of Abel McIntosh, guardian of the heirs of Jacob SMITH.

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Returns for March 1803 include receipts of David COLLUM, Nathaniel [sic] SMITH, Wm. CHAFFIN, Abel McIntosh, guardian, Wm THOMPSON for himself and Demcy [sic] WHITE, Nov. 1802 in full of their legacies. (This information was derived from Volume 2 of Davidson, Early Records of Wilkes County, pp. 293-4.)
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The following appears in James SMITH’s estate papers on file in the Georgia Department of Archives and History:

  Report of Appraisers, Cory ___, ___ Junes, Joshua CHAFIN, Charles Phillips, Joseph CHAFIN and Nath'l Harris, July 16, 1799:

Return of Expenditures:
"Paid Edward Butler 3.05
"Wm. CHAFIN 1 -
"Nathan SMITH 2
"D. Terrell .25
"Abel McIntosh, Guardian of the Heirs of Jacob SMITH 27 -
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34.30

By Cash of Peter Harris 4
"Wm. Pollard 15.50
"Phil (?) 2
"Joshua CHAFIN .50
"Henry Star
Sworn to by Joseph SMITH February 26, 1802 [X]

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D. Terrell - Rec'd of John SMITH, Ex of James SMITH, deceased, 25 cents for probate (1801).

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Record of Receipts and Payments by John and Joseph SMITH, Executors of James SMITH, Feb. 24, 1801 [both by X]

Of Cash received from Sundry Persons from the sales of the estate: $135.74 1/4

Per Contra
1. By cash pd Davis Merriwether, his acc't 4.50
2. do pd John SMITH in part of his part of estate 28.74
3. do pd _____ SMITH do 28.74
4. do pd Wm BARRON do 27.00
5. do pd David COLLUM (for wife) 27.00
6. do pd Tipley Gats(?) his acc't 2.82
7. do pd Nathan SMITH in part of his part of estate 25.00
8. do pd Wm. CHAFIN for wife [X] 25.00
9. do pd D. Terrell his acc't 6.6 1/4
10. do pd for stamp papers .20
11. do pd Wm. Hay, his acc't for making one coffin 2.00

$177.06 1/4

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Return March 16, 1801 by Joseph SMITH
Rec'd of Lesley (?) 14.68
"P. J. Stark .37
"Joshua CHAFIN 4.50

Pd. D. Terrell .25
"D Collum .16
"Nathan SMITH 27.18 3/4
"Wm. THOMPSON 27.16 1/2
"Demsey WHITE 27.16
"Wm. CHAFIN 27.16
"A. McIntosh, Guardian 27.16

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From all of these documents, it is clear that Patty SMITH, the daughter of James SMITH and Mary UNKNOWN, was the wife of William BARRON. In some records, she is referred to as Patty FARR. A family headed by John FARR was settled in Warren County, Georgia, in the last quarter of the 18th century; and it is only remotely possible that Patty SMITH may have been previously and briefly married to a person associated with it. Her son, John Davis BARRON, was marrried to a Susan FARR.

Note 2: Sarah Graham HAYS, the daughter of George Newton HAYS and Sarah GRAHAM, was first married to Joseph BARRON and, after his death, to Smith BARRON. By both marriages, she produced offspring.

Note 3: About Sarah H. MARTIN, the second wife of James S. BARRON:

 

IN MEMORIAM

Mrs. Sarah H. BARRON was the daughter of John MARTIN who moved from North Carolina and settled in the Lawrens (sic) district where Mrs. BARRON was born. Her parents moved thence to Tennessee and afterward to Alabama. From Alabama, the next move was to Pike County, Georgia, settling near where Griffin was afterward located. Here sister BARRON grew to womanhood and there she was united in marriage with James BARRON, settling at his home near Jones Mills. Three children, Thomas, James and Mary Ann were born to her. After the death of her husband in 1856, she remained upon the old homestead, reared her children and directed them in the way they should go.

The War coming on, her boys were summoned to the tented field to fight for their country. This left her almost alone but, by industry and well directed energy, she made a support and clothed her boys in the service.

The War closing, her two sons returned home, married and settled to themselves. Her daughter marrying, remained at the old home for six or eight years when she moved to Texas with her husband and James, also, moving to Texas. Mrs. BARRON rented out her farm and cast her lot in Texas with her daugher. Here she remained for fourteen years. In the meantime her other son (Thomas) sold out in Meriwether, moved to Texas, remained for three or four years, became dissatisfied and returned to his old county. Mrs. BARRON returned with him and spent her last days in the community in which she had so long resided.

Mrs. BARRON was baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist Church at Friendship in July 1850. In all her Christian life we never knew her to take any misguided steps. She always seemed to have her heart and mind set upon what God had promised his children in the end.

As a wife she was a helpmeet indeed. As a mother she was all that her children could ask. While she was indulgent and kind, her government was firm and unbending. As a neighbor she was always ready to grant any reasonable favor. The night was never too dark nor the weather too inclement for her not to respond to the call of an afflicted neighbor. A cordial welcome always awaited her coming. The children of the entire neighborhood loved her for her kindness to them. Her charity knew no bounds as long as she was able to respond to the promptings of her great heart.

Aunt Sally, as she was familiarly known to all, is gone from our midst and her form resposes beside that of her husband. She was ready, extending her hand to those around her dying couch, she bade them farewell and gently breathed out her last. Her last words bore testimony that God is faithful in his promise that he will never leave nor farsake us.

      Ye fleeting charms of earth, farewell. Your springs of joy are dry,
      My soul now seeks a better home, a brighter world on high.

A. J. Cooper

[Copied in June 1980 by Thomas W. BARRON at the Sesquicentennial of the Enon Primitive Baptist Church, Meriwether County, Georgia. The church was founded 19 June 1830 and James BARRON attended this meeting and was one of the first members.]

Note 4: From Margeret Pace Farmer, "Hephzibah Baptist Church," and notes taken by James Wilkins in June 1964 from the original minute book in Troy, Alabama:

  HEPHZIBAH BAPTIST CHURCH, Pike County, Alabama:
   
  Located 4 1/2 miles south of Try on the old Three Notch Road. Church was organized 10 April 1858. The minutes of that meeting were written by Jacob Smith, with Smith BARRON acting as moderator. At the next meeting, 8 May, 1858, William M. STANLEY and wife, Mary, were received as members. Seven members were appointed as a committee to build a church house. The committee included Smith BARRON, Thomas BARRON, Jacob Smith and John BARRON. In June 1858 the first deacons were chosen: Thomas BARRON, Smith BARRON and Jacob Smith. ThomasS BARRON died in 1858, Elizsabeth BARRON in 1861. On 2 June 1860, Smith BARRON and wife applied for and were granted letters. William M. STANLEY and John W. BARRON were ordained deacons in 1860. In 1862, William M. STANLEY was employed "to keep the house the ensuing year for the sum of eight dollars."

Note 5: The estate of Rev. Thomas BARRON, Baptist minister:

  Thomas Barron Estate Settlement, Pike County, Alabama, Book 13, Pages 583-621:
  Administrator: William J BRADSHAW, appointed on August 6, 1858

Signing the bond as sureties were William Lee and Joseph Blackman. The widow waived the right to administer in favor of BRADSHAW.

Heirs: Elizabeth BARRON, widow; Talitha, daughter of the deceased and wife of William J. BRADSHAW; Susan, daughter of the deceased and wife of Joshua MEADOWS; Sarah, daughter of the deceased and wife of James MEADOWS; William BARRON & John BARRON, sons of the deceased and residents of Chambers County, Alabama; and Semantha MILNER of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, only child of Semantha MILNER or MILLER, deceased, who was a daughter of the deceased and wife of ____ MILNER. On May 24, 1859 William MILNER was appointed guardian in Tallapoosa County of Samantha MILNER, a minor over 14.

Heirs as named on November 14, 1870:

Talitha BRADSHAW; Susan MEADOWS; Sarah MEADOWS; Samantha MILNER, deceased; heirs of William BARRON, deceased, viz., Alonzo BARRON and Helen BARRON of Macon County, Alabama; heirs of John BARRON, deceased, Elizabeth BARRON in Tallapoosa County, Alabama and two others, names & residence unknown.

Appraisement of real & personal property of the estate occurred on August 10, 1858, and the administrator sold both real & personal property on November 2, 1858.

On March 31, 1859 the administrator paid $20 in full of the subscription which the deceased had made for the building of "Hepsida church in Pike County."
Land: NE ¼ of NE ¼, SE ¼ of NE ¼ & NE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec. 23, T. 9, R. 20 & SW ¼ of NW ¼ of Sec. 24, T. 9, R. 20. The land was sold to John Mullins for $800.

Note 6: The family Bible of William BARRON lists Mary Elizabeth ("Polly") BARRON's birth date as 6 September 1796; but her gravestone gives it as 10 June 1792. The date of 10 June 1792 does not allow enough time for gestation after James S. BARRON's date of birth on 29 November 1791.

   

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G0494A: Joseph BARRON
Birth: October 1803, Hancock County Georgia
Death: 27 July 1839, Troup County, Georgia
Father: William BARRON (May1769, St. Paul’s Parish, Warren County, Georgia - November 1848, Butts County, Georgia)
Mother: Prudence DAVIS (1738/42, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina - AFT 1783, Georgia)

Marriage: 30 July 1822, Newton County, Georgia
Spouse: Sarah Graham HAYS (8 November 1804, South Carolina - 1878, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas)

Child 1: Mary ("Polly") Sarah BARRON (26 April 1823, Georgia- 17 March 1901, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. William M. STANLEY (21 July 1825 - 20 July 1864, Battle of Peachtree Creek, Fulton County, Georgia, Confederate States of America: interment at the battlefield of Peachtree Creek, Fulton County, Georgia), 7 December 1843, Troup County, Georgia

Child 2: William Thomas BARRON (25 January 1826 [or 1824], Walton County, Georgia - 11 February 1901, Tyler, Smith County, Texas: interment at Barron Cemetery, Copeland Community, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Maria Louise FRAZIER (12 February 1829, Wilkes County, Georgia - 22 September 1902, Tyler, Smith County, Texas: interment at Barron Cemetery, Copeland Community, Smith County, Texas)

Child 3: George W. BARRON (1 March 1828, Troup County, Georgia - AFT 1849) [M]

Child 4: Joseph Alfred BARRON (20 Februry 1830, Troup County, Georgia - Winter of 1873/74, Hogansville, Troup County, Georgia) [M]: m. Georgia S. KELLUM (15 September 1846, Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia - 20 October 1872, Hogansville, Troup County, Georgia)

Child 5: Nancy Ann BARRON (10 June 1832, Troup County, Georgia - 15 May 1901, Eenezer, Columbia County, Arkansas) [F]: m. John F. ROGERS

Child 6: Susan Jane BARRON (10 July 1834, Troup County, Georgia - 14 August 1902, Mt. Sylvan, Smith County, Texas: interment at Mt. Sylvan Cemetery, Mt. Sylvan, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. William W. CROSS (23 September 1830 - 27 September 1880, Smith County, Texas: interment at Mt. Sylvan Cemetery, Mt. Sylvan, Smith County, Texas), 22 December 1852, Coosa County, Alabama

Child 7: Isaac Newton BARRON (7 September 1836, Troup County, Georgia - 12 August 1915, Tyler, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, Tyler, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Georgia Ann WRIGHT (21 April 1845, Chambers, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama - 15 May 1922, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas)

Child 8: James S. BARRON (7 August 1838, Troup County, Georgia - BY 1840, Troup County, Georgia) [M]

Note 1: Sarah Graham HAYS, the wife of Joseph BARRON, was the daughter of George Newton HAYS.

  The last will and testament of Joseph BARRON, decd.
State of Georgia                                    In the name of
Troup County                                     God Amen

I, Joseph BARRON of the County & State aforesaid being sorely afflicted in body and my bodily powers fast declining and yet being of sound disposing mind and memory do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testament.

Item 1st I give and commit my body after death to the Earth its mother dust to be buried in a decent Christian manner and I trust give and commit my spirit to the Lord who gave it.

Item 2nd My will further is that so much of my perishable property be sold as will satisfy and pay all my just debts.

Item 3rd My will further is that the residue of my Estate both real and perishable be and remain in the possession of my wife Sarah BARRON during her widowhood but subject to the management control of my Executors who are fully authorized to control, manage and conduct all matters pertaining to my Estate, take the management of children superintend their Education and in case any of my children should marry my Executors are hereby authorized to give to each my children so marrying so much of my Estate as they in their sober judgement should deem necessary taking into consideration at the same time the wants and situation of the rest of the family, but the main bulk or body of my Estate to remain together until my youngest child arrives to the age of twenty-one years.

The last will and testament of Joseph BARRON cont'd

Item 4th My will further is that if my wife Sarah BARRON should marry and thereby change her situation or condition then and in such case my will is that my Estate all and singular be sold according to law under the Superintendence of my said Executors and after making sale and collecting the effects of my Estate that my wife Sarah have a childs part viz. that an equal division be made between her and each of my children, the part belonging to my orphan children to remain in the hands of my Executors to be managed in as prosperous way as possible.

Item 5th My will further is that Alfred B. Garry, Smith BARRON and Simeon Meadows act as my Executors and they are hereby appointed as such to carry this my last will and testament into effect manage & act out all the foregoing requisitions.

Signed sealed and acknowledged
In the presence of                                          his
John Cohron                                    Joseph + Barron
William A Spier                                          mark

Georgia            \
Troup County            Inferior Court of Troup county sitting for \
                     Ordinary, purposes November term, 1839.

The within last will and testament of Joseph BARRON late of said county decd having been duly proven at this regular term in open court upon the oath of William A. Spier one of the subscribing witnesses to the same ordered that the same be admitted to record.
Recorded 5th day of November, 1839            Wiley Wilson C.C.O.

Note 2: William M. STANLEY, the husband of Mary ("Polly") Sarah BARRON, was the son of William STANLEY and Lucinda HOLCOMB. The monument to him which is in the New Harmony Cemetery, Smith County, Texas, is inscribed as follows:

  William M. STANLEY, Private Company A, S4 Regiment Alabama Infantry, CSA 21 Jul 1825 - 20 Jul 1864 buried on the Peachtree Creek Field of Battle, Georgia

The gravestone, in the New Harmony Cemetery, Smith County, Texas, for Mary ("Polly") Sarah BARRON, is inscribed as follows:

  Mary STANLEY - wife of W. M. STANLEY - 27 April 1823 - 27 March 1900 "Mother"

Her date of death, as stated on the gravestone, is incorrect. She died 27 March 1901.

The obituary of Mary ("Polly") STANLEY, published in a Tyler, Texas newspaper:

  "Mrs. Polly STANLEY, aged 78 years, and well known in this county, died at her home in New Harmony settlement yesterday, after an illness of several weeks.
Mrs. STANLEY leaves several children as well as a large number of other relatives and friends to mourn her death.

"She was a good woman and a constant member of the Baptist church. The remains were interred in the New Harmony cemetery."

Note 3: Obituary of Georgia S. KELLUM, the wife of Joseph Alfred BARRON:

  CHRISTIAN INDEX, Nov. 28, 1872, p. 188
OBITUARIES

MRS. GEORGIA S. BARRON departed this life on the 20th October, 1872, in her twenty-sixth year, at the residence of Mr. Heurst of Hogansville, Troup county.

Sister Barron was the daughter of Judge R. KELLUM, of Opelika, Alabama. She was born in Monticello, Jasper county, September 15th, 1846, and was born into the kingdom of Christ, 1870, in Opelika. Georgia is gone, and in her death we feel that our church has lost one of its most promising young members, and the community one of its brightest jewels, for all loved her as a neighbor and friend, for those who knew her best, was prepared to appreciate her noble traits of character. But why should an affectionate husband and one dear little babe mourn? For beyond question, she is in paradise -- she is walking the golden streets with harp in hand, only waiting to welcome them, by and by, home. In her affliction, she suffered a great deal; but she bore it as a Christian only could do, often exclaiming, "the will of the Lord be done!" seeming perfectly reconciled that ample provision had been made for her in the atonement. We can but listen to her voice, she being dead, "yet speaketh," by precept and example. Hoping that her aged father, and large circle of relatives, and her bereaved husband, will be comforted by these words, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord," we offer them our heartfelt condolence, and bid sister Georgia an affectionate farewell, hoping we may all meet to part no more.                              R. H. J.

Georgia S. KELLUM died in the aftermath of the birth of her son, Charles Joseph BARRON who was born 15 February 1872 in Hogansville, Troup County, Georgia. Charles Joseph BARRON died 1 September 1951 in Newnan (variantly called "Newman" or "Bullsboro"), Coweta County, Georgia.

Note 4: Letter from W. S. Cato, postmaster in Hogansville, Georgia, dated 16 December 1874, to Mary Sarah Barron STANLEY telling of the death of her brother, Joseph Alfred BARRON:

  Madam:

You(r) note of 13th inst. is at hand contents duly noted. I will certainly give you all the information that I am capable of giving. He was living alone at the time, though had some negroes living in the yard to conduct his domestic offices or house business. And his friends calling to see him one morning found him dead suposed (sic) to have got chilled during the night and had no one to look after, died. His death was heart felt by many(,) great many(,) yes by all that new (sic) him.

His child is now with its grandmother and had been for sometime previous to his death. Mr. BARRON died last winter. I do not know the exact time. Hope this will give you the information desired.

very truly,

W. S. Cato, P.M.

Note 5: John F. ROGERS, the husband of Nancy Ann BARRON, served the Confederacy in Company B, 33rd Regiment (Colonel Grinstead's Regiment), Arkansas Infantry, from 1862 to 1865.

Note 6: William W. CROSS, the husband of Susan Jane BARRON, served the Confederacy, from March 1862, in Company B, 46th Alabama Infantry,enlisting at Brooksville, Alabama.

Note 7: Isaac Newton BARRON enlisted for the Confederacy at Montgomery, Alabama on 5 May 1861 in Company D of the 6th Alabama Infantry. He transferred to Company A of the 20th Batallion, Alabama Light Artillery and served throughout the War Between the States. He was at Vicksburg at its surrender.

The gravestone of Isaac Newton BARRON is inscribed thus: "Alabama - Private Company B 20 BN Alabama Light Artillery 7 September 1836 -12 August 1914." But the gravestone itself gives his date of death as 12 August 1915.

About Isaac Newton BARRON, according to Cecille Maxwell Reynolds, Summary of the Smith and Joseph Barron Families:

  In late 1869, Isaac Newton BARRON migrated with his family from Alabama to Garden Valley, Smith County, Tex. Tradition has it that they came by boat from Montgomery to Jefferson, Texas and then overland to Smith County.

They lived on farms in the Garden Valley area until 1874 when in October, they bought 810 acres 19 miles east of Tyler. Isaac Newton paid $1700 in gold to Samuel and Pamelia Goodman for the farm. This first permanent family home was an old two-story inn on the south side of a prominent hill now known as Wright Mountain. Here the children grew to maturity. They were educated in a nearby one-room, one-teacher school and boarded the teacher in their home. The BARRONs were active members of Mt. Sylvan Baptist Church (Gregg County) . . . .

After unsuccessfully trying to till the rocky soil around Wright Mountain, Isaac Newton sold his acreage to the Wright family, and this hill today carries their name.

The BARRON family's first residence in Tyler [about 1899] was on the site of what is now "Fun Forest Park". . . . Later he bought five acres of land on which he truck-farmed. This property is located at the corner of Garden Valley Road and the street which bears his name, North BARRON Street, in Tyler, Texas . .. . .

On August 12, 1915, Isaac Newton BARRON died in Tyler, Texas, and was buried at New Harmony . . . . After his death in 1915, Georgia lived with her daughter, Elizabeth WALKER, on S. Bois d'Arc Street until her death May 15, 1922. She was buried beside her husband.

Georgia was a member of the Baptist denomination for over 60 years according to her obituary in a Tyler paper, and for over 30 of those years, she was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tyler. Rev. M. L. Shepperd, pastor of Dean Baptist Church, conducted her funeral.

Tyler Daily Courier-Times, 12 August 1914, p. 8:

  Obituary

BARRON, I. N.

Died August 12, 1914, at family home on Mt. Sylvan Road, at 78. Burial in New Harmony Cemetery. Survived by widow and several children, all grown. Stricken with paralysis 2 or 3 weeks before and grew steadily worse. One of oldest settlers of Smith County.

[Source: Summary of the Smith and Joseph Barron Families, written by Cecille Maxwell Reynolds]

   

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G0493A: William Thomas BARRON
Birth: 25 January 1826 [or 1824], Walton County, Georgia
Death: 11 February 1901, Tyler, Smith County, Texas
Interment: Barron Cemetery, Copeland Community, Smith County, Texas
Father: Joseph BARRON (October 1803, Jefferson County Georgia - 27 July 1839, Troup County, Georgia)
Mother: Sarah Graham HAYS (8 November 1804, South Carolina - October 1878, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Smith County, Texas)

Marriage: 25 November 1845, Troup County, Georgia, solemnized by Rev. James Rainwater
Spouse: Maria Louise FRAZIER (12 February 1829, Wilkes County, Georgia - 22 September 1902, Tyler, Smith County, Texas: interment at Barron Cemetery, Copeland Community, Smith County, Texas)

Child 1: Mary Eugenia BARRON (25 April 1847, Carroll or Troup County, Georgia - 2 April 1916, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. John Calhoun COX (2 January 1836, Fayette County, Georgia - 19 February 1917, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas), 3 March 1887, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by George P. Birdwell, Minister of the Gospel

Child 2: William Judson BARRON (24 May 1850, Carroll or Troup County, Georgia - 17 December 1885, Texas: interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m1. Lucie P. DESHONG (died in 1875), 28 December 1871, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by J. H. Barton, Minister of the Gospel: m2. Callie WILEY, 9 December 1884

Child 3: Joseph Alfred BARRON (17 February 1853, Carroll or Troup County, Georgia - 19 January 1928, Smith County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m1. Estelle Eolin BINFORD (27 March 1852 - 1 January 1896: interment at Barron Cemetery, Copeland Community, Smith County, Texas), 28 December 1873, Smith County, Texas: m2. Laura ALSTON, 1908, Smith County, Texas

Child 4: Howell Frazier BARRON (29 March 1855, Troup County, Georgia - 27 November 1925, Smith County, Texas: interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Hannah Elvira ("Vira") LANIER (1857 - 1939: interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas), 22 November 1880, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by W. H. Hendrix, Minister of the Gospel

Child 5: Young Robert BARRON (11 October 1857, Georgia - 27 February 1921, Tyler, Smith County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Mary Ann FULLER (1861 - 1936: interment at McDowell Cemetery, Belton, Bell County, Texas), 22 December 1881, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by Reddin Andrews, Minister of the Gospel

Child 6: Virgil Newton BARRON (21 December 1859, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia - 22 October 1939, Smith County, Texas: interment at Meador Cemetery, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. Orsenia Fidelia FUNDERBURG (27 July 1863 - 10 March 1920: interment at Meador Cemetery, Smith County, Texas), 18 October 1883, solemnized by Reddin Andrews, Minister of the Gospel

Child 7: Willie G. BARRON (30 October 1862, near Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, Confederate States of America - 8 May 1863, Alabama) [M]

Child 8: Carrie A. BARRON (19 July 1864, near Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, Confederate States of America - 30 August 1943, Smith County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [F]

Child 9: Anna Lee BARRON (2 February 1867, near Auburn, Lee County, Alabama - 25 August 1925, Smith County, Texas: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas) [M]: m. George Perry VERNER (18 January 1854 - 26 January 1930: interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas), 11 January 1893, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by George P. Birdwell, Minister of the Gospel

Child 10: Arthur T(homas?) BARRON (11 March 1870, Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas - 6 February 1931, Smith County, Texas: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. Mattie CROOK (9 January 1871 - 23 March 1945: interment at New Harmony Cemetery, Smith County, Texas), 20 November 1910, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by J. L. MORRISON.

Note 1: In the census for Smith County, Texas, 1870, William Thomas BARRON was residing in the vicinity of Garden Valley, where the family - and extended family - of John Calhoun COX had settled. William Thomas BARRON listed his occupation as " farm laborer” and stated that his net worth was $775. It seems evident that he, in the aftermath of the War Betwen the States, migrated from Georgia, first to Alabama and then to Texas. In this same census, Virgil Newton BARRON’s sex is mistakenly given as "female.”

Note 2: From Cecille Maxwell Reynolds:

An article appearing in a Tyler, Texas newspaper in 1901, reporting the BARRON family reunion at the William Thomas BARRON home, written by Bertha BARRON: "He (William Thomas BARRON) was born in Walton County, Georgia on January 25, 1826 and moved from Walton to Jackson County, Georgia where he lived til almost grown; from Jackson he moved to Troup County, northeast of LaGrange, where he was married to Miss Mariah L. FRAZIER . . . . Eight years of his married life were spent in Carroll County. Becoming disheartened with Georgia, he moved to Alabama where he spent nine years near Auburn; while in Alabama, he went to where he served four years of hardships under Generals Johnston and Hood. On December 25, 1869, he landed in Tyler, Texas where he has lived thirty-one years, with eight children around him, and all of them attended the reunion . . . ." Not long after this family reunion, William Thomas BARRON died (February 11, 1901) and was followed in death by his wife on 22 September 1902. Both are buried 8 miles south of Tyler in the "Barron-Smyre" Cemetery. William served in the Confederacy in Company H of the 1st Regiment, Alabama Volunteers. Grandfather William BARRON's Bible states birth date as 1/25/1824.

Note 3: Letter from Sarah Graham BARRON (née HAYS), living in Smith County, Texas, to her daughter, Mary Sarah STANLEY (née BARRON), in Pike County, Alabama:

  Smith County, Texas, August 8, 1875: ". . . The connection is all well so far as I know except Judson BARRONs wife. She is very low with consumption. They don't think she can live long and she has to (sic) little children to leave . . . ."

"Judson BARRON" was William Judson BARRON. His ailing wife was Lucie P. DESHONG who was dead by the end of 1875. This couple had two children: Horace Judson BARRON (1873 - 1942, Commerce, Texas) [M]: m. Helen Bell MCCOOL, 19 November 1902, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by James D. McClean, Minister of the Gospel; and Lula M. BARRON (1875 -1959, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas) [F]: m. Charles Mathis MOORE, 23 July 1902, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by J. H. Gambrell.

Lucie P. DESHONG, the first wife of William Judson BARRON, was the daughter of A. M. DESHONG.

Note 5: Obituary recorded in the Cherokee Baptist Association minutes of the annual session held in October 1886 (p. 13):

  It is with sad hearts that your committee on Obituaries have to report that, since we last met, one year ago, God, in His infinite mercy, has called one of our most efficient members, W. J. BARRON, to Himself on high. The best language we can call to our aid to express our love and affection for such an excellent and noble minded Christian soldier, would be but a poor tribute to his memory. Bro. W. J. BARRON was connected with this Association for eight years, and was held in high esteen (sic) by all. He was also treasurer of the East Texas Convention, and filled the office with credit to himself and honor to that body until the time of his death; and much of the success of the body was due to his earnessness (sic) and faithfulness in his position.

W. J. BARRON, deceased, was born in Troupe (sic) county, Ga., May 24, A. D. 1850; moved with his parents to Alabama in 1860; was baptized into the fellowship of the Elim Baptist church, Macon county, Alabama, September 1, A. D. 1867, by Eld. C. A. Stanton; was licensed to preach by the same church in 1868; moved with his parents to Texas in 1869; was married to Lucy P. Deshong, December 28, 1871. In 1875, God, in His wisdom saw proper to take from him the loved wife, leaving him with two chlidren (sic) -- a son and a daughter. December 9, 1884 he was married to Callie A. Wiley, of Forney, Kaufman county, Texas, and died at his residence in Tyler, Smith county, Texas, December 17, 1885, of Typhoid fever, after an illness of six weeks. Though severed from us, so that we shall never have his presence with us again in this body, we are glad to say that his faith and hope in the blessed Jesus were unchanged. Let us then, dear brethren, with becoming reverence, lovingly and tenderly submit to the decree of a loving Creator, believing that He will cause all things to work together for good to them that love Him.

T. J. HARBOTT

Note 6: Estelle Eolin BINFORD, the first wife of Joseph Alfred BARRON, was the daughter of John BINFORD and Amanda DISMUKE.

Note 7: Hannah Elvira LANIER, the wife of Howell Frazier BARRON, was the daughter of William LANIER and Nancy HANKS.

Howell Frazier ALLEN and Hannah Elvira ("Vira") LANIER engendered one daughter, Bertha Eulalia BARRON (7 July 1882, Smith County, Texas - 12 July 1964, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas), who married Luther Allen COX, 8 November 1903, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by J. H. Gambrell.

Regarding Luther Allen COX, the following gravesites in the Dover Baptist Church Cemetery, Smith County, Texas are of interest:

 

COX, Emma A. - wife of J. R. Cox - Luther's Mamma 17 February 1860 - 23 December 1881

ALLEN, Luther T. - son of W. C. and Jane Allen - 29 March 1860 - 6 December 1862

Note 8: Mary Ann FULLER, the wife of Young Robert BARRON, was the daughter of Leonidas FULLER and Martha COLVIN.

Note 9: Orsenia Fidelia FUNDERBURG, the wife of Virgil Newton BARRON, was the daughter of Walter FUNDERBURH and Sarah WILSON.

That Virgil Newton BARRON was born in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia is shown by the inscription on his gravestone.

Note 10: George Perry VERNER, the husband of Anna Lee BARRON, was the son of Charles VERNER and Sarah WHITWORTH.

   

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G0492A: Mary Eugenia BARRON
Birth: 25 April 1847, Carroll or Troup County, Georgia
Death: 2 April 1916, Tyler, Smith County, Texas
Father: William Thomas BARRON (25 January 1826 [or 1824], Walton County, Georgia - 11 February 1901, Tyler, Smith County, Texas)
Mother: Maria Louise FRAZIER (12 February 1829, Wilkes County, Georgia - 22 September 1902, Tyler, Smith County, Texas)

Marriage: 3 March 1887, Smith County, Texas, solemnized by George P. Birdwell, Minister of the Gospel
Spouse: John ("Little Black Jack," "Black Jack") Calhoun COX, Sergeant, Company C, Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and Justice of the Peace, Smith County, Texas ("Judge Cox") (2 January 1836, Fayette County, Georgia - 19 February 1917, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas: interment at City Cemetery of Sweetwater [Alabama Street], Sloan Family Plot, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas) [See G0492A: John ("Little Black Jack," "Black Jack") Calhoun COX, Sergeant, Company C, Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and Justice of the Peace, Smith County, Texas ("Judge Cox") in Antecedents and Descendants of John Cox (1 November 1727 - ABT 1804/05).]

Child 1: Sallie Maude COX (15 July 1889, Smith County, Texas - 27 May 1976, San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas) [F]: m. Clayton J. NEWLIN (9 May 1885, Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana - 30 May 1959, <Normal, McLean County, Illinois>), 16 August 1911, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas

Note 1: Clayton J. NEWLIN was the son of John William NEWLIN (14 August 1841, Parke County, Indiana - 12 December 1927, Elwood, Vermilion County, Illinois) and Mary MERRIWETHER (19 March 1851, Parke County, Indiana - AFT 1 April 1930, Ridge Farm, Vermilion County, Illinois) who were married 1 January 1880 in Parke County, Indiana. From his marriage to Sallie Maude COX, three children were engendered: John Cox NEWLIN (14 June 1912, Tyler, Smith County, Texas - 26 July 1957, Illinois) who married Winifred FLETCHER (4 March 1914, Illinois - July 1986, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois), Robert Ervin NEWLIN (22 April 1916, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois - 9 June 1998, Ft. Myers, Lee County, Florida) who married Beatrice GUCK on 26 September 1942, and William Barron NEWLIN (born 1927 in Normal, McLean County, Illinois), who married Elena BUSTAMENTE.

Previous to his marriage to Mary MERRIWETHER, John William NEWLIN was married to Lydia E. MENDENHALL (7 December 1837, Hamilton County, Indiana - 15 August 1878, Indiana) on 10 December 1874 at Ridge Farm, Vermilion County, Illinois.

John Cox NEWLIN engendered Johnny Joe NEWLIN and Carol Jean NEWLIN. Robert Ervin NEWLIN engendered Mary Ann NEWLIN and Linda Lee NEWLIN.

About Clayton J. NEWLIN, the following promotional squib was published in Jacob L. Hasbrouck, History of McLean County, Illinois, two volumes (Histoical Publishing Company, Topeka and Indianapolis: 1924), vol. 2, pp. 1023 -1024:

  Clayton J. NEWLIN, well known building contractor of Normal, was born in Parke County, Indiana in 1885 and is a son of John and Mary (MERIWEATHER) NEWLIN.

John NEWLIN was born in Parke County, Indiana in 1841 and his wife is also a native of the same county, born in 1853. They are the parents of three children: E(rvin) M. [born 7 January 1881, Penn Township, Parke County, Inidiana: m1. Blanch BAIRD (died 17 October 1918), 27 September 1908: m2. Xenia CUNNINGHAM (née PERRY), 14 May 1921], married Xenia PERRY, lives at Normal, Illinois; Clayton J., the subject of this sketch and Florence [born 25 April 1883, Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana: m. William Rollin CARMACK (29 September 1879, Vermilion County, Indiana - 25 February 1959), 29 May 1928], lives at Ridge Farm, Illinois. She is librarian at the Carnegie library there. Ridge Farm is the smallest town in the United States having a Carnegie library. Mr. John NEWLIN has been a prominent building contractor in Indiana for many years and he and his wife now live retired at Ridge Farm, Illinois.

Clayton J. NEWLIN received his education in the public schools and after learning the carpenter trade, was employed by M. Yeager & Son at Danville, Illinois where he remained six years. He then was associated with the Fitzsimmons Construction Company of Springfield and in 1916 came to McLean county, locating in Normal. Mr. NEWLIN has had the contract for many public buildings in Illinois and has built fifteen school buildings, among them being the McLean high school.

In 1911, Mr. NEWLIN was married to Miss Sallie M. COX, a native of Tyler, Texas and the daughter of John and Mary (BARRON) COX. Mr. COX was born in Georgia and his wife was a native of Alabama. He served during the Civil war with the Hood's Texas Brigade in Company C. He was a prominent politician of Texas and served as county judge of Smith County for 15 years. Mr. and Mrs. COX are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. NEWLIN two children have been born: John Cox, born at Tyler, Texas in 1912 and Robert Ervin, born at Springfield, Illinois in 1916.

Mr. NEWLIN is a Republican, a member of the Quaker church and belongs to the Masonic lodge and Consistory of Bloomington, the Shrine of Peoria and the Blue lodge of Normal. Mr. NEWLIN has been unusually successful and is considered one of Normal's most efficient citizens.

   

For information concerning the family COX, the author of this Web site has relied upon the notes and memoranda of Oliver Wiley COX, John Calhoun COX, William Camp COX, Della Amanda Cox SLOAN, and Frances Pyron DANCE. Valuable information has been contributed to this Web site by Mrs. Mickie Hill, Mrs. Rebecca Ann Bates Harris, and Mrs. Lois Wessel. With the help of Mrs. Wessel, the author of this web page was able to demonstrate the paternity of John COX (1 November 1727, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey - ABT 1804/05, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina) and Thomas SALTAR (died 1790).

Although the author of this web site does not agree with all of her conclusions, the most valuable record of the family COX, as recounted here, has been left by Frances Lee Pyron Dance (Mrs. John Edwards Dance) (22 August 1876, Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia - 8 April 1960, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia). Her papers, which are voluminous, were microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1986. The microfilm, in four reels, is on file at the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. This material, at the Family History Library, has been catalogued as follows:

  Title: Pyron family genealogical data, ca.1018-1960

Author: Dance, Frances Lee Pyron (Mrs. John Edwards Dance), 1876 - 1960

Notes: Microfilms made of manuscript collection (ca.20,000 leaves in various folders stored in eight boxes and one plastic bag of pedigree charts) loaned by James Thomas Pyron, Jr., Orem, Utah. Includes Buchanan, Cox, Dupuy, Greene, Key, Mize, Polk, Turner, Wyatt and related families. William Pyron (1770-1853), of French lineage, moved from Virginia or North Carolina to Green County, Georgia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Utah and elsewhere. Includes ancestors and others of the family surnames in France and England.

Subjects: Buchanan, Cox, Dupuy, Greene, Key, Mize, Polk, Pyron, Turner, Wyatt

Format: Manuscript (On Film)

Language: English

Publication: Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1982

Physical: on 4 microfilm reels : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports. ; 35 mm.

Film Notes - Location [Film]: Pyron (and other) pedigree charts; Pyron-Johnson, Pyron-Clark, Pyron-Buchanan, Buchanan-Mize, Mize-Wyatt, Cox-Hawkins, Polk genealogical data -  FHL US/CAN Film [ 1035964 ]

Pyron, Wyatt, Mize, Dupuy, Crawford, Skipwith, Greene, Scales, Gordon, Berry, Ballard, Dance, Bryan, Warren, Turner, Allen genealogical data -  FHL US/CAN Film [ 1035965 ]

Wyatt, Pyron-Wyatt, Cox, Holland, Wilsson (Wilson), Allen, Berry (Barru), Beatty, Reade, White, Key, Watts (Watt) genealogical data -  FHL US/CAN Film [ 1035966 ]

Key, Wyatt genealogical data -  FHL US/CAN Film [ 1035967 Item 1 ]

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For information concerning the family BARRON, the author of this web page has relied heavily upon the researches of Mrs. Vicki Barron Kruschwitz who also contributed much to understanding the family STELL in Smith County, Texas. The work of Mrs. Kruschwitz is absolutely first-rate. She is the author of
The William and Martha Smith Barron Family of Georgia, Alabama, and Texas
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/r/u/Vicki-Barron-Kruschwitz/index.html].

   

Persons contributing to this web page are not responsible for the use which its author has made of their information or points of view. All such errors as may be found herein are entirely the fault of the author of this web page.

   

Also see: Marty Grant's Cox Genealogy, Emphasis on Western North Carolina

Also see: The William and Martha Smith Barron Family of Georgia, Alabama, and Texas

 
Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785

The Family Cox: Yellow Meeting House [complete list of Cox burials]

Gaston County, North Carolina: Cox and Holland Memorials

John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917) Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (1)

John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917) Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade (2)

John Calhoun Cox: Battle Flag of the Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade

John Calhoun Cox: Texas Star

John Calhoun Cox: Southern Cross of Honor

John Calhoun Cox (2 January 1836 - 19 February 1917): United States Census of 1870

John Dennis Stell: The Texas Secession Convention

John Dennis Stell: Texas Ordinance of Secession

John Dennis Stell: Address to the People of Texas

Major David M. Whaley: Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade

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