DAVE COX

Dave Cox was killed and buried down there at the old Pierson place on the Leon River. The place he pointed out to us when we were down there. Mr. Williams’ grandfather, John Hogue, he said was also buried there. (One of Mr. Williams’ brothers was Hogue Williams, and a nephew living here now, 1976, bore the same name. He could not think of the names of the two men who killed Dave Cox. It was over a beef steer some way. He said that the story is not true that he came up on these two men skinning his steer and that they shot him and were later hanged. Cox lived less than two and a half miles from Pierson’s.

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