John H. Cox
--b. March 6, 1843 Tennessee
--d. July 12, 1885 Washington Co., TN
----buried Allison/Boring/Hodges Cemetery, Boone's Creek, Washington County, TN
--m. Susan A. 'Sue' HODGES
--June 20, 1866 Washington Co., TN
----b. March 10, 1844 Tennessee
----d. September 19, 1911
------buried Allison/Boring/Hodges Cemetery, Boone's Creek, Washington County, TN
----Susan Hodges m/2 George FINE abt 1890
------d/o James H. 'Jimmie' Hodges and Mary 'Polly' KITZMILLER
--------gd/o Roland Hodges and Hannah CHAMBERLAIN
--------gd/o Martin Kitzmiller and Mary Elizabeth DeWALD
----------gt gd/o John George Kitzmiller and Anna Christina KEEFAUVER
----------gt gd/o Henry DeWald and Mary Catherine GREAVER
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Allison/Boring/Hodges Cemetery - Washington Co. TN
Photos: Courtesy of Donna (Cox) Briggs
Cemetery is overgrown and neglected
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My Websites for John H.
- Job(e) Legacy - Gedcom on Rootsweb World Connect
JOB(E) LEGACY
Descendants of Andrew Job Jr
Abram COX 38 m farmer $800 TN Lucinda 28 f TN Adaline 9 f TN John 7 m TN Sam'l 5 m TN
Abraham COX 48 m farmer $2000 $1000 TN Leacenda 38 f domestic TN William 24 m farm laborer TN Adaline S. 19 f domestic TN John 17 m farm laborer TN Samuel R. 19 m TN Elbert D. 9 m TN
John served in Confederate army, Company G 60th Tenn Mtd Inf. He was discharged" due to a back injury" while serving at Vicksburg, Miss.He returned home and recovered enough to be placed in the Home Guard, Sullivan County Reserves
John H. COX Self M Male W 37 TN Farmer TN TN Susan A. COX Wife M Female W 36 TN Keeping House TN TN Lizza M. COX Dau S Female W 4 TN TN TN
Tribute.Died, on the 12th day of July, 1885 in Washington County, Tenn., near the mouth of Boone's creek, John H. Cox, who was born March the 6th, 1843.
The subject of this brief sketch professed faith in Christ in the year of 1861, and was baptised into the fellowship of the Muddy Creek Baptist church, by Elder Kughn, on the first Lords day in March 1861, of which church he remained a true and faithful member until about the year 1878 he was dismissed from said church for the purpose of being in the organization of the "Mount Hermon church," which church, holding him in such high esteem, and having us shaken confidence in his piety, ordained him deacon, in which capacity he served the church in meekness, gentleness, and love till death.
Our brother was a great sufferer from the 7th of Nov. '84 until his departure eight months of continual suffering; though like a man of God he bore it all with patience that characterizes a devoted Christian. Many physicians were called to his bedside, who did all that Man could do, but the hour of his departure was fixed, and he must go and is gone. But we, his brethren who survive him, "Weep not as those who have no hope," for he leaves us the brightest and clearest evidences of an abundant entrance into the "Home of the Soul."
The readers of this paper wou'd expect, naturally, of us, his brothers, to speak only of his virtues and his redeeming traits of character, but we can forget for a moment that he was our brother and that we were all reared at the same "old homestead," and still be true to our sentiments, and say, that as a Christian his record is without blemish. As a husband and father without fault is he. As a citizen, patriot, and friend, there was, there is no gentler, better, nobler man. The upright life he lived, his devotion to his Lord and his cause, his truthful and honest dealings with his fellow-men, assures us that he "rests from his labors" and is realizing the full enjoyment of all that heaven is and all that heaven means.
Connected with his life is his dying testimony. Notwithstanding his extreme and increasing suffering in his last hours, he spent his swiftly passing time in expressions of inexpressible joy; in quoting his favorite verses of scripture, such as "The Lord is my shepherd." "All things work together for good." &c Also, he had a word of exortation for every one. He said he had a clearer idea of the plan of salvation than ever before in life, and it seemed to be his soul's delight to explain it to those who gathered at his home.
He said, looking at matters from a human standpoint he could not be reconciled to leave his wife and child in this cold world, but when "dying grace" enabled him to view it from a divine standpoint, it was grand and glorious to leave this world and be present with the Lord.
It now remains for us to say that our brother was married to Sue A. Hodges, on the 17th day of June, 1866, who, with untiring zeal and undying devotion and incessant care, complied with her marriage vow until his death; and we, his brothers, feel that we shall ever respect, honor, and protect her, for the affectionate manner in which she waited, watched and nursed him in his sickness till his latest breath.
He leaves one child, a girl of nine summers, for which he expressed greatest concern. His last words were, "Here is my darling little Mandy; bless them little hands; be a good girl, and meet me in heaven.”
"Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep."
E. D. Cox.
Feb 18, ’86. S. R. Cox.
George FINE W. head m w 65 m1-20yrs TN TN TN farmer/general farming Susan A. wife f w 66 m2-20yrs TN TN TN Minnie V., dau f w 16 s TN TN TN Maude L. Cox step-dau f w 34 s TN TN TN
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Ann (Jobe) Brown
