Cox Cemetery

William Driscol Cox (1839-97) and his wife Amanda (Shugart) moved with their family from Tennessee to Texas in 1872. Cox taught in Robertson County, then in 1876 bought and moved to a 300-acre ranch at this site. He taught the first school in Sidney and served as Sheriff of Comanche County from 1882 to 1884. This cemetery was opened when infant Mary Jane Cox (1875-76), the family's sixth child, died. Amanda (Mrs. W.D.) Cox was buried here in 1882. In 1886, Cox donated the 1-acre family burial ground to the Methodist Mission in nearby Bibb as a public cemetery. In 1895 he sold most of his land to a nephew, James Sampson Cox (1866-1941), who later became one of the area's largest landowners. Although Bibb Mission closed in 1908, the cemetery continued in public use. In 1934, J.S. Cox bought and added three-fourths of an acre to the original ground. Under the leadership of O.S. Cox (1895-1966), a grandnephew of W.D. Cox, the fence and arched gate were installed in 1959. Reunion associations of the Hurt and Steele families, connected by marriages to the Coxes, helped maintain the cemetery. The Cox Cemetery Association was organized in 1968 with L.D. Cox, grandson of J.S. Cox, as its first president.

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