Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-10-24
d., n Of Mrs. amanda COX.


De- IN OF Mrs. A manda COX.
Mrs. Amanda Graham Cox one OF
Wythe county's oldest persons and the
oldest resident OF our town breathed
her last at the Sanitarium Monday af-
ternoon. Ms. Cox's life was perhaps
more replete in interesting events than
any one of our time. She was an un-
usually bright person and was always
keeniy Interested in the present as well
as the past and could entertain one for
hours with interesting events OF her
life. She was Scotch descent and
was born November the twenty second
eighteen hundred and four and was
third of thirteen children, being the
daughter Of Col william Graham and
Racheal Montgomery. Both grand
fathers We're soldiers OF Revolutionary
lame, having served as Colonels at
that time. The family removed to
Smythe county while Mrs. Cox was a
child and she remained there until her
marriage To Mr. William Cox, January
the thilty-first in eighteen hundred and
twenty-scven. Mr. Cox was. born Oc-
tober the twenty ninth seventeen hun
dred and ninety-nineand attained the
ripe age OF ninety, departing this life
March the fif5l eighteen and eighty
nine. Mrs. Cox's early life was spent IN
Jeffersonville, NOW TazewelD and from
eighteen and sixty-one To eighteen and
sixty -eighton Cripple Creek, after which
she moved to WytheviIle where she re-
sided till death claimed her at the are
OF nearly ninety-eight or the three
children born OF this couple two survive
her, Mr.. ] G. Cox, of Memphis Tennes-
see, and Mr.. 4. G. Cox, OF Tazewell
county. Mr.. Montgomery Cox, anoth-
er son, Confederate soldier. died from
wound received during thi civil war
Mrs. Rachael Buchanan. OF Iredell. Tex
as, and Colonel William L. Buchanan.
OF Witten's Mills, Virginia are the only
surviving members of her family. This
lady had seen four waIs - eighteen
and twelve, Mexican war, Civil War
and Spanish American War and had a
fund Of interesting g information in con
nection with those days Of "Auld Lang
Syne." She was one OF the charter mem
bers of the first Presbyterian church.
organized in eighteen and fifty, M JEFF
fersonville, OF which Rev. Isaac Naff
was pastor and it was at her home the
first Meeting of Presbytery was held.
This was presumably Montgomery
Presbytery from which the present
Abingdon Presbytery was founded. In
her possession Mrs Cox had a Bible
the property of the Montgomery family
printed in Scotland in seventeen hun
dred and forty-seven. This Bible is
curiosity in itself the records all OF the
minutest details being peculiar to that
and the peoples OF those days. Another
Bible was cherished as her cwn and is
the same used by the Pres5ytery men
toned previously and contains numer-
GUS markings designating texts from
which she heard sermons preaceed.
The long useful and interesting life of
this godly woman ceased on earth
Monday Octoberthe thirteenth at the
Sanitarium after an illness of several
months, almost the first in her history.
The funeral was from the Presbyterian
church conducted by Rev. w. A. Hall
the pastor. She was laid to rest in the
East End cemetery beside her hus-
bond and son. Here sleeps one OF
Wythe eounty's oldest daughters, whose
like each one should strive to emu
late. - Southwest Virginia Enter,
prise.