Obituary of Dr. C.G. Cox

The following obituary was transcribed by Suzanne Forte (suzanneforte@bellsouth.net) from a scrapbook in her possession, belonging to her great grandmother, Cora Lorena Foster Weeks. Lorena was born Jan 25, 1877 in Freestone Co, Texas and died Jan 6, 1952 in Gilmer County, Georgia. This obituary was presumably from the Gilmer County newspaper, the Times Courier, but could have been from the Atlanta, Georgia, newspaper, the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.

Surnames: Cox, Rothery, Sikes, Crawford, Williams, Harlan

Date: 27 Nov 1949

"Dr. C.G. Cox Passes At Milledgeville; Buried Here Monday"

   Members of the family, relatives and friends throughout the county were shocked Friday when word was received announcing the death of Dr. Clarence G. Cox, physician at Milledgeville State Hospital.

   According to press reports from Milledgeville, Dr. Cox was found dead in his home in Milledgeville early Thursday morning. The doctor's death was apparently caused by asphyxiation. His wife was found unconscious and according to last reports her condition remains still serious.

   Dr. Cox had just returned to the State Hospital from the Veteran's hospital in Dublin, and had moved into a new home Thursday. All windows in the house were down and doors closed. It is believed that the action of he drying paint consumed all the oxygen in the house.

   Dr. Clodfelter, a physician at the hospital found the couple when he went over to invite them to have dinner with him. The heat was on and suffocation probably resulted.

   Funeral servies for Dr. Cox were held from the Baptist Church in Milledgeville Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock and then the body was brought to Ellijay for interment in Ellijay cemetery.

   The son of th late Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Cox Sr, Dr Cox was born and reared in Ellijay. He attended North Georgia College and received his degree in medicine from the University of Georgia School of Medicine in Augusta in 1912. He retuned to Ellijay where he practiced until World War I, when he enlisted in the Medical Corps as Captain and was stationed in Virginia. Dr. Cox went with the State Hospital in 1923 as Clinical Director, where he remained until four years ago when he accepted a position with the Veterans Hospital in Dublin. At the time of his death he had just returned to Milledgeville to resume his old position.

   He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. J. L. Rothery of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Mrs. Z. S. Sikes, of Durham, N.C., and one son, James C. Cox of Milledgeville.

   Oher survivors include one brother, Dr. Manley Cox of Ellijay and five sisters, Miss Pearl Cox, Ellijay, Mrs. Lillie Crawford, Mrs. Edith Williams and Miss Willie Cox all of Atlanta and Mrs. J. T. Harland of Paris, KY.