Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cox, Elijah Leander (Sr) February 8, 1911
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Virginian-Pilot Thursday, February 9, 1911
  
                           ELIJAH L. COX DIED YESTERDAY

Prominent Citizen of the Eighth Ward Succumbed to Sudden Attack of Illness

Elijah Leander Cox Sr., one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens 
of the Eighth ward, died last evening at 9:30 o'clock after a brief illness at 
the family residence, 126 Walnut street. He was taken ill Tuesday morning with 
Bright's disease and complications set in. Prior to that time he had been in the 
best of health and was on the street Monday attending to business. 
Notwithstanding his age of nearly 69 years he was active in business and seemed 
to enjoy the best of health and all of his facilities. 
He was born in Moyock, N. C., March 19, 1842, and entered Reyaldson College of 
his State in his teens where he remained until the beginning of the Civil War 
when he left college and entered the 68th North Carolina Volunteers, the first 
company in the State, under the command of Col. Yellearly. From the ranks he 
gradually rose to the rank of captain. He was captured July 1863 and was 
imprisoned at Fort Delaware where he remained a prisoner until the close of the 
war.
 In the reconstruction days he returned home and pursued his profession as 
funeral director in which vocation he had been continuously engaged for forty 
years. 
Twenty-five years ago he moved to Berkley ward with his family where he 
continued since and a part of that time was the only funeral director of the 
ward.
 The deceased was one of the charter members and was past commander of Niemeyer-
Shaw Camp, Confederate Veterans, with which organization he always took a keen 
interest and was very closely identified with the cause. 
He was a member, deacon and trustee of the Berkley Avenue Baptist Church and was 
very closely identified with all of the workings of the church. He was one of 
its most active workers and took a very active part in the recent improvement 
made to the church edifice. He was a member of Berkley Lodge 167, A. F. and A. 
M., Chesapeake Tribe No. 50, I. O. R. M., Lee Lodge 74 and Oakdale Encampment, 
I. O. O. F., and Tidewater Council No. 30, Jr . O. U. A. M. 
He married Miss Elizabeth Matilda Wiginton, daughter of the late Robert 
Wiginton, of Eastern North Carolina, and is survived by a widow and seven sons 
and daughters. They are: Mrs. C. C. Barclay, Mrs. C. H. Culpepper, E. Lee Cox 
Jr., Robert L. Cox, Mrs. E. C. Savage, W. W. Cox, and Miss Sadie Cox; four 
sisters, Mrs. James Holt, Mrs. Robert Willet, the latter of California, and Mrs. 
Margaret Willet, of Nebraska; Mrs. David Pritchard, Camden, N. C., and a 
brother, David A. Cox, of Moyock, N. C. The funeral arrangements had not been 
completed last evening and will be announced later.
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                FUNERAL OF MR. COX WILL BE LARGELY ATTENDED

Services to be held at Berkley Avenue Baptist Church This Afternoon.

The funeral of the late Elijah L. Cox Sr., who died at his home, 126 Walnut 
street, Wednesday evening after a brief illness, will be conducted from the 
Berkley Avenue Baptist Church this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. W. A. Smith, 
pastor of the church, will officiate and there is but little doubt that it will 
be one of the largest funerals that was ever held on this side of the river. The 
deceased was widely known and universally liked. The interment will be in his 
tomb, prepared by himself, in Magnolia cemetery. Among the fraternities of which 
he was a member and who will attend the funeral in a body, are Berkley Lodge 
167, A. F. and A. M., Lee Lodge No. 74, I. O. O. F., Tidewater Council No. 30, 
Jr. O. U. A. M., Chesapeake Tribe No. 50, I. O. R. M., and Oakdale Encampment, 
I. O. O. F., also Niemeyer-Shaw Camp of Senior and Junior Confederate Veterans. 

Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) Friday, February 10, 1911

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