Captain George W. Cox
(born March 6, 1832 died in 1902)



Captain George W. Cox, born in Anderson, three miles from
Belton, S.C. March 6th, 1832, is the son of William Cox,
who was a captain in the State Militia before the war and
who was born in Anderson County in 1804, was a farmer and
died in 1857. The grandfather of Capt. Cox was likewise
named William and came to South Carolina from Virginia.
His mother was Margaret Grubbs, a native of Abbeville county,
born in 1806, the daughter of Richard Grubbs. She died in 1878
Capt. Cox was reared in Anderson county on a farm.
For ten years prior to the war he served in the State Militia,
two years as a First Lieutenant and eight years as Major.
Prior to the war his occupation was that of a farmer. In
June 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a member of
Company "k", Orr's Rifles, and was elected Captain of the
Company in the beginning. He commanded this company in the
battle of Gaines' Mill, June 27th, 1862. Here he was severely
wounded by a minie ball in the left leg, which came dangerously
near causing the amputation of the member and rendered him
unfit for further service during the war. He remained in a
hospital in Richmond, Va. until middle of September
following, when, being convinced that he was permanently
disabled, he resigned his commission and returned home to
Anderson County near Belton. He took sixty eight men into
the battle of Gaines' Mill, thirty of whom were either killed or
wounded. Fifteen were left upon the field and some six or
eight died subsequently from the wounds they received. Of
the officers the Captain was severely wounded, the first
Lieutenant, received a wound from which he died a few days later,
and acting orderly-sargeant was killed. Since the war Capt.
Cox has given his attention to merchandising and farming.
In 1885 he organized camp Anderson, of Belton, of which he has
been commander ever since. On October 12th 1854 he was
married to Miss Martha M. Mattison, a native of Anderson
County, S.C. who was born May 4th, 1836, the daughter of William
Mattison, of Anderson Court. They have nine children
living: William F., John T., Mallie E., Lula J., Edwin R.,
Ira Walter, Nannie L., Floyd M., and Charles F.

This was written c. 1900. He died in 1902.