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1 NAME Timmie Van Cox
1 ADDR 2525 Whisper Trail
2 CONT Douglasville, GA 30135
2 CONT Douglas
1 PHON (404) 949-8067
0 @I58@ INDI
1 NAME Mordecai /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JAN 1813
2 PLAC Probably Pendleton District, SC
2 NOTE The date Jan 1813 is derived at from his Tom Stone in the Freeman-Cox 
3 CONT Cemetary, in White Co.
1 DEAT
2 DATE        1887
2 PLAC Cleveland, GA White Co.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Freeman-Cox Cemetery; White Co., GA
2 NOTE He and his brother Cary lived in Habersham Co., GA in 1850. According to 
3 CONT Family Group Sheet of Dr. R. Lanier Jones, he was a farmer and black- 
3 CONT smith in cleveland, GA.
2 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
3 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
3 CONT 32034
1 FAMC @F22@
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer and blacksmith in Cleveland, Ga He and brother Cary 
2 CONT lived in Habersham Co., GA in 1850.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Gail Bean writes, "I believe he was born in S.C. in the Pendelton 
2 CONT district, because that was where his family lived at the time of his 
2 CONT birth. When he wrote his will in 1885, he stated that he was 72 and had 
2 CONT lived in Georgia 62 years. So that means he moved to Ga. around 1822-23, 
2 CONT and lived in the White Co. area until his death in 1887. I found Mordecai 
2 CONT listed in an Index of Residents of-Pg20B Habersham Co., GA entitled to two 
2 CONT draws in the 1832 Gold Land Lottery. Upon further investigation, I found 
2 CONT his listed as a winner. He won 125 acres, in the 27th district, 3rd 
2 CONT section, lot 125, then Walker County.... He was a farmer, and his real 
2 CONT estate in the 1850 Census was listed to value $3,000.00.
2 CONT 
2 CONT (THE FOLLOWING SOURSE WAS FROM R. LANIER JONES' MOTHER AND A LETTER TO HIM 
2 CONT FROM GAIL COX BEAN 17 JULY 1990.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I ran across these deeds a few years ago but until now it didn't make 
2 CONT sense: -----Mordecai Cox to Rhoda Palmer marriage settlement 8-10-1839 
2 CONT [Aug. 10] Hab. Co. Deeds Book 0 page 638. -----Mordecai Cox from Rhoda 
2 CONT Palmer Deed 7-29-1839. (age 27) Hab. Co. Deed Book-P page 206. 
2 CONT -----Mordecai Cox to Rhoda, S.C. & A. Palmer (age 27) Deed 7-29-1840 Book 
2 CONT P page 206. -----Then he is listed on Hab. Co. deeds (age 28) in 
2 CONT 11-15-1841 (he could only have lived somewhere else between 1841 - 1849)."
2 CONT 
2 CONT This suggests that Mordecai's first wife was Rhoda Palmer. Need to check 
2 CONT for her in Union and Fannin Counties.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT HISTORY NOTES: by Dr. R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 
2 CONT Our Cox family left Westchester, England about 1750 and settled near 
2 CONT Redding, Pa. About 1780 moved to the area of Harper's Ferry, Virginia and 
2 CONT on to Blue Ridge, Georgia probably before the turn of the century.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "COX HISTORY" written by Herbert Carey Cox and dated 29 Apr 1975 states: 
2 CONT "The Cox's, best as I know, came from near Redding, Pennsylvania, and 
2 CONT later settled at Harper's Ferry, Va. around 1780. They then traveled south 
2 CONT to Blue Ridge, Ga. around the turn of the century (18th). From Blue Ridge, 
2 CONT my grandfather went to Greenville, S.C. where he married his second wife, 
2 CONT Lindie Nicholson, and started back to Blue Ridge where his first family 
2 CONT lived until his wife died. They, so I was told, sent one of their brothers 
2 CONT to find his father and tell him not to bring his new wife back to Blue 
2 CONT Ridge. So he found his father as he was passing through Cleveland, Ga. and 
2 CONT told him what the others had said. Well, he just turned in and opened a 
2 CONT blacksmith shop in Cleveland and started our family. So, here it is and 
2 CONT you are welcome to it!" Uncle Herbert listed the family and ended with: 
2 CONT "P.S. Uncle Silas Cox told me when I was about 12 years old that the 
2 CONT Cox'es were dumped out of West Chester, England around 1750. I don't know 
2 CONT if he was joking or not! Herbert . . . "one of the clan" Herbert's 
2 CONT grandfather would be Mordicai Cox and his father Bailey Martin Cox. His 
2 CONT sister Jessie Ireta Cox is my mother. (Ransom Lanier Jones #6).
2 CONT 
2 CONT Elntitled to two draws in the Gold Land Lottery in 1832. He won 125 acres 
2 CONT in the 27th District, 3rd section, lot 125, then Walker County.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Record of Mount Younah Church (? Baptist) 11 April 1840: Listed on the 
2 CONT Presbytery: Mordicai Cox, Cary Cox and Malinda Cox.
1 SOUR From research book by Gail Bean 
0 @I60@ INDI
1 NAME William /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE    MAR 1761
2 PLAC VA.
2 NOTE Gail Bean: One record shows 1764, but that doesn't seem logical since his 
3 CONT brother Jesse was also born in 1764.
3 CONT 
3 CONT Shelby 9NGXT17A PRODIGY: William lived in Halifax Co., NC at enlistment. 
3 CONT About 1790, William moved to Edgefield Dist., SC then to Pendleton Dist., 
3 CONT SC and in 1822 moved to Habersham Co., GA and died March 21, 1848, leaving 
3 CONT no widow.
3 CONT 
3 CONT Lenorado Andrea files states that William Cox was born in VA in 1761.
2 SOUR Shelby (NGX517A) PRODIGY b. 1761
2 SOUR From the Book THE COX FAMILY, THE BRADFORD FAMILY
3 CONT by Julian Hart Robertson, a descendant
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 MAR 1848
2 PLAC White Co GA
2 NOTE  Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data From Revolutionary War Pension 
3 CONT and Bounty Land Warrant Records Volume 1--Aaron through Cyrus, compiled by 
3 CONT Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col., U.S. Army Retired, Heritage Books, Inc. Page 
3 CONT 254 states that William died 3/2/1848 instead of 3/21/1848 which we have 
3 CONT in our files.
2 SOUR Linda Kenedy from the Leonardo Andreas files.
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Moved to
2 DATE ABT        1790
2 PLAC Edgefield Co., SC then
2 SOUR From notes by Gail Bean
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Moved to
2 DATE AFT        1799
2 PLAC Pendleton District, SC.
2 SOUR Gail Bean's Research
3 CONT Dallas, GA
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Moved to
2 DATE        1822
2 PLAC Habersham Co., GA
2 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
1 FAMC @F182@
1 FAMS @F22@
1 NOTE 
2 CONT Merged General Note:
2 CONT AUTHOR: Leonardo Andreas Files at the South Caroliniana Library in 
2 CONT Columbia and copied by Linda J. Kennedy of Columbus, GA.
2 CONT 
2 CONT William Cox, son of Carey Cox, was born in Virginia in 1761 and served in 
2 CONT the revolutionary war enlisting in Halifax Co., NC, 16 Apr 1776 as a 
2 CONT private and was discharged 10 Nov 1778. He was wed in 1794 to Katherine 
2 CONT McKenney, born in NJ 1775 and died 1841. William moved to Edgefield Co., 
2 CONT SC in or about 1790 and from there he moved to Pendleton District, SC 
2 CONT (Anderson Co., SC and 1822 he moved to Habersham Co., GA. Here he died 21 
2 CONT Mar 1848 and left these surviving children as noted in his will. Jeremiah 
2 CONT Cox, m____Picket, daughter of James. William Cox, Cary Cox, Frances Beard, 
2 CONT Eli Cox, to Weatherford TX., Mordecai Cox, age 37 in 1850, Dinah 
2 CONT Langhston.
2 CONT 
2 CONT AUTHOR: VIRGINIA/WEST VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL DATA FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR 
2 CONT PENSON AND BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORDS.
2 CONT   Volume 1, Compiled by patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col., U.S. Army Retired
2 CONT   HERITAGE BOOKS, INC. Page 255.
2 CONT 
2 CONT   William, b 1761 Halifax Co., VA; mvd as ch with family to where esf 
2 CONT 1779; all svc as an indian spy; PN 1833 Lawrence Co, KY; PN suspended 1835 
2 CONT after reexamination of svc & requested to provide further proof of svc 
2 CONT which sol did not provide; dd 1837. R672
2 CONT   This does not appear to be the same William Cox as the William Cox, 
2 CONT above.
2 CONT 
2 CONT   The following William found in the same book, Page 254, appears to be 
2 CONT our William:
2 CONT   William, esf 1776 Halifax Co., NC; b 1762 VA;mvd to Edgefield District, 
2 CONT SC, c1790, thence Pendleton District, SC, thence 1822 to Habersham Co., 
2 CONT GA, where PN 1845; dd 3/2/48 leaving no wid but ch: William, Jeremiah, 
2 CONT Eli, Mordecai, Cary, Dianah Langston, & Frances Beard; s Mordecai ae 39 in 
2 CONT 1852; sol f Cary also RW sol & wounded in battle. R672
1 SOUR Catherine Cox said this information was in the
2 CONT HEAD-COX AND ALLIED FAMILIES 1615-1942
0 @I61@ INDI
1 NAME Katie Roberts /ARTHUR/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE        1775
2 PLAC  
2 SOUR 
3 CONT Andrea Micro Films (Cox Files)
1 DEAT
2 DATE        1845
1 FAMS @F22@
1 SOUR Helen Cox Robinson Graves's Book
2 CONT Shed lived at 707 Penna Ave., Clearwater, Fla. before her death.
0 @I62@ INDI
1 NAME Eli /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JAN 1810
2 PLAC Edgefield Co., SC
2 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 SEP 1869
2 PLAC or near Weatherford, TX
2 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
1 FAMC @F22@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I63@ INDI
1 NAME Cary /COX/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 BIRT
2 DATE        1815
1 FAMC @F22@
1 NOTE Per Louis P. Cox Cary was one of the original County Commissioners of 
2 CONT White Co. GA.
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data From Revolutionary War Pension 
2 CONT and Bounty Land Warrant Records Volume 1--Aaron through Cyrus, compiled by 
2 CONT Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col., U.S. Army Retired, Heritage Books, Inc. Page 
2 CONT 254 states that Cary was also RW Sol & wounded in battle.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I67@ INDI
1 NAME Martha (Lady Cary) /UNKNOWN/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE        1812
2 NOTE After husband's death lived with son Cary in GA 
1 FAMS @F58@
1 SOUR From research book by Gail Bean 
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I153@ INDI
1 NAME William /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC St. Thomas Parish, Orange Co VA
1 DEAT
2 DATE        1752
2 NOTE Lived on Lynches River in Hanover County 
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Will Probated
2 DATE 28 MAY 1752
2 PLAC St. Thomas Parish, Orange Co., VA on Thursday (Will book 2, page
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Will Dated
2 DATE 20 JUN 1751
1 FAMC @F59@
1 FAMS @F58@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
1 SOUR The children are also noted in the Andrea Micro Films Cox Files in the 
2 CONT Carolinian Library, Columbia, SC
0 @I155@ INDI
1 NAME James /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC England-Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE        1738
2 PLAC Orange Co., VA
2 NOTE Lived in Orange Co., VA. Had another brother named William
3 CONT 
3 CONT Mrs. Sybil T. McCluskey's records show dod as 1739
2 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
3 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
3 CONT 32034
2 SOUR Sybil (Talley) McMluskey
3 CONT 415 9th Street South
3 CONT E. Gadsden, AL 35903
3 CONT Date: 12-3-1993
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Will Probated
2 DATE 22 FEB 1738
2 PLAC the Clerk's Office of Orange Co., VA in Will Book 1, Page 72
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Will Dated
2 DATE 12 DEC 1735
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Lived
2 PLAC St. Marks parish in the Co. of Orange, VA
2 SOUR Will of James Cox.
1 FAMC @F196@
1 FAMS @F59@
1 NOTE History Notes: Will Orange County, VA probated 2-22-1738 1.  William Cox   
2 CONT  150 acres 2.  Naomi Cox      180 acres 3.  James Cox      200 acres plus 
2 CONT 150 acres 4.  Frances        200 acres 5.  John Cox       200 acres James' 
2 CONT brother William to receive 400 acres if he pays 9 pounds to estate within 
2 CONT one month
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sources ---- Death...Will dated 12 Dec 1738 and proved 22 Feb 1738
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I156@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth Cox /UNKNOWN/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT        1738
2 PLAC Orange Co., VA
2 SOUR Sybil (Talley) McMluskey
3 CONT 415 9th Street South
3 CONT E. Gadsden, AL 35903
3 CONT Date: 12-3-1993
1 FAMS @F59@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I170@ INDI
1 NAME  /COX/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F22@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
1 SOUR Helen Cox Robinson Graves's Book
2 CONT Shed lived at 707 Penna Ave., Clearwater, Fla. before her death.
0 @I171@ INDI
1 NAME Unknown /COX/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F22@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
1 SOUR Helen Cox Robinson Graves's Book
2 CONT Shed lived at 707 Penna Ave., Clearwater, Fla. before her death.
0 @I335@ INDI
1 NAME Toliver (Tolliaferro) /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Not our line (Tim Cox)
1 FAMC @F58@
1 NOTE  See Page 110 Cox Files of Andrea Microfilms.
1 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
0 @I348@ INDI
1 NAME William /COX/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Will Dated
2 DATE  6 OCT 1798
2 SOUR 
3 CONT Andrea Micro Films (Cox Files)
1 FAMC @F58@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I349@ INDI
1 NAME Tyre /COX/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F58@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I583@ INDI
1 NAME Minor W. /COX/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT        1805
1 FAMC @F22@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
0 @I584@ INDI
1 NAME Carey /COX/
1 SEX M
1 TITL Sr.
1 REFN Rev.
1 BIRT
2 DATE    OCT 1736
2 PLAC Orange Co. VA
2 NOTE   Orrend D. Cox's Family Bible according to Gail Cox Bean:
3 CONT    Cary Cox, Sr. was born in Halifax Co., NC about 1736; died in Putnam 
3 CONT Co., GA, March 24, 1814; married Mary Horne in 1762, who died in Putnam 
3 CONT Co., GA, Sept. 23, 1823. They were burried in the Cox burial grounds near 
3 CONT Stanfordsville, about twelve miles from Eatonton, Ga.
3 CONT 
3 CONT   The Lenorado Andrea files says Cary was born in 1746 and that he first 
3 CONT spelled his name as Coxe and most likely is from the Coxe family of 
3 CONT Virginia who married into the Carey family in VA. His first wife (mother 
3 CONT of his children) was Mary Horne whose family were of Putnam Co., GA, and 
3 CONT they married in Edgefield Co., SC. She died 2 Sep 1823.     The files 
3 CONT further state, "CHILDREN"          William Cox b. 1764 or 1761   M. 
3 CONT Katherine McKinney          Jesse Cox   b. 1766           M. 
3 CONT Delany__________.          Ichabod     b. 1768           M. Mary Rowan     
3 CONT      Asa         b. 1773           M. Mary Roundtree          James       
3 CONT b.                M. and had issue          Clara       b.                
3 CONT M. and had issue    The files goes on to say, "I am at a loss to decipher 
3 CONT the data.... His first wife was Mary Horne of Putnam Co., GA, when he 
3 CONT married in
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1814
2 PLAC Putnam Co GA
2 NOTE   Cary Cox died at age seventy-eight.
3 CONT   Mrs. Helen Robinson Graves as well as Head-Cox book records shows that 
3 CONT Cary Cox, Sr. died 24 March 1814 instead of 14 March 1814. 
3 CONT   The Book, John B. Gordon, states that Cary Cox died October 24, 1814.
2 SOUR THE COX FAMILY 8 GENERATIONS
3 CONT THE BRADFORD FAMILY GENERATIONS
3 CONT BY JULIAN HART ROBERTSON
1 BURI
2 PLAC Cox-Griggs Burying Ground Cemetary near home, in woods of O.N.F.
2 NOTE Rev. War (#157234); Listed in DAR PATRIOTS 
3 CONT 
3 CONT Carey is buried in Oconee National Forest with his wife Mary Horne.
2 SOUR From the Book THE COX FAMILY, THE BRADFORD FAMILY
3 CONT by Julian Hart Robertson, a descendant
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Moved to
2 DATE ABT        1790/1794
2 PLAC from Halifax Co., NC to Edgefield Co., SC
2 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Enlisted in
2 PLAC the Revelotion from Halifax Co., NC
2 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Moved to
2 DATE BET        1800/1805
2 PLAC Warren Co., GA
2 NOTE  Julian Roberts states that by 1807 Cary and Cary, Jr. had again moved 
3 CONT about fifty miles farther west to their final home and resting place at 
3 CONT Stanfordville in the south-west corner of Putnam County, GA about twelve 
3 CONT miles from Eatonton.   The record shows they began to acquire land there 
3 CONT in 1807. Stanfordville was a thriving town in 1830's but it now is 
3 CONT completely gone and difficult to locate. According to the Eatonton 
3 CONT Messenger of July 26, 1960, prior to 1840 Stanfordville was also called 
3 CONT Devils Half Acre, and was a place where gamblers, cockfighters, and 
3 CONT drunkards, including Indians, came on weekends to drink, race, gamble and 
3 CONT fight chickens and each other.
2 SOUR From the Book THE COX FAMILY, THE BRADFORD FAMILY
3 CONT by Julian Hart Robertson, a descendant
1 FAMC @F58@
1 FAMS @F182@
1 NOTE From a book compiled by Gail Bean:
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 9: He and his oldest son William served in the N.C. Line in the 
2 CONT Revolutionary War where CARY had a finger shot off. Cary moved ca. 1788 to 
2 CONT SC and was recorded in the Edgefield District in the 1790 Census. He moved 
2 CONT to Warren Co., Ga., by 1795, and Putnam Co., Ga. in 1807. Cary Sr. was a 
2 CONT primitive Baptist Minister, although no record has been found where he 
2 CONT served any church. He and his wife were buried on the plantation of his 
2 CONT son CARY JR. with whom they were living, which is now part of the Ocene 
2 CONT National Forest. PAGE 12: The Baptist Church of Christ at Williams Creek 
2 CONT was constituted Dec. 22, 1787 at the headwaters of Williams Creek of 
2 CONT Little River in that section of Wilkes co., which became Warren Co., by 
2 CONT the Act of 1793. It was associated with Powell's Creek Church (Powellton 
2 CONT Baptist Church), Fulsom Creek Church (The Church of Horeb), and churches 
2 CONT at Phillips Mill, Long Creek, and Whatley's Mills. Since minutes of the 
2 CONT Powellton Church of 1793 include excommunication of members for "having 
2 CONT broken communion with the General Baptist," it is assumed that all of 
2 CONT these churches were under control of the "Particular Baptist" who had 
2 CONT accepted Calvinist learning and became most prominent in the Carolinas in 
2 CONT the latter half of the eighteenth century. The minutes of Williams Creek 
2 CONT Church of Jan. 9, 1796 also included the admonition "... if any member of 
2 CONT the church join the Free Masons he is to be excommunicated." The following 
2 CONT items relative to the cox family was extracted from the minutes of the 
2 CONT Baptist Church of Christ at Williams Creek: Feb. 7, 1795 - Received Carey 
2 CONT Cox and Mary his wife by letter. 
2 CONT May  9, 1795 - Carey Cox one of those appointed as helps to Powell's Creek 
2 CONT Church. Jun. 12, 1795 - Ichabod Cox and Mary his wife were received by 
2 CONT letter. An alphabetical list of members on page 25 obviously added to and 
2 CONT crossed out for a number of years indicates that Catherine Cox was 
2 CONT excommunicated.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Notes by Dr. Lanier Ransom Jones:   Listed in DAR PATRIOTS.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT AUTHOR: Andrea Lenorado
2 CONT    Carey Cox received land grant after the Revolution in the amount of 464 
2 CONT achres in Edgefield Co. 5 Sep 1791.
2 CONT  
2 CONT AUTHOR: Julian Hart Robertson in THE COX FAMILY, THE BRADFORD FAMILY
2 CONT 
2 CONT    The first we know of Cary Cox is that he was living in Virginia in 
2 CONT March 1761 with his wife where and when his fis first child William was 
2 CONT born. This is based upon a prepared statement sworn to by William when he 
2 CONT successfully applied for a pension as a Rev. War vet. on Nov. 27, 1845, 
2 CONT Certificate 33083 Ga. Willima's mind appears very clear at that time even 
2 CONT though he was to be "eighty-five years of age in March next ensuing,"
2 CONT    Submitted by Dr. R. Lanier Jones 
2 CONT Cary Cox and his second wife, Mary Horne, are the earliest known ancestors 
2 CONT of our Cox family who can be positively 
2 CONT identified. 
2 CONT    The first we know of Cary Cox is that he was living in Virginia in 
2 CONT March 1761 with his first wife where and when his 
2 CONT first child William was born. This is based upon a prepared statement 
2 CONT sworn to by William when he successfully applied 
2 CONT for a pension as a Revolutionary War veteran on November 27, 1845, 
2 CONT Certificate 33083 Georgia. William’s mind 
2 CONT appears very clear at that time even though he was to be “eighty-five 
2 CONT years of age in March next ensuing,” ergo born in 
2 CONT March 1761. He stated he had no records but that he enlisted as a 
2 CONT substitute on “April 15 or 16 in the year seventeen 
2 CONT hundred seventy-six in the village of Halifax,” N.C., served in “Captain 
2 CONT Caswel’s Company of the 5th Regiment,” and 
2 CONT was “discharged in October or November 1778.” William’s younger 
2 CONT half-brothers, Ichabod and Asa, attested to the 
2 CONT accuracy of the application. 
2 CONT Family historians believe that Cary Cox was born in Virginia because his 
2 CONT first son was born there. We do not know 
2 CONT the name of Cary’s first wife (the mother of William) nor do we know 
2 CONT anything of Cary’s parents, brothers and/or sisters 
2 CONT or of his life prior to William’s birth. The considerable reference to 
2 CONT William here is because through him we have 
2 CONT contemporary information about Cary. Cary, Jr., Cary’s fifth son, is our 
2 CONT ancestor and the grandfather of Henry Clay Cox. 
2 CONT Cary Cox, according to William’s pension application, moved to North 
2 CONT Carolina soon after William was born. He first 
2 CONT appears in the Court House records of Halifax County, North Carolina in 
2 CONT February 1764 as witness to a will, Will Book 
2 CONT 1, page 132. Thereafter until about 1788 his name often appears in deeds 
2 CONT in Northampton, Halifax and Warren (the 
2 CONT Butte) Counties. 
2 CONT Cary Cox married Mary (Horne) Chappell between November 11, 1763 and May 
2 CONT 14, 1765, probably in Northampton 
2 CONT County, NC where she was living when Thomas Chappell’s will was probated 
2 CONT in February 1764. Cary and Mary spent 
2 CONT the long remainder of their lives together. No record of their marriage 
2 CONT could be found. 
2 CONT Cary Cox and “Mary his wife” sold 94 acres in Northampton Co., NC “the 
2 CONT plantation whereon Cary Cox now lives” 
2 CONT on May 14, 1765 to Thomas Wilburn for 32 pounds. The deed, Deed Book 3, 
2 CONT page 371, refers to the “Right of said 
2 CONT wife’s Dower in the Thomas Chappell Estate, Deceased.” 
2 CONT This sequence of events is based upon available Court House records. It 
2 CONT varies from the record in Cary Cox’s grandson 
2 CONT Orren D. Cox’s bible as quoted on page 110 of Mary Head Burton’s Head-Cox 
2 CONT and Allied Families 1615-1942 in the 
2 CONT Georgia State Archives. Orren D. Cox was born in 1809 and the early 
2 CONT entries probably were made decades later and 
2 CONT based on legend. It states Cary Cox was born, about 1736 in Halifax Co. 
2 CONT NC. The date is reasonable but most family 
2 CONT genealogists, including Mrs. Burton, believe that he was born in Virginia. 
2 CONT It states that he married Mary Horne in 1762, 
2 CONT and that William was born in 1764 rather than March 1761 as William 
2 CONT himself attested. In 1762 Mary Horne was the 
2 CONT wife of Thomas Chappell. Had William been born in March 1764 he would have 
2 CONT been barely twelve when he entered 
2 CONT the Army in April 1776. It was common for boys of fourteen and fifteen to 
2 CONT be enlisted to support combat troops and 
2 CONT William’s affidavit indicates this is what he did during his service. Such 
2 CONT differences are not surprising and should not 
2 CONT discredit either Mrs. Burton’s book or Orren D. Cox’s bible records. Both 
2 CONT have made essential contributions to Cox 
2 CONT family history. 
2 CONT Cary Cox’s children are listed below. All except William are by Mary Horne 
2 CONT Cox and were born in Halifax Co., NC. 
2 CONT 1 William (direct ancestor of Tim Cox)  1761 - 1848, m Mrs. Katy Roberts 
2 CONT Arthur. 
2 CONT 2 Jesse 	1766 - 1834, m 1st Nancy Taylor, 2nd Nancy Hobbs. 
2 CONT 3 Ichabod 1769 - 1861, m Mary Rowan 1775 - 1843. 
2 CONT 4 Asa 		1773 - 1864, m Mariah Roundtree 
2 CONT 5 Clara	1775 -	m Southall 
2 CONT 6 Cary, Jr.	1778 - 1871 m Martha Roundtree 
2 CONT 7 James	1779	m Eva Delaney Robertson 
2 CONT 8 Bethany	1831,	m James Dismukes. 
2 CONT Cary Cox is considered to have been a soldier of the Revolution. His grave 
2 CONT was so marked in 1929 and he is included 
2 CONT in the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Patriots Index. The DAR says 
2 CONT it credits his military service solely to the 
2 CONT depositions by his sons, Ichabod and Asa, in William’s pension 
2 CONT application. They stated that Cary went to the Army with 
2 CONT William, but being seven and three years old in 1776, they are not likely 
2 CONT to remember accurately an event occurring 
2 CONT sixty-nine years earlier. There is nothing in the accredited American 
2 CONT Revolution Roster of the Fort Sullivan Chapter of 
2 CONT the Daughters of the American Revolution of Charleston, SC (which includes 
2 CONT William’s service record), the South 
2 CONT Carolina Department of Archives and History, or the National Archives to 
2 CONT indicate that Cary was ever a soldier. Soldier 
2 CONT or not he was a valuable citizen and he and his sons made a substantial 
2 CONT contribution to the development of the Carolina's 
2 CONT and Georgia. 
2 CONT The Cox family, except William, left Halifax in 1788 or 1789 and headed 
2 CONT south and west seeking better land. The 
2 CONT 1790 Census listed them as residents of Edgefield District, South 
2 CONT Carolina. About 1790 Wiliam, who probably had 
2 CONT married by then, joined the family and after a few years he moved on to 
2 CONT Pendleton District, South Carolina. Cary, Jr. 
2 CONT married Martha Roundtree of Edgefield in January 1799 and Asa married her 
2 CONT sister Mariah. In 1800 the Coxes began to 
2 CONT sell their land in Edgefield. 
2 CONT The next move was sixty miles west to Warren County, Georgia. The Warren 
2 CONT County tax lists of 1805 report that Cary 
2 CONT paid poll tax and Cary, Jr., then six years married, paid tax on two 
2 CONT tracts of land and two slaves. 
2 CONT By 1807 Cary and Cary, Jr. had again moved about fifty miles farther west 
2 CONT to their final home and resting place at 
2 CONT Stanfordville in the south-west corner of Putnam Co., Ga. about twelve 
2 CONT miles from Eatonton. The record shows they 
2 CONT began to acquire land there in 1807. Stanfordville was a thriving town in 
2 CONT the 1830’s but it now is completely gone and 
2 CONT difficult to locate. According to the Eatonton Messenger on July 26, 1960, 
2 CONT prior to 1840 Stanfordville was also called 
2 CONT Devils Half Acre, and was a place where gamblers, cock fighters, and 
2 CONT drunkards, including Indians, came on weekends 
2 CONT to drink, race, gamble and fight chickens and each other. 
2 CONT Families like the Coxes were essential to the times and the places they 
2 CONT lived. Cary was a pioneer-settler continually 
2 CONT pushing out into less developed or new territory. Many of his descendants 
2 CONT became leaders in Georgia and adjoining 
2 CONT states. Cary Cox’s sons settled in Georgia counties: William in Habersham, 
2 CONT Jesse in Jones, Ichabod in Talbot, Asa in 
2 CONT Harris, Cary, Jr. in Putnam and James in Lee. They had many children. 
2 CONT Probably Cary’s best known descendant is his 
2 CONT great-grandson, John B. Gordon, Major General in the Confederate Army, 
2 CONT Governor and U.S. Senator from Georgia. 
2 CONT Cary Cox died at age seventy-eight on March 14, 1814 and was buried in 
2 CONT Cox-Griggs Burying Ground, near his home, 
2 CONT in the woods of the Oconee National Forest, where Mary was to follow him 
2 CONT when she died, September 23, 1823.  
2 CONT 
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
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1 NAME Unknown /UNKNOWN/
1 SEX F
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1 NAME Unknown /COX/
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1 EVEN
2 TYPE HISTORY
2 NOTE AUTHOR: Dr. R. Lanier Jones
3 CONT 
3 CONT Our Cox family left Westchester, England about 1750 and settled near 
3 CONT Redding, Pa. About 1780 moved to the area of Harper's Ferry, Virginia and 
3 CONT on to Blue Ridge, Georgia probably before the turn of the century.
3 CONT 
3 CONT 
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1 SEX F
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1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
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1 NAME James /COX/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F59@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
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1 NAME Francis /COX/
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F59@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
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1 NAME John /COX/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F59@
1 NOTE   There was a John Cox of Savannah in the announcements of marriages in 
2 CONT the Charleston Times as follows:
2 CONT   Apr. 22, 1802
2 CONT   Married on Tuesday evening, by the Rev. Dr. Buist, Mr. John Cox of 
2 CONT Savannah, mathematican, to the agreeable Miss Jane Wyle, of this place. 
2 CONT   I don't know if this whether or not this is a connection between our 
2 CONT John.
2 CONT 
2 CONT   Tim Cox
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
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1 NAME William /COX/
1 SEX M
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1 SEX  
1 FAMC @F58@
1 SOUR From R. Lanier Jones
2 CONT 1344 Harrison Point Trail, Fernandina Beach, FL
2 CONT 32034
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1 NAME Thomas /COXE/
1 SEX M
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Lived
2 DATE ABT        1640
2 PLAC Jamestown
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1 NOTE   Mrs. Graves states that Cary Cox, Sr. "Descendant of Thomas Cox, to 
2 CONT Jamestown, 1640?"
2 CONT   The following two paragraphs are from the book: JOHN B. GORDON by Allen 
2 CONT P. Tankersley.
2 CONT   According to family tradition the earliest ancestor was Thomas Coxe, a 
2 CONT Welchman, who settled at Jamestown, Virginia about 1614. The story goes 
2 CONT that his people had resisted James I, of England, and for that reason 
2 CONT their lands were confiscated. After Thomas Coxe came to Virginia, he 
2 CONT acquired extensive holdings on James River and died a well-to-do man.
2 CONT   There was another story that he was the father of ten sons, Asa, 
2 CONT Ichabod, Sampson, Jesse, Cary, Rowan, Willis, Oran, Bartley, and George, 
2 CONT but all except the youngest were drowned by a Negro slave who had lost her 
2 CONT mind when her mate died of typhoid fever; however, George, the youngest, 
2 CONT was resuscitated and became the ancestor of Malinda Cox, the mother of 
2 CONT John B. Gordon.
2 CONT     
1 SOUR Helen Cox Robinson Graves's Book
2 CONT Shed lived at 707 Penna Ave., Clearwater, Fla. before her death.
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1 MARR
2 DATE        1794
2 PLAC NC
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1 SOUR Andrea, Leonardo Files found in the Carolinian Library in Columbia, SC.
1 SOUR Helen Cox Robinson Graves's Book
2 CONT Shed lived at 707 Penna Ave., Clearwater, Fla. before her death.
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1 CHIL @I349@
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1 CHIL @I335@
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1 MARR
2 DATE        1698
2 PLAC St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co VA
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1 CHIL @I628@
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1 CHIL @I630@
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