Cary Cox House and Cox-Griggs Cemetery

The Compiled Genealogy Research of David L. Casey contains an old manuscript by Pat Goad White with information on the Cary Cox family and the house they built (still standing) near Stanfordville, GA.  It also has information about the old Cox-Griggs burying grounds, and a map. Though the casey-genealogy.com site no longer exists, it can be found on the Internet Archives Wayback Machine.   This is a link to the Casey Genealogy.com Index Page on the Wayback Machine.

Taken from the casey-genealogy.com website via the Wayback Machine, with a bit of minor editing:

The Ancestors and Descendants of James Marion White and Lucy Ann Holt

by

Pat Goad White

This is a facsimile copy of a small pamphlet on the genealogy of my Cox, Holt, White ancestry (and other surnames).  It was written in about 1960 by Pat Goad White (wife of J.P. White, brother of my great-grandmother Susie White London).  I apologize for its worn look, but it is a copy of a copy then scanned in and is crooked in places, but overall is in good "readable" shape!  The entire document can be downloaded.

Its complete correctness cannot be strictly vouched for, but there is much good information within.  I received a copy of this from my mother, Ketta London Casey, great-granddaughter of J.M. White and Lucy Ann Holt White.  I have added comments on most of the pages - some to illustrate errors I have found, and some to clarify statements or dispute claims.

Info on Col. Willis Cox Holt begins on Page 9.

Cover Page:

 
 Note:  The name Susie White London was written in below the typed title by Ketta London Casey

This page created 5/17/2002
Updated 1/16/2004
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The manuscript by Pat Goad White is a pdf and can be downloaded using the link at top of this page.

Pictures of the Cox house and Cox-Griggs burying grounds, taken during my visit to Putnam County, Georgia in 2009, are shown below.

The Cary Cox house is now known as the Cox Mathis House.  It is located within the Oconee National Forest, and, in 2009, was being used as a ranger station, where hunters checked in, received hunting permits, and logged their kills.  This was originally a 200 acre property clear cut, and planted with crops.   The house is to the west of the cemetery.   A forester told me the entire area was once clear cut, and the house was on a slight rise.  From their higher vantage point, they could see the small store about 2 miles away.  There is a more modern store in that same location today, but the entire area is forested, so mostly all you can see is across the road!  There is primitive camping across the street from the house, and many more primitive camping areas throughout this WMA.  What a thrill to know I was camping in my gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents front yard!

I visited the Cox-Griggs cemetery in 2009.  I was told it was "on the property" and I expected to see it from the house.  So I walked around the edge of the yard, peeking off into the woods.  Nope, didn't see it.  It's actually about 2 miles away.  The red marker is at the cemetery, which is not visible from the road.  You have to know where to park, which direction to start walking, then walk along an old rutted dirt road that looks like wagon carts made the deep ruts; you can't drive a car there.   Pictures of the cemetery, access road, and surrounding woodlands are posted on this site.

Below are interior and exterior pictures of the Cox Mathis House as it looked in 2009.