Charles Hampton Cox

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Charles H Cox, who reported for naval duty on Wednesday of last week, is stationed at Camp Peary, VA. Before going into the service he was a popular business man of the city, being owner and manager of the Royal Crown Bottling Company. Mrs. Cox, and daughter and son, Ann and Charles Cox, are at their home, on Dixie avenue during her husband's absence. A son of Mr. & Mrs.. J. N. Cox, Mr. Cox has two brothers in service, Capt. Robert A. Cox and William B. Cox.

Cookeville Citizen February 21, 1967

Charles Hampton Cox, 60, owner of Royal Crown Bottling Company here since 1939, died Sunday morning at Cookeville General Hospital following an extended illness. He was a resident of East 9th Street.
Funeral services were held today at Whitson Funeral Home at 11 a.m. with burial at Cookeville City cemetery; Rev Phillip Ritter, pastor of the First Methodist Church, of which Mr Cox was a member, officiating.
Mr Cox, a native of Davidson County, spent the greater part of his life in Cookeville. He was the son of James N and Mary Young Cox and was reared on North Washington Avenue. He attended Cookeville schools.
He was editor of the Putnam County Herald for several years prior to becoming a bottler.
He attended the University of Tennessee and received a law degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Al Menah Shrine Temple, the Nashville Elks Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, and was a former Rotarian and member of the Lions Club.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs Hazel Jenkins Cox; a daughter, Mrs Leon Burns Jr; a son, Charles Cox Jr; all of Cookeville; 2 sisters, Mrs Sam Colle, Johnson City; Mrs Henry Martin, Pt Claire, Ala; 3 brothers, Robert, Mobile, Ala; James Cox Jr, Iowa; Wilson R Cox, Cornelis, Ga. Another sister, Mrs Mary Cox Robinson, died several years ago.
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Charles married Hazel Jenkins on 11 Mar 1930 in Putnam Co, Tennessee. Hazel was born on 22 Aug 1909; died on 21 Sep 1996; was buried in Cookeville City Cem, Cookeville, Putnam Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mildred married Judge Leon C. Burns, Jr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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COOKEVILLE Graveside services for Millicent Lee Burns, 34, of West Palm Beach, Fla., formerly of Cookeville, will be held Tuesday, Jan. 31, at Cookeville City Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. at the Cookeville chapel of Hooper Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home.
Ms. Burns died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006, in the Hospice of Palm Beach County in Palm Beach, Fla., following an extended illness with breast cancer.
She was born Nov. 26, 1971, in Cookeville to Judge Leon C. Burns of Cookeville and the late Mildred Ann Cox Burns.
Ms. Burns was a graduate of Cookeville High School. She received her bachelor of arts from Furman University in Greenville, S.C., and her master's degree in decorative arts at Glasgow University in Glasgow, Scotland. She worked in her field with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and various other galleries in New York and Philadelphia.
In addition to her father, her family includes a sister, Claire Burns of Nashville.
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