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Location: From
Sidney, take FM 589 NE about 2 miles.
Historical Marker: William Driscol Cox (1839-97)
and his wife Amanda (Shugart) moved with their family from Tennessee
to Texas in 1872. Cox taught in Robertson County, then (1876)
bought and moved to a 300-acre ranch at this site. He taught the
first school in Sidney and served 1882-84 as Sheriff of Comanche
County. This cemetery was opened at the death of infant Mary Jane
Cox (1875-76), sixth child of the family. Amanda (Mrs. W. D.)
Cox was buried here in 1882. In 1886, Cox donated the 1-acre family
burial ground to the Methodist Mission in nearby Bibb, as a public
cemetery. In 1895 he sold most of his land to a nephew, James
Sampson Cox (1866-1941), who later was one of the area's largest
landowners. Although Bibb Mission closed in 1908, this facility
continued in public use. In 1934, J. S. Cox bought and added three-fourths
of an acre to the original ground. Under leadership of O. S. Cox
(1895-1966), a grand-nephew of W. D. Cox, the fence and arched
gate were installed in 1959. Reunion associations of the Hurt
and Steele Families, connected by marriages to the Coxes, have
helped maintain the cemetery. The Cox Cemetery Association was
organized in 1968 with L. D. Cox, grandson of J. S. Cox, as the
first president. (1977)