REUBEN COX FAMILY CEMETERY, Anderson County, SC a.k.a. > Version: 3.0 Effective: 25-Jul-2005 Text File: A048.TXT Image Folder: A048 ******************************************************************************** REPRODUCING NOTICE: ------------------- These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the recording contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the following USGenWeb coordinator with proof of this consent. Paul M Kankula - nn8nn (visit above website) SCGenWeb "Golden Corner" Project Coordinator Anderson: http://www.sciway3.net/scgenweb/anderson-county/ Oconee: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scoconee/oconee.html Pickens: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicke2/ DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Sep-2004 GPS MAPPING .... : Gary L. Flynn at (visit above website) in Sep-2004 HISTORY ........ : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Gary L. Flynn at (visit above website) in Sep-2004 RECORDING ...... : Gary L. Flynn at (visit above website) in Sep-2004 ******************************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ 5 miles north of Honea Path Latitude N 34 30.564 x Longitude W 82 24.138 CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ by: Charles McFall, Greenville News Staff Writer, 21-Nov-1969 A fresh blue granite marker, rest at the center of the Reuben Cox family plot, which recently changed from a briar patch through the initiative of Fred D. Cox, 88 (on 21-Nov-1969), of Williamston Hospital. Cox began the project, which was finished late last summer, during early 1964. He solicited funds from more than 100 relatives, made contacts for the improvements, but has not yet been able to see the results. The plot lies in a field five miles southeast of Belton between Shady Grove and Honea Path. Fred Cox recently completed an 18-month project - reclamation of his family's original grave plot near Belton - but he's never seen the results. "I enjoyed it. I got acquainted with a lot of relatives I'd never heard of. But, I'm not planning any more projects. No sirree," he declared. The former farmer, rural mail carrier and postmaster of Toney Creek engineered the job from his home-office quarters, room #1 at Williamston Hospital. The idea to restore the plot developed in 1964 during his seventh year of semi- confinement at the 50-room hospital. During one of his few outings, he visited the site, southeast of Belton between Shady Grove and Honea Path, and found it briar - thatched and cluttered with cedar stumps. A relative revealed she had a sheet from a old family Bible which contained the names of the original S.C. Cox settlers… story goes on. o----------o by: Unknown Greenville News Writer After months of research, correspondence and telephone calls, Fred D. Cox traced the names of 110 living descendants of Reuben Cox (Sr) and dispatched form letters to relatives in North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. "The fact has dawned on me that I am the oldest person in the large Cox family and this thought has come to me and it lingers," he wrote. He explained that "Reuben Cox (Sr) and his bride" came to S.C. from upper Virginia in the middle of the 18th Century, and "their graves are in a briar patch." "I want a nice marker…," he continued. "A large granite slab about four feet wide and seven-and-a-half feet long, engraving for both, coping around the plot, the entire plot covered with crushed granite deep enough so weeds and grass won't come up through it. It will be nice." He estimated that the "must affair" would cost $500. But it cost almost $700 and with receipts from 85 per cent of the relatives to whom he wrote, he still has 40 cents on "family account" in the bank. I never thought I would have that good response," he said, his steady brown hands folded across his lap beneath the rails of an aluminum walking aid. "I haven't been able to get to see it," he said, "but members of the family say it's a good work." He has seen only photographs of it. "Many of the people I wrote have been by to visit with me, some from Alabama and even Newport News, VA. All in all, the family has turned out surprisingly well," he said. "But, he still doesn't plan on another project. "If it hadn't been for that little slip of paper (the family Bible roster), I don't know what I would have done. o----------o As of 2004, someone (farmer?) has ripped a corned off the protective fence that went around the memorial marker. Looks like a hit-and-run accident… TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife COX, Elizabeth Davis, d. 13-dec-1831, h. reuben cox, children Abner, Rachel, David, Frances, Gabriel, Joseph e., Rebecca, Reuben jr. & William COX, Reuben (Sr), d. 1-jul-1835