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Subject: 1884 Christmas in Estacado, TX
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:45:57 EST


Greetings!
I knew I'd find this, finally! Clutter is sooo much more challenging...
The following is an brief excerpt from _Estacado: Cradle of Culture and
Civilization on the Staked Plains of Texas_ by John Cooper Jenkins and
Contributors; pub. by
the Crosby Co. Pioneer Museum. (Estacado, TX, was a Quaker colony founded by
Paris Cox, my great grandfather, in 1880.)

"According to George W. Hunt, at Christmas time in 1884 they had a Christmas
tree
at the church the night before Christmas. On Christmas Day they had an all-day
service with dinner served at the church. After noon the men sat around on the
outside of the building in their shirt sleeves and Isaiah Cox, who lived about
3 miles west of Estacado, brought some water melons to the church and served
the people all they could eat. Frost came late that fall, and just before
frost, he stored several melons in his cellar, where they remained in
excellent condition. "We all enjoyed a rare treat," according to George Hunt.
"

(I have excerpted the above without permission.)
Estacado is little more than a cemetery, now, near Crosbyton. By 1900 many of
the Quakers had established the Friendswood community near Houston or headed
for
the Pacific Northwest which they considered "God's Country". (And, they were
right!)
Descendants of Gideon Cox:
1 Gideon Coxb: 12 July 1822 in Holly Spring MM, North Carolinad: 22
January 1892 in Estacado, Texas
....+Huldah Mendenhallb: 25 October 1824m: 6 September 1843 in Bethel
Meeting House, North Carolinad: 18 May 1857 in Holly Spring MM, North
Carolina
..........2 Anson Coxb: 5 October 1844d: Unknown
................+Melissa (Unknown)b: Unknownm: Unknownd: Unknown
..........2 Paris Coxb: 17 October 1846 in Ashboro, North Carolinad: 21
November 1888 in Estacado, Texas
................+Lydia Ann Millsb: Unknownm: 7 November 1867 in Spicewood
Meeting House, Indianad: Unknown
..........*2nd Wife of Paris Cox:
................+Mary C. Fergusonb: 18 February 1844 in Warren County,
Ohiom: 21 December 1871 in Indianad: 4 October 1909 in Everett, Washington
......................3 Charlie Coxb: 1874 in Indianad: 11 October 1899
in Newburg, Oregon
......................3 Oscar Larken Coxb: 29 September 1877 in Bakers
Corner, Indianad: 8 August 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio
............................+Lulu Mae Buddemerb: 17 December 1874 in
Brownsville, Tenneseem: 26 February 1902 in Portland, Oregond: 24 October
1959 in Cleveland, Ohio
..................................4 Louis Larken Coxb: 5 July 1908 in Salt
Lake City, Utahd: 14 October 1946 in Shaker Heights, Ohio
........................................+Ethel Gravesb: Unknownm: 15
December 1934 in Cleveland, Ohiod: April 1965 in California
..................................4 Marjorie Mary Coxb: 20 March 1918 in
San Antonio, Texasd: 7 March 1985 in Millersburg, Ohio
........................................+Alan Francis Dillb: 1 May 1919 in
Cleveland, Ohiom: 22 September 1945 in Shaker Heights, Ohio
......................3 Bertha Coxb: 1880 in Estacado, Texasd: Unknown
......................3 Fletcher Coxb: 1882 in Estacado, Texasd: Unknown
............................+Winnifred (Unknown)b: 1885m: Abt. 1902d:
Unknown
..................................4 Kenneth Coxb: 1904 in Oregond:
Unknown
..................................4 Mary Coxb: 1907 in Oregond: Unknown
..................................4 Fletcher Coxb: 1908 in Oregond:
Unknown
..................................4 Whitman Coxb: 1911 in Idahod:
Unknown
..................................4 ?Barton Coxb: Abt. 1910 in Idahod:
Unknown
..........2 Larken Coxb: 17 March 1849d: Unknown
................+Eunice Coxb: Unknownm: 25 July 1867d: Unknown
......................3 Warner Coxb: 1868d: Unknown
......................3 Ada C. Coxb: 1869d: Unknown
..........2 Esther Coxb: 6 January 1852d: 17 August 1852
..........2 William Coxb: 8 February 1854d: Unknown
*2nd Wife of Gideon Cox:
....+Asenath Barkerb: 25 July 1829m: 30 September 1858d: Unknown
..........2 Huldah E. Coxb: 31 July 1859d: 28 September 1861
..........2 Arlendo Coxb: 15 August 1861d: 16 October 1905
................+Julia Vashita Hadleyb: 18 October 1866d: 30 July 1928
..........2 Manly M. Coxb: 11 October 1863d: Unknown
................+Elva Lewisb: Unknownm: Unknownd: Unknown
..........2 Oliver G. Coxb: 7 July 1867d: Unknown
................+Arwilda (Unknown)b: Unknownd: Unknown
..........2 Lydia E. Coxb: Unknownd: Unknown

No! It doesn't rain all the time...
Marla Cox Brown
Portland, Oregon

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