Yazoo County MSGenWeb Family Histories : Dr. Hampton Fox Family


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Dr. Hampton Cox Family History

Pg-443-444 Yazoo, It's Legends and Legacies
By Harriet DeCell and JoAnne Prichard

Dr. Hampton Cox, born 27 Feb. 1890 Ohio; died June 1886; married Clarissa R. Wood, born 27 Aug. 1824; died Aug. 1891, daughter of Dr. Gideon Wood and Mary Boyce. Dr. Gideon and Mary (Boyce) Wood were married 19 Jan. 1819 and had children: Ephraim B., Clarissa, Thomas J., Mary Francis, and Joseph. Mary Boyce was the daughter of Ephriam Boyce and Mary Smock, fourth child of John and Sally Fonteyn Smock. Their children were: Mary, Katie, Rebecca, and Jacob Boyce.

Clarissa R. Wood was married 3 Sept.1839 to Dr. Hampton Cox and they had children:

  1. Mary Elizabeth Cox, born 27 June 1841, died 30 Dec. 1893; married John Wesley Bowman 5 Nov. 1862 and had children:
    1. Mary Richardson (Richie) Bowman, born 12 Sept. 1863; died Nov. 1936; married Dr. Leonard Cheek Elliott, a son of Dr. Josephus Elliott, and had children: Joseph Harry who married Ruth Bardwell; Edna Virginia; Mary Elizabeth (Menear) who married Jonas Patrick Edwards and had children, Jonas Patrick & Mary Martha: John Leonard: and Clara Roberta,
    2. Virginia Josephine Bowman, born 30 Sept 1868; d. 20 Jan. 1940,
    3. Claiborne Selser Bowman, b. 29 July 1872; d. 13 July 1935, and
    4. Jenkins Cox Bowman, b. 25 Jan. 1875; d. 14 April 1928.
  2. Josephine Cox, b. 13 March 1846; married J. Brickell and had children:
    1. Henry H.,
    2. Lemuel M.,
    3. Manuel C.,
    4. Nick,
    5. James,
    6. Cheatham,
    7. Cleveland Brickell
  3. Xavier Cox, born 5 Nov. 1851; married 7 Dec. 1871 Lucie Cage Joyce who died 4 Nov. 1876. Xavier Cox then married Elizabeth Theresa Joyce 31 Dec. 1877 who was born 9 March 1858 and died 6 April 1919. Xavier Cox lived on plantation near Benton and died 27 Sept. 1935.

    Children by his first marriage were:

    1. Xavier Cox, Jr., born 2 Dec. 1872; died 1 Oct. 1878
    2. Lucy Cox, born 10 July 1874; died 20 Feb. 1918; married T.J. Holt 1 Dec. 1901.

    Xavier Cox’s children by his second marriage were:

    1. Gilruth Sessions Cox, born 20 Oct. 1879; married Meta Cannon and had a son—William of Bentonia
    2. Hampton Cox, born 5 Aug. 1881 married Jessie Bradshaw who presently lives in Yazoo City
    3. Joyce Cox (twin to Hampton), b. 5 Aug. 1881; married Lucy Newberry and had two children—Joyce, Jr. and Ogden
    4. Dick Boxley Cox, born 12 Apr. 1884; d. 20 Dec. 1953, never married
    5. Catherine A. Cox, born 6 Aug. 1886; d. 3 March 1911—never married
    6. Cora May Cox, b. 28 March 1889; married Charles Vaughan had one son—Charles Vaughan, Jr.
    7. Clara Robinson Cox, born 23 July 1890; d. 20 Sept. 1890
    8. John Slmylie “Pat” Cox, b. 28 Aug. 1893; d. 23 Feb. 1863—never married
    9. Nell Brickell Cox, born 23 May 1897; married Marion Stubblefield—no children.

Descendants of Dr. Hampton Cox living in Yazoo County: Mrs. Marion Stubblefield, Mars, Mary Edwards, Mrs. Phil Ferris, Mrs William H. Brister, William Cox, Mrs. Billy Walker, Bill Cox, Mrs. Roger McGrath, Jr., Mrs. Josephine Luckett, Mrs. A.S. King, Sr., A.S. King, Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman, Mrs. James Shipp, Louis Shipp, Jimmy Slhipp, Mrs. Dewitt Dixon, Mrs. Winston Nichols, Mrs. Roy Stricklin, Danny Luckett, Jr., Mrs J.W. Stoner, Roger McGrath, III.;


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