Cox, Col. Thomas

COX

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 6/28/2007 at 11:16:56

Maquoketa Record, June 21, 1905:
Remains of Colonel Cox.
At the last meeting of the Old Settlers Association the following committee was appointed: President W.C.Gregory, Secretary and Treasurer, J.W.Ellis and Harvey Reid to take steps and mark the grave of Col. Thomas Cox, who was one of the earliest pioneers of this county. He was born in Kentucky in 1787, and died November 9, 1844. At his request he was buried east of a hickory tree on his farm near Bridgeport, which has been known of late years as the Hamilton Patterson place. J.W.Ellis and W.C.Gregory took Frank McNear and his men , and at 10 o'clock Friday morning left this city for the farm, where the grave was quickly located and by 12 o'clock the diggers struck the black walnut coffin. The old hickory tree still stands, which was of great assistance in locating the grave. The skeleton was found intact and every bone was recovered and taken to the Ellisonian Institute in this city, where it remained until Sunday, when it was interred in a lot in Mt. Hope Cemetery donated by the association for that purpose, and on which the committee had a base prepared where they will have placed a 14,000 pound glacier boulder, which they have secured and which will be dedicated the Fourth of July with fitting solemnity. He was buried the 10th of November 1844, and Mr. Ellis brought all of the coffin away but the small pieces. It was in perfect condition when reached, but would not hold together. The remnants of the coffin were placed in the casket with the skeleton. As the party who owned the property did not care to have a monument erected in his cultivated field. Hence the removal.

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