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Riley Cox was my third great grandfather. He was the son of Reuben Cox and Susannah Padgett. Riley was not a Civil War soldier. Rather, he was filing a pension application due to the death of his son George W. Cox who died in the Civil War. |
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Documents via Jerry Bryan
Transcribed by Tara Painter, 5 May 2002
Documents:
1. Riley Cox, father of George W. Cox
2. Genneral Affidavit, Nancy Cox and Francis Fry
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[1.]
Art. 245 469
Riley Cox
father of
George W. Cox
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[2.]
Genneral Affidavit
State of Tennessee County of Greene
In the matter of Pension No 353 809
of Riley Cox as father of George W. Cox
com. D 1st Tenn Cav Vols Personaly appear-
ed before me a Justice of the Peace in and
for affore said County and State Nancy
Cox and Fancis Fry who after being by
me sworn says our ages are respectively
as follows 57 and 41 years we have res-
ectively been acquainted with Riley Cox
for 40 and 29 years I Nancy Cox lived ab-
out 1/2 mile from Riley Cox my husba-
nd Horton Cox was Brother to Riley Cox
the reason we wimen make these state-
ments in 1863 there was only a few old men
in this neighborhood to have known of
the occurrances of that day and they are
Dead - and as neighbors of Riley Cox say in
as best we remember in 1865 Riley Cox com-
plained of his Eyes being painful and dim of
sight and in the year of 1866 he said he cou-
ld not see any having to be led by the hand
of some one In 1867 I Francis Fry remem-
ber asking him how his Eyes was and he
said i am stone blind. we know he is and
has been Blind Ever since 1866. our information
is Riley Cox gave the Land he had in 1863 after he
[Note in left hand margin: Disability]