Halifax County, Virginia
1850 Census of Northwest Arkansas:
Washington Counties - Bobbie Jones McLane and Desmond Walls Allen
Cane Hill Township
COX. Burwell 54, Rebecca 47, Elvina 23, Esther
20, Robert 22, Elizabeth 1B, Nancy 13,
Phillips 10, Infant 1, Mariah 2/12 KY/KY
dwg 77. Cane Hill twp
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Burwell Cox, the brother of Coleman Cox, was born about
1795/96 in Warren County, Kentucky, the 10th child of John
Cox, a Patriot of the Revolutionary War (b. 1/4/1758, Halifax
County, Virginia, d. 6/17/1832, Warren County, Kentucky) and
Sarah Nunnelly (b. ca. 1759, Virginia, d. 6/1846, Warren County,
Kentucky). In his early days, John Cox knew a man named Burwell
Jackson, who had acquired a lot of land in Kentucky and
was a well-respected person. It was after this man that John Cox
named his son, Burwell. Burwell Cox married Rebecca Mobley
(b. 1802, d. 1876, buried in Boise, Idaho) on 3/4/1820 in Bowling
Green, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Isiah Mobley, a
Revolutionary War soldier, and his wife, Frances Coleman. The
Burwell Cox family came with the Mobleys to Arkansas in
February 1830. Rebecca's parents stopped on Lee's Creek, Crawford
County, while Burwell went on to Cane Hill, where his
brother, Coleman, lived. The Coxes were members of the Cane
Hill congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and
later the Salem congregation in Boonsboro, Arkansas, 1865-1905.
Burwell and Rebecca had the following children: Jane (b.
1821, Warren County, Kentucky); Sarah Frances Coleman
(named in part after both of her grandmothers) (b. 1823, Warren
County, Kentucky) married John Burt Cook 1842; Sarah N. (b.
5/15/1825, Warren County, Kentucky, d. 5/21/1894, Crawford
County, Arkansas) married Samuel Swearingen 1842; Elvira (b.
1826, Warren County, Kentucky) never married; Robert
Lafayette (b. 7/10/1828, Warren County, Kentucky, d. 2/23/1911,
Bell County, Texas) married Elizabeth Coulter 1858; Hester Ann
(b. 1830, Washington County, Arkansas) married Samuel
A. Tarbet 1860 (she may have married 2nd a Phineas Hardy
1877); Elizabeth (b. 1832, Washington County, Arkansas, d.
Franklin County, Arkansas); Alvia Nancy (b. 1837, Washington
County, Arkansas, d. 1905, Franklin County, Arkansas) married
Dr. John S. Burt 1865; Phillip (b. 1842, Washington County,
Arkansas) married Elizabeth T. Brown 1871; Lenora (nicknamed
"Dimpy") (b. 1849, d. 1890, Franklin County, Arkansas) married
Pleasant Carter 1872; Louisa Mariah (nicknamed "Dumpy") (b.
4/2/1850, Washington County, Arkansas, d. 8/9/1899, Glenns
Ferry, Idaho) married James Henry Morrow 1872.
Burwell Cox died in 1874 and is probably buried in
Washington County. Rebecca Mobley Cox died in Boise, Idaho.
Burwell can be found in the 1820 Warren County, Kentucky
Census, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 Washington County
Census Reports, Cane Hill Towns.hip. He is also found in
numerous Warren County, Kentucky, records, including a deed
from Burwell Cox to Jackson Cox (Jackson was his brother),
Book 13, page 365; Burwell Cox to Isiah Mobley, Book 13, page
111 (Isiah being Burwell's father-in-law). In a deed dated October
11, 1820, Warren County, Kentucky, Bowling Green, Burwell
and Rebecca Cox sold 230 acres of land for $300, which was part
of a 1200 acre tract on the north side of Big Barren River.
By: Darlene Price