- b. 9 February 1876, Gainesboro, Jackson Co., TN ? d. 12 March 1953, TN, md on the 7th of April 1897, White Co., TN to Mary Emolyn (Young) Cox, b. 25 December 1876, TN ? d. 9 August 1965, d/o Charles Coker Young (1845-1913) & Catherine Annette Burton (1846-1919).
James Nathaniel Cox, s/o Capt. Robert Alexander Cox (1832 -1892) & Nancy Joseph Draper (1834- 1908), both buried in the Gainesboro City Cemetery, Jackson Co., TN. Robert Alexander Cox md June 1860 to Nancy Joseph Draper. Nancy Joseph Draper, b. 15 December 1834 ? d. 15 May 1908 was the d/o James "Squire Jimmy" Draper & Jane Moore Fitzgerald. James "Squire Jimmy" Draper, b. 8 May 1790 ? d. 1 February 1873, s/o Thomas Draper Jr. & Salley Lyles md Jane Moore Fitzgerald, b. 30 January 1798 ? d. 1868, d/o John Fitzgerald & Sarah Bullard. James and Jane (Fitzgerald) Draper are buried in the Jarratt Fitzgerald
Cemetery, Flynn's Creek, Jackson Co., TN.
Captain Cox was a successful lawyer and also served in the
Confederate Army. His mother served as postmistress in Gainesboro, Tennessee, and taught school in a Yankee neighborhood to provide for her family while her husband was in in the service.
Putnam County Herald November 9, 1933
James Nathaniel Cox was born on February 9, 1876 at Gainesboro, Tn. Educated at the University of Tennessee. He was the son of Capt R A and Nancy Draper Cox. His first position was assistant postmaster of Gainesboro. He helped organized the old Gainesboro Telephone Company in 1896 and was made general manager when the headquarters was moved to Sparta in 1897. He married Miss Mary Young of Sparta in 1897 and 7 children are living.
He moved to Cookeville in 1908 and has been president and general manager of his company since 1927. He was one of the 10 organizers of the old Dixie College and was a member of the Democratic Executive Committee from 1925 to 1929.
He is a Colonel on Governor McAlister's staff, a 32nd Degree Mason and Shriner, and president of the alumni association of the University of Tennessee. He was president of the U S Independent Association in 1930-31. He is president of the Cookeville Printing Company, publishers of the Putnam County Herald and the Livingston Enterprise, a member of the Church of Christ and a Lion.
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