{"id":2468,"date":"2012-06-30T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2012-06-30T13:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:38:27","slug":"jack-cox-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/jack-cox-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Cox Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located in the Regency Park subdivision off of Highway 23 in the Colonial Heights area of Sullivan County.\u00a0 There are what appear to be fieldstones piled up against a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Near this location, on the site of the Rock Heritage Church a grave was found in the 1970s while excavating for the subdivision.\u00a0 The grave reportedly was a woman and a baby.\u00a0 This story was told to me in the 1970s by the family of the developer.\u00a0 In 2004, I was contacted by a member of the Cox family who indicated their family had a cemetery near this area.\u00a0 The woman and baby in the grave were Lucretia Hale Cox, wife of Noah Cox and their stillborn infant.\u00a0 The cemetery was cared for by a descendant until his death in 1973.\u00a0 He was reportedly the only one who knew where the graves were.\u00a0 I have been unable to determine if the graves were moved.\u00a0 Noah and second wife Evaline are both buried at the Fordtown Baptist Church Cemetery. \u00a0 <em>~ Donna Briggs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Map Location: 5376A\u00a0 Boone Dam Quad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is only one marker that reads:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Erected 1953<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In Memory of Deceased<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In Jack Cox Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cox-Jack-Cemetery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2469\" title=\"Cox Jack Cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cox-Jack-Cemetery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cox-Jack-Cemetery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cox-Jack-Cemetery-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cox-Jack-Cemetery.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Additional information<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1860 Census of Sullivan County, 14<sup>th<\/sup> District, page 503, household # 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COX, Noah\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 32<\/p>\n<p>Lucretia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 34<\/p>\n<p>James \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<\/p>\n<p>Wilbern\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<\/p>\n<p>Cordelia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a05<\/p>\n<p>Virga\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a03<\/p>\n<p>Mary A. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in the Regency Park subdivision off of Highway 23 in the Colonial Heights area of Sullivan County.\u00a0 There are what appear to be fieldstones piled up against a tree. Near this location, on the site of the Rock Heritage <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/jack-cox-cemetery\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6172,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/6172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}