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Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
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#4332
ANNA COX PAPERS
Summary
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Cox, Anna, ca. 1885.
Papers, 1862-1915 (bulk 1893-1915).
165 items (0.5 linear ft.).
Anna Cox, the daughter of Peyton A. (d. ca. 1895) and Mary E. Wheeler Cox (fl. 1885), was
born about 1885, and spent her early childhood in Salem, Forsyth County, N.C. Her
brothers and sisters were William A., John M., George H., Emma, and Flora L. Cox. In
1897, Anna Cox moved to Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., to live with her brother William
(Will) and his wife, Lizzie Hadley Cox. She attended high school there and graduated in
1901. Shortly after her graduation, she returned to North Carolina and taught school in a
Forsyth County community called "Nain."
About fifteen letters, before 1890, to and from members of the Cox family; about
seventy-five letters, 1893-1908, between Anna Cox and her friends and relatives in
Indiana, North Carolina, and elsewhere; about sixty letters, 1893-1915, between other
members of the Cox family; four writings by Anna Cox; and a few miscellaneous items. The
bulk of the papers consists of correspondence, 1893-1908, between Anna Cox and friends and
family members in the areas of Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., and Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C. Many of these letters are from former classmates and refer to local news,
career goals, marriage plans, and other personal matters. Two letters with a somewhat
different focus are from a North Carolina soldier, George Yarbrough, stationed in Florida
and Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Two Civil War letters, both addressed to
Confederate Lt. R. L. Cox, are included in the earlier correspondence. In one, J. M. Cox
of Madison, Rockingham County, N.C.,!
inquired concerning life in the training camp in Raleigh, N.C., and related community
and family news. In the other, W. D. Wallace (a friend at Camp Marshall, near Orange
Court House, Va.), related camp news to Lt. Cox while Cox was on furlough. A few letters
from this period between other family members are included; they pertain to health,
weather, garment making, debts, and farming. In the later correspondence of other members
of the Cox family, topics such as divorce, illnesses and death, household chores, and
social activities are discussed.