Cox Cemetery
N 32° 27.064 W 095° 46.304
15S E 239441 N 3593818
Texas Historical Marker noting the establishment and use of the Cox Cemetery, located southeast of Canton, TX on FM 1653.
Waymark Code: WMVP9X
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/13/2017
Views: 2
Marker Number: 11393
Marker Text:
Robert K. Gibbs and his family settled in this area in the early 1850s. A gravestone for an infant daughter of R.K. and Sarah Gibbs reveals the earliest documented burial in this cemetery to be November 1853. Robert Daniel Cox (1842-1898) acquired the land in 1880. He offered the small Gibbs family graveyard for use as a community cemetery. It became known as Cox Graveyard or Cox Cemetery. Land additions in 1920 and 1933 enlarged the cemetery. Some unmarked graves are believed to be those of slaves. Five generations of Cox family members are interred here.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
Incise:
Sandra Cox Whiting, Research Historian
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