Seated: Nancy Draper Cox, postmaster of Gainesboro during the Civil War; wife of Robert Ananius Cox.
Children: L to R: Cora Cox Lucus, concert pianist; James N. Cox, co-founder of Gainesboro Telephone
Co. and Clara Cox Epperson, poet laureate for the state of Tennessee, 1890.
Picture from the book Jackson County Tennessee 1801 - 2001, Bicentennial Pictorial History,
Jackson County Historical Society, pg. 151.
Nancy Joseph (Draper) Cox
b. 15 December 1834
d. 15 May 1908
Husband: Robert Alexander Cox md June 1860
Father: James "Squire Jimmy" Draper (1790 - 1873),
s/o Thomas Draper & Salley Lyles.
Mother: Jane Moore Fitzgerald (1798 - 1869),
d/o Garrett Fitzgerlad & Phoebe Bullard.
Buried: Gainesboro City Cemetery, Jackson Co., TN
See Clara Jane Cox Epperson story