Cox Cemetery 
Sidney vicinity, Comanche County, Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

 Location:
 From Sidney, take FM 589 NE about 2 miles. 

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)