CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN C. COX - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

J. C. COX.

John C. Cox, born in Fay­ette county, Ga., January 2, 1836. Removed to 
Texas with his foster father, John D. Stell, in the Fall of 1855, and 
first settled in Cherokee coun­ty, thence to Leon county. Enlisted in  
company C, 5th Texas, Hood's brigade, and went direct to Virginia. He 
was in the battles of York­town, Ethens Landing, Seven Pines, 
Thorouhfare Ga., M anasses, Boonsboro Gap, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg.

Longstreet's corps re-enforced Bragg and comrade Cox was severely 
wounded in the battle of Chickamauga Georgia and carried a  minnie ball 
in his thigh for thirty years until an operation was performed removing 
the deadly missle from his person. It is only necessary to men­tion that 
he was one of the famous Hood's Texas brigade, because it carries with 
it the merit of being fighters. Judge Cox is a grand old man and the 
scars he carries in his country's service makes him a hero. He is an 
honorable citizen of Tyler, popular and greatly beloved by the people 
who know him.  He has been married twice. His first marriage was with 
Miss Sallie E. Allen in June 1864. Second, Miss Eu­genia Barron in 
March 1887. He has been honored by the people in official life.  
Prominent in everything that is good and one of Lee's veterans, draws 
him close in the affection of the people.