Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Say Cox Died in Gun Battle September 9, 1922
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The News Leader, Richmond, VA September 9, 1922
               Fifteen or Twenty Shots Fired in Encounter With Negroes in 
                        Patrick Near Henry County Line. 

(Special to The News Leader.) Danville, Va., Sept. S.—The funeral of Ewell Cox, 
who was slain by one of three negroes who waylaid the Patrick County man near 
Fayerdale was held there Thursday, a large assemblage of relatives, friends, and 
and acquaintances attending the obseques.  The burial was near the home. Cox 
leaves a widow, formerly a Miss Turner, and one daughter. It is estimated that 
his estate is worth $75,000. Officers of Henry and Patriek county have failed so 
far to apprehend the two negroes, who fled from the scene of the ambush after 
Cox had been shot and Cox had killed “General” Lee Scott. Harvey Smith is named 
as one of the alleged fugitives. The authorities do not know who the man is. 

Further details of the shooting reveal a more or less protracted gun battle 
which between fifteen and twenty shots were fired. Cox had spent the night with 
J. A. Adams and on the morning of the shooting left Adams' home accompanied by 
Edgar Vaughan.  They walked about 250 yards to a point where the road leads at 
right angles into the Henry County road, only fifty yards from the Henry County 
line. Here the two men found an automobile standing by the roadside occupied by 
the three negroes, who appeared to open fire on them without warning.  This much 
was told by Cox on his way to the Martinsville Hospital where he died Wednesday.

Persons living in the vicinity heard as many as twenty shots fired.  Mr. Vaughan 
has not been seen since the shooting, it is reported, and it is believed that he 
was wounded.  The officers found everything untouched when they reached the 
scene.  

“General” Lee was seated at the steering wheel of his car with a gaping wound in 
his head and marks in the road showed where Cox had fallen and bled. 

There seems no further doubt that the killing of Cox was engineered, for Cox on 
the preceding Saturday had shot and wounded Scott's brother.

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