Carey Cox77 was born Oct 1736 in Orange County, Virginia78, 79, and died 24 Mar 1814 in Putnam County, Georgia80. He married Mary Horne on 176281.
Notes for Carey Cox: Carey Cox fought in the Revolutionary War. He and Mary moved, with their young son William, to Halifax County, North Carolina, and then to Edgefield, South Carolina. Carey Cox was a Baptist minister.
Carey was almost certainly a descendant of Thomas Coxe, who is said to have been of Welsh ancestry and to have settled in Jameston about 1614. Thomas Coxe's children were Ichabod, Sampson, Jesse, Asa, Cary, Rowan, Willis, Oran, Bartley, and George.
From The Cox Family in American, by Henry Miller Cox, 1912, pp. 295-296:
"It is related of [the Thomas Coxe family], that they bought of a Dutch trader, coming up the James River, two African negroes, man and wife. The negro woman nursed the young child, George, until, losing her husband, who died of typhoid fever, she becamse disconsolate and attempted to drown herself, her two sons, and the infant committed to her care. In this state she was successful except in the case of the last named, who was rescued and resuscitated. She loved the children but was influenced, in what she did, by a superstitious notion that after death, they would all rejoin her deceased husband in Africa.
"After about a hundred years, one branch of the family removed to North Carolina, and thence, after another century, or so , to Georgia. After the Revolutionary War, (in which a number of the family served under Washington), the final e in the name, Coxe, was elided and it has since been commonly spelled, Cox. Asa Cox, of Harris County, and Ichabod Cox, of Stewart County, Georgia, were brothers. The latter was a grandfather of Gen. John B. Gordon, and the former, of J.A. Cox, of Tennessee, by whom the statements above recorded, have been communicated. Asa Cox was 91 years old when he died, and his son, (???), the father of J.A. Cox, lived to be 95 years of age.
"No case of tuberculosis is recorded in this family. Physical characteristics: eyes, gray or brown, -- sometimes blue or black; many are tall -- six feet or more; some low in stature; hair, black, brown, and sometimes auburn to red."
More About Carey Cox: Burial: 1814, Near Stanfordville (Putnam County), Georgia.82
More About Carey Cox and Mary Horne: Marriage: 176283
Children of Carey Cox and Mary Horne are:
+Asa Cox, b. 1773, Halifax County, North Carolina84, d. 1863, Harris County, Georgia85.
Carey Cox (b. Oct 1736, d. 24 Mar 1814)
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