COX: Pioneers of Reedy, Flat Fork, Charleston, Spencer.
We have not searched out the relationship of Isaac Cox pioneer of upper Spring Creek and Phillip Cox subject of this sketch; both, however, came from the Monongahela Valley about the same time.
Phillip D. Cox was the first crossroads regular merchant at Three Forks of Reedy. (See Chapter V of this book.) He is said to have cut out the bridle path across the divide between Middle Reedy and Pocatalico, thence down one branch, yet known as Coxs Fork. He is said to have visited Reedy often as an itinerant trader from Lewis or Harrison County, several years before establishing his store and bringing his wife, Catherine, and their children there. He died there about the year 1855.
John Greenleaf (see name Greenleaf) married the widow Catherine, and he was administrator of Phillip D. Coxs estate, and guardian of his heirs.
The names of the sons and daughters of Phillip and Catherine Cox, his wife were: David, Sarah, Mark, Sr., and Mariah; most of these married and made their homes in Roane County.
David Cox, son of Phillip and Catherine, married Rachel A. Raines, on January 24, 1870; she a daughter of _____ Raines of Coxs Fork of Poca. Their children were Florence, Mark, Jr., Joseph, Perry, Thomas Floyd, Ezra Monroe, Otto Jennings, Nathan Dennis, William Ray, and Nellie May.
Perry Cox, son of David and Catherine (Raines) Cox, married Miss Martha Anderson, on October 9, 1903, his age 25, hers 21, she a daughter of Alexander Anderson and _____ (Harper) Harper, his wife. Perry is the popular automobile merchant of Spencer at this time (1927).
Sarah Cox, daughter of Phillip D. and Catherine, married Isaiah Boggs.
Mark Cox, son of Phillip D. and Catherine, married Miss Annie Bradley, in Jackson County. Mark was a popular teacher for some years. Their children are Howard, who married Martha Westfall; Artemius W. Cox, proprietor of A. W. Cox Department Store, Charleston, West Virginia, 1915 to now, 1927; Ayward Cox, who married a Miss Shuldis, and Nellie Cox, who married Kinney Gandee.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 488
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
