Emily Tennessee Cox^[1]

1831 - 1864  (32 years)

• Gender	Female
  Biography	Your mother, Emily Tennessee was the youngest child; her mother died when she was two or three years old. Your mother died of a disease of the brain. She was a member of the Church and, I presume, was a religious woman. She was praying while in her senses after she got sick. She was a good woman to me and I tried to be good to her. We lived as happily together, I presume, as any persons generally do and I think better than a great many do. I know she was a better woman than either your Aunt Virginia or Aunt Caroline. She had no enemies in Clarksville and, though I say it myself, we were on friendly terms with all and we associated with the best citizens in the town. While your mother was sick, we had more company than is common to see and when we started to the graveyard, notwithstanding I was afraid the guerillas would fire on us, yet there was a large procession. She was kind to the soldiers and there were a great many went to the burying. Your mother was buried in a nice walnut coffin about twenty or thirty feet south of where Jacob Roger's grave is. I paid Wyatt Massey to put a tombstone at the head of the grave. I was on a visit to Clarksville when I employed him and he could not get the work quite finished before I left for Little Rock.  [2]
  Submitter	761,438
  Birth	9 July 1831	Sparta, White Co., Tennessee, USA   [3, 4]
  Death	4 March 1864  [4, 5]
  Burial	after 4 March 1864	Oakland Memorial Cemetery, Clarksville, Johnson Co., Arkansas, USA   [1, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I21222	Clan Moffat Genealogy
  Last Modified	28 April 2016

  
  

  Father	Dr Robert Cox,   b. of, Virginia, USA
  Mother	Elizabeth Anderson Whitesides   d. about 1834
  Notes	Your mother's father (Cox) was a Virginian by birth; he emigrated to Tennessee and married a Miss Whitesides. I think he lived in White County most of the time. At any rate your mother was born in Sparta. Her grandfather Whitesides had several sons and daughters but I know but little about then: Anderson, James and Boreland were the names of all I can remember. James was a lawyer in Chattanooga and said to be a good one, he was wealthy when he died. Boreland married Anderson's widow and went out to Arkansas and located at Spadra Bluff, three miles from Clarksville, Johnson County. He was living in Chattanooga, Tenn. about two years since. He has no children. Your grandfather Robert Cox (your mother's father) was a physician; he had three daughters and one son; Caroline, the oldest, married Eli Thurman and went to California; Virginia married John Wesley Woodward, a Virginia by birth, he was deaf and dumb but a man of good sense and a good education. Virginia lives in Little Rock, Ark and has two children: Gus and Orianna Emily. Robert Monroe, all the brother your mother had, died in Memphis, Tennessee; he was a sharp man but drank too much whiskey. [2]
  Family ID	F174	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Dr Richard Bird Maffitt,   b. 16 December 1823, McDowell Co., North Carolina, USA d. 27 July 1880, Clarksville, Johnson Co., Arkansas, USA (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	1857	Clarksville, Montgomery Co., Tennessee, USA   [6]
  Children	+ 1. Emily Virginia Maffitt,   b. 6 April 1858, Clarksville, Johnson Co., Arkansas, USA d. 23 January 1951, Clarksville, Johnson Co., Arkansas, USA (Age 92 years) + 2. John Walton Ward Maffitt or Moffitt,   b. 28 March 1860, McDowell Co., North Carolina, USA d. 9 March 1937, Okmulgee, Okmulgee Co., Oklahoma, USA (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F6800	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 January 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Burial - after 4 March 1864 - Oakland Memorial Cemetery, Clarksville, Johnson Co., Arkansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Emily Tennessee Cox Aged about 29-31 years old. Photocopy of image supplied by Richard Kleckner, scanned by Roger Moffat

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone of Emily Maffitt Headstone in Oakland Memorial Cemetery, Clarksville, Johnson Co., Arkansas, USA Emily (wife of) Dr R Maffitt mother of Emily Maffitt and John W Maffitt born July 9 1831 died Mar 4 1864

  
  

  Histories

  A Letter to Emily and John Maffitt This letter was written by Richard Bird Maffitt to his children Emily Virginia Maffitt and John Walton Ward Maffitt. It was left to the Johnson County (Arkansas) Historical Society by Miss Martha Basham (daughter of Emily Virginia Maffitt) and published in their journal in April 1981.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Robert and Frances Moffitt, Original Moffat GEDCOM File. [S1946] written by Richard Bird Maffitt, Article titled “A Letter to Emily and John Maffitt”. [S1936] submitted by Richard Kleckner, Pedigree Chart from Ancestry World Tree. [S2721] submitted by Richard Kleckner, Headstone of Emily Maffitt. [S2717] contributions by Various, Website titled FindAGrave.com. [S1949] notes taken by Roger Moffat, Phone Conversation with Richard Kleckner.