FRIENDS HISTORICAL COLLECTION GUILFORD COLLEGE LIBRARY ACCESSION RECORD SHEET MS 467 Name of item or collection: Gurney L. Cox papers Date Received: 10-11-1985 Is item an addition to a collection?: no Name of donor: Renie Brown Rockett Has an agreement form been filled in and signed? yes If item or collection is a gift, had it been recorded? yes PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Approximate size (# of items or linear feet): 9, some photographs Time span covered or date of item: 1818-1822. 1884, 1889-1895, 1933 Types of material: Letters and clippings (photocopies), notebooks, account book MAIN SUBJECTS (places, regions, topics, institutions, people) Name of original owner(s) with dates, identifying information Gurney Leonidas Cox, 1862-? Received letter from mother Mary E (Reynolds) Cox, of Randolph Co., N.C. also from sister Lizzie and brother Cyrus (?) Concerns family matters and local events. Notebook contains family records. Account book from the store of William Welch was purchased by Gurney Cox in 1898 and has no family tie. Geographical Location: Randolph Co., N.C. Gurney Cox’s native home and the home of relatives who wrote to him. He lived in Indiana, Tennessee, and in Birmingham, Alabama Guilford County, N.C. The Welch store was located near High Point Comments: Letters refer primarily to family illnesses and deaths, and to some extent local events, particularly a murder in 1892 in Randolph Co. Gurney Leonidas Cox was the son of Elihu Cox and Mary Reynolds and was born in 1862. Married first Anna R. Thorne in 1887 in Richmond, Ind. She died 1889. Married second Cordie C. Coram in 1891 in Dumplin, Tenn. She died 1920. Final arrangement: 10-25-85 Inventory description sheet prepared: 10-25-85