Mary Cox

Father: William Cox

Mother: Catherine Kinkey

Children include Thomas

Mary Cox was a daughter of William Cox of Cox's Mill on Deep River, in what is now Randolph County, North Carolina. Her family were Friends in the orbit of Cane Creek Meeting. In 1754 she married James Lindley, a son of the Cane Creek miller Thomas Lindley. The meeting disowned her for marrying out.

She went with him to Terrell Creek in Orange County, where he kept a tavern in their home. Early in 1768 they moved to Reaburn's Creek in the Ninety Six District of South Carolina. Their homeplace there was probably the stockaded house known as Lindley's Fort, which held out against Loyalists and Cherokees in July 1776.

Her husband took the King's side and was killed in the war. By one account he was hanged at Ninety Six in April 1779. By another he was murdered at New River, Virginia, in 1780 or 1781. The state biography gives her aftermath in one line: "His widow and their children returned to North Carolina, and in 1790 Mary Lindley was living in Orange County."

Her children named in sworn records are Thomas, the eldest son; Rebecca, who married David Smith; Mary, who married Colville Abercrombie; and Jonathan, born in 1771. The state biography adds a son William, who was murdered in 1782.

Parents

William Cox 1692-1767

Catherine Kinkey

Children

Thomas Lindley b. 1755

Sources

Pension file of David Smith, W 6082, page 14; National Archives catalog 196652298 (Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, M804)

National Register of Historic Places, Lindley's Fort Site, Laurens County, listed 1977, nomination photograph "Fort Site"; South Carolina Department of Archives and History, http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/laurens/S10817730009/

NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography), James Lindley; Cane Creek Monthly Meeting minutes; pension file of David Smith, W 6082, National Archives catalog 196652298; Laurens County SC Deed Book A pp. 349-350 (FamilySearch Full Text 3:1:3Q9M-CSKW-GS6M-8); will of William Cox, 1767, transcribed in Descendants of Solomon Cox of Cole Creek, VA (1955), pp. 17-18; ASSERTED: a transcription printed in Descendants of Solomon Cox of Cole Creek, VA, 1955, pp. 17-18

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Cite: Heirology, "Mary Cox", https://heirology.com/ancestors/mary-cox-897e03.