Samuel M. Cox

Samuel Marion Cox ("Sam"), son of James Isaac Cox, was born September 23, 1877, in Cherokee County, Georgia. He died December 28, 1973, and is buried at Briar Patch Church in Waleska, Cherokee County, Georgia.

He married Mary Isa Cline on March 20, 1898. Mary Isa Cline Cox ("Icy") was born August 3, 1880, in Cherokee County, Georgia, died June 22, 1968, and is buried in Briar Patch Church. She was the daughter of James Erwin (or Ervin) Cline (“Jim”) and Cora Artemisia Mathis Reinhardt Cline.

Their children were:

1. Clinton Cox. Born April 28, 1899, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Died February 1972 and buried Arlington Cemetery in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. Married Eleanor Ward in June 1927.

2. James Fletcher Cox. Born March 20, 1902, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Died June 14, 1977. Married Winnie Brown.

3. Lela Emaline Cox. Born May 1, 1904, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Died June 12, 1972, in Winchester, Tennessee. Married Elmer Hoyle Denman on June 22, 1926.

4. Odessa Bell Cox. Born February 2, 1906 in Cherokee County, Georgia. Married Belmont Alderman.

5. Samuel Theodore ("Ted") Cox. Born June 20, 1908, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Married Ella Chastain.

6. Glenn Alfonso Cox. Born July 20, 1911, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Died December 20, 1986, and buried at Sardis Baptist Church in Cherokee County, Georgia. Married Clemmie Louise Wheeler on September 21, 1935.

7. Juanita Cox. Born July 20, 1913, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Married Clinton Wheeler (sister of Clemmie Wheeler Cox).

8. Cora Lou Cox. Born June 12, 1916, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Married LeRol James Bishop on February 7, 1942.

9. Stella Cox. Born April 4, 1918, in Cherokee County, Georgia.

10. Catherine Cox. Born July 30, 1921, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Died in 1985 and buried in Virginia. Married Raymond Horton.

From primary sources and Cherokee County records, mostly located at R.T. Jones Library in Canton, Georgia.