EARLIEST Documented Burial in Cox Cemetery - Canton, TX
N 32° 27.056 W 095° 46.365
15S E 239345 N 3593806
A 1986 Texas Historical Marker at Cox Cemetery, southwest of Canton, TX on FM 1653 notes that the earliest documented burial here (1853) is that of an infant daughter of Robert and Sarah Gibbs.
Waymark Code: WMVPA2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/13/2017
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The Gibbs family are buried together, each with simple headstones, and it is Ellen S. Gibbs who matches up with November, 1853. The inscription on her headstone is:
Ellen S. Dau of
R.K & S Gibbs
Born Oct 8, 1853
Died Nov 28, 1853
Only sleeping
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The historical marker provides some background:
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.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 12/01/1853
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