cox_john_needham

Thank you for your letter and I will be glad to give you such information relative to the Cox and Marlow Families as I have, which is necessarily sketchey and may be more or less inaccurate. The Cox & Marlow families in the Camp Swamp Community are closely related, but intermarried. My Father, John Needham Cox, Jr., had two sisters who married their double first cousin two Marlow brothers: Mary Cox married Albert Marlow and Martha Cox married John Marlow (Parents of Maxie Marlow and Callie, a sister of Albert & John, married my father’s brother, George Pinkney Cox. All double first cousins. Quite a bit of intermarriage for one family.) I feel sure that my father’s sister, Martha, was named after your great-grandmother.

I cannot give you very much information about the Marlow line. But my father’s mother was Elizabeth Marlow (Born 1822 or 23 died 1899). She had a Bro. Named Reuben Marlow, who was Father of Albert & John who married her daughters Mary & Martha. And Reuben Marlow married a Butler, who was half sister of my grandfather, John Needham Cox.

I can remember Jesse Cox th Jesse Marlow, the Methodist preacher in Columbus Co. But I doubt if he was a bro to your great grandmother (1824), - as Jesse Marlow was bout the same age as my Father (Born in 1854), - but I am sure he is of the same family, as we always called him Uncle Jesse Marlow, though he was not a real uncle, but was a close relation.

On a separate sheet, I am sending you information from my grandfather, John Needham Cox, Sr. Bible. And on another sheet information from my Father John Needham Cox, Jr. Bible.

Just before my Father died (1933) he and my mother, gave me some information which may not help you much, but may be of some interest to you in tieing your notes together.

My Father said that his Father told him that: - The Cox Family came from England and settled in Virginia. Later John Cox, one of 5 brothers, moved south from Virginia and settled on the lower Waccamaw River. Each of the other 5 sons settled as follows:- one settled on Tar River in Pitt County; one settled in Wayne County on Neuse River (I know and have talked with many of the Coxes in Wayne County and I feel sure that my grandfather’s father came from the Wayne County Line); one settled in Marlboro County S.C. on Great Pee Dee River in the area of Bennettsville SC. There is still a big family here bearing the Cox name. And one of the brothers went west and settled in Ohio.

According to my Father (1854) - The first named John Cox moved into the Waccamaw country, and went into the cypress shingle business and married a young woman from a Bellamy family. They had a son named Jesse Cox + Martha Stanley or Stanaland (Jesse S. Marlow + Mary Butler)

        D.Lamar-Eliza- Marshall J. - Jesse S. - John Needham Jr. Geo. P.
        - Mary - Dillon - Martha + + + +       ? ? ? (Never ? Hardy -
        Daniel Butler - Fanny Butler - Died Young                                                   Married)

          Geo. P + Collie Marlow
       Mary + Albert Marlow
      Martha + John Marlow

           (1893)
Headley M.       -           (Dr.) Grover
           S.               -
           Robert L.
              -
               Allen
           M.
    +                                              +

         (4)
   My Mother’s line come
        like this: -
   Hardy Inman + Charity
        William ?? Charlie Balwin +
        Amelia McNeill
Born                       ?

            ?
B-1822        Allen Inman
            +
      Calista Baldwin
        D-1893

Both the Inman & Baldwin families grew up around White & Lake Waccamaw. My Grandfather, Allen Inman, settled at Iron Hill N.C. about 16 miles south of Whiteville, where he engaged in farming & Turpentine business. Although married and having big family, he served in Confederate Forces at Fort Fisher, NC he, as young man had learned Tailor’s trade, and while in service at Fort Fisher, made uniforms for Col. Lamb, Com. Of Fort Fisher. He was there at fall of fort, but I do not think he was captured, but escaped and went home to his wife & children.

About all I can tell you about the Marlow family is that Jesse Marlow who married Mary Butler, was my great Grandfather. I do not know but two of his children. My grandmother, Elizabeth C. Marlow and a son Reuben Marlow, who was father of Albert, John J., Frank, Wingate, George, Callie, and Marshall Marlow. The old family home stood near Maxie Marlow’s home, whom you visited. The old home I remember seeing as a boy. It was of of split, hewed, pine logs about 4 inches thick and 12 inches wide morticed together at the corners, a covered with cypress shingles. The logs were fat lightwood, and it would be standing today, and for another 100 years, if it had had some repair, and left standing. My grandfather’s home was of the same construction, but was torn down and burned for firewood. What a pity!

The Marlow family cemetery is located about ½ mile from Maxie Marlow’s present home, where a great many Marlows and Butlers are buried. Most of the old grave markers were hewed slabs of fat lightwood, and went away with time. But I remembered seeing some of them, as a small boy.

Most of the original settlers in the Camp Swamp Community were Coxes, Butlers & Marlows. They are are all kin, and inter married very frequently. It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to unravel all the lines and cross lines. But I have heard my grandfather John N. Cox, Sr., say that he and Elizabeth C. Marlow were not related. I hope all this will be of some help & of interest to you. When ever you can, come to Mt. Olive to visit Us.

        Born
        B.1824        John Needham
        Cox, Sr. of Columbia Co. N.C.
        D.1897

B.1823        Elizabeth C. Marlow of
     Columbus Co. N.C.
        D.1899
   were married Feb. 20
        1844.
   marriage performed by
        John G. Bellamy, Esq.
Witnesses   - Michael Sellers
         - Susanna
        Sellers

        Children
   D. Lamar Cox - Born      9/10/1846+          Married Ann C. Hardy                     4/10/1868
   Eliza C. Cox       •            2/15/1848+           •         Daniel M. Butler                 1/23/1878
   Marshall J. Cox •            11/16/1849+         •         Francis C. Butler                3/5/1823
   Jesse S. Cox     •            1/20/1852 +                                      (Died Young)
? John N. Cox, Jr.•            9/21/1854 +                        Mary P. Inman                   12/4/1879
   Geo. P. Cox       •            5/12/1857 +                        Mary Callie Marlow            3/23/1883
   Mary E. Cox       •            8/7/1859 +                         Wm. Albert Marlow             5/12/1878
   Dillon E. Cox      •            10/8/1861 +                                      (Never married. Died at about 42 of Typhoid fever.)
   Martha E. Cox    •            8/18/1864 +                                      John J. Marlow                   4/10/1881

P.S. My Grandmother Elizabeth C. Marlow may have been born in 1822. Bible does not record date birth. But she died (record) 8/3/1899 and she was 76 or 77 yrs. old when she died. I think she and your great Grandmother (1824) may have been sisters.

        Aug 13 1963
   Below is record from my
        Father’s
        family Bible.

   John Needham Cox, Jr.
        of Columbus Co. N.C.
and Mary P. Inman of     •
        • N.C.
   Were married on Dec. 4,
        1879 at Iron Hill NC

BirthsJohn Needham Cox, Jr.
            Born
            9/21/1854
     Mary P. Inman (wife)
        •

I meant to say in my other letter that I remember your grandfather, Ravenwood Cox, and heard my father speak of him. I do not recall that they claimed to be related. But I suspect that they came from the same family line. As I recall it, your grandfather Ravenwood lived in the Ebenezer (Methodist) Church section, - or the Buck Creek (Baptist) Church sections of Horry County S.C.