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My gg grandmother was Emma (or Emmer) Josephine Nabors (20 May 1853 to 16 Jul 1918) who married Charles Franklin Cox around 1876, in Jackson County AL. There are no marriage records because of a courthouse fire.
I'm looking for anything I can find on her parents. Family tradition has it that she was half Indian, her mother was full, and that she had a twin sister. She also had a brother who disappeared from a corn field in Tennessee.
Her father was white and died when she was small. When she was five she was sent to live with a local "Doctor". Emmer believed that her mother sold her to the doctor as a slave, and that in her lifetime she was 'sold' at least five times. Selling her was her mother's only way to feed her remaining children.
She later ran away from that family because the ‘Doctor’ or one of his sons (2?) was the Father of her daughter Cally Wills Cox (B: 30 Jan 1874 to 6 Jul 1964). Tradition also has it that Savanna Cox (1 Aug 1876 to 22 Jan 1948) was not the daughter of Charles.
The 1870 Census has her as a housekeeper in the home of William and Julia A. Harper. No sons are listed on the Census.
She left my g Grandfather (Noah Franklin Cox) and his brother (Hugh Samuel Cox) in Helena, AL after the death of Charles. Some say she intended to return for them, some say she sold them into indentured servitude. She married and had a child that same year (1883) to/by Henry Posey.
Oral history has it that 'Old Man Posey' wouldn't let her take the boys with her to Oklahoma, but she took her daughers with her. She reportedly had family that had been taken on the Trail of Tears and she was going to live with them.
She later married Jack Holcome, and lived in Shelby County Alabama. They had three children.
Thank you for having the patience to read my rather long post and I hope it turns out I have more relatives out there, living and dead. If you can help me I’ll reward you with the tale of how Charles Cox died. It’s a good one!
Myrna Attaway
crazybatlady at aol dot com
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