{"id":2454,"date":"2012-06-30T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2012-06-30T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:33:25","slug":"edward-cox-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/edward-cox-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Cox Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located on Sells Road in the Bluff City area of Sullivan County.\u00a0 The two graves were moved from their original location on the Edward Cox Farm.<\/p>\n

Photographed and transcribed Aug, 2006 by Donna Briggs and Robert Shell. House and marker photos by Sharon Steele-Smith.<\/p>\n

Map location: Bluff City Quad<\/p>\n

GPS location:\u00a0 36\u00b0 29.172N\u00a0 082\u00b0 15.136W<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The historical marker (1a 68) reads: “EDWARD COX HOME. This pioneer from Maryland build the house which stands 0.1 mi. N. in 1773, bringing his bride here in 1775. Following his return from the Revolution, he opened his home to Methodist missionary preachers. Bishop Francis Asbury was a frequent visitor, and held an early conference in this house.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Tennessee Historical Commission<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
NAME<\/strong><\/td>\nBIRTH<\/strong><\/td>\nDEATH<\/strong><\/td>\nCOMMENTS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cox, Edward<\/td>\nCa. 1758<\/td>\n1850<\/td>\nPioneer Methodists [Shares marker with Sallie Cox]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cox, Sallie<\/td>\nCa. 1752<\/td>\n1840<\/td>\nPioneer Methodists [Shares marker with Edward Cox]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Located on Sells Road in the Bluff City area of Sullivan County.\u00a0 The two graves were moved from their original location on the Edward Cox Farm. Photographed and transcribed Aug, 2006 by Donna Briggs and Robert Shell. House and marker …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}