Burwell Cox

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